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Starting a Lawn Care Business Doesn't Have to Cost Anything
Usually when a person thinks about starting a new business, there are a lot of costs. But there are ways to start your lawn care business without spending a dime. All you have to do is get a few customers and begin working to generate cash flow and then the money from those customers will help you have the funding to pay for the expenses of your business. But you have to know how to find ways to get the business up and running and do so without spending any of your own money.
For one thing, you don't have to spend any money to "start a business". You can create a company name, print up some flyers and even business cards on your home computer and presto, your company just became a reality. Down the road you can go to the county clerks office and register your company name so nobody else can use it. Even that usually only costs $20 or so. It is when you incorporate to become a financial entity that the costs come up and you can put that off for a long time.
You can get your business going using the equipment you have and even the transportation you have. If you have a pickup truck and the lawn care equipment you use to mow your own lawn and take care of it, you are in business. Use that home computer you have to create some flyers to put out on people's doors. Take an afternoon and walk the entire neighborhood and put a flyer in each persons front door announcing you are in business.
To make it enticing, offer to give the first lawn care session to the customer for free. All this costs you is gas. You will get dozens of phone calls and within a couple weeks, you will have so many customers, you will be busy every day. The money will start to flow and you will have the revenue to begin to buy more equipment and better transportation and even put a sign on your truck with your company name.
You can even find labor to work for you for next to nothing by offering a partnership in the company. Offer to give your first workers 10% ownership in the company for the first year. For the first couple months, there may not be any profits. After you get a dozen customers or paying you for lawn care, you can pay your workers a portion of what you are paid. Then at the end of the month, total up your profits. Remember that you may wish to put back 40% of the profits for business developments. If there is only $500 left after everything is paid for, you give your "partners" $50. You do that for a year and you are free and clear and you got their labor in those crucial first few weeks of the business for free.
Also keep in mind that if you have good credit, you can get a credit card in the company name. Get that card a couple weeks before the business starts and you have a little bit of funding to pay for gas and supplies. Even if the credit card only has a credit limit of $5000, that is plenty to pay for supplies until you get payments coming in from customers. Then you pay off the credit card from what you made from the work you have done and you never had to pay a dime of your own money even for gas or trash bags.
Eventually you may wish to expand the business to make it bigger and buy professional equipment and actually hire employees. But if you have gotten your business up and running "by the seat of your pants", banks and investors will in up to be back your lawn care business. With their funding and your solid business management skills, there is no telling how big your lawn care business might get and how rich you might get by simply building a lawn care business that you started for free.
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