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How to start a home-based landscaping business / Owen E. Dell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: How to start a home-based business seriesPublication details: Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, ©2010.Edition: 6th edDescription: ix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780762752683
  • 0762752688
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB472.5 .D44 2010
Contents:
So you think you want to be a landscaper? -- Getting started -- Writing a business plan -- Learning to live with record keeping -- Employees: A joy and a nuisance -- Getting work -- Bidding -- Finally you get to do some real work -- The long haul.
Summary: From the Publisher: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-266) and index.

"Using the Internet": pages 267-272.

So you think you want to be a landscaper? -- Getting started -- Writing a business plan -- Learning to live with record keeping -- Employees: A joy and a nuisance -- Getting work -- Bidding -- Finally you get to do some real work -- The long haul.

From the Publisher: 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.

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