Most affective way to advertise a landscaping company in my local area?

Spray paint your advert on a horse and set him free

Don't advertise - Network. You also should contact hoas (home owner associations), hospitals, and businesses, as they ask for bids every year for a new contract, or when their current service messes up, etc. Call and find out/talk to the decision maker or leave a clear and positive message once every 3 months. Don't feel exasperated, just be positive and persist - keep it fresh. Contact other service company owners/managers and refer business to them and ask that they reciprocate. Check with local chamber of commerce or similar business groups, and see if they have any networking functions. Show up, present yourself professionally, make friends and tell them what you do and how you commit to quality, and how importantly you feel quality of service and business practice makes a difference with your client base... Offer facilities close to where you do business already a special rate for the first month with no contract to evaluate the quality of your work. They can easily see the consistency of your work if they need a reference. Offer a free week or some kind of discount to your current customers who refer anyone who decides to sign on with your service. These are the basic tools to build a business virally... Good luck!

believe me, word of mouth is the most effective. you will stand little chance of offering competitive prices for contract work at this stage, so dont try. be overly nice to local people. drive around local estates. if you notice a lot of work that needs doing in one area, pick on one house and offer services for free or as near as, use it as a showcase for your work, neighbours are sure to be interested. ensure that your personall apearance and professonalism is the best, no stubble or a builders bum, and you talk clearly with no waffle, always offer to remove shoes before entering a house. touches like this will, with abit of luck especially with the women, man they talk and gossip.phrases like 'he's a lovely boy' will get anoying but very usefull, practice a customer service voice and smile. this should win you over your competitors on a local scale at least. good luck. p.s if you are a woman you should already know this, if not now you do (no offence ment)

Local news paper and if you have a local radio station put an add on it

Lawn signs.

how about asking someone with a piece of land near the road side if you could do a bit of landscaping for them with your sign in the middle of your lovely work,, showing what you can do,, and the land owner has a nice bit of landscape done at the same time.

Digging up your local golf course at night should do the trick.

make flyiers on the computer and post them in busy areas or you good get free business card at vistaprint.com. You just have to pay for shipping and you get like 250 cards. Designs for your business cards are limited since they are free. Good luck, I hope this helps.

Advertise in garden centres and DIY places like B&Q