Most Profitable Landscaping Services to Add to Your Business Today
Most Profitable Landscaping
Services to Add to your
Business Today
Landscaping is a very dynamic and expansive business. There are so many caveats and add-ons that can be included in your customer proposition that can greatly improve your service while bolstering your revenue streams.
There are so many different landscaping services that you can add to your business that it may be difficult to decide which makes the most sense for you to pursue.
This article is going to cover just a few of the most profitable services, how to perform them, and why your customers may be interested in purchasing them from your business.
Fall Touch-ups - Leaf And Dead Plant Removal
One of the most profitable services is simple leaf removal and the removal of any other dead plants. While this isn’t the most glamorous of services it certainly has one of the best sweat-to-gain ratios.
Removing dead leaves and plants doesn’t require any extra equipment you don’t already have. This means you are exclusively paying for man-hours performing easy enough tasks.
If you are looking for further ways to boost profit margins you could offer top-ups on the client’s mulch.
Dead leaves kill your lawn and can become an eyesore over time as they begin to rot away. Dead plants add very little to the garden aesthetically and take up space that new plants need to thrive.
Removing the dead plants over the fall and winter months should give your clients a blank canvas for their landscaping desires in the New Year.
Given these fall touch-ups require little thought on your client’s part, it’s simply a passive process of maintaining their garden (on their part) you should find that securing the sale isn’t overly difficult. Especially, for repeat customers.
Major Landscaping and Architecture
While major landscaping and architecture may have the highest barrier of entry for you as a business owner. There are potentially a lot of upfront costs for you to eat before you can begin the project.
However, the opportunities for huge rewards make it more than worth it. With such a huge project the billable hours will reflect the work needed to such an extent that the upfront costs are a negligible issue.
Whether you are building large ponds and fountains or a children’s play area, the opportunity to upsell extra features is huge. From planning to material sourcing and future maintenance the control is firmly in your hands.
These kinds of projects are almost impossible for a regular person to undertake on their own. Your clients will be much better off putting their architectural needs in your hands and you should make that clear to them.
These architectural additions to their yard can drastically increase the value of their house, especially to the right buyer. A young family with small children will hugely overvalue a play area in the backyard, for example.
Winter Planting
Winter is historically a less busy month for many landscaping businesses. Especially those that don’t know how to capitalize on the benefits that the winter months bring.
Yes, the ground may be hard so digging holes big enough to plant saplings may not be the easiest work. But, in the right conditions, it can be hugely beneficial to the plant.
Planting young trees when the weather is cold, but not freezing, so that they are almost in a state of dormancy when transplanting them the process can be quite easy.
The reason being they are using their energy to develop their root system rather than focusing on the growth of leaves, fruit, or flowers.
These trees alone are a great revenue source. But, they also provide a future revenue stream once you manage to secure the sale. These trees will need constant maintenance three months of the year with pruning, treatment, etc.
Trees have tremendous value as they mature and can make great selling points for a homeowner looking to upgrade. Who doesn’t want to pick their own apples and make apple pie?
Being able to upsell constant seasonal maintenance on trees is a good way of almost guaranteeing future revenue from repeat customers.
Pest Control
While Pest Control doesn’t directly fall under the umbrella of landscaping, it can open the door to a ton of extra services your clients very well may need. It also allows you to handle pest-related issues in-house rather than needing to collaborate with a third-party provider.
It may require hiring some additional staff who specialize in pest control or simply providing some extra training.
Removing mice, rats, moles, raccoons, and other unwanted critters is a great way of protecting the garden from extra damage. If your client has a vegetable patch then this service will likely be even more in demand.
Pests are one of the most frustrating issues for any homeowner. If you can be the one to eliminate this problem for them you open the door to many other services such as in-home pest control.
Damage caused by pests has negative effects on every aspect of a person’s life from their mental well-being to the value of their home. It’s also a matter of safety, especially for clients that have pets and/or children. These unwanted animals can carry diseases and even attack unsuspecting members of the family. A worry child shouldn’t need to have when playing in their backyard.
Power Washing
Power washing on its own can be quite a lucrative business. However, as a supplement to your landscaping company as a whole, it’s even better. There is more overlap than you might initially think.
Power washing moss out of stone paving on the ground, cleaning the deck, and cleaning the grime off of water features, all require effort and specialist equipment that the potential client likely doesn’t have available.
If you begin to think of your business as maintaining the entirety of the yard rather than just landscaping it opens the door for many more opportunities regarding its maintenance.
Power washing can cost as much as $100 an hour in some places where demand is high and contractors are few and far between.
Potential customers would find it far more convenient and cost-effective if they could turn to you to handle their power washing needs.
They provide the water, you supply the power washer and the manpower, and the process is simple. All the molds, algae, and mildew will over time begin to damage the structure of the house and yard potentially leading to huge repair costs and damaging the value of the house.
Besides, a power-washed home is a cleaner home. It’s nicer to be in, it’s nicer to look at, and it makes the yard more enjoyable to spend time in.
Lawn Mowing and Lawn Care
This last service requires very little explanation. Lawn maintenance doesn’t always fall under the jurisdiction of the landscaper’s duties. But it should. Lawn mowing is an easy task, it’s just relatively time-consuming, which means most people have no desire to do it.
That’s where you come in. However, the biggest money-makers are potentially the ways you can encourage proper lawn maintenance. Lawn treatment, weed killers, sand, fertilizers, and supplementary grass seeds.
These can all be sold by you to ensure your potential customers have a beautifully manicured lawn free from weeds and perfect for the children to play on.
A well-maintained, healthy, lawn is one of the first things people notice when they see a house. It increases its charm, improves its value, and entices the children to spend some time outdoors since there are no nettles or other harmful weeds just waiting to ruin their fun.
It’s easy to sell the idea of an immaculate lawn to customers that already take pride in their garden. This is a service that tends to fall off in the fall and winter seasons.
It goes hand in hand with the idea of touch-ups. If you can sell a customer on one service you are almost guaranteed to be able to sell them on the other.
Summary
Hopefully, this article has given you some good ideas for improving your landscaping business’s bottom line without breaking the bank.
This variety of services should hopefully allow you to maintain a steady profit year-round. Seasonality is, of course, a huge factor in the landscaping industry.
That’s why ideas such as planting trees and clearing away dead plants during the winter months can be such a huge benefit.
Especially for smaller companies that may struggle to maintain staff wages in the quieter seasons.
While there are certainly many other landscaping services you could offer, these are the most profitable.
The focus should be on services that will generate future revenue (like tree planting) or services that require very little change on the customer’s part.
Mowing the lawn, power washing the deck, and removing pests – these aren’t huge changes to the look and feel of their garden.
They are easier ideas to sell and require limited extra expenses on your part. Hopefully, these ideas will help you increase your profitability all year round. Good luck!
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