6 Lawn Care Service Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 1st, 2023

Start A Lawn Care Service

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.

Here are some real life success stories of starting a lawn care service:

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 they make: $4.5M/year
How much did it cost to start: $250K
Current team size: 47

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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.

About

Bryan started GreenPal almost 12 years ago

Revenue

Bryan grew the business to $375K/month

Costs

It cost Bryan $250000 to start the business

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Learn more about starting a lawn care service:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a lawn care service?
-> Pros and cons of a lawn care service

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established lawn care service
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-> Lawn care service names

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4. TruGreen Lawn Care Service

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Website traffic: 2.35M/month

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6. LawnSite

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Website traffic: 800K/month