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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
You are in the PRO GROWTH BUSINESS... No longer in the LAWN BLADE MURDERING BUSINESS - NEGATIVE GROWTH. LOL Lawn growth and livelihood...something like that. _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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I think you're good. Maybe network with a few companies that do mow and refer these calls to those providers. Maybe for a small referral fee. Like guns, Love Sigs | |||
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A Grateful American |
Maybe a radio ad... Hippie Lawns Only She asks him why... "Why I'm a grassy guy?" I'm grassy lawn and nighty-night night My grass is a fright I'm grassy high and low But don't ask me why 'Cause he don't know It's not for lack of bread Like the Grateful Dead Darlin' Gimme a yard with grass Long, beautiful grass Shining, gleaming Streaming, breezin', pleasin' Give me down to there (grass!) Ankle length or taller grass (grass!) Here baby, there mama Everywhere daddy daddy grass (grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass!) Grow it, show it Long as I can grow it My grass I let it fly in the breeze And get caught in the trees Give a home for the geese in my grass A home for fleas A hive for the buzzin' bees (buzzin' beeeeeeeesssss) A nest for birds There ain't no words For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder Of my... grass (grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass!) Grow it, show it Tall as I can grow it My grass I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy Snaggy, shaggy, ratsy, matsy Oily, greasy, fleecy Shining, gleaming, streaming Flaxen, waxen Knotted, polka-dotted Twisted, beaded, braided Powdered, flowered, and confettied Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied! Oh say can you see My eyes if you can Then my grass's too short Up to here Up to there Up to there? Up to where? It stops by itself Don't never have to cut it 'Cause it stops by itself Oh give me a yard with grass Long, beautiful grass Shining, gleaming Streaming, flaxen, waxen Won't you gimme it up to here (grass!) Shoulder high or taller (grass!) Here baby, there mama Everywhere daddy daddy grass (grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass!) Grow it Show it Tall as I can grow it My grass (grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass!) Grow it Show it Long as I can grow it My grass (grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass! grass!) grass! My apologies to the Cowsills. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Yeah, but I would also bet that he advertises what area of law it is that he does handle. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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Turf Science (Scientist)? Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Well, sure. I get those calls all the time. I am just saying he should state that his brand of lawn care doesn't include mowing. I should probably include that I won't sue your idiot brother-in-law for wrecking the $3,000 car you loaned him, but it takes up so much space on our website. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| and this little pig said: |
Unless you are absolutely sure you don't want to mow the lawn, I would add that "no mow" clause. However, there may be an upside to your business if you do mow lawns. You could price lawn mowing at an outrageous rate and let the affluent pay the price. Don't neglect an opportunity to make a profit!!! | |||
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To all of you who are serving or have served our country, Thank You |
My Mom's lawn care guy does everything cut trim, and fertilize, so do other lawn care guys around here. Maybe it's a regional thing. Perhaps lawn chemistry service would be a better name. To me its like taking your truck to a local automotive shop to get something fixed. Only to have them tell you that's an electrical issue not a mechanical problem. We don't work on electrical issues. | |||
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"Mark's Lawn Care... We make it grow, we don't mow."  God bless America. | |||
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Hell, if you just sit on the curb and listen to it you're providing care. BUT, is it better to receive a wide variety of calls than to be cornered into a niche market? I understand fertilizing lawns isn't really niche but what I'm saying is, would you get more business from those thinking broadly about "lawn care" or if you catered your name to specifically fertilizing. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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W07VH5 |
I do not advertise that I mow. My web site clearly states "Fertilizing lawns in <insert hometown here>". My estimate page has cute little buttons for everything except mowing. That doesn't stop them though, they click "other" since that is really close to mowing. I mean they both have the letter o in there. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that mowing isn't lawn care. It's just that when I get a call for mowing and say that I'm a fertilizing business, they argue that I show up on google under lawn care as if fertilizing isn't lawn care, or that lawn care only means mowing. Maybe I should just change my business name. I just got 30 shirts made though. Bah! | |||
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| W07VH5 |
I'm writing this down. Marketing genius, is what I'd call it. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
If only that would stop them. I used to have a banner on my site that said "We are no longer accepting mowing customers." but that just made google pick up on the word mowing. I'm only unpleasant here , on the phone I thank them for calling and thinking of me. It's just been so many debaters this week. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Yes lawn care includes mowing to the average person. It seems especially odd that some would think it doesn't. It's like a Car Wash place not including a Vaccum station. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Lawn weed and feed. We don't cut grass. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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I live in Georgia and there are dozens of lawn care companies and they do exactly what you’re describing. None of them mow. This is common knowledge. I use Tender Lawn Care (TLC) and my lawn is green and weed free. I mow. JC | |||
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| W07VH5 |
That's the point. It's like someone calling my car wash demanding vacuum service. If I don't have a vacuum would you argue that I'm not a car wash? | |||
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What a smile you gave me! Thank You!! _________________________________________________ "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." --- G.K. Chesterton | |||
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Remember, fertilize lawns all you want, they'll always call you the lawn guy. But mess up and fertilize one egg, and all of a sudden your DAD! 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I'll confess being ignorant. If you asked me before this thread if I should expect a lawn care business to mow, I would say yes. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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