Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Startup) [Paperback]

Eileen Figure Sandlin (Author), Entrepreneur Press (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 27, 2007 | Series: Entrepreneur Magazine's Startup

Rake in the Green

Successful landscapers and lawn care professionals reveal their secrets to success in this $20 billion industry. With all the homes, business parks, apartment complexes, shopping malls and hospitals that need landscaping, you can tailor your services and create your dream job. Your business can range from the simple-mowing and edging lawns, raking leaves and clipping hedges-to applying chemicals and fertilizer, trimming and shaping trees, designing landscapes and more. Learn everything you need to know, including:

• How to find customers
• What equipment you'll need
• How to hire and manage employees
• Record keeping and accounting
• Where to find working capital
• How to calculate job estimates
• And more

If you love working outdoors, you owe it to yourself to buy this step-by-step guide and start building your own successful lawn care or landscaping business.

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About the Author

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Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 2 edition (March 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599180898
• ISBN-13: 978-1599180892
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #658,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eileen Figure Sandlin is an award-winning writer and the author of 18 nonfiction books. She also has written more than 800 articles and thousands of newsletter articles.

Sandlin is a professor of business communication, interpersonal communication and English at a major midwest university.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage of the business end, June 29, 2008

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BookFanatic "Bob" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Startup) (Paperback)

The landscaping business aspects are definitely here, the accounting, the equipment, the scheduling, even the make and model of truck to buy to pull your trailer full of equipment. I was expecting to learn something about the finer points of lawn care, mixing plants, use of mulch, how to protect plants from being eaten by animals etc. Knowing how to run a tight business is helpful but the main thing that your customer wants from you is quality work and knowledge of grasses and decorative plants. The book states internally that the concentration is on business and not horticulture but it's not obvious until you buy it and read it. Now you get to buy another book to gain the landscaping knowledge. Overall, worth the money.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was looking for..., August 9, 2008

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D. Hamilton "Bull's Eye" (West Palm Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Startup) (Paperback)

If you are a rookie to lawn care looking for a book that will help you get started, this one will help you considerably, but it is not for the experienced landscaper. I was really looking for a book to help me out in bidding for larger scale contracts and this book had little if any info on that. Bidding is your best friend in landscaping so I am always looking for new and different bidding techniques. This book was just barely OK to me, but it did have some good information on advertising. In my opinion, go with door hangers, they work pretty well.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lawn Care or Landscaping, January 11, 2008

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Jackie D. Cooper - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Startup) (Paperback)

In this Magazine you learn all you need to know about Lawn Care and landscaping business.I have been in Landscaping for 14 years and hopefully will be in it another14.My customers are very pleased with our work and always recommend me for other jobs.