How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business (Home-based Business Series) - Softcover

Dell, Owen E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156440997X ISBN 13: 9781564409973

Publisher: UNKNO, 1997

Synopsis

Covers all aspects of setting up and running a home-based landscaping business, including setting up a home office, finding clients, and staying profitable

About this title

From the Back Cover

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based 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 will show you how to purchase the right tools, estimate start-up costs, price services, and stay profitable once in business. From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, his step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand. Learn all about getting clients and referrals, outshining the competition, bidding competitively organizing your business, getting paid and much more. (7 x 10, 336 pages, profits and loss worksheet, site inspection and bid worksheet, sample bid, tips on effective selling, equipment and materials loading lists, sample employee skills test, charts)

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 156440997X
• ISBN 13: 9781564409973
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 317