At LawnStarter, we’re always looking for ways to make caring for your home easier and better. This spring, we’re excited to introduce a few more of those ways. GPS-Informed Predictive Matching Algorithm. No one likes sitting in traffic, and for lawn care pros, that’s time that could be spent making […]
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LawnStarter Expands to 2 More Markets
Austin, TX-based LawnStarter, the platform that makes lawn care easy, continues to grow with the addition this spring of two more markets: Baton Rouge, LA, and Tallahassee, FL. “With the arrival of LawnStarter in Baton Rouge and Tallahassee, lawn care customers in those areas will no longer have to put up […]
LawnStarter Survey: 9 in 10 Lawn Care Providers Forecast Higher Revenue in 2017
Lawn care providers are overwhelmingly optimistic about pulling in more green — as in money — in 2017. In LawnStarter’s annual survey of lawn care business owners, 91 percent of lawn care providers in the U.S. say they expect revenue to rise this year compared with last year. Six percent […]
LawnStarter Adds Zak Cocos as VP of Growth
Austin, TX-based LawnStarter has hired Zak Cocos as vice president of growth. The hiring of Cocos enhances LawnStarter’s focus on growing the company’s base of customers and lawn care providers in 2017. In this role, Cocos is responsible for expanding LawnStarter’s user base via technical and digital marketing tactics. Cocos […]
LawnStarter Providers Can Score $1,000 Bonus in Our Recommendapalooza Contest
It’s Recommendapalooza time at LawnStarter! What, you say, is Recommendapalooza? We can assure you it’s not a loud and wild music festival. It’s actually our way of putting some extra cash in the pockets of our lawn care providers. Now through Oct. 31, 2016, a provider who’s part of the […]
LawnStarter Co-Founder Offers Tips for Success in Lawn Care
In a recent Q&A with the Kiva.org blog, our own Ryan Farley, co-founder and chief operating officer, provided a virtual playbook for success in the lawn care industry. If you’re a lawn care entrepreneur or striving to be one, you should head over to the Kiva blog and check out Ryan’s words […]
LawnStarter Helps Little Free Library Movement Turn a New Page in Austin
Bonnie Dilber has a new library in her neighborhood in Austin, TX. Actually, it’s in her front yard. LawnStarter recently set up a Little Free Library in front of Dilber’s home in South Austin. As the name implies, the library is little — roughly the size of a large birdhouse […]
LawnStarter Enters Richmond, VA, Market
LawnStarter, which makes lawn care carefree through its easy-to-use online platform, is adding Richmond, VA, to the growing number of metropolitan areas that it serves. Starting June 1, LawnStarter will offer lawn care services to residents of the Richmond area. To meet demand in Richmond, LawnStarter is recruiting about 30 […]
Florida ‘Lawntrepreneur’ Earns LawnStarter Scholarship
Spencer Marble is a mowing mogul in the making. Marble, an 18-year-old senior at Creekside High School in St. Johns, FL, owns Florida Lawn and Order LLC, whose services include lawn care, tree trimming and mulching. Marble and his two full-time employees take care of a little over 50 customers […]
LawnStarter’s Declaration of Independence: We Are Not the Uber of Lawn Care!
We’re witnessing the Uberization of America. Everywhere you look, startups are claiming to be the “Uber of” whatever — moving, pizza, dog walking, drones, medical marijuana, booze and doctors, to name a few. The lawn care industry is not immune from this trend; some of our competitors proudly wear the […]