Summary: http://www.gopherforum.com Lawn care business website search engine optimization tip. Did you know you can appear on google�s search engine even if you don�t have a website? And if you have a lawn care website, here is a tip that you really need to take advantage of. The best part about all of this, is that it�s FREE. It�s amazing what you can learn when you read the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Google has a section on their search engine called the �Local Business Center.� Do a quick search on google to find it. Within that section you can add your business to their list and what that will do is bring your business listing to the top of the search engine result page where the map appears. One of our forum members had added his lawn care business to this FREE listing and here is what he said �I just wanted to let you guys know i�m #3 on the first page of google and this is the third day after I filled out the information.� Isn�t that fantastic? Another forum member tried this and wrote Hey everyone I just wanted to let everyone know that I logged onto the google local business center and put in all my info and it has been fantastic. I put in all the services I provide and almost everyone comes up first when you search for the service and my area. I have only been on one week and received three calls for big jobs. I think everyone should try it. Now you might be wondering how do you add your information to this site? Here are some directions a forum member shared with us. * Go to google�s main page and click MAPS at the top. * Next on the left hand side you will see put your business on Google maps. Click * Then create a new account. * Remember to put as many keywords as possible to promote yourself. * It should do the same for you as it has done for me.] Try this out and you should see your lawn care business start to appear at the top of search engines. Lawn care business postcard distribution tips. When you are thinking about marketing your lawn care business, why not consider using postcards? That�s what one of our forum members did and he has been getting great results. He wrote Hey, I just wanted to share with you my new oversized postcards. I am very happy with them and have been getting great responses. The top is the front and back is the bottom. I was really impressed with what he was doing so I asked How have you been distributing them? What made you decide to experiment with lawn care postcards? He replied I have just been walking local neighborhoods and placing them at the doors. A few times I decided to write at the top in a red sharpie �Cut Your Lawn $60.00� or whatever I had decided to charge for the area. I have picked up several lawn with that method. As far as the design, I had my logo already in place�. I talked with with a professional graphics designer and he helped out a lot. I told him what we do and a few of my lines and then he got back to me with some ideas and Bam! This is what we got. I was going to use door hangers, actually I had my heart set on that. BUT BUT BUT I decided to use the lawn care postcards because I can use them at the doors BUT also I can give them directly to people and hand them out at local business and so on. If I had tried to hand people door hangers that wouldn�t of looked that professional. Just this one lawn care postcard has given my company a much more professional look. People really like the high quality printing also. The price wasn�t that bad either�.. So I feel that they were well worth the $$ spent. I am working with the same graphics person again right now designing business cards as well. It is great to have these postcards with me ALL THE TIME. When people ask what I do I just say here, let me give you one of my advertisements and hand them one. Their first words are usually �wow, these look great� �. and then � I will keep you in mind� or let so and so know that you do this work. Fantastic lawn care business marketing advice. If you are in need of free lawn care marketing material for your lawn care business, please visit our site at http://www.gophersoftware.com. We have hundreds of free lawn care logo, flyer, door hanger and web templates you can download and use for your lawn care business. We also have free lawn care business contracts, estimate and proposal forms. Download our trial version of Gopher Lawn Care Business Software. Gopher will help your lawn care business schedule and invoice more customers in less time, allowing you more time to grow or enjoy your life. Check out my lawn care business blog at http://www.lawnchat.com and my lawn care business forum at http://www.gopherforum.com
