Lawn Care Service

2 Lawn Care Service Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 6th, 2024

Are you ready to begin your lawn care business and be your boss? A lawncare business offers lawn aeration, Seeding, fertilizing, soil acidity tests, and controlling weeds, among other services. If you love creating amazing landscapes, consider starting a lawn care company.

To start lawn care legally and run it profitably, you must register the business legally. You can get into a franchise or start a business from scratch. Decide what lawn care services you will offer and your target clients.

To offer effective service, purchase lawn care equipment, and hire skilled lawn care personnel.

In this list, you'll find real-world lawn care service success stories and very profitable examples of starting a lawn care service that makes money.

1. GreenPal ($4.5M/year)

After running a successful landscaping company for 15 years, Bryan Clayton realized the difficulty homeowners faced in finding reliable lawnmowing services. Inspired by Airbnb, he saw an opportunity to create a platform that connected homeowners with local lawn care professionals. Eight years after launching GreenPal, the platform is now live in all 50 states and has over 200,000 weekly users, while generating over $30 million in annual revenue.

How much money it makes: $4.5M/year
How much did it cost to start: $250K
How many people on the team: 47

Uber For Lawn Care: How I Built A $30M Software

GreenPal has bootstrapped their business to over $30 million a year in revenue, after securing an unsecured line of credit for $85,000, and have built the operating system and platform for small lawncare companies to run their entire business through, becoming live in all 50 US states and having 1.2 million homeowners using the platform.

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2. Stacy Ling ($120K/year)

Stacy discovered her love for gardening while studying law at Seton Hall University, School of Law.

She later moved to her family home in the suburbs and developed a strong passion for plants and flowers.

Many of her friends, neighbors, and acquaintances wanted help with their gardens or believed they couldn’t grow things. She started a small garden design business to help them.

Together with her husband, she had done many DIY projects in and out of the garden to make our home look and feel cozier. So, she wanted to document and share that type of content, too.

In December 2018, she launched her garden and home blog and expanded her brand on social media.

How much money it makes: $120K/year

How Stacy Ling Built a $10K/Month Gardening Blog

Stacy Ling's garden blog generates an impressive $10K/month in revenue through ad revenue, affiliate sales, and brand sponsorships, stemming from her passion for plants and home decor that started in 2018.

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