Download or read book Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business written by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Lawn Care Business Guide written by Patrick Cash and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Mom Test written by Rob Fitzpatrick and published by Robfitz Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right . Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.
Download or read book How to Start a Home Based Landscaping Business written by Owen E. Dell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Mowbiz written by Greg Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Accounting for Non Accountants written by Wayne Label and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Quick, Compact, and Easy-to-Understand Resource for Non-Accountants! The perfect financial accounting guide for beginners! Accounting for Non-Accountants is the must-have guide for all of us who have never taken an accounting class, are mystified by accounting jargon, and have no clue about balance sheets, income statements, payroll management, corporate taxes, or statements of cash flows. This simple to use accounting book is bookmaking made simple. Whether you own a business, plan on starting one, or just want to control your own assets, you'll find everything you need to know: How to prepare and use financial statements How to control cash flows How to manage budgets How to use accounting ratios How to deal with audits and auditors interpret financial statements Let this book help you like it helped these readers: "Dr. Labels explanations are simple and straightforward. " "This will help me a lot as I set up my own business. " "I have worked in accounting for over twenty-five years, and this is the best book I have seen to help people with the basics of accounting." For entrepreneurs or anyone who needs to brush up on accounting fast, this book will have you up and running in no time.
Download or read book How to Start a Commercial Landscaping Business written by Maxwell Rotheray and published by ZeroNever. This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial landscaping businesses are in high demand just like lawn care is for residential buildings. It is not a seasonal business, although they thrive more in some seasons. However, you will make the most money from your landscaping business between April and October. There are many opportunities in landscaping businesses because they are not just limited to lawn care. You can care for lawns, design landscapes, or even make money during winter by melting snow. Expanding to commercial level? Do you want to offer your landscaping services to businesses? Commercial landscaping businesses allow you to build a team and offer your services to bigger clients. It can be a great option if your vision is to generate maximum profit and establish your brand in the market. People have made millions of dollars yearly from commercial landscaping services. They all had their starting point and made it to the top. You can do the same. This book consists of the information you need to start a thriving landscaping business that pays. You will learn different strategies to transition from residential to commercial business, how to find the right clients, and how to build your own landscaping franchise for maximum profit margin.
Download or read book Earn 300 a Day Mowing Lawns written by James T. Adams (Of Adams Mowing) and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim ran a profitable lawn mowing business for over twenty years. When he went into business with his son in 1983, there was no book, so they learned everything the hard way, through experience. After retiring in 2005, Jim wrote a guide that cuts right to the heart of the mowing business, showing you how to find customers and keep them happy, and how to operate efficiently, so you'll maximize your profits. As Jim learned, trial and error is slow and very expensive. Early on, they made the same mistakes over and over, spending whole seasons using wrong machines, pursuing wrong goals. You can follow ideas that wreck your profits, and don't even realize you're doing it! The business limps along, earning little or nothing and soon disappears. Every year, Americans spend more than $100 billion on lawn care. Jim learned to steer a healthy chunk of that money in his direction, and wants to teach you to do the same, opening the door to a lifetime of security and independence. The book is based on the combined experience of Jim and his son, a total of nearly fifty years of full-time mowing. No fantasy, no pie in the sky: Just a sharp focus on the facts and the vital questions, putting you years ahead of your competitors. No wasted time or money. The book includes a Quick Start Guide, so you'll earn maximum profits, starting on the first day.
Download or read book Pricing and Bidding Handbook written by Claes-Axel Andersson and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1994 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is part of a series designed to suit the specific needs of small building and public works contractors, and the problems that arise from bidding for and carrying out varied and dispersed projects in a context of highly cyclical demand.; This handbook covers pricing and bidding to obtain new projects. Too many contractors produce ""guesstimates""--Not estimates - of project costs, so they either bid too high and lose the contract, or - often even worse - get the work at a price which is below cost. Besides taking the reader step-by-step through the preparation of the bid on a small b.
Download or read book Zero Turn written by Mike Andes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Window Cleaning Blueprint written by Keith Kalfas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Make $500 a Day Cleaning Windows. This Book will completely transform your life. World Class information packaged in easy to understand digestible bits. This book teaches how window cleaning is rooted in the perception of luxury and not necessity. When you learn how to communicate yourself as a luxury service. You can literally quadruple your income and make more than $500 a Day Cleaning Windows. With NO Startup Money.
Download or read book A Guide to Starting a Business in Minnesota written by Charles A. Schaffer and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Green The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn written by Ted Steinberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ted Steinberg proves once again that he is a master storyteller as well as our foremost environmental historian.”—Mike Davis The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. American Green, Ted Steinberg's witty exposé of this bizarre phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers.
Download or read book How to Start a Business in Oregon written by Entrepreneur Press and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series covers the federal, state, and local regulations imposed on small businesses, with concise, friendly and up-to-the-minute advice on each critical step of starting your own business.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book How to Start a Landscaping Business written by Keith Kalfas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Anatomy of a Business Plan written by Linda Pinson and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carefully written, well-thought-out business plan fell out of fashion in the dot-com craze, but in the year following the technology stock market crash it has become apparent that this basic building block of business is an entrepreneur's best friend. Award-winning author and business planning expert Linda Pinson has updated the book that has helped over 1 million businesses get up and running.Both new and established businesses will benefit from "Anatomy of a Business Plan's mix of time-tested planning strategies and an entirely new chapter on marketing techniques. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
