Article Presented by:
Catherine Wilson
Are you looking for ways to increase your company's revenues? What if you could magically increase the square footage on a landscape maintenance job?
Lift your eyes up! No longer look down at the ground but focus on the windows of opportunities around you! In this case, the "window of opportunity" is not a cliché but a literal place you can increase your revenue!
Simply suggest to the homeowners that you currently have maintenance contracts with to add window boxes and planters to their homes and overall landscape plan. Once you make that suggestion, you and your company have been given the opportunity to sell the window boxes and planters, install them, plant them, irrigate them and come back every season and change them out.
Some landscape professionals are even offering to supply the window boxes and/or planters in exchange for a signed annual maintenance contract. Other landscape professionals are suggesting that their higher-end clients purchase a quantity of at least 2 or more of the same containers for rotation. The landscape professional would then plant the additional containers and leave them in the greenhouse to flourish. The extra rotational planters would then be available for the seasonal switch or to bring all of them out for a party.
If the homeowner is currently paying for a nicely manicured yard, they are probably an ideal client who is willing to pay in order to add personality, character and an additional texture to the front of their home. In fact, there are studies that suggest that enhancing curb appeal on a home can increase property values as much as 25%. What homeowner would not want their property values to increase?
Go ahead and take your eyes off the ground and focus on "your" windows of opportunity.
About the Author:
Article is written by Catherine Wilson, Interior Designer and owner of Mind Your Manors, Inc. makers of No Rot window boxes and planters. Visit http://www.windowboxesetc.com to learn more about Mind Your Manors, Inc. window boxes and planters.
