Lawn care is a great business idea for teens to make money. But without advertising, you don’t make any money. One of the first places you should advertise your lawn care business is in your neighborhood near where you live and where you’ll be mowing lawns. So if you’re at a loss for ideas for how to get customers or market your lawn care business, I’ve gathered all the related tips that we’ve written about in some of our previous marketing articles in  this article on 20 creative ways you can advertise your lawn care business in your neighborhood:

1. One of the very first ways you should advertise your lawn care business is by telling your family and friends about it. They are your first pool of support and moral boosters. Tell them about what you are up to during visits or even call them out of the blue to say hi and update them on what’s happening with you. Let them know how much you appreciate their help and make them feel that they are a big part of your growth as a budding entrepreneur.
2. Ask your family and friends in your neighborhood if you can borrow their window spaces. Design their windows for free in exchange for putting your advertisement up there. Use bold signs, big letters and bright colors to attract attention. Make sure that it can be seen from afar.
3. Put up a sign in your lawn. Make it big and use creative pictures.
4. Create key-chains or key-rings with your name and logo on it to give them away at locksmiths, car shops, gasoline stations, etc in your area.
5. Get custom apparel like caps or shirts and wear them whenever you go out. You could also give some of these away as in the above example as well.
6. Get a lot of balloons, tie your information on the strings, and let them all just fly away or better yet, stand on the corner and give them away.
7. Design creative bumper stickers to give away that people can put on their cars too. For example “Baby in car” or “Student driver” – they are useful to a lot of people. You can design this with your website or name of your lawn care business in a much smaller font at the bottom or at the top.
8. Offer discounts during important events or seasons and then distribute them throughout your neighborhood
9. Distribute Missing or Wanted posters all over the neighborhood that goes something like this: “WANTED: A client who wants their lawns mowed for a cheap price”.
10. Go door-to-door in your neighborhood and let people know what you are all about. Give away some of your keychains/key rings, tshirts, baseball caps and balloons discussed above.
11. Walk around in your area in a costume and give out flyers or business cards or some of the free gifts discussed above.
12. Join school organizations or attend community events and tell people about your business.
13. Have a garage sale. Every time someone makes a purchase, make sure that you include your business card in the bag or a flyer advertising your lawn care business.
14. Put your flyers about your business on parked cars in your area and in at the parking lots in your neighborhood
15. Visit restaurants in your neighborhood and drop your business cards in the customer drop box.
16. Visit your local library and discreetly insert your business card or flyer in DIY or home fix-it books.
17. Make free bookmarks and distribute them in bookstores and libraries near where you live for free. You can even insert them in random books. Just make sure that you don’t get caught! You can also discretely give them to people sitting in the library. Put all your information on the bookmark, but make sure that you also create cool designs so a lot of people will like it.
18. Visit restaurants in your neighborhood and drop your business cards in the customer drop box.
19. You should be marketing your lawn care business all throughout the year. So during halloween, when kids go trick or treating, give them candy and slip them your business card as well. They might not be interested in it, but their parents might be!
20. Once you do have customers, offer them a discount in exchange for promoting you or referrals.

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