Proper vehicle selection for your Grave Care Business will make a huge difference in the functioning and profitability of your business. Our Grave Care Business Instruction Course includes a Vehicle Buyer’s Guidebook to help you choose the correct vehicle for your business.
The correct business vehicle does not have to cost a lot of money. In fact, we outline great strategies in acquiring a great affordable business vehicle that will bring in more money for your business than it costs.
As part of our regular podcast, I filmed this quick segment to introduce the idea of proper business vehicle selection for people who are performing grave care, cemetery plot maintenance, and tombstone cleaning:
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Grave Side Flowers and Decorations for Mother’s Day.
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Mother’s Day is May 10, 2015. Most families will celebrate Mother’s day by buying flowers or taking their Moms out to lunch. Families who have lost their Mom’s want to pay respect to them and many families visit their Moms’ gravesites and take flowers for decoration.
Unfortunately, many adult children have moved away from their childhood hometowns and they are no longer able to visit their Moms’ gravesites. Still, they want to pay respect by bringing flowers or performing the types of maintenance that most cemetery companies do not offer. Detailed landscaping work (other than just mowing the grass) and gravestone cleaning are two of the services many cemetery companies do not offer. However, many grave care businesses do provide these services and right now is a very busy time for them.
Grave care is a niche business and most grave care business owners offer plot maintenance, floral decorations, and grave stone cleaning. Special days such as Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, and Father’s Day offer unique opportunities for grave care business owners. By offering the services that grave care customers desire, an entrepreneur can make a great deal of money operating a successful grave care business.
We love cemeteries and have helped many people start successful grave care businesses. If you have ever wanted to start a grave care business, we have developed a comprehensive Grave Care Business Course designed to help you start and grow your own grave care business.
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The exact moment of the Vernal Equinox in a cemetery – March 20, 2014.
Hi everyone. I just want to quickly jump online and write a short note. According to the great website www.TimeAndDate.com the Vernal Equinox happened at 12:57 PM today March 20, 2014.
I happened to be in a cemetery at that moment and took this picture. The grass is still a bit brown but trees are flowering and birds are chirping as the sun’s apparent location in the sky heads northward. Though there’s still a nip in the air, our temperatures will be rising for the forthcoming few months.
If you love cemeteries, like I do, you might be interested in starting your own Grave Care Business. Providing grave care allows you to make a great income by doing plot maintenance, floral decorations, tombstone cleaning, and many other similar services. You also get to meet wonderful people who are thankful that you are providing these services for their loved ones’ gravesites. Best of all; you get to do this work in beautiful surroundings of peaceful cemeteries.
The link below shows you how you can start your own Grave Care Business. We have developed a professionally produced Grave Care Business course that teaches you practically everything you could want to know about starting your own Grave Care Business.
Have a great spring. Let me know if you have any questions.
I was looking through some of my videos from the winter of early 2014 and found this neat driving video.
The scene is one of our local cemeteries and since we don’t often receive much snow here, I wanted to remember the serene, quiet beauty. Soon, it will be summer and 100 degree temperatures will make us long for winter’s chill.
Enjoy this. If you love cemeteries, drop me a quick note on the video or “thumbs up” and “share” it with other.
Do you enjoy searching for your favorite types of tombstones when exploring cemeteries?
Whether you like searching for wood, granite, slate, marble, or sandstone grave markers, spotting your favorite stele from a distance is always fun. Personally, I enjoy seeking zinc grave markers, among others.
Zinc grave markers are easily identified by the trained eye. In fact, with a quick scan across a large monument laden cemetery, even hobbyists can quickly find zinc markers. They just look different. There is something about their muted grey color that catches your eye and makes you linger a ½ second longer trying to figure out why that particular “tombstone” looks slightly different from the others.
I explored a new cemetery with a friend last summer. Her interest in cemeteries is new and budding. “See that marker over there? It’s metal.” I told her. “How do you know it is metal?” She asked. I told her to tap on it with her knuckles. She was amazed at the hollow “DING” that rang out but more than that she was amazed that I had used some “trick” to spot it more than 100 feet away amongst a sea of other markers.
Zinc grave markers have an interesting history. They were produced by the Monumental Bronze Company toward the last decade of the 1800’s and the first decade of the 1900’s. At first, the markers were not popular with families of the newly deceased. However, clever marketing by Monumental Bronze let families know of zinc’s affordability, long life, and easy maintenance. One other strategy used by Monumental Bronze was a change in name from “Zinc” to “White Bronze.” White Bronze markers became thought of as progressive for the new century and thousands were sold and installed in cemeteries all across the United States.
So, what is it about zinc markers that makes them readily identifiable from afar? Is it their subdued reflection of sunlight? Is it their distinguished removable panels? Is it their powdery appearance? I don’t know what it is but I do know that I recently discovered yet another method of finding zinc grave markers.
You probably saw on the news that we received quite a bit of snowfall at the end of January. Once the roads cleared, I trekked to a few cemeteries to check on grave sites. A zinc marker was along my path and I noticed snow appeared to be melting at a greater rate on the zinc marker than on nearby granite markers. My initial hypothesis was that the zinc marker absorbed sunlight a greater rate than the granite markers. With a quick check of my temperature gun, my hypothesis proved inconclusive since the zinc grave marker and two adjacent granite grave markers were of very similar temperatures.
Granite Tombstone Temperature Check
Zinc Grave Marker Temperature Check
Granite Tombstone Temperature Check.
What other factors could be at play? Since the heat capacity of a granite marker is much greater than a similarly sized zinc marker is it possible that granite takes longer to heat up and allows the snow to hang around longer? Did crinkled surface with lots of bends and different angles on the zinc marker better absorb sunlight? Or, was it a simple case of the snow melting equally on each marker but the wetness of melted snow dripping made a more dramatic color differential on zinc than it did on the granite markers?
Zinc Grave Marker Under Snow
Well, I am not sure of the answer but I do know that I now I have another “trick” to amaze friends when exploring cemeteries and looking for zinc markers.
What are your “tricks” when determining composition of grave markers? Feel free to leave a response below to let me know your favorite type and style of tombstone. What “tricks” or cool info do you know about them?
If you love tombstones and cemeteries, you might really enjoy starting your own Grave Care Business. I love cemeteries and I love being able to work in and explore new cemeteries all the time. If you are thinking about starting a Grave Care Business, my company has developed a Grave Care Business Course that will help you start and grow a successful Grave Care Business. The course includes a huge grouping of manuals, guidebooks, tutorials, video training, business tools, and estimating software.
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Autumn is a perfect time to start a grave care business. Fantastic weather and lots of work to be performed makes grave care a rewarding and profitable small business.
Grave plot maintenance, floral decorations, and tombstone cleaning are just three of the many niche grave care services we cover in the grave care business guidebook section of our grave care business course.
The Grave Care Business Course will help you start and grow your own grave care business. Comprehensive course with instructions, tutorials, video training guides, business toolkit, and estimating software.
If you are tired of working for someone else and want to start your own rewarding and profitable small business, watch this short video below. Grave care is not your typical business. Grave care is a meaningful business that truly helps people. They will be grateful for the work you do. Grave care is a rewarding business that will give your life higher purpose.
I remember a business strategy class I took in college. The instructor continually maintained that competition is good. While I agreed with him on the basic factors of the need for competition, in the back of my head I was always thinking: “yes, but a monopoly is better.”
Why is competition good? Competition breeds innovation. Competition draws on synergy to create public awareness about a product.
Why is a monopoly better? Especially for an entrepreneur in a niche business, dominance in a particular product or service allows the entrepreneur to focus on product development, service delivery, and customer relationships.
Some competition is good. However, in most communities we have visited and studied across the United States (and some of Europe) there is very little competition to this business. Look around your area. Can you find anyone offering grave care services?
If you have ever thought about offering Grave Care Services, now is an excellent time to start. Be the first (or one of the first) in your community to offer grave care services. Being one of the first gives you a special opportunity to dominate your market segment and quickly build your client base.
We have developed a Grave Care Business course that will help you start and operate a successful Grave Care Business.
Grave care is in high demand during a rainy summer season
With all the rain we received during June and July, grave plots and entire cemeteries are becoming overgrown.
This summer of above average rainfall is having dramatic effects. Grass is growing high and creeping over grave markers, shrubbery is getting out-of-control and obscuring epitaph inscriptions, and increased humidity is causing tomb stones to mildew quicker than normal. While grave care business owners normally keep a busy schedule during the summer months, there is a greater-than-normal demand for grave care services this year.
If you already own a grave care business, you are probably used to being able to slow down for the last week of July and part of August. This year, due to increased precipitation, you are probably noticing increased demand for your grave care services. This is a good thing, right? Well, we like to take time off, too. However, an increase in demand for your grave care services means that you can make more money than normal. In this economy, more money is a good thing.
Don’t get burned out.
The increased demand in grave care, plot maintenance, and tombstone cleaning is likely to last throughout the rest of the summer. As soon as summer begins to wind down autumn will be right around the corner and it will bring its own increased demand for services such as leaf cleanup and grass seeding before winter sets in. Once winter gets here, demand for Christmas and holiday floral decorations will increase dramatically.
So, pace yourself. There is a lot of work to be done between now and the end of the year and there is a lot of money to be made, too.
If you have yet to start your own grave care business we would like to invite you to look at our Grave Care Business Course. This course will help you start, operate, and grow a successful Grave Care Business.
Right now is a perfect time to start your own Grave Care Business.
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This is Keith with Grave Care Business. The year is flying by and I just want to make note of the great opportunities in Grave Care for the rest of the summer.
If you already own your own Grave Care Business, I hope you took advantage of Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. .
Mother’s day brought heavy demand for floral decorations and plot beautification. Now is not a time to rest, though, since we have a few busy months ahead.
Father’s Day is Sunday June 16.
Independence Day is Thursday July 4.
While these two days garner enough demand for grave care services by themselves, they are coupled with the fact that we are now into the summer upkeep season. Grass is growing out of control, weeds are invading (and in some cases destroying) grave markers, and shrubs around grave plots are in dire need of proper pruning. Add this to normal grave care services such as floral decorations, tombstone cleaning, and documentation efforts such as photography and cemetery mapping, and we have a very busy few months ahead of us.
Grave care is a wonderful niche business and summer is a great time to establish a solid customer base before we move into the busy autumn months of grave care.
If you have ever wanted to start a Grave Care Business but you don’t know where to begin, we have developed a comprehensive Grave Care Business Course designed to help you start and operate a successful Grave Care Business.
Grave Care for Mother’s Day and EasterHi Everyone:
This is Keith with GraveCareBusiness.com
I’m just working on a quick blog post to remind you that we have TWO really, really big dates coming up in March and May of this year.
Easter is March 31, 2013 and
Mothers Day is May 12, 2013.
If you operate a grave care business, I cannot emphasize the importance enough of Easter and Mother’s Day. Outside of the Christmas season, these two dates are arguably the most important time of year for grave decorations, general plot maintenance, and tombstone cleaning.
It’s spring time and people want their family’s grave sites cared for and decorated correctly. Oftentimes, adult children have moved away from their hometowns or are otherwise unable to care for their parents’ grave sites. They will gladly pay good money to have someone care for the plots, decorate the grave sites, and properly clean the tombstones.
So, if you are already operating your Grave Care Business, be sure to remind all your clients of the special services you are offering this year. Let them know that your schedule is tight and they need to schedule your services as soon as possible.
If you have yet to start your business, there is probably no better time to start than right now. Grave care customers are relatively easy to acquire any time of year. But, right now is a particularly opportune time to build a strong client list.
If you have ever thought about starting a Grave Care Business, we have developed a comprehensive Grave Care Business course that will teach you practically everything you need to know to start and operate a successful Grave Care Business. Please visit our website (click the link to our home page above) to learn all we offer. Get started now and you will be up and running in prime time to gain clients for Easter and Mother’s Day.
Once again, this is Keith with Grave Care Business.com
