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

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series)
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.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #76129 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-12-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • 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

Super! Super! Super!5
A must-have for those just starting out. I couldn't have done it without this book. It covers everything - employees, marketing, business management, record keeping, accounting, and estimating. Lots of great tips on customer service. Check out his website

An excellent resource for the do-it-yourself entrepenuer!5
I have found Owen's book to be a delightfully well written resource for starting a home-based landscaping business. The real life, experienced based business advice he shares is worth much more than the purchase price of his book. I have other resource books at hand, but Owen's book has become my favorite.

A tad bit outdated for me.. I need more information3
Great book on how to start up a landscaping business but I need more information directed at lawn maintenance...

However I pass it on to a friend who loved it and is making $5000 a month as a landscape subcontractor after 60 days in business... sure beats his old salary of $1800 a month. Now he works outside and great hours and no corporate bull jive!!

Easy to read and easy to follow but you will need to seek more books on WHAT TO DO and HOW TO DO THE PROJECTS!!

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