
How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
Owen E. Dell(Author)
Taylor Trade Publishing
7th Edition
Published on 2. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-4930-1171-1 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
Reviews / Votes
We applaud Dell's no-nonsense attitude, since it could save a wannabe landscaper a lot of grief. . . . Checking out [this book] is well worth the money and time. * HortIdeas Magazine *More details
Series
Edition
Seventh Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 BW Illustrations, 45 Tables
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
681 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-1171-1 (9781493011711)
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Owen E. Dell
How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
E-Book
07/2015
7th Edition
Taylor Trade Publishing
€9.88
Available for download
Person
Owen E. Dell, RLA, ASLA, an Oregon-registered landscape architect and former licensed landscape contractor, is a forty-three-year veteran of the profession. He is also an internationally known lecturer, a writer for many national garden magazines, and a television personality. His award-winning projects have been featured in Sunset Magazine, Landscape Architecture, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other books, publications, films, and television series. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where he continues to practice landscape architecture, teach, and write. Visit him at www.owendell.com.