Product Description

Rake in the Green

Successful landscapers and lawn care professionals reveal their secrets to success in this $20 billion industry. With all the homes, business parks, apartment complexes, shopping malls and hospitals that need landscaping, you can tailor your services and create your dream job. Your business can range from the simple-mowing and edging lawns, raking leaves and clipping hedges-to applying chemicals and fertilizer, trimming and shaping trees, designing landscapes and more. Learn everything you need to know, including:

• How to find customers
• What equipment you'll need
• How to hire and manage employees
• Record keeping and accounting
• Where to find working capital
• How to calculate job estimates
• And more

If you love working outdoors, you owe it to yourself to buy this step-by-step guide and start building your own successful lawn care or landscaping business.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #259032 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781599180892
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

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Customer Reviews

Good coverage of the business end
The landscaping business aspects are definitely here, the accounting, the equipment, the scheduling, even the make and model of truck to buy to pull your trailer full of equipment. I was expecting to learn something about the finer points of lawn care, mixing plants, use of mulch, how to protect plants from being eaten by animals etc. Knowing how to run a tight business is helpful but the main thing that your customer wants from you is quality work and knowledge of grasses and decorative plants. The book states internally that the concentration is on business and not horticulture but it's not obvious until you buy it and read it. Now you get to buy another book to gain the landscaping knowledge. Overall, worth the money.

Not what I was looking for...
If you are a rookie to lawn care looking for a book that will help you get started, this one will help you considerably, but it is not for the experienced landscaper. I was really looking for a book to help me out in bidding for larger scale contracts and this book had little if any info on that. Bidding is your best friend in landscaping so I am always looking for new and different bidding techniques. This book was just barely OK to me, but it did have some good information on advertising. In my opinion, go with door hangers, they work pretty well.

Lawn Care or Landscaping
In this Magazine you learn all you need to know about Lawn Care and landscaping business.I have been in Landscaping for 14 years and hopefully will be in it another14.My customers are very pleased with our work and always recommend me for other jobs.