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Grave Care Business Gives Back To Community

Nov 16

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We are so excited that another user of our Grave Care Business Guidebook has been interviewed by their local newspaper.  The Gravesite Guardians received a very nice write-up in the Chapel Hill News.

Gravesite Guardians is the newest enterprise launched by Extraordinary Ventures, a local nonprofit that employs adults with developmental disabilities.

The Gravesite Guardians are working on cleaning grave markers in their local area.  Stephen Dougherty contacted us several months ago to inquire about our Grave Care Business package.  His enthusiasm and genuine interest in promoting his nonprofit inspired us so much that we were pleased that he chose our guidebook to help instruct his crew members in the proper methods of tombstone cleaning.

We are increasingly aware that newspapers, radio stations, and other local media outlets are interested in focusing on successful small business enterprises.  Additionally, grave care is an interesting concept and it is relatively easy to arrange an interview.  If you purchase our guidebook and need assistance in getting your grave care business mentioned locally, we will be glad to help secure a local media interview for your company.

To learn how to start your own Grave Care / Grave Site Maintenance business, please read through our home page at:

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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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Cemetery Photography Review – Canon 50mm f1.8 EF

Jul 29

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Our Grave Care Business course shows you how to add cemetery and grave site photography to your Grave Care Business. In order to get the most money possible for your photography services, you will need to present aesthetically pleasing pictures to your customers.  We give you many instructions how to take cemetery and grave site photographs.  We also show you how much money to charge for your work.

Taking great photography of cemeteries, grave sites, and tombstones requires an artistic eye as well as knowledge of your photographic equipment.  Pictures can be greatly enhanced by using focusing techniques such as shallow depth of field and wide depth of field.  While our Grave Care Business course goes into great detail, we like to occasionally use this blog to show you new tools that will help you in your business.  One such tool is a proper lens for your camera.

A few of the Grave Care Business owners who have purchased our guidebooks and software have wondered about the Canon EF f1.8 50mm dSLR lens.  To help you decide if this lens is right for you, we have purchased it an conducted a trial.  For $100, it is a keeper…especially when lenses of a little higher quality (Canon f1.4 50mm) sell for over 3x the cost.

So, if you are considering purchasing this lens for your cemetery photography business, this review should help you make your decision.

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Starting A Grave Care Maintenance Business – Prairie Dogs

Jun 21

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by: www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

Overgrown cemeteries. Neglected grave sites. Tombstones in disrepair. When running your own grave site maintenance / grave care business, these are a few of the challenges you expect to help customers with on a daily basis.

However, what would you do if you were asked to deal with a cemetery full of Prairie Dogs? On one hand, you cannot allow them to completely run amok in the cemetery. On the other hand, you should not subscribe to a scorched earth policy of poisoning or gassing living animals that have been forced into a cemetery due to nearby construction.

So, would you have a solution to this problem? I would love to hear ideas on how to solve this.

By-the-way, if you are interested in operating your own grave care business you can learn how to do it through the Grave Site Business training course. We show you how to get customers, deal with cemetery management, develop services to offer your customers, and effectively price your services to make great money in this business.

Though there’s probably not a lot of money in Prairie Dog removal from cemeteries, we show you how you can start a thriving business and make great money offering services such as: Grounds Maintenance, Grave Plot Care, Decorating Headstones for Special Occasions, Offering Photography and Videography, and providing Documentation and Cemetery Mapping services.

To learn more about the business program, visit our main website: 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.

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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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