
How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
*Develop a Profitable Business Plan *Build Word-of-Mouth Referrals *Handle Employees, Paperwork, and Taxes *Work Smart and Safe *Adapt to New Trends Like Sustainable Landscaping *Become Your Area's Top Landscaper
Owen E. Dell(Author)
Globe Pequot Press
6th Edition
Published on 1. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-7627-5268-3 (ISBN)
Description
Making money doing lawn-care, landscape architecture, and garden work is a dream of many people-and this guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies they need to successfully launch and develop their own business doing so. This sixth edition also features advice on marketing and selling one's services within "sustainable landscaping," one of the hottest new trends in the field. * Develop a profitable business plan * Build word-of-mouth referrals * Handle employees, paperwork, and taxes * Work smart and safe * Adapt to new trends like sustainable landscaping * Become your area's top landscaper
Reviews / Votes
"A down-to-earth and informative guide to setting up and running your own landscaping business. Written in an engaging, readable style." -Landscape & Nursery Digest "We applaud Dell's no-nonsense attitude, since it could save a wanna-be professional landscaper a lot of grief ... checking it out is well worth the money and time." -HortIdeas MagazineMore details
Series
Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Old Saybrook
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Weight
42 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7627-5268-3 (9780762752683)
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Owen E. Dell
How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
*Develop a profitable business plan *Build word-of-mouth referrals *Handle employees, paperwork, and taxes *Work smart and safe *Adapt to new trends like sustainable landscaping *Become your area's top landscaper
E-Book
01/2010
6th Edition
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Person
Owen E. Dell, RLA, a licensed landscape architect and landscape contractor, is a thirty-nine-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. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. Visit him at owendell.com.
Content
Chapter 1: So You Think You Want to Be a LandscaperChapter 2: Getting StartedChapter 3: Writing a Business PlanChapter 4: Learning to Live with Record KeepingChapter 5: Employees: A Joy and a NuisanceChapter 6: Getting WorkChapter 7: BiddingChapter 8: Finally You Get to Do Some Real WorkChapter 9: The Long Haul Appendixes* Resources* Using the Internet* Business Plan Worksheet and Other Forms