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.
Owen E. Dell, ASLA is an internationally admired landscape architect, landscape contractor, educator, author, television personality, and "sustainability guru." Owen has nearly 40 years of experience as both a hands-on garden maker, a designer of residential as well as commercial and public gardens, and an inspiration to landscapers and gardeners the world over. Owen is the principal at Owen Dell & Associates in Santa Barbara, California.
Owen's popular television show Garden Wise Guys (www.citytv18.com) offers lessons in how to create and maintain a sustainable landscape while delivering plenty of laughs as he and co-star Billy Goodnick(http://www.google.com/profiles/billygoodnick) get themselves into and out of trouble on what may be the only sustainable landscaping sitcom anywhere. Oh, and check out Owen as he plays the leaf rake and sings on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTA49TUXXXg.
Professional and lay audiences look to Owen for his inimitable combination of eye-opening, cutting-edge landscaping advice and edge-of-your-seat lively delivery. Owen's workshops are a delight, and send participants home inspired and forever changed.
Home gardeners and professionals alike love his popular books "Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies" and "How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business." Owen is also the co-author of "Green Your Home All-In-One For Dummies." Readers can count on Owen to deliver a solid message in a fun-to-read format.
Owen is also an inveterate volunteer, helping out with many environmental and political causes. He's also the founder of the Fossil Free Landscaping Group, the Neighborhood Foodshed Project, and other groups.
When he's not writing books, teaching students, making great goofy TV, helping to save the world, and designing stunning gardens, he's out working in his own garden, which boasts 130 varieties of edible and medicinal plants, a certified wildlife habitat, countless kinds of native and exotic ornamental plants, and an intriguing series of outdoor rooms filled with art and lots of surprises. He also cooks like a madman, spends lots of time with his cats, and dreams of getting out in nature more than he's been able to the past few years.
To find out more about Owen E. Dell, visit his web site at www.owendell.com.
