Jonthepain's new business venture! www.CarolinaOrganicLawns.com

[dogfish]

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com
Best of luck. I wouldn't go to dark for business advice. He's a little warped at times.

[jonthepain]

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com
Best of luck. I wouldn't go to dark for business advice. He's a little warped at times.

At times??? rofl gimme a break!

you guys are really humbling me here.

yah i know there's no way this ex jersey guy is gonna come up from north carolina to work on people's lawns, so i really appreciate you guys just helping me out with my google ranking. that's above and beyond the call of duty.

i've got a couple of other things in the pipeline right now, that you all might be interested in come springtime.

and oh yeah, Rich, you are the bomb!
one is, i'm going to start offering the juice that i use on peoples lawns down here, online. it's a concentrate; you just mix it up with agua. now what i use is not quite that simple; i make compost tea along with the organic fertilizer, but just the fertilizer itself is fantastic stuff.

i was in walmart yesterday, and my pharmacist (you cant beat $3.99 prescriptions), who's lawn i do, called me over to his pharmacy and asked me what's up with that kelp stuff i put on his lawn last fall. he said that he's got the only green lawn in the neighborhood. one neighbor uses chemlawn, another uses scott's, and yet another uses EPM, and he said their lawns all look like ****.

now you gotta understand this guy is super anal about his lawn, and he's used all the other lawn services. he took a chance on me because i'm a customer of his.

so now he's sold on my juice.

if dark will let me, i'd like to let you guys know when i get it all set up to sell the stuff thru my website. the company dropships it, and i get a small commission. when i order it, it comes the next day with only normal ups shipping! it's a pretty amazing company.

well anyway that's my next project.

the other one is a book that a friend of mine wrote - she's like the country's leading expert on garage sales. she's been on good morning america and the today show, and writes a garage sale column for a bunch of newpapers. and is about the biggest yenta ever, but that's another story.

anyway she's given me the rights to sell her book online, as a downloadable ebook. so i've been busy scanning it into my computer and getting all the websites and autoresponders and marketing etc etc for the last 3 months. it's 179 pages of great info on how to make more money at your garage sale.

she wrote the book, i'm gonna do all the marketing, and we'll split the proceeds 50/50.

i don't know beans about garage saling, but i do know a little bit about marketing, and it seems to me that there are probably a lot of people that are gonna try to get some scratch together this coming spring, considering the economy and all.

so i'm kinda excited about that opportunity too.

so thanks everybody for supporting me! i really appreciate the clicks, i really do. you guys are awesome.

meanwhile i'm looking forward to getting back working outdoors. i love doing lawns, and especially since my (21) yr old middle son is my partner in this. i got surgery coming up (inguinal hernia, not a big deal,) but i gotta get it done before next season cuz i can't go another year like this.

thanks again!
jon (the pain)

ps great idea about doing some videos for my web site. i do know gopher; boy if his mug don't scare 'em off, then i should be ok

and oh yeah, Rich, you are the bomb!

[vpass]

i'm going to start offering the juice that i use on peoples lawns down here, online. it's a concentrate; you just mix it up with agua. now what i use is not quite that simple; i make compost tea along with the organic fertilizer, but just the fertilizer itself is fantastic stuff.

Jon, I want to wish lots of luck on your ventures. Sound like a great Idea. Timing is right.

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com/

[strikezone31]

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com/
Good luck, guy!

[jonthepain]

thanks!

well since you guys have been helping, i've hit the first page on google for the search terms "organic lawn care."



can't beat that!

have also published an article:

http://www.uberarticles.com/articles...icle_id=602469

[DarkSkies]

Outstanding, Jon!
I read that article, nicely written.

http://www.uberarticles.com/articles...icle_id=602469

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com/

[voyager35]

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com/

Good luck, looks like you are on your way.

[DarkSkies]

Best of luck. I wouldn't go to dark for business advice. He's a little warped at times.

Dogfish, I am what I am, no sense sugar coating it. I'm ok with it, effumall to those who ain't. Are ya freezin yet up there or what? No bass till May for you guys, that's gotta suck.




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Jon, your business deserves a push. You're welcome, wish I could do more.

It's actually a positive thing to be involved in. A few years ago when I was doing some research on the ups and downs of the bunker cycles, an old salt told me about the Abemarle Sound down by you. He claimed the bunker are breeding less effectively because of the nitrogen runoff from the lawn fertilizers and feces runoff from some of the chicken plants they have down there near the water.

I don't know if it's true, but the way he explained it, it sounded plausible.

So best of luck. People are slow to adapt to new ideas when the old ones seem to work as well. Getting more people to think about fertilizer runoff won't be easy. It's absolutely necessary to address it as more people move to bay areas to be near the water. Not everyone can afford oceanfront. There are still pockets in major metropolitan estuaries that are waiting to be developed. More development brings more runoff and pollutants.

You definitely made a step in the right direction, and I hope you are able to ride that curve as more people become educated. I'll do whatever I can to help, bro.

[cowherder]

Cool, I'll help!

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Best of luck!

[jonthepain]

People are slow to adapt to new ideas when the old ones seem to work as well.

i think what i'm shooting for are the people who are already concerned about the safety of their kids and pets as they play in the yard. there are some communities around here that have banned or severely curtailed chemical lawn treatments, and as that trend continues, i hope to see growth in my business, and also healthier wetlands (and thus bunker and STRIPERS!)

thanks again you all.

[Pebbles]

Jon the site looks great. Looks like you have a good thing going. I wish you much success.

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com

[jonthepain]

Thanks! i still need to put a lot of work into it, but at least i've got something up and running.

a couple more places published my article today! - http://www.organichomegardening.org/?p=2351 and http://ecology-articles.info/the-use...care-movement/ and http://www.gardeningguru.1stforgen.c...-care-movement

ha ha i be jammin'!

i had a lady email me from georgia, wanted to know if i had a distributor down there, or a lawn company that would treat her lawn with my compost tea - i wish! so i put a link on my website so people can buy the ingredients and make their own tea, but it's not something that you can ship, cuz the beneficial microbes and bacteria and such only survive for a bout 8 hours in there. use it or lose it.

[bababooey]

http://carolinaorganiclawns.com
You got the momentum going now, roll with it!

[DarkSkies]

Just checked out this thread again....and see you got the business through the first critical year, Jon.....congrats on your idea and persistence...it's not easy starting a business from scratch, yet these are the types of businesses that gave America a solid foundation, and IMO we need more of them.

Keep up the good work!