Fostyr for landscapers
A landscaping business is a list of properties and the people who control them. Keep the list.
A property manager with thirty commercial sites. An HOA board that renews every year. A builder who needs every new house finished. A homeowner whose neighbours all ask who did the yard. Those relationships are the business, and the busy season is exactly when they slip. Fostyr keeps them, with every job, and tells you who has gone quiet.
Where the work comes from for a landscaping company
Property managers
One manager is a season of contracts and a decade of renewals.
HOAs and boards
The board changes every year. The relationship has to survive the change.
Builders and developers
Every new house needs a yard. A builder who trusts you sends the whole street.
Homeowners and their neighbours
A yard is a billboard. The homeowner who tells the neighbour is your salesperson.
What goes wrong without a system
The contract that quietly didn't renew
A manager renewed for six years. A new manager arrived, nobody at your company knew, and the renewal went to the company that introduced itself.
The board you lost track of
The HOA president who loved your crew moved. The new board had never heard your name. The bid went out to five companies.
The crew lead's notebook
Your best crew lead knows every property's gate code, the manager's preferences and which sprinkler zone floods. Then the lead leaves, with the notebook.
Scheduling software that forgets the relationship
Your route software knows the properties and the crews. It cannot tell you which manager sent the most contracts or that a builder hasn't called since spring.
Where to start, with no software and no plan
List who controls the properties
Managers, boards, builders, and the homeowners who refer. A count of properties beside each name. That list is the business.
Connect the inbox; bring the customer list
Every thread with every manager is already in your mail. Connect it once. Export your customer list and drop it in; the counts fill themselves.
Call before the renewal, not after
Every contract has a date. Every board has a meeting. Fostyr keeps them; you call sixty days ahead, before anyone else does.
Put the offices on a route
Management companies, builders' offices, the HOA meetings. Visit on a cadence with a reason: a seasonal plan, a photo of the property looking its best.
How Fostyr fits a landscaping company
Hub: Who is waiting on you, and which contract is coming up.
The morning: the manager who asked for a spring quote, the HOA whose renewal is sixty days out, the builder who just sent a new street. Ask Fostyr which manager sent the most contracts last year.
Relationships: Every manager, board, builder and homeowner, with every property.
Each has a journey: contracts, emails, calls, the notes from every crew lead who dealt with them. A grade shows who actually sends work. A management company holds its managers and its properties, so a change at their office keeps the history.
Workspace: Email, calendar and follow-ups, attached to the people.
A thread from a manager lands on the manager. The renewal reminder sits beside the contract. Templates for the seasonal plan, the invoice, thank you for the referral.
Marketing: Renewals, visits and reviews, on a cadence.
Rhythms for the pre-renewal call, the spring plan and the fall clean-up reminder. A route for the offices you visit. Reviews asked for when the yard looks its best.
Connections: Your inbox fills it in; your customer list comes with you.
Connect Gmail and the threads attach themselves. Bring your customer export in and every referrer gets their history. Use a route or scheduling system we don't connect to yet? Tell us at setup and we'll help you bring your data over.
What marketing means for a landscaping company
Marketing for a landscaper is the renewal and the neighbour
Door hangers reach strangers. A renewal call sixty days early keeps a contract. A homeowner who tells the neighbour brings a customer for a decade. Spend the effort there.
The seasonal plan is the campaign
Every customer and every manager gets a plan before spring and a note before fall, in your voice, with a photo of their own property.
Reviews decide the new-build street
A builder's buyers all search the same phrase in the same month. The company with the most honest reviews gets the street. Ask every customer when the yard is finished.
Questions landscapers ask
- How do I grow a landscaping business?
- Through the people who control properties: managers, boards, builders and the homeowners who refer. Growth is more of those relationships, renewals that never slip, and noticing quickly when one goes quiet. Fostyr is built around that list.
- How do I get commercial landscaping contracts?
- Property managers and HOA boards. Visit their offices, deliver the first site perfectly, call before every renewal, and stay in touch when the board changes. Fostyr keeps the list, the dates and the notes.
- How do I get more landscaping customers without door hangers?
- Ask every finished customer for a review and a neighbour, remind every past customer before each season, and call the managers who have gone quiet. Fostyr tells you who to contact and when.
- What software does a landscaping company need?
- A routing and invoicing system for the crews, and a relationship system for the people who control the properties. Fostyr is the second one. It reads your inbox and takes your customer list so the referrers and their history fill in without data entry.
- Is Fostyr a CRM for landscapers?
- It is a relationship system rather than a sales pipeline. It tracks the managers, boards, builders and homeowners behind your contracts, with their whole history, and nudges you before a renewal or a relationship slips.
- How much does Fostyr cost?
- $200 a month for your core team of up to five, then $35 a month per additional person, with a thirty-day trial and no card required.
Pricing
$200 a month for your core team of up to five, then $35 a month per additional person. Thirty-day trial, no card required.