Overview
Green Industry Websites designs, builds, and host websites for the entire Green Industry. We have a number of online website tools that we have specifically created for these types of websites. Most of our tools can be used in a variety of ways. Below we have listed some of the tools that we recommend specifically for Lawn Care companies or individuals interested in starting a lawn care business. Since we created all of these tools, we can also modify them further to meet your specific needs.
Lawn Care Center Websites
We start the design process by collecting our client's design preferences. We ask simple questions about the types of designs that they like and dislike. We also incorporate their current marketing and brand material in the design. For Lawn Care companies, it is very important to establish a consistent brand identity and to allow customers to quickly and easily find information about the services that they offer. Next, we collect information about our client's customers including demographic and purchasing data. We also evaluate their competitors websites and search engine rankings. After all of this data is collected, we prepare a number of initial design drafts and submit them to the client for review. Once a primary design has been selected, we work with the client to tweak the design until it is perfect.
Starting a Lawn Care Business
The following is a list of our tools that we recommend for our Lawn Care / Chemical Treatment / Pest Control clients.
- Online Payments - Our online payments tool makes it quick and easy for your customers to pay online. Our high performance real-time credit card processing component, handles client side encryption to enable transaction processing from your site. Our payment processing tool supports over 50 gateways / processors including Bank of America, Authorize.Net, PayPal, Google Checkout, QuickBooks, along with many others.
- Social Media Tools - Use Social Media to inform your customers of specials and new products. Our tools can help to build your following by making it easy to add your business to their Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts.
- Directions/Map - It is essential that customers can find your business. We offer a variety on interactive map solutions that include the ability to provide driving directions.
- Marketing Toolchest - The Marketing Toolchest collection of email tools are our most popular. They allow website owners the ability to create a reusable email template and email it to all of the email addresses that they have collected in their own database of leads (LeadTracker). This allows are website owners to easily and quickly communicate with both existing and potential customers free of charge.
- Contact Administrator - The Contact Administrator makes collecting and viewing customer information easy. It includes website forms for collecting user data such as addresses, phone numbers, etc. In addition, it automatically notifies the website owner via an email when someone has registered on the site. The email contains all of the information that the user entered. In addtion, all of the information is saved in a secure database for later use.
- Photo Gallery - The Photo Gallery tools allow you the ability to create galleries (for example: Irrigation Photos, Landscape Installations, Ponds, etc.) and then quickly upload pictures from you PC over the Internet. You can also manage the images on the site by making them Active (they appear on the website) or Inactive (they do not appear on the website) and you can change the gallery for a picture.
- Before and After Gallery - Our Before & After viewer allows you to upload a before image, an after image, write a description of each, and provide these images on your website in a photo gallery format. The new viewer will create a fading transition between the two photos.
- Customer Portal - One of our latest tool allows you to provide a private area to communicate with your customers. Using our online admin website, you can add personal notes, upload photos, update private customer calenders, upload PDFs, landscape designs, and other file types. Your customers will login and only see their notes, photos, and files. We can also add links in the customer portal to accept payments.
- Refer-A-Friend - Our Refer-A-Friend tool gives your website visitors a chance to refer your company to a friend. They can enter a from name, from email, to name, to email, and a message. An email is sent from your website and the referral information is saved in a database that you can access at any time via our administration tools.
- Landscape Material Calculators - Our easy to use landscape calculators will keep your customers and prospects coming back to your website. We currently have mulch, stone, and gravel calculators. We can also create custom calculators. After they have calculated how much material they need, we can even direct them to a bulk order form to place an order online.
- Newsletter Editor - Newsletters are a great way to stay in touch with your customers. Our Newsletter Editor makes it easy to create a monthly newsletter and distribute it to your customers with a click on the mouse.
Lawn Care Website Examples
The following are some examples of Lawn Care Websites that we have created:
- Lets Get Green - Green is committed to maintaining a staff that is well educated in the lawn care industry. All of their Lawn Care Specialists are certified applicators in the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
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- Always Green - In 1997, Peter & Dodi Eells founded Always Green to perform fertilization of lawns, shrubs, and trees, as well as, pest control. When asked why the name, Peter instantly replied, "That's exactly our goal!".
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- Service Master Lawn Care - For the second time in as many years, ServiceMaster Lawn Care has won the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Agriculture’s Environmental Award for our on-going research in the area of non-chemical control for chinch bugs in turf.
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Testimonial
"I was able to do 80-90% of my estimates online..."
I wanted to send this message to let you know how valuable the quick aerial calculator is. When I started using it last year, I was able to do 80-90% of my estimates on line with the measuring tool. Living in Michigan, it’s hard to get out in January or February to do an estimate when there’s 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground; I was amazed at how accurate the measurements were.
This tool has been so valuable in the sense of how much time and money (GAS), that it’s been able to save me.
It’s also pretty cool when you are talking to a potential customer on the phone and you let them know that you are going to do an aerial estimate, they’re really impressed.
There are a small percentage of properties that have been hard to measure due to excessive tree cover, but overall it’s been great!
Thanks Again,
Bill Flowers
Scream’n Green
Lawn Fertilization & Tree Care
Rochester Hills, MI