Creating an eye-catching advertisement is key to success. You want potential clients to be drawn to your business for a variety of reasons. Be thorough and include all pertinent details. What services you offer is critical. If you are willing to weed-eat, edge, spread mulch, or do something else related to lawn maintenance, you could possibly make a lot more money. Include all contact information. Your name, company name, email, and phone number are bare minimums. Pricing will be the focus for most potential customers. Include your pricing information based on the criteria you select. Whether it is one price for all yards, priced by square foot, or based on appraisal, be sure to be very specific. Cover the most possible area. Ensuring every potential customer sees your advertisement is crucial. Put your flyers in a variety of locations. Stuff mailboxes. You may encounter a person on the day they feel their weakest, and most unable to juggle all their responsibilities. They might just pay you to lessen the load. Car windows are a perfect spot for flyers. Pick up the windshield wiper, pop down your flyer so the driver sees it, and put the wiper down. You can cover a diverse audience easily because you don't know the car owners! Bulletin boards are a great location. Try laundry mats, libraries, local businesses, grocery stores, the post office, anywhere that will let you put your ad up. Put them on doorsteps. Better yet, knock on doors and deliver them by hand. Face to face meetings may benefit your efforts since they'll get to see you personally. This is a cheap but effective way to get your name out there. It does, however, come with a small fee. Most newspaper companies charge by the word, so choose words carefully. Minimize the number of words/letters for price, but don't exclude so much as to make the ad ineffective. At the very least, include the name of your business name, the logo, the type of services offered, contact information, and your website, if applicable. School and sport affiliations run deep. Having your sign along the baseline or the outfield fence reaches a new segment of the market, and shows support for the local community. Someone may just want to support a business with similar interests or alma mater. Targeting a localized audience may help you reach and cover an entire area more thoroughly. Let the familiarity of a known newsletter be your trusted voice. Start off with a simple sign placed in a freshly mowed lawn to display your great work. Since the eyes viewing these ads are moving, the lawn signs may need to be more visually appealing than other ads. An expanded, colored logo would be a great modification, but at the very least the company name and contact information needs to be included. As you expand, perhaps you'd be willing to offer a free cut in exchange for ad placement in other yards. You will want to focus on ad length, style, and content. Tailor it to the local market you'd like to target. Make it informative and memorable. Include a catchy slogan or jingle that's simple and positive, Make your lawn look sharp by dawn, trust your business to "Lawns by John". Sell your services as a distinctive solution to a problem. Is your Bermuda grass growing too fast? Does it touch your knees? Call "Lion Lawns" to tame your grass. Get a testimonial from a satisfied customer. I used "A+ Lawn Care" and my grass has never been better!
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One-sentence summary -- Make an ad/flyer. Put ads in the local newspaper. Sponsor a local school, sports team, or athlete. Use a local or homeowner association (HOA) newsletter. Place lawn signs. Try a radio or television advertisement.

The nines times table has the great trick that the digits of your answer always add up to 9. This works as follows: 9 x 1 = 09. 0 + 9 = 9 9 x 2 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9 9 x 3 = 27. 2 + 7 = 9 9 x 4 = 36. 3 + 6 = 9. etc. For example, the tens digit of 9 x 3 will be 3-1, or 2. Therefore the answer to 9 x 3 should begin with 2. Use this pattern to help keep you on track: if you find that your answer to 9 x 2 begins with a 4 (and not a 1), you know you have gone astray somewhere.
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One-sentence summary -- Remember that the digits of your answer should all add up to 9. Remember that the tens digit of 9 x some number will be some number minus one.

Many young runners aim for a roughly identical run each time -- challenging themselves about the same amount. But high-level runners tend to alternate very challenging runs with very easy ones, knowing that the truly challenging runs are where they make the most gains. A good way to start is to find 2 routes you love -- one easy and one hard, and then slowly add or subtract distance as you get stronger. se plyometric exercises to boost explosive power, maximizing each stride you take. While untrained runners believe they can just run to get better, strong runners know that specific strength training is key to staying fast and healthy. Plyometrics are exercises that require a burst of power, which translates into much stronger, more efficient strides when you run. Try out: Box jumps, both single leg and double. Shuttle runs Squat leaps -- perform a squat without weight, then explode up and to one side. Power skip -- see how high you can get on each leap The top runners today train for sprints, even if they'll never actually use that speed in a race. That's because sprinting pushes your body to a degree that helps create huge training gains in a much shorter time. Some ideas include: Intervals: Warm up for 5-10 minutes, then sprint for 30 seconds. Jog for a minute to relax, then sprint another 5-6 times. As you get better, cut the jogging portion to as close to 30 seconds as you can. Cool down for 5-10 minutes at the end. Ladders: Warm up for 5-10 minutes, then sprint a lap at roughly 90% top speed. Jog a lap to recover. Then sprint 2 straight laps. Jog a lap to recover. Keep escalating until you can no longer push yourself, then cool down for 5-10 minutes. A strong, healthy diet will have long-term effects on your ability to run long distances. If you're always putting junk into the engine, like multiple desserts, fatty and fried foods, and empty calories like soda, you will have a much harder time efficiently turning that food into energy. While you don't have to be on an Olympian's diet, you can take some cues from them: Keep your proteins lean -- fish, chicken, beans, whole wheat pasta, etc. Make fruits and vegetables a large part of every meal. Snack healthily -- using fruits, low-fat options like pretzels, and yogurts and granola instead of "treats." Drink water all day long -- it will always help your body run more efficiently. As mentioned above, your core is the most essential set of muscles to keep an efficient, smooth, and relaxed posture while you run. This doesn't mean you need a shredded six-pack, but you should try out the following exercises. It doesn't take much -- try mixing and matching 2-3 of the following into a 10 minute work out, resting for 30 seconds between each exercise. Sit-ups Crunches Side crunches Planks Side planks Bridges You'll only get better if you actually push yourself to your limits. Except on the easy runs, make sure you struggle at the end of all your runs. It is this ability to push through the struggle that will make you stronger, making future long runs much easier to pull off. If you feel strong, pick up your pace for the last five minutes, giving yourself a good challenge to end the run on. There is a difference between running through pain and running through a temporary struggle. If you feel sharp pain, wooziness, or sick, you should stop and get water.
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Follow the "easy-hard" rule of elite runners to grow strength quickly. . Use sprint training to build the speed needed for long runs. Cut fats, excess sugar, and grease from your diet. Dedicate 2-3 days a week to focus on your abs, oblique, and core muscles. Trust your body as you train, always trying to challenge yourself in the last few minutes.