Lake Erie Rocks: landscape division.

Provide locally sourced rocks to landscape companies and rock distributors in the grater cleveland area.....

Our rocks have unique characteristics in this region that makes them excellent candidates for landscape projects. Many houses along Lake Erie have rocks as the centerpiece for their landscape projects. Those rocks were sourced locally... there's no way someone is actually reading this. It's the beginning of a paragraph of rocks around the area however if you have made it this far then maybe you're interested in rocks and if you're interested in rocks, money, and you're smart and motivated and able to think on your feet then continue reading. We don't actually supply rocks to anybody we are nobody this is in a business this is a how to step-by-step business model that you can follow to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year doing minimal work selling rocks... let's begin

Logistical challenges of transporting large rocks long distances limits competition.

With reduce competition in a superior business model focused on acquiring rocks worth 10,000 of dollars for cheap and delivering the products efficiently to people or companies.

 step one where to find your rock. The simple answer is right under your feet. There are large rocks a couple feet underground all over the Great Lakes region. The difficulty is in locating and retrieving them. Fortunately, other companies will do this for us for free.

Construction companies that build housing developments, businesses, pretty much anything that requires a foundation or constantly digging in the ground and pulling up giant rocks they have no use for. Large earth moving operations will simply make a pile of these large valuable rocks. That's where did you come in. Google search all the construction companies in the area. Head out to a couple sites where they're doing work on projects like housing developments. Ask for the person in charge and then offer to remove their rocks for free.

Transportation will be the next step. These rocks will be heavy so you won't have the machinery to lift them on or off a trailer (you will require a trailer however if you are completely broke you better be smart because there's only three ways I can think of to get around the trailer situation and ice I don't feel like explaining all three so we're focusing on trailer ). I parked the trailer off to the side in a location agreed-upon by our supplier. Essentially that will be their large rock dumpster.  set up a once a month
Pick up date or have the supplier call you if the trailer fills up sooner.

Let's recap we have done nothing except drop the trailer off. Our supplier has has loaded up our product for free. Unlike other products rocks don't require packaging or labels or processing. They don't have to be stacked neatly, palletized, or even handled gently...

The next step is simple you simply contact large successful landscape companies, google landscape design and other related subjects simply calling and offering them rocks. Remember the logistic challenges for transporting rocks long distances we first discussed? There are significantly more landscape projects going on in the area than there are local rock dealers. The supply and demand in balance has turned our simple rocks into valuable products, the size of the rocks has eliminated competition from large corporations. Combine everything together and it sets the stage for you to have the leverage during negotiations of price and other terms.

Those other terms, that's unloading the products from your trailer. Depending on the trailer you use you may have large rocks that are still left over in the trailer that weren't large enough to interest landscape companies. These rocks we take to construction companies that need fill material for projects. It's likely you won't have to deal with this issue but if you do it just provide an opportunity to make a secondary means of income. There is demand literally everywhere for everything you just have to find it. There are companies that fill in holes all over the place. Every house with the basement needs the exact material that you have no use for. Believe it or not finding filter like that can be difficult for many companies. Construction companies may very well have dump locations for you to bring your unwanted rocks and pay you by the pound.

Now that our trailer is empty we take it back to the construction company and put it back in place. ...

That's the general gist of it. At this point I doubt you have any faith that this idea will work however it already does work. And we see it working all the time in factories steel industries.

This plane works in almost every factory in the country. CNC machines produce metal shavings that hold no value to that company so they throw the metal shavings into a dumpster band to have that dumpster been picked up by a vendor that then delivers the unwanted metal scrap to a recycling company Generating profit based off pound.

Metal shavings, rubber, unusable copper wire… They all follow the same business model. It's literally a copy and paste plan that is already being used we are simply taking advantage of the lack of competition it's seriously that simple we are taking our rocks that the customer doesn't want and recycling them into landscape rocks.

We are looking for rocks that sell for 5000 10,000 $20,000. There are rocks that sell for that much rocks are actually extremely expensive I urge you to look up the price of large rocks in the area it will surprise you if you don't know. Just like every business there is going to be investment needed in trailers however you can rent them or buy them. Invest in five or six different trailers and pick the largest earth moving operations in the area offer your services there once profit start rolling in my more trailers and repeat.

You can also skip the middleman by creating a page. The page name is important… It's this page name not some stupid name that you would come up with on your own. "Lake Erie landscaping: large rock division"  is the perfect name don't change it it will have negative impact on your sales. I would discourage a name like that for other businesses but it works perfectly for our purpose.

By having all the keywords associated with our core customers search habits our page will become a top result for anybody searching for large landscape rocks in the Lake Erie area.  our page implies that we are a large company capable of providing rocks and services that are smaller competitors can't match. but most importantly a name that gives the impression of a large national supplier will peak the interest of our core customer. Our core customer is not interested in saving money, they're not interested in deals and incentives. Our core customer is going to spend $10,000 on a rock these people have money to spend. The higher the price the more likely it will sell these people don't care about savings they care about quality and price determines quality to them.

If you sell the rocks on Facebook yourself you are going to need a way to load and unload them. You are not a landscape company you don't have the resources for this stuff a customer may buy the rock but it is not your job to perfectly position it in the landscaping. That is the landscape company's job or the rigging company that the customer can pay for your job as a rock supplier nothing more. It would be a good idea to figure out a good rigging company to use. If you are going to lose the sale because you only transport the rock you can hire the rigging company and up charge the customer for that service.

This plan covers about 90% of everything and if you can't figure out the solution to the remaining 10% you're too slow 🤪 to be an entrepreneur and should just stick to a 40 hour work week like the rest of the drones. Or buy into a franchise or gas station or drive through that's more your speed.

🤯 something to take into consideration, when people buy and sell houses they don't take their rocks with them. If you see a huge valuable rock in somebody's front yard it may be worth stopping and asking if you can buy it. It's likely that rock has been there a long time. The current property owner they didn't buy the rock or choose to put it there it simply came with the house and it's too expensive to move or they just never thought of it. They might not like w**d whacking around it or mowing around it and simply don't know enough about landscape rocks to see that it's valuable to the right buyer. Offered to buy it for a couple thousand dollars they may jump at the opportunity to have that pain in the ass bolder out of their front yard.

Finally, unlike other products or industries or pretty much everything else in the world you gain no competitive edge by investing in marketing, sales, advertising, branding... (I can't believe I said that). I think I like this idea because I believe in investing heavily into marketing strategies to grow businesses, I believe in the importance and value that brand recognition can create with local companies... somethings so important to extremely similar business models simply doesn't apply to us because of our product choice I fu***ng love it because that's where most people struggle to grow their business and you don't have to worry about that.