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Grave Care Business Gives Back To Community

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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.

If you are ready to order the Grave Care Business Course use the “Buy It Now” button below.





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Start a Grave Care Maintenance Business – Autumn 2011

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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:

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http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

Cemetery Maps: Free Advertising for your Grave Care Business

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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

WOW! You have a GREAT job.

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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.

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Grave Care Business Grave Site Maintenance for 2011

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Hi Everyone:

I just want to take a couple of minutes to make a quick post. It is hard to believe that 2011 is already 1 month old. Although February is already here, there is still plenty of time to start your own Grave Care Maintenance company before spring arrives. Getting started right away means you will have time to properly develop your business plans before the Spring rush arrives during the next month or two.

February has a couple of important days to consider for grave decorations. However, the busy season really begins in March and April when you can gain many clients for after-winter restoration, spring cleanup, and Easter decorations. If you have been thinking about starting a Grave Care Maintenance business, right now (like, TODAY!) is the perfect time to get started.

If you don’t know how to start or if you are just looking for ideas for your Grave Care company, please navigate to our home page to read about our comprehensive Grave Care Business training course. We have taken a tremendous amount of time and effort to develop a professionally produced business course teaching you practically everything you could want to know about starting and operating a successful grave care business.

To learn more, please visit our home page:

http://www.GraveSiteBusiness.com
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Beautiful Day in a Cemetery

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Hi Everyone:

I’ve just come in from working in one of our local cemeteries.

I was thinking about you all because this is such a BEAUTIFUL day. The sun is shining, there is not a cloud in the sky, the birds are singing, and the temperature is almost perfect. Today, I have mostly been performing documentation work. I’ve also had the task of picking up litter and assorted trash in one cemetery. Trash collection is not the most enviable job but it is one of the must-do’s when many of your clients have loved ones buried in non perpetual care cemeteries. It is a shame that people litter on such a sacred parcel of ground.

Most of the trash was bottles and cans and easy to collect. The area looks great now and I’m satisfied with a job well done. Picking up litter is definately not my favorite activity in a cemetery but luckily trash is not normally a big problem and then I can get on with the other work on the day’s agenda.

Anyway, I just wanted to hop on here and write to tell you. If you enjoy cemeteries, tombstones, and gravesites I hope you are thinking about starting your Grave Care Business. There is such a GOOD feeling of accomplishment when you are able to make your clients happy, do what you love, and make a very nice income out of it, all while working in beautiful cemeteries.

If you are thinking about starting your own grave care / grave site maintenance business, I hope you will look at the Grave Care Business Course we have developed. It is a fantastic business tool to help you get started. Read all about it on our main webpage: www.GraveSiteBusiness.com

Cemetery Photography Review – Canon 50mm f1.8 EF

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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.

Starting A Grave Care Maintenance Business – Prairie Dogs

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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

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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:
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Why Did We Develop the Grave Care Maintenance Course?

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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