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Have you ever wanted to start your own Grave Care and Grave Site Maintenance business?
Have you ever wanted to start your own Grave Care and Grave Site Maintenance business?
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Mother’s Day is one of the best weekends of the year for anyone involved in the Grave Care Maintenance Business.
Hi Everyone. I hope you are all having a great spring and that your Grave Care Business is going great guns so far this year.
I just want to take a couple minutes to jump on here to remind you that Mother’s Day is this weekend (May 05, 2010). Mother’s Day is one of the best weekends of the year for anyone involved in the Grave Care Maintenance Business.
Spring is a time of heavy grass growth. If you are performing plot maintenance for your customers, this is a perfect weekend to acquire new customers and add addition services to your current customers’ contracts. Also many people want decorations placed at their Mother’s grave site so it looks good all weekend, especially on Sunday. Your floral supplier should be able to stock you with plenty of decoration for your customers. Also, remember to speak with your floral suppliers on Monday. Many of them will be left with excess inventory that they will sell you at a great discount. You can pass the savings along to your customers next week.
As you are attracting new customers this weekend, don’t neglect to speak with them about yearly contracts and your package deals for holidays.
If you haven’t yet started your Grave Care Business or if you are just looking for some guidance on running your business and making more money, check out our Grave Care Business package on our main webpage:
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
We received a telephone call over the weekend from a retired gentleman who is interested in starting his own Grave Care Maintenance Business.
After a full and long career he wants to start a Grave Care Maintenance Business to help many of his acquaintances that can no longer care for their loved-one’s grave sites. General plot maintenance, floral decorating, and research of old cemeteries are his main interested. We spoke for a few minutes of his reason for starting the business. He wants to stay active in his 70’s and into his 80’s.
This man is an inspiration and it made me think about the poem by Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” The poem speaks of our need to rage against becoming old. We should not quietly relinquish the fire that burns in young men’s eyes.
For this gentleman, starting a business caring for burial plots and providing cemetery cleanup services will keep his fire burning.
To read Dylan Thomas’ poem, visit Poets.org: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
If you are looking to augment your means with added income by starting your own business, you should think about starting your own Grave Care Business.
Benjamin Franklin died today, April 17, in 1790 at the age of 84.
Franklin was a lifelong student of politics, science, and the philosophy of personal finance. There is much wisdom in Franklin’s written works. From Poor Richard’s Almanack to The Pennsylvania Gazette he encouraged the individual’s right to pursue happiness. One of Franklin’s noblest undertakings was to help the common man (and the elitist, alike) realize his own power in breaking the bonds of want.
One of my favorite quotes from Benjamin Franklin:
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Both ingredients of this quote are discussed in our Grave Care Business program. If you are looking to augment your means with added income by starting your own business, you should think about starting your own Grave Care Business. This is a rewarding and fulfilling business.
Learn more on our main webpage: www.GraveCareBusiness.com
If you are running your own Grave Care Business, I hope you’re not forgetting two very special holidays
If you are running your own Grave Care Business, I hope you’re not forgetting two very special holidays over the next few weeks. St. Patrick’s Day is March 17, 2010 and Easter is April 4, 2010.
If you have a strong contingent of Irish (or Irish loving) clients, it is a great time to call them to ask if they would like to decorate their loved ones’ grave sites for St. Patrick’s day. I just wanted to remind you of this because St. Patrick’s day sneaked up on me. There are a few days left before St. Paddy’s day so you have time to prepare for the 17th. As important as St. Patrick’s day is, Easter is much more important. It is a prime time to look for new clients that will want you to make special preparations for grave site decorations.
Oh, I almost forgot too; As I am writing this, it is Pi-Day and if you have any families with Mathematicians you know that this is a great day to offer math related decorations. If you need to know what Pi day is, this Wikipedia article should explain if for you. It’s meant to be a fun day and Mathematicians with senses of humor will get a kick out of the fact that you remembered them.
If you haven’t started your Grave Care Business yet or if you are looking for ideas to expand your business, be sure to take a look at our main website where you can learn about our Grave Care Business program. It is packed full of great information and business tools that will help you with your Grave Care Business. The main page is: https://GraveCareBusiness.com
I was in a cemetery recently doing some photography when I noticed many of the tombstones had familiar chips knocked off from their edges.
These chips are most likely caused by negligent lawn care equipment operators running their mowers too close to tombstones.
Damage occurs as lawn mowers are navigated too close to the tomb stone and a metal part of the lawn mower engages the tombstone. Chips can be knocked out rather easily by heavy equipment. There is also a possibility that a rock was kicked up by the lawn mower and if the grass shoot guard wasn’t in place the rock could have contacted the tomb stone knocking a chip out.
Weedeaters are also damaging to tombstones. Weedeater heads spin at upwards of 8,000 RPM and the cutting line can make marks and wear away the stone. Although weedeaters normally do not make chip marks, wear and tear happens on a smaller scale over time. Instead they make scuff marks and gradually wear away the stone with repeated contact over time.
If you are running a grave care business and if you are doing plot maintenance or grounds maintenance, pay attention and do not allow your lawn equipment to contact tombstones.
Have you ever thought about starting your own Grave Care Business?
There’s a lot of money to be made mowing individual plots in
unmanaged cemeteries. There’s also ALOT of money bidding contracts for whole cemetery grounds maintenance.
Don’t know where to start? We’ll show you how.
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Around the country this year there are millions of families who have lost their Fathers. Though their Fathers have passed on, they can still buy a perfect Father’s Day present.
Around the country this year there are millions of families who have lost their Fathers. Though their Fathers have passed on, they can still buy a perfect Father’s Day present.
Small businesses are rewarded by providing their services in an environmentally friendly manner. Grave care is no exception.
Small businesses are rewarded by providing their services in an environmentally friendly manner. Grave care is no exception.
If you have read our Grave Care Business materials you know important we feel it is to operate your business as environmentally friendly as possible. By saying this, we are not eco-fanatics. However, we believe an eco-friendly business will be looked on favorably by your comunity, loved by your customers, and cost less money to operate.
The Grave Care Business program outlines many different services to offer your customers. Today, we are giving you a brief overview of ways to make the landscape maintenance side of your business environmentally sound.
If you Grave Care business normally does single plots, you will find it beneficial to use a push-style reel mower. Reel mowers do not use gasoline thereby eliminating ozone destroying pollution. Since they do not have engines they they practically producs no sound. For larger areas and entire cemetery clean-ups feel free to use a powered mower but for single plots a reel mower is a great choice to cut the grass.
There aren’t many effective non-powered options to trim weeds. Since 2-cycle engines are some of the most polluting lawn care equipment engines, if you are in the market for a weedeater, seriously consider purchasing a battery operated or a propane powered weedeater. We have personally tested several models of battery and propane powered models. The Lehr propane powered line trimmer is our favorite. Though it is noisy like many weedeaters, it produces very low emissions and it runs for two hours on a 1 lb. bottle of propane. As always, use caution with string trimmers around tombstones and grave markers. The string can damage these stones.
Plan your routes so trips to the same cemetery coincide with each other. Travel time is a huge waste of your resources. Plan your jobs so all jobs in the same cemetery are performed on the same day. One trip is much less wasteful than three or four trips.
These are just a few tips on how you can “green” your Grave Care business. For our entire Grave Care Business package, visit our home page at: GraveCareBusiness.com
If you are a new Grave Care and Maintenance business owner you may find it difficult, especially at the beginning, to charge prices on par with your service.
Pricing is a tentative subject for most new small business owners. Pricing is particularly difficult for businesses that provide services where prices are subjective and up to the discretion of the business owner.
If you are a new Grave Care and Maintenance business owner you may find it difficult, especially at the beginning, to charge prices on par with your service. After all, since pricing is up to you, you are able to charge whatever price you want. You can even work for free if you want, right?
If you want to stay in business you cannot work for free. There is a minimum price you can charge for your services and remain an ongoing concern as a business.
A common problem we see with new business owners is wanting to lower prices to attract customers. Lowering your price is not the best option to attract customers. Customers will always want you to lower your price. They will gladly accept your services for free if you agree.
Your small business survival depends on your development of a strong pricing strategy. Know your costs and know what the market will bear. If the market won’t bear the amount you need to cover your costs then don’t do the job. If the market will bear more than your costs then you will be able to make a profit.
Grave care and maintenance is an emerging market. It’s not a business that many people (both business owners and customers) know what the going rate for service is. Therefore, it is up to you to develop a strong pricing strategy by knowing your per-job costs and deciding what the market will bear.
Our Grave Care Business program will help you develop a strong pricing strategy so you can make the best money possible in your local market. The program is on sale right now and it can be ordered directly from our home page. Click “ORDER HERE” above.
How do I charge for overgrown and neglected cemetery plots…
Today’s blog post is a questions from a recent customer who purchased the Grave Care Business package.
“Hello. I am focusing on grounds maintenance in my new Grave Care Business. A recent new customer wanted me to care for her husband’s grave site. She knows I charge $25 to maintain a double plot but when I got there the grass was knee high. It hadn’t been cut in over a year. How much money do I charge for overgrown and neglected cemetery plots and what’s the best method of cutting high grass so it looks good?”
Overgrown cemetery plots normally require at least 1 1/2 times your typical charge. Sometimes, you should charge double depending how much additional work is involved.
When grass is very high you will need to make at least two passes with your lawn mower. Set your blades as high as they will go for your first pass. Use a straight-line mowing pattern (left-right or front-back). When you are finished with the first pass, rake excess clumped grass and remove it from the cemetery plot.
Now, lower your blades to the correct height for that type grass and make a second pass. For the second pass, choose a different mowing pattern. If you did left-right on your first pass, mow front-back for your second pass.
It is important to rake excess grass away. Unkempt gass will never look good after your first service. Once grass gets leggy, stems close to the ground become thick and discolored. Let your customer know it will take at least two services before it begins to look like a lawn again.
After your initial servicing of an unmanicured grave site, resume your standard charge as long as the customer agrees to regular servicing.
Don’t forget, the Grave Care Business program includes a large pricing guidebook that tells you how much to charge for certain services.
Visit our home page for more information.