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Gardening for Profit 3
Landscaping - Lawn Care - Gardening - Christmas Trees |
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Lawn
Care Business Guide: The Definitive Guide To Starting and Running Your Own
Successful Lawn Care Business by Patrick Cash
Paperback: 173 pages ISBN: 057800724X
Publisher: Patrick Pub; 1st ed (January 19, 2009) |
| A complete guide to starting and
running your own successful lawn care business. The guide covers topics such as getting
new customers, how to move from residential to commercial customers, how to estimate,
proper cutting technique, add on businesses you can do in the off season, and more. It
also includes many example forms, letters, proposals, marketing, and business management. |
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Start
& Run A Landscaping Business
by Joel LaRusic
Paperback: 208 pages ISBN: 1551806053
Publisher: Self-Counsel Press; (April 2005)
Bk & CD-Rom edition |
| This book will give you the basics
of horticulture and landscaping, and the basics of running a business in
easy-to-understand terms. The book includes an insider’s tricks of the trade, and
demonstrates how you can set up your own business and how you can keep it running
profitably. A bonus CD-ROM is included with forms and worksheets to help you get your
business running. The book also covers snow shoveling and plowing, for landscapers who
live in colder climes--make money all year round, even when it snows! |
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Lawn
Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business
by Mickey Willis, Kevin Rossi
Paperback: 258 pages ISBN: 0963937154
Publisher: Acton Circle Pub; 2nd ed (February 2001) |
| Updated and expanded second edition
presents all aspects of creating and implementing a professional practice ranging from a
simple law-mowing route to a full service landscaping and yard maintenance company. Willis
covers all the legal requirements for starting a lawn and gardening business, the
essentials of a simple, effective bookkeeping system; how to estimate and bid on jobs; how
to build a customer base, schedule workloads, recruit and supervise employees; finding and
evaluating equipment and supplies; as well as the chemistry of soils, fertilizers, plant
growth, mowing lawns, pruning shrubbery, encourage plants and discourage pests. An
invaluable, indispensable "how to" reference and instruction guide for
horticultural entrepreneurs. |
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Start
Your Own Lawn Care Business
(Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up)
by Eileen Figure Sandlin
Paperback: 168 pages ISBN: 1891984756
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 31 edition (Dec 2003) |
| A step-by-step guide to start
building your own successful lawn service business. Your business can be as simple as
mowing and edging lawns, raking leaves, and clipping hedges to applying chemicals and
fertilizers. Our book will tell you everything you need to know to get started in the lawn
care business. |
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How
To Get Customers For Your Landscaping And Lawn Care Business All Year Long
(Vol 2)
by Steve Low
Paperback: 240 pages ISBN: 1440402124
Publisher: CreateSpace (August 5, 2008) |
| Anyone can start a lawn care
business but most get stuck finding customers and they give up their new venture too
quickly. Why struggle trying to learn how to gain new lawn care customers the hard way?
This book gives you lawn care marketing ideas that are being used by your competitors. It
also talks about what marketing ideas don't work. |
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How
To Get Customers For Your Landscaping And Lawn Care Business (Vol 3)
by Steve Low
Paperback: 180 pages ISBN: 144958005X
Publisher: CreateSpace (November 2, 2009) |
| Coming up with marketing and
service ideas to keep busy and profitable all year long can be difficult. The author has
interviewed thousands of lawn care business owners over the years and asked them what's
worked and what hasn't. Third in a series of lawn care business marketing books, this book
contains lawn care marketing ideas cherry picked from previous content as well as new
unpublished material. |
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How
to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns
by Robert A. Welcome
Paperback: 138 pages ISBN: 1568570805
Noble Publishing Assoc; 2nd ed (September 1, 1997) |
| Easy reading with everything you
need to know to start and operate your own business. Great tips, easy to understand
charts. |
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Christmas
Trees: Growing and Selling Trees, Wreaths, and Greens
by Lewis Hill, Judy Eliason (Illustrator), Gwen Steege (Editor)
Paperback - 160 pages (December 1989)
Storey Books; ISBN: 0882665669 |
| Comprehensive guide for selecting
and preparing a site, growing Christmas trees, cultivation, maintenance, production
management, harvesting, locating wholesale and retail markets. Includes a grower's
calendar and list of associations. |
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Christmas Trees
for Pleasure and Profit
by Arthur Chapman
Paperback: 160 pages ISBN: 0813544175
Publisher: Rutgers University; 4 ed (January 30, 2009) |
| This updated 4th edition includes
the latest techniques and tools for harvesting trees, new methods of transport, the most
recent data on herbicides, and advice on how to run a Christmas-tree business today.
Covers selecting land, choosing species, planting, harvesting, managing a plantation and
tons more. From novice to experienced grower, there is something in this book for
everyone. |
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