For landscaping and lawn care

Recurring customers inside your route.

A maintenance customer across town costs you drive time every week. Win the properties on the streets your crews already drive, and the turf, hardscape and irrigation installs that carry you through the slow months.

  • Built for Turf Tenders (Monterey County)
  • Quote requests scored before you see them
  • A written read every Friday

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What do you want your marketing to do for you?

Pick the one that matters most right now. We start there.

What your buyers search

What property owners search, by job.

Maintenance buyers search close to home and pick from the map. Install buyers search for the project and look at photos. HOA boards and property managers search for contracts. Each needs its own page.

  • lawn care service near me
  • landscaping company near me
  • artificial turf installation
  • paver patio contractor
  • irrigation repair
  • drought tolerant landscaping
  • HOA landscape maintenance
  • commercial landscaping services

The work worth chasing

  • Recurring maintenance

    Weekly and biweekly customers on the routes you already run. Density is the margin.

  • Hardscape and turf installs

    Patios, walls and artificial turf. High ticket, and a portfolio sells them.

  • Irrigation

    Repairs, upgrades and water-saving retrofits, often the door to a maintenance contract.

  • HOA and commercial contracts

    Multi-property agreements that fill a route in one signature.

What goes wrong

Where landscaping margin disappears.

Landscaping has plenty of demand. The trouble is which demand, where, and when it shows up.

  • Customers scattered across the map.

    Every customer outside your routes adds windshield time your crew isn’t paid for. Marketing aimed at a whole county fills the schedule with the wrong addresses.

  • Spring floods you, winter starves you.

    Everyone calls in March and nobody calls in December. Without install work and contracts lined up, the good crew you kept all summer sits idle.

  • Price shoppers who want one mow.

    A cheapest-price search brings one-time jobs that never renew. The recurring customer searches differently and reads different pages.

  • HOA and commercial buyers never see you.

    Board members and property managers want proof of insurance, references and properties like theirs. A homeowner-only site doesn’t make their shortlist.

How demand moves

A landscaping year, and what to push in each part.

Timing varies by climate: the Central Coast barely has a winter, the Midwest has a long one. The pattern is similar everywhere.

  1. Late winter to spring

    The rush

    Cleanups, new maintenance customers and install requests all arrive at once. Ads and pages need to be live before the first warm weekend, and the form needs to sort installs from mowing.

  2. Summer

    Maintenance and irrigation

    Routes are full. Irrigation repairs and water-saving upgrades come in, and follow-up turns one-time jobs into recurring ones.

  3. Fall

    Cleanup and planting

    Leaf cleanup, planting and hardscape starts. A good time to sell next year’s maintenance agreements.

  4. Winter

    Contracts and planning

    HOA and commercial bids, contract renewals and hardscape design for spring. SEO work done now ranks in time for the rush.

Built for this trade

The landscaper we built for.

Turf Tenders: family-owned, serving Salinas and Monterey County since 2009, across residential, commercial and HOA work.

How you pay

How a landscaping plan is built.

Every plan is built from the same three parts. What changes by trade is what counts as a lead and how long a job takes to close.

What counts as a lead

A quote request for a property inside your route radius, for a service you sell: a maintenance contract, an install, an irrigation job or an HOA bid.

What does not

A one-time mow twenty miles out, a job you don’t offer, or a solicitation.

  • A monthly retainer

    Covers the site, the service and city pages, SEO and the Friday read, and keeps building rankings through the slow season.

  • A price per qualified lead

    A set price for each quote request that meets the definition above. The spring rush brings more of them, the winter fewer.

  • A share of each closed job

    A share of each job or contract that signs from those leads. A recurring contract is the best close there is, for both of us.

What counts as a lead is agreed before work starts. Prices depend on your market, so we quote them on a call. No setup fee.

Questions owners ask

About marketing for landscapers.

Can you target only the neighborhoods we service?
Yes. Pages are written for the towns on your routes, the map listing is set to your service area, and ads are limited to the ZIP codes you name. The quote form asks for the address first so out-of-area requests are easy to spot.
How do we get more HOA and commercial contracts?
Give those buyers their own page: property types you maintain, your insurance and licensing, references, and a request form for a bid. Turf Tenders’ site was built around the work they wanted, including HOA contracts.
We are booked solid in spring. Why market then?
To pick better jobs. When demand is high, marketing can favor installs and recurring contracts on your routes, and the form can sort them from one-time requests.
Will this help in the slow season?
It can shift what comes in: hardscape design, irrigation upgrades and contract bids in the months when mowing stops. The SEO work done then is what ranks in spring.
Do you need photos of our work?
Yes, especially installs. Before-and-after photos of your own patios and turf sell better than anything we can write.
Can the form tell a maintenance customer from an install job?
Yes. The form asks the service first, and the lead pipeline scores each request, so an install or contract request reaches you flagged differently from a one-time mow.

Routes spread too thin?

Tell us where your crews already drive and what you want more of. We will tell you which neighborhoods and services to go after first.

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Your site should be paying for itself. Let's find out together.

Take ten minutes with us. You will leave knowing where your site stands and what we would do first, whether or not you hire us.

  • Monthly retainer
  • Pay per lead
  • Pay per close
  • A written read every Friday
About a minute1 of 5

What do you want your marketing to do for you?

Pick the one that matters most right now. We start there.