Franchising |Why Lawn Care

1. Lawn care is part of the rapidly growing Green Industry

While growth in this sector has been fueled by expansion of the housing market over the last several years, demographic trends indicate growth that will extend well beyond the housing boom, with an increasingly greater percentage of homeowners hiring a professional lawn and landscape maintenance company.

Maturing "Baby Boomers" with more disposable income and an increasing priority on enjoying life, will continue to employ the services of our industry in greater numbers to ease the burdens of maintaining their homes.

Growing numbers of dual-income families will continue to secure professional lawn care service providers to help them free up more time in which to enjoy the pleasures of family and home life.

Working in conjunction with favorable demographic trends is the consumer's recognition of lawn care as a truly compelling value when compared to the retail cost of products, the hassle of mixing and applying those products and the angst of uncertain results incurred by the do-it-yourself person.

2. High Returns

Using our bespoke management software allows for effective scheduling of services, maximizing the operatives time spent treating lawns and offering excellent returns, when used in accordance with good business practice and promotion.

3. Limited Capital Investment

Both the initial as well as the on-going investment in real estate, fixtures and equipment is low, relative to the capital requirements of most new businesses.

4. Recurring Revenues

A well-run professional lawn care company can automatically renews the vast majority of customers from year to year, allowing the company to focus marketing efforts on net growth.

5. Strong Cash Flow

Beginning in the autumn of the previous service year, 15-30% of customers traditionally prepay prior to the start of current year services. Very favorable 30-day to 180-day terms are available from major suppliers. It is not uncommon for the vast majority of customer payments for spring services to have been received before a company's invoices from suppliers for the materials used in those spring services, are due.

6. Straightforward Entry Requirements

You will be required before becoming part of the Weed Man Network to register and trade as a separate limited company. It is helpful if you have a good credit record. You will be required to become VAT registered from the outset.

7. Limited Exposure to Recession

With the average annual cost of service less than £250's per year, lawn care is a small slice of the consumer's disposable income, overall household expense and one of the last budget items to be cut when belt-tightening is necessary. Also shielding professional lawn care from exposure to recession is its high perceived value as a low-cost service that enhances both property value and pride of ownership.

8. Adaptability to Management Systems

Lawn care's narrow focus on improving and protecting healthy lawn limits the complexity of the business and allows it to be distilled down to a small number of repetitive tasks implemented by production, administrative and sales staff. These tasks are very adaptable to our proprietary systems that will support improvement of profitability and increase sales.

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