Landscape Management, October 2018
SPONSORED CONTENT PROFITABLE PRODUCT Nearmap Q A with Mike St Louis How do your products or services save landscape or lawn care pros time Lawn care and landscaping professionals spend considerable amounts of time traveling to job sites They do this at various stages of business from prospecting and canvassing neighborhoods to estimating and quoting installation service and ongoing maintenance Nearmaps high resolution aerial maps provide crystal clear images of job sites from either top down or oblique view angles so landscapers can target new business create estimates and bid accurately and quickly all from the office Less time on site means more time finding new business How do your products or service save landscape or lawn care pros labor With Nearmaps MapBrowser landscapers can search and view HD aerial maps for addresses or areas of interest on demand from a standard web browser However in contrast to free satellite maps Nearmaps imagery is updated often and several times sharper allowing you to inspect details about the site without visiting it in person More importantly MapBrowser includes powerful tools that allow users to make precise measurements directly Director of Marketing on top of the imagery By doing so landscaping businesses save time and labor by keeping crews focused on critical work Being able to see the complete property address from all four cardinal directions allows a landscaper to see all access points hazards etc and measure for area height and width as well as annotate all on top of the property image How do your products or services save lawn care materials or fuel By using Nearmaps MapBrowser landscape professionals can accurately quote within inches for the proper amount of materials and be able to determine any objects that may add time or effort This can all be done from the comfort of your office saving on fuel and travel time to current and prospective jobsites For example if an average field worker earns 14 hour and makes four site visits a day with vehicle running costs of 056 per mile in a years time this would equal almost 1000 site visits and close to 15000 in expenses If you were to trim off a third of those in person site visits and replace them with virtual site visits using Nearmaps high res imagery 10897 S River Front Parkway Ste 150 South Jordan UT 84095 Facebook com Nearmap Twitter com Nearmap Linkedin com Nearmap com GIE EXPO booth 8055 LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET OCTOBER 2018 72 in MapBrowser you will have saved around 7000 It adds up very quickly How do your products or services help generate additional revenue for landscape companies Using Nearmap landscapers can scan entire neighborhoods to identify new business opportunities in minutes All locations captured by Nearmap are geo indexed meaning users can drop a pin and quickly pull up address details coordinates and even the time and date the image was captured Its a much more efficient way to prospect than traditional canvassing A landscaper can then target those addresses directly and provide up todate imagery of prospect properties for clear and concise quoting In what other ways do your products or services make landscape and lawn care companies profitable When you need validation that your services have improved a landscape or proof that a problem with the lawn existed prior Nearmap historical imagery can be compared to current aerial maps to prove your point retain customers or win new business See Your Next Project for FREE go nearmap com LM
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