Your entire year gets booked in about six weeks.
Everything that rings between the last snow and the middle of May decides what the season looks like. Then it goes quiet and it's too late.
$497/month · done-for-you setup · month-to-month
Where the money goes
Landscaping has the most compressed sales window of any trade. From the first warm weekend to roughly the third week of May, every homeowner who was going to do something to their yard this year decides to do it, calls three companies, and books with whoever gets back to them. If you're on a machine or behind a mower during those six weeks — and you are — you're missing the calls that fund the summer.
Then there's the quote pile, which in this trade is enormous. Design and install quotes go out at four, five, twenty thousand dollars, homeowners sit on them, and nobody follows up because you're twelve hours into a build day. Half of those were going to say yes with one more nudge.
What a job is worth here
Reference figures for this trade- Weekly maintenance contract
- $60 – $140 per cut
- Spring cleanup
- $300 – $900
- Interlock / hardscape
- $6,000 – $30,000
- Booking window that matters
- Mid-April to mid-May
- Snow contracts sold
- September – October
Figures are ranges we see quoted in the Ottawa market, not our numbers. Put your own into the revenue calculator and see where it lands.
What the text actually says
Nine seconds after a call goes unanswered, the caller gets this — in your business's name, in wording we write with you before it goes live.
What it finds out before you call back
- Seasonal contract vs. one-off job — the difference between recurring revenue and a day's work
- Property size and whether they've had service before
- Which service: cutting, cleanup, interlock, sod, trees, or snow
- Their timeline, because in April everyone says now and it's your job to sequence it
And the quotes that go quiet
Every quote you send gets a polite, automatic follow-up until the customer decides. It stops the moment they book or decline. At the end of the month you get one page showing which jobs came back and what they were worth.
Questions landscaping and lawn care companies ask
What happens in the off-season?
You pause it, or you point it at snow contracts. Most of our seasonal clients run it hard March through June, again in September for snow sign-ups, and idle in between. Month-to-month exists for exactly this reason.
I want maintenance contracts, not one-off cuts.
Then we write the qualifying to lead with that. The text asks about the season first and treats the one-time jobs as the secondary path.
My quotes are big and take a while.
Install quotes get the follow-up sequence with a slower cadence — spaced across the weeks a homeowner actually takes to decide on a backyard.
Find out what you're leaving on the table.
A 15-minute call. We look at your call volume and your average job together, and you'll know before we hang up whether the math works for your shop.
Or call the system yourself at 343-503-5515 and see what it does.