Mark Currie
ArboristSite Operative
Hello everyone. This is my first post to this site, so I just wanted to introduce myself first. I'm a forest technologist from New Brunswick, Canada that has some climbing experience. A friend of mine and myself are considering starting our own company that will provide tree care and landscape management to private and corporate clients. Right now we're just in the planning stages and I wanted to ask a couple of questions.
First of all, I hope that I'm posting on the right board?
I was wondering what method people find best for first starting out with their own company? We're doing up some flyers to post around at various locations and also are checking with the local newspaper to get a small ad printed as well as inserting a flyer in a run of papers. I guess we're checking on the cost right now. I was also thinking going door to door in certain areas of the city with high tree counts.
I guess one of our major obstacles would be the fact that there are a few tree services around (one of which I worked for after I moved back from the US) and they do quite suspect work (I could go on about this, in an entirely different thread). I guess we want to get our name out and to educate homeowners about the benefits of proper tree care.
Anyway, if anyone has any comments, suggestions, criticism, etc. I'd be grateful to hear them.
Thanks in advance,
Mark Currie
First of all, I hope that I'm posting on the right board?
I was wondering what method people find best for first starting out with their own company? We're doing up some flyers to post around at various locations and also are checking with the local newspaper to get a small ad printed as well as inserting a flyer in a run of papers. I guess we're checking on the cost right now. I was also thinking going door to door in certain areas of the city with high tree counts.
I guess one of our major obstacles would be the fact that there are a few tree services around (one of which I worked for after I moved back from the US) and they do quite suspect work (I could go on about this, in an entirely different thread). I guess we want to get our name out and to educate homeowners about the benefits of proper tree care.
Anyway, if anyone has any comments, suggestions, criticism, etc. I'd be grateful to hear them.
Thanks in advance,
Mark Currie