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PI&L
09-26-2009, 01:12 PM
How do you stir up new business/get new customers in your area???
hoskm01
09-26-2009, 01:27 PM
How do you stir up new business/get new customers in your area???
Google.

Postcards for blowouts and startups.

Networking if you are into commercial.
Mike Leary
09-26-2009, 01:50 PM
Network with landscapers, lawn jockys, designers and landscape architects.
greenworldh2o
09-27-2009, 08:37 PM
networking with others, direct mailing, newsletters to existing clients, asking existing clients for referrals (the best and most inexpensive method). you always have to be on the look out for making new connections. don't wait til you have no work, bc that is too late. be positive, get infront of people and have your 30 second commerical memorizied. we all have 30 seconds to make a great impression on a person...be interesting....take a dale carnegie class...great investment.

brian
DanaMac
09-28-2009, 09:27 AM
networking with others, direct mailing, newsletters to existing clients, asking existing clients for referrals (the best and most inexpensive method). you always have to be on the look out for making new connections. don't wait til you have no work, bc that is too late. be positive, get infront of people and have your 30 second commerical memorizied. we all have 30 seconds to make a great impression on a person...be interesting....take a dale carnegie class...great investment.

brian

Whoa! Is this the same Brian that was on here ages ago that abandoned us? :)
Wet_Boots
09-28-2009, 09:53 AM
bet he still has that Pipe Piper for sale.....
Mike Leary
09-28-2009, 10:05 AM
....take a dale carnegie class...

:dizzy: ........
greenworldh2o
09-28-2009, 07:46 PM
yes that is me...been busy the past few years...kids, buildings, house, irrigation, snow management...life was going 100mph.

mike,

not too sure what you meant by your reply, but dale carnegie class teaches you some good communication skills. most green industry owners are great techs but horrible business people with bad people and communication skills. dale carnegie class is a step in the right direction.


brian
Mike Leary
09-28-2009, 07:56 PM
most green industry owners are great techs but horrible business people with bad people and communication skills. dale carnegie class is a step in the right direction.

Not.........Who the hell do you think we are?
hoskm01
09-28-2009, 10:22 PM
bet he still has that Pipe Piper for sale.....
Welcome back, Brian. What was your handle/screen name on here, so I can remember?
DanaMac
09-28-2009, 11:16 PM
Welcome back, Brian. What was your handle/screen name on here, so I can remember?

It was pretty much the same. Can't remember what was slightly different about it though.
hoskm01
09-29-2009, 08:01 AM
It was pretty much the same. Can't remember what was slightly different about it though.
Must have been before my time.
koster_irrigation
03-13-2010, 07:54 AM
Welcome back Brian! Its been awhile..
FIMCO-MEISTER
03-13-2010, 08:17 AM
Go to Church and do volunteer work.
greenworldh2o
03-13-2010, 09:45 AM
Welcome back Brian! Its been awhile..


thanks...just poking around here now...we still have snow on the ground so we are aiming for march 29 to begin.
EagleLandscape
03-13-2010, 06:48 PM
How do you stir up new business/get new customers in your area???

by a 30 year old company that is for sale by one way cool owner!:cool2:
FIMCO-MEISTER
03-13-2010, 09:10 PM
Especially if the owner went to Church.
EagleLandscape
03-14-2010, 10:26 AM
Especially if the owner went to Church.

friggin daylight savings time caused me to miss it this morning.
Wet_Boots
03-14-2010, 11:02 AM
say three hail marys and put a shrubbler in the offering box
hoskm01
03-14-2010, 11:12 AM
say three hail marys and put a shrubbler in the offering box
We should all be so blessed as to have shrubblers.
1idejim
03-14-2010, 11:42 PM
friggin daylight savings time caused me to miss it this morning.

the clock didn't oversleep, man up
hoskm01
03-15-2010, 08:34 AM
the clock didn't oversleep, man up
Oversleep, a weary man shall not, when faced with a governments manipulation of time. Thou shalt rise, one hour early, and be received by your God.
Inspired
03-15-2010, 10:13 AM
Oversleep, a weary man shall not, when faced with a governments manipulation of time. Thou shalt rise, one hour early, and be received by your God.

....or move to Arizona and forget about it.:)
hoskm01
03-15-2010, 10:35 PM
....or move to Arizona and forget about it.:)
Until I moved north, I always wondered why in the heck everyone else always changed the time around twice a year. Im WAY off today, BTW.