Top Soil Company Business Plan, Marketing Plan, How To Guide, and Funding Directory
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For landscaping businesses, topsoil is a very important component to their operations. Many companies including landscape contractors frequently source their top soil from a different number of different providers in any target market. As such, once they are established with a highly recurring stream of purchase orders – topsoil companies are able to generate substantial amounts of revenue from their operations. It should be noted that the gross margins generated from sales of topsoil typically range anywhere from 20% to 30%. As such, this is considered to be a moderate margin business but it does have substantial avenues for growth. During times of economic recession, the demand for topsoil does wane somewhat slightly especially as homeowners will seek to do a lot their own landscaping and use mulch and topsoil from previous years. However, gardening and landscaping is considered a low-cost form of entertainment and a hobby for many people and as such these businesses are always able to find customers for orders of topsoil. One of the nice things that these businesses as well as it they do not have to worry too much about inventory spoilage.
Given the highly predictable streams of revenue generated from the sales of topsoil, most financial institutions are willing to provide the necessary capital in order to start a new topsoil company. This is especially true given that many of the assets that are required by topsoil companies typically are tangible assets including inventory, trucks, and general furniture, fixtures, and equipment. An entrepreneur looking to launch a new topsoil company should expect that they will spend about 20% of their startup costs on working capital needs. A topsoil company business plan should be developed if the entrepreneur is looking to raise capital from a bank, credit union, or private investor. This business plan should have a three-year profit and loss statement, cash flow analysis, balance sheet, breakeven analysis, and business ratios page. Special importance to should be paid to the tangible assets are going to be acquired with any borrowed funds. This is especially true of the topsoil company is going to be acquiring a large number of trucks to be used in conjunction with their services.
A topsoil company SWOT analysis should be produced as well. As it relates to strengths, topsoil companies are typically able to remain profitable and most economic climates especially in areas where there is a wealthier clientele. These people are generally able to afford more landscaping services and will continue to make purchases of topsoil, mulch, and related products despite any negative changes in the economy. The barriers to entry for a new topsoil company are considered to be moderate and the gross margins generated from sales are considered to be moderate as well.
For weaknesses, there are always a number of competitors within any given market that are also looking to divest inventories of topsoil. Not only will this business face competition from other companies that specifically focus on the sale of topsoil but they will also have competition from big-box retailers such as Home Depot and Lowe’s. As such, by operating a specific niche – the topsoil company must find ways to differentiate their service from that of competition. This is frequently done by undercutting some of the cost associated with owning and operating a business so that savings can be passed on directly to customers.
As it relates to opportunities, topsoil companies can rapidly expand by developing major ongoing relationships with landscape contractors, lawn mowing services, and other companies that will sort sourcebook inventories of topsoil on an ongoing basis. This will create a very highly predictable and highly recurring revenue for the business on an ongoing basis. Topsoil companies can also expand by establishing locations and other major metropolitan areas outside of the company’s initial target market radius.
There are no threats at this time that would impact the way that a topsoil company conducts business. Although it a economic recession may have a slight impact on revenues, the demand for these products typically remains strong in most economic climates. The primary threat faced by these companies are competitive related issues.
A topsoil company marketing plan should also be developed that focuses – again – on heavily developing relationships with landscape contractors and related companies that frequently have needs for topsoil. Many of these businesses, as time progresses, will frequently develop relationships with real estate developers as well that we use the company’s topsoil in conjunction with their new housing developments. As with all businesses these days, a substantial presence on the Internet is basically required. The topsoil companies website should showcase the types and grades of topsoil available, preliminary pricing information, delivery information, hours of information, and relevant contact information. Pay per click marketing and search engine optimization can be used in order to further drive traffic to the company’s website. This website should also contain information of individuals there looking to purchase smaller quantities of topsoil for their own household use.
Given that this is a unique business in most target markets, a broad-based marketing campaign that includes print media advertisements is typically not needed or warranted. Some topsoil companies to maintain profiles on popular social media platforms, that is simply to increase the brand-name awareness of the business and is not typical use as a platform for making ongoing sales.
These businesses can be highly lucrative for an owner operator that has an extensive understanding of the landscape contracting industry as well as having strong relationships with landscape contractors and real estate developers. There is really nothing about this business that is going to change moving forward, except that there may be some regulation regarding what chemicals may be used within topsoil products. As such, it is important that the topsoil company retain a properly qualified attorney to make sure that the business is operating within the letter of the law at all times.