Spartan Mowers Releases 2025 Product Lineup
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Jobber Offering Grants Up To $15,000
Jobber, a provider of operations management software for home service businesses, announced that Jobber Grants is now accepting applications through June 8, 2023. Twenty-five businesses will be awarded grants totaling $150,000. Finalists will be announced in August 2023. Home service professionals, ranging from aspiring to experienced business owners, are invited to apply for grants ranging from $2,500 to $15,000. The five-minute application is designed for busy home service pros in any industry, including lawn care, plumbing, residential cleaning, and painting. Kirk Brown of Kirk’s Lawncare LLC used a Jobber Grant to launch his holiday lighting installation service, Dynamic Celebration Lighting, based in PA, which he now uses to earn non-snow dependent Winter revenue. Read his full story on starting the lighting business at: “Year-Round Revenue For Landscapers? Here’s How.” “Investing in home service businesses means giving back to our communities, facilitating job creation, and boosting local economies,” said Sam Pillar, CEO & co-founder of Jobber. “We’re proud to continue Jobber’s tradition of investing in local entrepreneurs at all stages of growth to help them achieve their goals and ambitions.” Jobber Grants are organized into several categories that reflect the diverse representation of excellence across home service, which looks different from business to business. Categories include: Home Service Heroes: Business owners who keep home and offices safe and running smoothly. Career Builders: Business owners who help hardworking people build meaningful careers. Smooth Operators: Business owners running a smooth business for themselves and their customers. Community Caretakers: Business owners who give back to ...
Rebranded FieldRoutes™ Expands Lawn Care Software Solutions
Several new solutions for lawn care service providers are now available from Cloud-based pest control software providers PestRoutes and Lobster Marketing, which have rebranded as FieldRoutes™. “Over the years, we’ve seen an increasing trend with the pest control customers we serve adding residential lawn care as part of their service offerings,” commented William Chaney, CEO of FieldRoutes. “Aligning PestRoutes and Lobster Marketing under one brand allows us to expand, and as such, it was a natural progression for us to expand our capabilities and officially enter the lawn care market.” The product line-up now includes FieldRoutes’ operations suite (formerly PestRoutes), FieldRoutes’ sales and marketing suite (formerly Lobster Marketing) and FieldRoutes™ Payments, our fully integrated payment solution that delivers enhanced payment functionality, such as the account updater which automatically updates lost, stolen, expired, or closed customer payment card information. Lawn care customers already using FieldRoutes’ operations suite, on average, report growing their customer base by up to 44% within their first year using the software. And, lawn care customers using FieldRoutes’ sales and marketing suite have seen year-over-year returns on their marketing investment ranging from two-and-a-half to 11 times. FieldRoutes Chief Product Officer Piyum Samaraweera said, “We learned that to truly serve the lawn care market, we needed to add additional capabilities, which we’ve completed. We expect continued high growth for both existing and new customers thanks to the newly launched functionality built to suit the lawn care market.” Some of the new features included are: Service plan functionality, which allows ...
Rebranded FieldRoutes™ Expands Lawn Care Software Solutions
Several new solutions for lawn care service providers are now available from Cloud-based pest control software providers PestRoutes and Lobster Marketing, which have rebranded as FieldRoutes™. “Over the years, we’ve seen an increasing trend with the pest control customers we serve adding residential lawn care as part of their service offerings,” commented William Chaney, CEO of FieldRoutes. “Aligning PestRoutes and Lobster Marketing under one brand allows us to expand, and as such, it was a natural progression for us to expand our capabilities and officially enter the lawn care market.” The product line-up now includes FieldRoutes’ operations suite (formerly PestRoutes), FieldRoutes’ sales and marketing suite (formerly Lobster Marketing) and FieldRoutes™ Payments, our fully integrated payment solution that delivers enhanced payment functionality, such as the account updater which automatically updates lost, stolen, expired, or closed customer payment card information. Lawn care customers already using FieldRoutes’ operations suite, on average, report growing their customer base by up to 44% within their first year using the software. And, lawn care customers using FieldRoutes’ sales and marketing suite have seen year-over-year returns on their marketing investment ranging from two-and-a-half to 11 times. FieldRoutes Chief Product Officer Piyum Samaraweera said, “We learned that to truly serve the lawn care market, we needed to add additional capabilities, which we’ve completed. We expect continued high growth for both existing and new customers thanks to the newly launched functionality built to suit the lawn care market.” Some of the new features included are: Service plan functionality, which allows ...
