How to Start a Landscaping Business


Book Description

How to Start a Landscaping Business By Keith Kalfas is a Classic Struggle to victory story on how to overcome fear and self-doubt. This book is for someone stuck in a dead-end job and looking to venture out into they're first small business.




Your First Year In The Landscaping Business


Book Description

If you want to start and grow a landscaping business. If you want to demolish self-limiting beliefs and transform yourself into a warrior of a self-employed lawn & landscape contractor. This book will change your life




How to Make More Money with Your Lawn Care Or Landscaping Business


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Learn how to make more money with your lawn care or landscaping business. Making money with your lawn care or landscaping business can be a challenge even in the best of times but it gets even tougher when you are up against heavy competition. This book will help teach you what successful lawn care & landscaping business owners are doing to not only survive but to make more money than their competitors. It covers how to make more money on bidding. How to read your customer's body language to know when you are charging too much or not enough. Learn the steps you should be taking to win more bids and things you should never do when trying to win a lawn care bid. You will also learn how to deal with picky customers, those that live out of state, those that like to cancel service without giving you enough warning, and help you figure out how much your customers are actually worth. Learn how to make more money with your lawn care crew by knowing the ideal crew size from others who have experimented with many different setups. Learn the best way to purchase equipment, which equipment to purchase and how to use it in order to make your business more profitable. Read how other lawn care & landscaping business owners defend themselves against the secret ways competitors try to keep you from growing. Pickup new sales techniques your competitors would never share with you and learn new lawn care marketing tips to grow and improve the profitability of your customer base. And lastly, learn what to watch out for when it comes to bad contracts, avoiding problems with the IRS, and how your credit rating can hold you back from growth. See where others have tripped up so you can avoid the pitfalls that lay ahead and find out what really works and what doesn't. All of these topics are covered and more with real world examples, from The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum & The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show. To learn more about how to run your lawn care and landscaping business visit the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http: //www.gopherforum.com and download a Free 30 day trial of Gopher Lawn Care Business Billing & Scheduling Software at http: //www.gophersoftware.com




P4p


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It has never been harder to find good employees. Government handouts and programs, publicly traded behemoths with an insatiable appetite for front-line staff, and a burgeoning gig-economy has made hiring extremely hard for small business owners. The golden question is how do we attract good talent and then retain them long-term? How do I determine rates of compensation for my highest performers that are always demanding raises? How do I scale my business without having to constantly micro-manage my Team when they are in the field working? The answer is Pay-For-Performance (P4P). I know the frustration of growing a home service business and trying to motivate your workforce while balancing the budget with rising costs of doing business. P4P allowed me to grow my lawn care business past 7-figures in annual revenue and now we have dozens of locations around North America. In a sentence, P4P pays employees a percentage of the labor revenue they earn for the business. It is that simple. The rest of the P4P system ensures that quality standards are upheld and that employees don't speed through work or damage Customer property. If you are tired of babysitting employees, tired of offering low-paying, dead-end jobs, tired of seeing employees waste time, money, and their own potential, I encourage you to diligently implement P4P and see it transform your business. What's Inside This manual is your key to success, and the future to the labor industry as we know it. Inside you'll find the tools need to implement P4P successfully in your business. From bringing up the idea to pushing it beyond a simple pay structure, P4P Why Dollars Per Hour Is A Failing Formula will revolutionize how you do business. Conception of P4P What is Pay for Performance Step by Step Implementation Opening the Books Profit Sharing Compete Payroll Breakdown Educational Guide Referance Material




The Mom Test


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The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right . Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.




Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business


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If you enjoy the outdoors, love nature, or enjoy the smell of fresh cut grass, then a lawn care or landscaping business is your chance to rake in plenty of green. Your business can range from lawn maintenance to applying chemicals, trimming and shaping trees to designing landscapes for residential or commercial jobs. Everything you need to start a successful lawn care or landscaping business is in your hands. Start turning green grass into cold cash today!




How to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns


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A COMPLETE GUIDE Recommended for Ages 15 and Older This book explains how to start and operate your own lawn mowing business: It shows the easiest ways to get customers . . . How to set prices . . . How to make the most income per hour of work . . . How to keep a simple schedule and much more . . . Tells you everything you need to know . . . When done on a part-time basis, there are no tight schedules. Grass can be cut at your own convenience, without interfering with other activities. Grass grows and work is available during three seasons of the year. There is practically no investment if you already have a mower. Expected earnings can be three to four times higher than the minimum wage rate of pay, sometimes much more.




Profit First for Lawn Care and Landscape Businesses


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GROW YOUR LAWN CARE AND LANDSCAPE COMPANY FROM A CASH-EATING MONSTER TO A MONEY-MAKING DREAM! Get industry-specific tools, The Green Profit Toolbox(TM)️ for Lawn Care and Landscape Businesses




How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business


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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 business. Using a friendly, entertaining approach, Owen E. 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. From painless recordkeeping to cost-efficient management techniques, Dell’s step-by-step methods are practical, innovative, and easy to understand. Special features and workbook pages include: - Business Plan Worksheet - Material and Labor Records - Cost Worksheets - Tips on social media, SEO, and making the Internet work for you - Profit-and-Loss Worksheet




Lawn Care Business Guide


Book Description

How to estimate; how to gain commercial customers; tips and tricks to make your business more profitable; add-on services to make you more money.