Proper grave stone cleaning requires proper inspection techniques.
In our Grave Care Business courses, we encourage proper tomb stone cleaning. Unfortunately, we have been horrified at the number of “tutorials” online that give improper or damaging advice. We recently saw one video of a man using a power grinder to “clean” away grime from a tombstone. In essence, he was grinding away the tombstone itself causing irreparable damage.
We are excited to be developing brand new grave stone inspection techniques. By properly inspecting a tomb stone, a grave care business owner can better determine a suggested courses of action to grave care customers. Proper tombstone cleaning begins long before you ever touch the stone.
For information on how you can start a business offering tombstone cleaning, please visit our main site by clicking the link below.
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.
We can show you how.
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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
In addition to the people that start grave care businesses providing floral decorating, tombstone cleaning, and individual plot maintenance, we also help people who want to provide wide-scale cemetery upkeep.
This side of the grave care business is largely comprised of mowing, trimming, and general landscape maintenance. For most large cemeteries, this work is bid out on a contract basis and will allow you (if you bid correctly) to make great money for your work. Cemetery landscape maintenance contracts are normally bid during the first quarter of the year. Generally, cemetery contracts are drafted either by a cemetery management companies or a city/county government agencies that oversee cemeteries.
Our Grave Care Business tutorial provides provides a very good section that deals specifically with bidding on cemetery upkeep contracts. Proper bidding protocols must be followed and it is often intimidating for business owners who are new to bidding.
If you are interested in the landscape maintenance side of the business or if you are mainly interested in individual plot maintenance and tombstone cleaning, please click over to out website homepage where you can learn about our Grave Care Business course. If you have any questions for us, please let us know. We are always happy to help.
Cemetery and Plot Maintenance is important for grave care
Cemeteries and grave plots require leaf cleanup work as we move into winter.
I just returned from a trip to upstate New York where it was chilly and snowy. Yet, even in the northern climates, cemeteries and grave plots still need lots of attention so they can be maintained through the winter. Leaf care, snow maintenance, and winterization are just three of the jobs requested of grave care business owners in the north.
Now that I have returned home to a more southern climate, I am reinvigorated with the thoughts of the amount of work (profitable business) still to be done in area cemeteries this year. Leaves are still falling, dead branches litter the ground from a recent storm, and next year’s grass should be planted NOW. Not only are regular maintenance duties calling but holiday grave site decorations are going to be in HUGE demand for the next four weeks.
If you have ever thought about starting a grave care business, we have developed a comprehensive business course designed to help you start and operate a successful grave care business. Visit our main site [www.GraveCareBusiness.com] for more information on the business course.
This morning’s New York Times has an article relating to damage in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Green-Wood is known for many fine examples of large flourishing trees. Unfortunately, as trees grow larger, their vulnerability to high winds increases. As we have all seen, damage resulting from Hurricane Sandy is taking its toll on north-eastern states and will take months to clean up.
While Green-Wood Cemetery is the focus of this article, scores of cemeteries have been affected by the storm. Some cemeteries have downed trees that caused irreparable damage to tombstones and monuments. Other cemeteries have minor damage like small branches and twigs that need to be tidied. Professionally managed cemeteries like Green-Wood have crew and financial resources to begin the cleanup but countless other cemeteries rely on volunteers and family members for repair and maintenance.
It is unfortunate that this damage has occurred and I dislike the idea of benefiting on other people’s misfortune. If you are in an area of the country that has been affected by severe weather, family members of people buried in area cemeteries are looking for help with cleanup and general maintenance. In fact, they are often willing to pay for these services.
So, if you have ever thought about starting your own Grave Care Business, right now is a good time to start. The weeks leading up to Christmas is always a busy time for Grave Care and with the need of grave care services caused by severe weather, there will be additional demand.
We love cemeteries and we believe that small Grave Care Businesses can benefit by providing general upkeep, tombstone cleaning, floral decorations, and other services. We have developed a professionally produced business course that will help you start and operate a successful Grave Care Business. For more information, please click on the main link above to learn about our course.
I love this time of year and I love being able to spend my days working in leaf covered cemeteries.
As October draws to a close, leaves’ colors are reaching their peak. I was working in the cemetery today and I snapped a few pictures to share with you. If you have ever thought about starting a small business offering Grave Care Services right now is a perfect time to get started. October and November are very active months for grave care. Leaf cleanup is an important part of plot maintenance during autumn. There are also many other services to offer while the weather is still warm. Additionally, the next few months are rich with “special days.” Your customers are very sincere about wanting special decorations place on their loved-ones’ gravesites. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are only the most visible days for which customers order special decorations. There are many other occasions, too.
If you want to get started with your own grave care business, look at our main website. We have developed a professionally produced business course that will teach you practically everything you could want to know about starting and operating a successful grave care business.
Here are a couple photos of today’s autumn colors…
Fall in a CemeteryI love autumn leaves in cemeteries.
