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Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business [Paperback]

Mickey Willis (Author), Kevin Rossi (Author)
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0963937154 978-0963937155 February 1, 2001 2
This expanded second edition tracks major new trends in the landscape maintenance business and tells how computers and the Internet can lighten the workload and boost earnings. As before, its chatty writing style makes complex subjects easy and lays out the theory and practice of better professional gardening. A big section on estimating and bidding goes step-by-step through a reproducible set of forms.

Author Mickey Willis and her husband have built and owned a successful middle-sized company for well over 10 years. She knows profitable landscape maintenance and shows where personal and money paybacks are to be found in good environmental practices.

The appendix adds a job description and company policy manual. It includes more print and online sources of trade information, as well as of tools, equipment and supplies.

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This is first in a series on how to start and run specific small businesses. Rossi takes the would-be horticultural entrepreneur from such basics as building up an asset, getting customers, collecting money, and securing a license to making a capital investment, marketing, keeping books, advertising, and customer relations. In addition, he provides information on such horticultural concerns as soil, fertilization, and mowing; lawn installation, renovation, and disorders; tools; and pest control; and he covers such topics as estimating and bidding on jobs. The publisher dutifully cautions readers requiring legal or other expert assistance to seek the services of appropriate competent professionals, but otherwise this is an excellent and efficient general guide for beginners. George Cohen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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An excellent guide for both homeowners and those who would enter the lawn care business. -- The Bookwatch, April 2001

Lawn Care & Gardening continues to be an invaluable, indispensable, "how to" reference and instruction guide for horticultural entrepreneurs. -- Reviewer's Bookwatch, June 2001

Willis brings to her book her experience of management techniques and resources with an emphasis on sound ecological practices. -- Small Business Opportunities Journal, September 2001

Product Details

  • Paperback: 258 pages
  • Publisher: Acton Circle Pub Co; 2 edition (February 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0963937154
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963937155
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,562,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Got me started in the landscape maintenance business., January 12, 1999
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I first read Kevin Rossi's book at my local library when I was considering starting my own landscape maintenance business. I ended up buying it and have referred to it many times. While it is not a technical manual, it does have lots of useful information from bidding,to fertilizing,to pruning. If you are thinking of starting this kind of business, add this book to your library!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Provides new tips reflecting changes in technology, April 29, 2001
This review is from: Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business (Paperback)
This second edition of Lawn Care & Gardening expands and updates the first 1994 publication, providing new tips reflecting changes in technology and consumer attitudes, and covering everything from mowing heights for different types of grasses to fertilizing, pest control choices, tools and equipment and record-keeping for a lawn care business. An excellent guide for both homeowners and those who would enter the lawn care business.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Lawn care & Gardening, January 27, 2000
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David Zucco (Canaan,Ct. U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
I found that the book gives a good deal of important information, BUT.. is a little out dated.
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