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As a business owner, finding new jobs and prospective clients to build and grow your customer base and geographic footprint is one of the most difficult aspects of being a vegetation management contractor. Knowing how to strategically develop new business and generate jobs and prospects is an important part of any sole proprietor or LLC business growth strategy in the Commercial Weed Control Vertical. In today’s online B2B research oriented market, knowing who to spread your message to (i.e. facility supervisors, timber farmers, commercial property managers & land stewards) and where to advertise your services is as important as locating near high traffic counts in storefront operations.
The good and bad news is that there are a plethora of resources available that tout the ease of finding new customers. There are several options available in a variety of price points and services. Let’s talk about how to choose the right lead generation strategy for you and your business before we get into some of the best lead generation practices for vegetation management contractors.
Vegetation management providers and municipal contractor companies are unable to identify their target audience and locate them online without a clearly defined lead generation strategy, and as a result, struggle to generate quality website traffic that can be converted into quote requests and sales appointments. Most rely on referrals and existing clientele that have been around for years and as one or two drops off the radar here and there, it’s challenging to top off the funnel of qualified prospects with the same old fashioned strategies of decades past. Does this describe your situation?
In summary, vegetation management prospect quality should be underscored. When determining the success of a lead generation campaign, many modern executives and marketing teams focus on lead quantity to show good numbers and graphs. On the other hand, sales teams and seasoned business owners concentrate, perhaps to a fault, exclusively on lead quality in many cases. These decision makers and people who want to buy your service and have the financial means to do so are difficult to identify and while they may be included in the former bucket, they are sometimes missed amidst the flurry of newfangled marking activity and high value potential clients are under capitalized on.
Quality lead generation remains the top business development challenge for vegetation management contractors and most other businesses year after year, despite its importance. After all, once the crews, equipment and programs are established it’s a repeat process of delivering the service to generate revenue. Some changes here and there based on target pests, weather considerations and duration of the program, but largely things remain the same year over year.
The difference between a dry pipeline and consistent sales growth will be determined by how well you solve this problem.
Building an online presence, one profile at a time, is one of the most arduous yet effective ways for vegetation management contractors to produce a continuous stream of quality jobs and prospective clients. Once those assets are live and optimized, vegetation management contractors are must then properly execute local SEO, PPC, forms, live chat, and other digital methods to deliver targeted traffic to those properties.
Getting new business in this modern, yet traditional realm requires significant upfront work, which includes creating business profiles on a variety of listing sites that are swarming with useless tire kick inquiries with a few of your target clients mixed in here and there. Alternatively, our network of vegetation managers are able to select their exact target client profile, matched to capabilities and geography, and rely on VegClear’s web presence, thought leadership, and lead generating assets to establish an excellent position making use of an existing multi-channel lead generation infrastructure to generate a steady stream of high-quality inbound jobs and prospective clients.
There are no two vegetation management contractor companies alike. Some specialize in commercial real estate management support, others in municipal RFP driven work, while others offer everything from spot spraying beds to full-scale acreage renovations for industrial construction and timber farming.
First, look through your services to see where they belong in the market, and then look for a couple of your competitors. Look them up on some of these sites and on their website. If they appear to be targeting a lot of jobs and prospective clients which align with your capabilities and geographic market, that group might be a good fit for partnering with your business (i.e. VegClear).
VegClear’s web development team is a high value and flexible asset to the vegetation management industry so rather than keep all of the leads that our online presence generates to ourselves, we’ve opted to share in the success, capitalize on what we’re great at (in addition to industrial vegetation management for client sites across the Southeast), by connecting qualified contractors with the ideal client contacts that have an active need for Industrial Vegetation Management Services. If any of this resonates, we’d love to connect. Fill out the form or give us a call to set up a coffee chat between leadership teams to discover where there might be a fit to support your growth in building out a new revenue generating partnership and resource for your company.