What is your best referral story, one job that led to another, and another...
Mine all started one snowy morning at 5 a.m. A man stopped me in one of my lots, and asked about doing his a few doors down. I stopped by after finishing, and we came to an aggreement. I continued to plow and salt his lot for the rest of the season.
In the spring, he called, wanting to know about some clean-up and mulch work around his building. On my site visit, he asked about some work at his home. I got the cleanup at the building, and a clean-up/mulch job at his house. I also got the lawn renovation at his house, and total maintenance there as well.
Since then, I have done a landscape install at his building, and some other smaller jobs. I am headed over tommorow for a landscape install at his home.
He refered me to his brother, for a lawn renovation. Got that one as well.
He also refered me to his father, I got the maintenance, fert, clean up/mulch there as well. Later in the season, I did a complete new lawn for the father, (infested with zoisya), and subbed out removal of three trees. I also supplied and installed three new trees on that site.
From the father, I got two new high dollar weekly maintenance accounts. Neighbors.
I now have a bid out with another neigobor of the fathers.
The origional buisnessman that flagged me down refered me to one of his clients for a mulching job.
All totaled, that one meeting in a snowy parking lot at 5a.m. equaled $10K. That is just this year.
Can anyone top that?
Mine all started one snowy morning at 5 a.m. A man stopped me in one of my lots, and asked about doing his a few doors down. I stopped by after finishing, and we came to an aggreement. I continued to plow and salt his lot for the rest of the season.
In the spring, he called, wanting to know about some clean-up and mulch work around his building. On my site visit, he asked about some work at his home. I got the cleanup at the building, and a clean-up/mulch job at his house. I also got the lawn renovation at his house, and total maintenance there as well.
Since then, I have done a landscape install at his building, and some other smaller jobs. I am headed over tommorow for a landscape install at his home.
He refered me to his brother, for a lawn renovation. Got that one as well.
He also refered me to his father, I got the maintenance, fert, clean up/mulch there as well. Later in the season, I did a complete new lawn for the father, (infested with zoisya), and subbed out removal of three trees. I also supplied and installed three new trees on that site.
From the father, I got two new high dollar weekly maintenance accounts. Neighbors.
I now have a bid out with another neigobor of the fathers.
The origional buisnessman that flagged me down refered me to one of his clients for a mulching job.
All totaled, that one meeting in a snowy parking lot at 5a.m. equaled $10K. That is just this year.
Can anyone top that?