Caleb, an 8th-grader running Clean Cut Lawn Mowing, needs more clients. Will Kelly says to double down on word-of-mouth, then go door-to-door with cheap business cards and door hangers. Hit neighborhoods in spring through early fall when grass grows fastest.
All right. So this one is from Caleb from Clean Cut Lawn Mowing. So he says, I'm an 8th grader starting a lawn care business with my friend. We mowed lawns for a few clients last year but did not have many clients. What is the best way to get clients? There's multiple different ways, Caleb, that you can get clients. I would ask you, first off, how did you get those first few clients? Was it from a neighbor? Did you go knock on some doors? You put some door hangers out? Whatever you did to get that 2, 3, 4 clients to start. I'd probably double down and triple down on that. If you just got them from, you know, neighbors and word of mouth, honestly, dude, as an 8th grader, you should go door to door, just knock on doors and just be like, hey, my name is Caleb. I started a lawn business. Maybe get some business cards, something super cheap. Just give them a business card with your phone number on it and put lawn mowing or something. That's probably like the simplest and easiest way to do that. Ideally, you'd want to do this when the demand is the highest. Or during like the springtime when the grass is starting to grow. I have seen this effective all through the summer and even through like early fall as well. Yeah, that's probably one of the best ways. Also trying to think of like more free ways since you probably don't have a ton of money as an 8th grader, you probably don't have maybe a vehicle. So hopefully mom and dad are maybe driving you to these appointments, but maybe see if you get inside of a neighborhood Facebook group. Thing is, is being that young, I mean, you may have to like— I've seen guys on a bike and like, like wagon, like they're pulling a wagon with their mower in the back of it. Stuff like that, you know, kind of think outside of the box. But if you got somebody to take you to your appointments to mow the lawn, yeah, I mean, just door hangers is a big one because it is— it really condenses kind of where you're at. I would definitely do that to get the business started.
