Mercury Greens Lawns

I have been in the landscaping industry for a long time, getting my start working for the largest company in Franklin for several years together. When I first started there the lawn maintenance side of their operations was pretty small and needed some work. I worked to build up that part of the company from 75 weekly lawn mowing clients around Brentwood and Franklin Tennessee to over 300. Working there for several years I learned the landscaping trade, how and why to do a quality job, and how to keep lawn clients happy. Once I saw that I could grow a landscape operation I gained confidence to take the plunge and start my own landscaping business based out of Spring Hill Tennessee. First getting started opening up Mercury Greens Landscaping was a leap of faith. I left the landscaping company I had worked so many years for and started my company with money from my last check. I had 1 customer that I had been cutting since I was 18 years old. All of our growth has been word of mouth , people seeing us work and asking us to begin taking care of the lawn maintenance for their lawns. In a weeks time we have at least five people ask us to quote their yard mowing because they will see the job we are doing and want their yard to look as good as the one we are doing. We believe that's the way to earn business. Sure we might be a few dollars higher for the lawn mowing, but we spend extra time and give attention to detail like the weedeating, trimming , and weeds in the beds. It could be some details in the lawn that the homeowner doesn't even recognize, but when we show up and do our job that's when they notice. One major thing we do different is spray roundup on the weeds in the curbs and asphalt, and we will spray the weeds in the beds to get them under control. In the end it makes our work look better so that's how we earn a client's business. We find it's easier to do good work and earn more lawn accounts that way rather than waste money on advertising. Our motto is to do good quality work every time and earn lawn and landscaping business in middle Tennessee that way.

Primarily we focus on the weekly mowing visits, but we also offer about 40 different services. I am running all of the lawn mowing accounts, and Mack focuses on the landscaping projects , tear outs, irrigation system work, renovations on landscaping, trimming, mulching, pine straw etc.

Most of the time when a new homeowner calls us to renovate their landscaping they do not know what they want, so that's where we come in and help from the idea stage to the finished landscape job. They are not familiar with the types of plants that fit well in the middle Tennessee climate, so we will show them pictures of what the plants will look like in their mature state so they know what they are buying when they hire us for the landscaping renovation.

While we really enjoy landscaping renovation projects, I am focused on taking care of our weekly lawn mowing clients that we earn on GreenPal. Recently I mowed a lawn in Franklin off of Liberty Pike in the McKays Mill neighborhood in Franklin, TN. When I showed up it was overgrown, grass had grown about 2’ tall and into the little patio. You could barely see the steps to get onto the patio. Most lawn service companies would leave and not bother with it, but we believe in taking care of the customer and earning the customer’s business. So I went ahead and mowed it. Usually a lawn in McKays Mill takes 25 minutes to mow, however, this mowing took an hour.

I believe in taking care of the customer and earning their business for weekly mowing. All the time I will do things that other companies won't do to earn their business. When someone compliments my work it makes me feel good, and then my work speaks for itself.

Other lawn service companies in Franklin will blow grass in the mulch beds, or do a poor job weedeating. I picked up a new client recently and their last company was mowing for $35 , I could only do it for $40. Sure we are $5 a cut more but you get a lot more for that $5. When I finished, the customer told me that their yard had not looked that good in years, and that makes my day. It's why I do what I do. I enjoy the landscaping profession, because it's instant gratification to me, and when someone else sees what I do and then compliments me for it, that really makes me happy.

We service all over the Nashville area from south of Franklin in the Spring Hill area. Recently we just landed a contract for a business near the airport on Murfreesboro Road. So we go all over middle Tennessee. My GreenPal customers are all over Nashville. Whenever we get a customer on GreenPal we will try to meet them when we mow the first time. For instance I am in East Nashville on Tuesdays on a normal week , around Donelson Pike and Briley Pkwy on Wednesdays and north Nashville on Thursdays. So I can pick up GreenPal customers in most areas around Nashville and fit them into my route when I am already servicing other customers in their neighborhood..