Most of us are in “slow season” right now (or just coming out) Machines have been parked. Phone’s quiet. A lot of guys use that as an excuse to do nothing for those of you who want to do something about it, check this out! there are only 4 Ways To Advertise Literally. Every lead you will ever get comes from one of these four buckets. there are 2 types of people: • People who already know you (warm) • Total strangers (cold) Two ways to talk to them: • 1:1 (private) • 1:many (public) That gives you the “core four”: Let's start with the 2 ways to reach your WARM audience 1:1 (Private) aka WARM OUTREACH: Text / call every past customer, GC, realtor, excavator, and buddy who’s sent you work in the past: Script is simple: “Hey __, it’s __. I’ve got a couple March/April openings for mulching / clearing. Any projects you want me to look at or quote ahead of time?” Goal: 20–50 real conversations this week, not 2 half‑hearted texts.\\ 1 to Many (Warm) aka POSTING CONTENT: You’ve already got followers, friends, and people creeping on your profile. Show them you’re alive. • Post before/after pics of your best jobs • Write 3–5 “what to expect with forestry mulching” posts • Do a simple selfie video walking a job and explaining what you’d change Hit Facebook profile, Google Business page, local groups, email list. Goal? 1 useful post each day (don't overthink it - you don't need an editor) Now, let's cover the COLD audience 1:1 (COLD) – aka COLD OUTREACH Builders, developers, realtors, property managers, HOA boards. Most of them don’t have “their mulching guy” yet. Make a hit list of 50–100 and reach out: “Got a mulcher & crew. We handle ___ area. If you ever need overgrown lots / fence lines cleaned up, happy to be your first quote.”Your slow season is when they actually have time to talk vendors. hit the builders and GCs for land clearing jobs hit the real estate agents for the forestry mulching and property improvement jobs 1 to many (COLD) – PAID ADS

@Blake Browning putting in the work 💪 keep it rollin'

Not quite the before photo I’d like, but I wanted to share how this job turned out. Few questions: 1 - Is my post too long? 2 - Do yall have luck “boosting” the post 3 - Best way to I reach more folks?

Completed a mulching job a couple days ago where the guy called from website wanting a area cleared on new property he bought to open it up. Stated only wanted about 4 hours of mulching and the job was an 1 1/2 hours away. Told him the only way I would be interested in it was as full day job and quoted over the phone $2500 for the day. Set a site visit for Saturday. He called Friday and said to just do the job. Showed up at site visit with equipment walked the property which was extremely rocky. Told him I could mulch it down but would not be ground very fine due to the rock. He agreed and proceeded to mulch. Finished the job about 1 1/2 acres mulched, got paid and 5star review before leaving.

Like a lot of you I'm a one man band here so that means marketing, phones, maintenance, etc on top of actually operating the machine. I really don't want to be driving all over the place at random moments to meet people for estimate appointments so I just do a whole bunch of appointments 1 day a week or 1 day every other week. I'll accumulate up to 10 qualified leads and then plan out 1 day where I drive around to all of them. It's totally common for that route to be 130+ miles. Planning out this trek used to be a huge headache until I found Spoke. It's a mobile app designed for delivery drivers, plug in the list of your addresses and any time constraints for each and it will map out a route for you and give you arrival times. I then take those arrival times and give the customer a specific time that I'll arrive. I plan a max of 30 minutes for each meeting which is a setting in the app. If a customer can only meet after or before a certain time you can plug that in and it will work around it. It will also accommodate a lunch break if you want. Also the base version is free and I don't find that I need any of the features that come with the paid version :)