A great logo is key to building a strong lawn care business. It’s the face of your brand and the first step in creating recognition with your customers. Did you know most people need to see a business over seven times before they remember it? A good logo helps make those impressions stick! When creating your logo, you have a few options: 🎨 Design it yourself: Great if you have experience, but tricky otherwise. 📷 Use clip art: Be cautious here! Check licensing rules, and remember—you won’t be the only one using that image. 💼 Hire a designer: Try affordable options like Fiverr or crowdsourced competitions on DesignCrowd for more professional results. 🖌️ Free tools: Sites like Vistaprint let you design your logo for free and download it in multiple formats for easy use across websites, signs, and print materials. ⚠️ Pro Tips for Logos: Always check for originality using a reverse Google Image search. Ensure your file is high-resolution so it looks sharp on everything from business cards to truck decals. Now it’s your turn—have you got your logo sorted? Share it in the comments below! We’d love to see what represents your business. Let’s celebrate your creativity and inspire others! Drop your logo in the comments ⬇️🌟

You know how some people chuck a lobster 🦞 into boiling water?​ I wouldn't do that. I think it's cruel. But I get why the lobster stays there. It’s because the water warms up slowly. It doesn’t realise it’s in trouble until it’s too late. Something simular happened to me the other day. Not life or death, not even close. But close enough to make me think. I was out mowing and it started to rain 🌧️ Just a bit, so I kept going. Then a bit more. Then more again. Before I knew it, five hours had passed. My boots were full of water and then I came to a sudden realization when my headset cut out completely. The rain had killed it ☔ And I thought, what on earth am doing out here? Why didnt I just stop when the rain got bad Well the rain used the same trick the lobster fell for It didn’t start pouring. It just got steadily worse. Gradually. Quietly. And I didn’t notice. I’d adapted at every step. That’s what got me. Not the rain. The fact that I never made a choice. It snuck up on me. Sometimes it’s not the big changes you need to watch out for. It’s the slow drift that takes you somewhere you’d never choose if you were paying attention. In relationships. In life. Even In your business. So take a breath now and then. Look around. And ask yourself — Am I standing in the rain without even realising it? 🌧️🦞 If you are, maybe it's time to do something about it. Until next time, get out there, mow lawns and have fun. Oh, and stay out of the rain

The first picture shows the side of the ballfield. The second one is of the driveway, and the third is a clearer shot of the second. The fourth picture shows the parking lot, which is actually not part of the property. However, the owner of the cornfield is allowing us to use a portion of it, though not all of it. I'm glad they're letting us use it—without it, we’d only have the driveway and parking along the road. The fifth picture shows what the parking area looked like 17 years ago. The sixth one is a picture of the driveway heading towards the parking lot. The seventh is taken from the driveway heading towards both the building and parking, but you have to go between the trees to get there; otherwise, going straight will lead you into someone’s driveway. The eighth picture is a bit closer up. The ninth one shows the second road leading to the ballfield park and building. The tenth picture is from Beacon, which gives details about the property size and its current owner. It’s not fully updated yet. Right now, my uncle just has one more paper to sign before it’s officially his, and then Beacon can update the records. We’re only using 0.4 acres of her farmland for the parking lot, but she has 6.77 acres in total. The 0.4 acres is about 535 feet around if you walk the perimeter (though I’m not exactly sure of the exact measurement; that’s just what Google says). If anyone has suggestions for a good weed killer, I’d appreciate it! Yes, the second, third, and fourth pictures show grass, but it used to be all rocks, and I want to kill those weeds so the driveway can be visible again like it was in the past. I will post some of the pictures leaving the ballfield. https://beacon.schneidercorp.com/

🌱 Can You Start Earning Money Today — Even with No Equipment or Car? Short answer: Yes. But let me tell you a story first. 👟 Back in 1999, I rolled into Ngaruawahia with: No money No job And no real plan Just $1,000 on my Visa — our Christmas emergency money. And I spent it all on a lawn mower and a weed eater. I came home and told my girlfriend (now wife): “I’m starting a lawn mowing business.” 😳 Her face said it all. Now we had no money for Christmas. She thought I’d lost my mind. Maybe I had. 📞 But I had a plan. I pulled out the White Pages, started at “A,” and called everyone in town: “Hi, I’m offering free quotes on lawn mowing — interested?” When someone said yes, I was out the door and working. If they liked the price, I booked them in for a fortnightly cut. Then it was back to the phones again. I worked a full 40-hour week from day one — either dialing or mowing. 🏡 Within 3 months, in a town of just 5,000 people, I had a full-time business. Was it easy? Nope. But I’d been building mowing businesses for years by then — I wasn’t totally blind. 🛑 Can you still do this today? Not with the phone book — it’s a dinosaur now. But the other technique I used still works. 🚪 Door-knocking. Yep, it takes guts. You’ll get rejected. But it’s free. And if you knock enough doors, the jobs come. It’s a numbers game. 💡 If I had to start again today — with no gear and no car — here's what I’d do: ✅ Stick to jobs close to home ✅ Focus on garden cleanups, not mowing ✅ Knock on doors full-time (40 hrs/week) ✅ Use that income to slowly buy equipment Why gardens? They pay well Require minimal tools And help you build a client base fast 💬 Final thought: Hard work still works. You don’t need luck. You need hustle. 🌳 From small acorns, mighty oaks grow.

He cut me off!! What the… Driving down the road, I see this guy pull out from a side street — right in front of me. I slam the brakes, blast my horn, and give him the classic “what are you doing?!” glare. He looks at me like I’m the one acting weird… and drives off. I mutter something about idiots and keep going. But then I notice something. Cars behind me… are also looking at me funny. What’s going on? And then I see it. My indicator’s still on. I’d forgotten to cancel it after my last turn, so it looked like I was turning into that side street. Which means… he thought I was turning, so he pulled out. So I basically told him I was turning left… and didn’t. Nice work, Stu. Moral of the story? The idiot wasnt out there. Turns out, I was the idiot. If you’re building a lawn business (or thinking about it), here’s the part where I stop talking about blinkers... ...and start talking about something that could seriously change your work week. It’s called Lawn Business Builders Pro. It’s our membership that helps you grow a $10K/month lawn business — without burning out. We built a $200K/year biz working under 25 hours a week. Now we help others do the same — with step-by-step training, weekly workshops, and all the tools to get clients, raise rates, and work smarter. 👉 It’s $39/month. Free website, domain & email. No contracts. Cancel anytime. ​[Come check it out here] ​ Because running a great business shouldn’t feel like you’re always stuck in traffic.