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Start a Grave Care Maintenance Business – Autumn 2011

Aug 5

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Grave Care Maintenance Business

Autumn in a Cemetery - Great time to start your Grave Care Maintenance business

August 2011 – This year is flying by and the summer is already winding down. As much as I want summer to last just a bit longer, Autumn is my favorite time of year. Soon, the leaves will be turning colors and falling from the trees. There will be a nip in the night time sky and the day time shadows will grow just a little bit longer.

There is another benefit to Autumn. I LOVE working in cemeteries during the months of September, October, and November when the leaves are brilliantly colored and weather allows for fun working conditions. There are plenty of jobs to do in cemeteries this time of year. Tombstone cleaning, end-of-summer maintenance, pre-winter maintenance, floral decorations, plot repair, etc.

If you have ever thought about starting your own Grave Care Maintenance business, please look at our main website. We have developed a professionally produced, comprehensive business training course teaching you how to start and operate a successful grave care business.

Right now is an absolute perfect time to start your business and build your client list. The course covers practically everything you could want to know about running a grave care business. If you have any questions, please let us know.

The website address is:

Grave Care Maintenance Business

http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

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Cemetery Maps: Free Advertising for your Grave Care Business

Apr 9

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Cemetery Maps - Free Grave Care Advertising
Free Cemetery Maps – Grave Care Business Advertising

If you have ever thought about starting your own Grave Care / Grave Site Maintenance business, you have probably spent a considerable amount of time developing plans to advertise your company.

Grave care is a unique type of business where many forms of traditional advertising do not reach potential customers.  Due to the nature of grave care, business owners must rely on creatively designed marketing efforts to attract the right types of customers.
One way to advertise your grave care services to potential clients is by developing cemetery maps for the specific cemeteries where you offer your grave site maintenance services.  After you develop the map, a carefully placed  “InfoBox”  can be used to hold the maps for visitors to the cemetery.  Even if a visitor to the cemetery already knows where their loved one is buried, they will often take a map out of the InfoBox just to check for proper placement and to see the names of other people interred within the cemetery.
To advertise your grave care services, place a small advertisement at the bottom of the map telling people about your services and directing them to your website and giving them your business telephone number.
This is just one of many ways you can market your grave care business.  Within out Grave Care Business program, we have developed a very helpful marketing handbook teaching you great techniques on how to advertising your grave care business.
If you have ever thought about starting a Grave Care / Grave Site Maintenance Business, we have developed a HUGE training course that will teach you practically everything you could want to know about starting and operating a successful business.
To learn more about our business course, please visit our main website by clicking the link below:
How To Start A Grave Care / Grave Site Maintenance Business
http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

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Grave Care Customer Causing Problems? – We can work it out.

Mar 10

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Grave Care / Grave Maintenance customer causing you problems?

As hard as you may try to please all your grave care customers, you are bound to have an occasional customer who will be dissatisfied with your services.  The way you choose to deal with complaints depends on your personality, their personality, the nature of the complaint, and both parties’ desired outcome.

In our almost 20 years of experience, we have found that the VAST majority of complaints will come from simple misunderstandings between you and your customers.  Grave care and grave site maintenance is a very personal business and your success will depend on the personal relationships you are able to build with your customers.

Unless your customer is simply determined to be dissatisfied no matter what you offer, your communication skills will help you determine the problem and find a reasonable solution.

We have developed a “Customer Care” guide book within the pages of our Grave Care / Grave Site Maintenance Course that deals specifically with finding solutions to customer problems.

Whenever I am faced with a problem customer, I like to sing this Beatles’ song to myself.  It helps me realize that there is a solution to every problem.

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WOW! You have a GREAT job.

Feb 18

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Recently, I was out mapping a cemetery.

I had my mapping GPS, a pad & pencil, and a camera.  I wasn’t really thinking much about what I was doing but I was definitely enjoying my day in a beautiful cemetery.  Looking at tombstones, enjoying quiet serenity, and working in a beautiful environment are only a few of the positive attributes I get to enjoy.

Anyway, as I was going about my work, I got a comment from someone who passed by.  ”Wow, you have a GREAT job.”

I must say that the comment struck me a bit funny.  I have been running my own business since 1992 and in all those years I’ve never really thought of it as a “job.”  A JOB?  A job is something that you HAVE to go to every day.  It’s something that you don’t really look forward to.  It’s something that you dread 5 days each week.

I get to explore cemeteries, take pictures of very interesting tombstones & grave markers, and meet amazing people everyday….I can’t really say it’s a JOB.

One question I am constantly asked is “Is it difficult to start a Grave Care Business?”   While it is not tremendously difficult to get started in this business, there are many things you need to know to get started correctly.  I have always been a firm believer in having a mentor and learning from other peoples’ mistakes.  When I got my very first grave care customers, there was no one for me to learn from.  I wish I could have had a mentor in those early days.

If you are truly interested in cemeteries and gravestones, I believe Grave Care is one of the best small businesses in the world.  My team and I have spent a considerable amount of effort developing the Grave Care Business training course so you can learn how to properly start, operate, and grow your own successful Grave Care Business.  Though you will probably never think of it as work, it truly is a GREAT job.

To learn more about the Grave Care Business training course, please visit our home page.  And remember, your purchase includes free support.  We love discussing all aspects of the Grave Care Business so if you need to ask questions or seek advice, just give us a call and we’ll do our best to help.

For more information visit our homepage:

Grave Care Business Training Course

http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

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Grave Site Care and Decoration for Father’s Day

Jun 12

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by: GraveSiteBusiness.com

Hi Everyone:

I just want to take a quick minute to jump on here and remind you that Father’s Day is Sunday June 20, 2010.

If you are running your own grave care & grave site maintenance business then you know how important Father’s Day will be to your customers. You should already be taking appointments to decorate gravesite with flowers and personalized decorations. Some of your customers will want the work completed by Friday so the grave site looks nice all weekend. Other customers will want decorations placed on Sunday morning. So, be prepared to work a few hours on Sunday to make sure all your customers are happy.

If you’ve come across this blog but haven’t yet purchased the Grave Site Business course books, video training guides, business toolkit, and estimating software, please take a look at our main website page where you can read more about the entire program.

The website address is: http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

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Eco-Friendly Business Cards for your Grave Care Business

Jun 11

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by: www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

If you have read our coursework on how to start and operate your own Grave Care Business, you know that we outline many methods of advertising and marketing your business. In our never ending search for interesting marketing ideas, we have come across a variation on a familiar theme.

While business cards are common to most businesses, the cards are often uninspiring. Though it’s a good idea to file cards away in a place you can find them when you need them, the back of business cards are often used to jot a quick note on and then thrown away or forgotten.

I recently came across something that I think is a pretty neat business idea. Several companies are making eco-friendly seed paper that is embedded with wildflower seeds. The biodegradable paper can be buried and the wildflowers will take root and emerge the following spring.

Though the paper is less durable than normal business card paper, the business card generates a lot of interest and potential customers seem to take notice of the cards. Also, if they do bury the card, they are reminded of the business name once the wildflowers beautify their flowerbeds.

I also think it is a good idea to give customers two cards…one to bury and one to keep.

If you have ever thought about starting your own Grave Care or Grave Site Maintenance Business, our business course, software, and video training guides will help you start and successfully operate your own Grave Site Business.

Learn more on our main website:
www.GraveSiteBusiness.com | Grave Care Business

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Time-Lapse Photography of a Sunrise in a Cemetery

Apr 13

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I’ve been experimenting lately with time-lapse photography in a few local cemeteries. 

Time-lapse is a fascinating photographic/video technique.  The video below is just a short sample.  This video is composed of ~150 individual pictures compressed into one short video.  I can speed up or slow down the time-lapse rate.  For this example, I used a slow rate of one picture taken every 30 seconds and displayed for .30 second per frame.  At this rate, the sun looks to be slowly climbing the tree immediately behind the gravestone.

This video was taken a couple weeks after the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.  You can see the sun is slowly curving upward during sunrise.  I will revisit this site during the Summer Solstice to see if I can capture a straighter path of the sun’s rise.

Mixing various photographic techniques is very appealing to your Grave Care customers.  Customers appreciate various views and video segments which are more enjoyable to watch than just basic photographs.

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Why Did We Develop the Grave Care Maintenance Course?

Mar 28

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We are occasionally asked why we took the effort to develop the grave site maintenance course. 

If you have read our website, you know that we first maintained a grave site for a customer in the early 1990′s.  This first job consisted of basic mowing service around a gravesite and headstone.  The cemetery was small and did not have a full-time caretaker.  It was a very simple mowing job that only took a few minutes but the customer was very happy and paid (what we felt) was a lot of money for such an easy job.  Since that time, we have had a continuous interest in developing business strategies for Grave Care.  Plot Maintenance, Grounds Maintenance, and Headstone Decorating are just a few of the services a full-fledged Grave Care Business can offer.  There are many more services that we describe in the program.  You can offer one or all these services to your customers.

Back to the original question of why we developed this business course.  Over the years, we have seen a lot of people try this business and falter with their business plans.  It’s really not a hard business to operate but it does take some knowledge and guidance to be successful.  In 2003, after seeing quite a few people try and fail, we decided to develop a business guidebook.  We have developed that initial guidebook into a huge business program filled with a series of guidebooks, a huge software suite, estimating software, a business toolkit, and training videos.

Education is the key to success in any venture.  When entrepreneurs attempt and fail at a business, it’s not because they are dumb or have no business sense.  Often it’s simply because they simply lack the guidance from a mentor who has already made the mistakes before them.  Having the guidance of someone who has already been there allows you to sidestep the landmines that have derailed others in the past. 

Our Guidebook and Software training course attempts to educate anyone who wants to start their own grave site business.  Through education, the whole industry benefits.  Through education, we are all uplifted.  Through education, service is better, customers are happier, and the amount of money we are all able to charge is higher. 

Although there can be great moneyto be  made with a grave care business, we feel that you shouldn’t get into this business strictly for the money.  Sure, money is good but there is so much more to this business.  You are really helping those people who want to take care of their love one’s gravesite and you are doing something positive to beautify areas of reverence.  Also, if you are like us, you really enjoy exploring cemeteries, observing nature, and learning more about cemeteries, headstones, crypts, and mausoleums.

If you are interested in learning more about how-to start and expand your own Grave Care Maintenance Business, please read our main website at:

http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

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Grave Site Business Blog

Mar 23

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Hello. 

Thank you for joining us on our new Grave Site Business blog.

We wanted to start this blog in 2009.  A seemingly never-ending string of cemetery visits and burial ground surveys have kept us busy.  We’re not comlaining at all but we are remiss that it has taken us this long to get the blog up and running.

We want to outline what we hope to accomplish in this blog:

1)  This blog is not a replacement for the information included in our Grave Site Business programs.  Those programs are designed to help you get started with your business, define the services you will offer, develop pricing strategies, acquire customers, and grow your business.  This blog will be ancilliary information and encouragement.

2)  The blog will provide timely information.  We attempt to keep up-to-date with the latest news and happening.  The grave site business is an exciting and dynamic business.  As news stories occur and happenings come to our attention we will pass that information along to you.

3)  The blog will provide new ideas.  We are constantly seeking new ideas to help you with your Grave Site Business.  As we develop new business strategies and new ideas about acquiring customers and growing your business, we will share those ideas with you.

If you have ideas on subjects you would like us to cover, please send them to us.  Also, please put a link to this blog on your Grave Site website.  The information we share will be of interest both to you and to your current and potential clients.

Thank you for joining us.  Please subscribe.

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