How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
Author: Owen E. Dell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1630760978

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own landscaping business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your business. Using a friendly, entertaining approach, Owen E. Dell shares his experiences and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based landscaping business. He shows you how to purchase the right tools, estimate start-up costs, price services, and stay profitable once in business. From painless recordkeeping to cost-efficient management techniques, Dell’s step-by-step methods are practical, innovative, and easy to understand. Special features and workbook pages include: - Business Plan Worksheet - Material and Labor Records - Cost Worksheets - Tips on social media, SEO, and making the Internet work for you - Profit-and-Loss Worksheet

How to Start a Landscaping Business

How to Start a Landscaping Business
Author: Keith Kalfas
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530147359

How to Start a Landscaping Business By Keith Kalfas is a Classic Struggle to victory story on how to overcome fear and self-doubt. This book is for someone stuck in a dead-end job and looking to venture out into they're first small business.

Start & Run a Landscaping Business

Start & Run a Landscaping Business
Author: Joel LaRusic
Publisher: Self-Counsel Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1770408304

If you like being your own boss and working outdoors and enjoy nature, you can start your own profitable landscape maintenance business. This book is perfect if you want to start from scratch or if you already work in the field but would like to strike out on your own. Start & Run a Landscaping Business will get you started in the fascinating business of professional lawn and garden care and will prove essential in helping you to shorten the learning curve you have ahead of you. The book gives you the basics of landscape maintenance, as well as proven systems for running a business. Written by an expert with over a decade of experience, the book includes an insider’s tricks of the trade. It demonstrates in plain language how you can set up your own business and keep it running profitably. This book also covers snow shoveling and plowing, so entrepreneurs who live in colder climes can still make money all year round. More than 30 checklists, samples, and worksheets are included in the download kit (MS Word, MS Excel, and Acrobat PDF formats).

Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business

Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business
Author: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 159918592X

If you enjoy the outdoors, love nature, or enjoy the smell of fresh cut grass, then a lawn care or landscaping business is your chance to rake in plenty of green. Your business can range from lawn maintenance to applying chemicals, trimming and shaping trees to designing landscapes for residential or commercial jobs. Everything you need to start a successful lawn care or landscaping business is in your hands. Start turning green grass into cold cash today!

Your First Year In The Landscaping Business

Your First Year In The Landscaping Business
Author: Keith Kalfas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2020-06-28
Genre:
ISBN:

If you want to start and grow a landscaping business. If you want to demolish self-limiting beliefs and transform yourself into a warrior of a self-employed lawn & landscape contractor. This book will change your life

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
Author: Owen E. Dell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2010-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0762761954

Making money doing lawn-care, landscape architecture, and garden work is a dream of many people—and this guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies they need to successfully launch and develop their own business doing so. This sixth edition also features advice on marketing and selling one’s services within “sustainable landscaping,” one of the hottest new trends in the field. * Develop a profitable business plan * Build word-of-mouth referrals * Handle employees, paperwork, and taxes * Work smart and safe * Adapt to new trends like sustainable landscaping * Become your area’s top landscaper

Lawn Care Business Guide

Lawn Care Business Guide
Author: Patrick Cash
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Grounds maintenance industry
ISBN: 9780578007243

How to estimate; how to gain commercial customers; tips and tricks to make your business more profitable; add-on services to make you more money.

Zero Turn

Zero Turn
Author: Mike Andes
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792613661

Larry has been a landscaper for years, working at a small lawn care company. He becomes disgruntled with his boss and decides to start his own business when his wife gets pregnant. After an unexpected car accident, Larry faces the reality that he owns a job instead of a business. Join Larry as he experiences employee troubles, unhappy clients, and ultimately realizes the dream of owning a small business. Learn how to start a successful lawn care business, implement systems and procedures, advertise your services creatively, track business financial health, and build a world-class team. Join Larry on his journey from solo-preneur to entrepreneur. The book shows how you should create estimates for lawn care clients, market and advertise your business, create a brand, and build a website. All the elements of Larry's turnaround can be implemented in every green-industry company to make it more efficient and profitable.

Mowbiz

Mowbiz
Author: Greg Michaels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012
Genre: Landscape gardening
ISBN: 9780984183807

Whether you're an experienced landscaper or new to the trade, Mowbiz give you the tools you need to start your own landscaping business and make it a success. This no-nonsense guide reveals the techniques professionals use to keep landscapes looking their best. And it clearly explains the nuts and bolts of running your own profitable business. Each topic has been extensively researched, so your work will be backed by university findings, not guesswork. By pass the trial-and-error school of landscaping, and learn the right way to do things...from the start.--COVER.

Best Business Practices for Landscapers

Best Business Practices for Landscapers
Author: Jamison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2021-08-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578977010

The Ultimate Guide to Quickly Building a Successful Landscaping BusinessWhat Can You Do to Immediately Boost Your Lawn Care or Landscaping Business Profits?Running a landscaping business is not like running any other kind of company. You don't need generic business advice. You need proven tactics and strategies from people who know exactly what kinds of challenges you're facing. That's why Paul Jamison's Best Business Practices for Landscapers is an essential read for anyone even thinking about starting a lawn care or landscaping company. Jamison is best known as the host of the Green Industry Podcast, where he interviews the most successful landscaper entrepreneurs about their journeys. He is also the author of the highly successful book Cut That Grass and Make That Cash. This book is full of powerful insights you won't find anywhere else. If you read this book and apply all of the lessons, you will watch your landscaping business profits skyrocket.Inside Best Business Practices for Landscapers, you will discover:How to transform a struggling business into a thriving companyWhy giving more value to your customers always pays offHow to leverage your connections to leapfrog your competitorsThe secrets to maintaining a healthy balance between your business and your familyThe power of working towards a big goalHow to find and keep great employeesHow to find your competitive edgeAnd Much MoreJamison's book is not only filled with valuable tips, tactics, and strategies for landscaping business owners-it's also fun to read. In each chapter, you will come to know different business owners as they share their failures, heartbreak, lessons learned, and their successes. You will come away from this book having learned a lot about running a successful landscaping business, and you will feel like you just made a bunch of new friends. This book is an essential read for anyone who owns a landscaping company who is even thinking about starting one. Don't Wait Another Minute. Order Your Copy of Best Business Practices for Landscapers Right Now!