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How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business, 5th

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business, 5th
By Owen Dell

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Ready to launch and grow your home-based landscaping business? This guide covers all the bases, from getting clients and referrals to designing projects to marketing your business on the Internet.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #144285 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-12-01
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 336 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I highly recommend reading the . . . How to [Start] a Home-Based Business series. Each book in the series acts as your personal guide to starting and running a home-based business."
-Steve Rubel, Mac Home Journal

From the Back Cover

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 own business.
Author Owen 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. He even offers tips for surfing the Internet to obtain valuable resources and market your services. From painless record keeping to cost-efficient management techniques, Dell's step-by-step methods are practical, innovative, and easy to understand.
Learn all about:

Writing Your Own Business Plan
Getting Clients and Dealing with Them Professionally
Screening and Hiring Employees
Getting Paid
Marketing Your Business On and Off the Internet
Designing Projects and Project Management
Outshining the Competition

Use these special features and workbook pages:

Business Plan Worksheet
Material and Labor Records
Cost Worksheets
Sample Office Forms
Profit-and-Loss Worksheet

About the Author

Owen E. Dell, RLA, a licensed landscape architect and landscape contractor, is a 35-year veteran of the profession. He is also an internationally known lecturer, a writer, and a television personality. His award-winning projects have been featured in Sunset Magazine, Landscape Architecture, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other books and publications.

Customer Reviews

Good reference5
A very good reference and guide for anyone that has never started a small business before. He covers a variety of topics in detail, and even has examples of forms to use on a daily basis. Very helpful, and well written.

Great Book, Very Informative5
With no more than a couple of months's experience, I started a landscaping business using this book as a guide. It's running smoothly and my customers are happy. Everything you need to know is covered.

My Garden, My Life.5
A true page turner. Does he - doesn't he? Yes! In the end he does make a living. This man could make a wilted Geranium sound interesting. Timeless in it's basic good advice and ahead of it's time tracking future horticultural trends. An inspiring and informative tome for anyone looking to make a lasting impression on their local landscape. A book you'll want to share with your friends. Fairly good as compost even.