Landscaping Business

2 Tips For Starting A Successful Landscaping Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own landscaping business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a landscaping business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a landscaping business?
-> Pros and cons of a landscaping business

Need inspiration?

-> Other landscaping business success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a landscaping business
-> Landscaping business slogans
-> Landscaping business names
-> Landscaping business Instagram bios

Other resources

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a landscaping business:

#1: Terry Morrill, founder of Pacific Outdoor Living:

We chatted with with Terry, founder of Pacific Outdoor Living ($1.1M/month). In our interview, Terry says:

Truck signs were a winning lead avenue. I bought a truck with a 20-foot box panel trailer that we put a sign on and parked on the overpass. The tickets we got for these activities just became a marketing cost.

Additionally:

I'm guilty of starting too many things at one time or not doing solid groundwork on a project. But making those kinds of mistakes are far less damaging than doing nothing, starting nothing, and taking very few chances.