If you want to know how to start a landscaping business with no money, then this could be the most profitable message you read today…
The truth is, you don’t need any money to start a landscaping business…
Any equipment you need, you can always hire from your local Kennards Hire even if you don’t have any money…
And you don’t need any money for advertising either…
As long as you follow what I show you in this here guide you won’t need a cent…
Just keep reading, I’ll show you how…
Let’s get into it shall we, my moneyless landscaper??
The 3 Easiest Ways to Start a Landscaping Business With no Money!
Ok great, so here’s the first thing you need to do is…
You need to get customers…
The idea is to get customers, sell them on your services and get paid 50% upfront before you start any work…
This way, you can get some cashflow to hire equipment, buy materials or any tools you need without spending any of your own money…
And considering you don’t have any money, this is going to be a game changer for you…
But in order to spend “Other People Money”, you’ll need paying customers…
So that’s why I’m about to show you some of the best ways to get landscaping customers when you have no money for advertising…
The first one is…
Piggyback on the Good Will of Other Non-Landscaping Businesses…
Make a list of all the landscaping services that you can offer with your current skills and tools or equipment you have…
Write down everything…
It could be something like…
- Retaining walls
- Hydroseeding
- Installing instant turf
- Landscape design
- Build Deckings and pergolas
- Pruning and hedging
- Lawn care
Whatever you can currently do with what you currently have…
Keeping in mind that if you have no money, you can always take a 50% deposit before you start any work so you can get materials or even hire any machinery that you need…
So now you know what service you’re going to offer, we need to get some customers…
Because you have no money, you won’t have time to build a website and mess around with trying to advertise…
And honestly, you don’t need a website to start out…
What you do need is to get customers right now…
So here’s what you should do…
You’re going to make another list…
Yep…
Another bloody list!
Anyway, think of all of the other businesses that have your customer…
No, not other landscaping companies…
You want other local businesses that don’t offer the same service or compete with you…
Your list could be…
- Lawn mowing company
- House painters
- Handyman
- Home Builders
- Real Estate agents
- Gutter cleaners
- Plumber
Now take this list and do a local search on Google for each of these services you listed above…
Start with 3 companies for each service you list…
Then…
Call them up and ask them if they can handle more customers…
Yep…
Ask if they want more customers…
I know we’re supposed to be getting you landscaping customers, but you can’t call up companies and beg them for work…
Well you can, and in some cases it will work but I have a much better idea…
You see, most people only care about themselves and what you can do for them…
Why should they recommend their customers over to you?
They don’t even know you…
How about if we do something nice for them first and then ask them to send over some customers??
Yeah, that could work…
But what could a local business need?
Hhmmm??
How about more customers???
Yeah, we can send them customers and they’ll love us so much…
Then we can ask for customers in return…
But we have a little problem don’t we??
You don’t have any customers…
No, you don’t, but you do know someone else who has customers…
The other local businesses on the list…
So you call up the handyman and you ask him if he can handle any more customers…
You tell him that you get a bunch of customers who always need little repairs done but you don’t do that sort of work…
Then you ask him if you can send the customers over to him…
He’s gonna love you for it…
“Yeah man, send them over”…
Ok, now you can ask if he can also send you over customers who need landscaping work done…
But let him know the specific types of work you want…
Like hedging and pruning…
Or Lawn repair and maintenance…
So next time he notices patchy lawns on one of his clients’ homes, he’ll recommend you…
And you can send customers over to him as well…
Damit! but you still don’t have any customers yet…
Ok, so let’s get some customers to send over to your handyman friend…
What we need to do next is call the home painter and offer him the same thing…
Now you’ve got 2 local businesses sending you customers but we can’t stop now…
Call up the gutter cleaning company and offer him the same thing again…
Next time he’s cleaning gutters and there’s trees hanging over his clients home, he can recommend you to trim them back…
Wow, we’re really starting to get somewhere…
So what you wanna do is, call up the plumber and the next time he digs up someone’s backyard to fix those pipes, he can recommend your service to fix up the Landscaping that he just destroyed…
Do you think with 4 or 5 companies sending you customers, that you’ll start to get customers that you could send back to each of your referring partners?
Yeah you will…
If you think that this is too much work then shame on you!!
But I feel you…
There’s an easier way to do it and you still don’t need any money…
The alternate way to do this is to offer your “business friends” a commission for sending you a paying customer…
Basically, you can offer to pay them $25 or $50 or $100 for everyone they send over who becomes a customer…
Now, the commission you pay them all depends on how much a customer is worth to you…
You don’t want to give away all of your profits, but if you go too cheap, your business buddies won’t send you any customers…
If you make it attractive for your business friends to send you customers, they’ll be on the lookout to see if they can send you some work…
If there’s free money in it for them, they’ll be more inclined to find customers for you…
Just a thought…
And that my friend is how you start a landscaping company with no money…
Well, it’s one way…
Don’t go anywhere because I’ve got another pretty cool way to start a landscaping business if you have no money…
This next method is how I started up when I had no money…
I fired up the internet and went onto a search engine called Google…
You might have heard of it…
Next, I created a very, very basic and very free website on wordpress…
Then I went over to Google ads and put up an ad in my local area…
Now hold on…
Before you claim you have no money for ads, just know, you don’t need any money…
You can set up your landscaping business with no money and start running ads and you don’t need to pay until 30 days later…
When I did it, I got my first call 30 minutes after I went live with my ad…
And that one job put $1500 in my pocket…
I think the total cost for the month was $95…
But I was getting at least $1500 a week for that $95…
I took some of my earnings and paid my ads account at the end of the month…
And then I had money so it was no problem…
As effective as this ads method is…
And while you can start up with no money, get landscaping customers in today, then pay it off at the end of the month…
I know this could be a touch too risky for some of my risk averse peoples…
So how about this next free way to start a landscaping business with no money??
Now, this one is free but it will take a lot longer to start getting customers in…
But, it’s one of the most effective ways to advertise your landscaping business…
It’s one of the best online advertising methods for any local business and it’s free…
Have you ever heard of Google My Business??
Yep, it’s those map listings that show up when you do a local search for a landscaper…
Yeah well, let me tell you…
If you can get your landscaping business to show up when customers go looking for a landscaper, you’ll be making all sorts of money…
Did I mention that it’s free??
Here’s the thing…
Whenever something costs you no money, you always have to pay with time…
Because truth be told…
Getting your business to rank at the top of the map listings can take 2 weeks or it can take 6 months…
That’s why you need to head over to Google My Business and start the process…
Claim your listing, fill out your information and get your business verified…
Then you can look at some of my free training on how to get your business to rank at the top of the maps listings…
Well there you go my greedy little landscaping friend with no money…
If you follow my 3 ways to start a Landscaping business with no money, you’ll have money soon enough…
Well that’s all from me…
Peace,
Jace…
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