How To Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns [Paperback]

Robert A. Welcome (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 29, 2008

A COMPLETE GUIDE Recommended for Ages 15 and Older This book explains how to start and operate your own lawn mowing business: It shows the easiest ways to get customers . . . How to set prices . . . How to make the most income per hour of work . . . How to keep a simple schedule and much more . . . Tells you everything you need to know . . . * * *When done on a part-time basis, there are no tight schedules. Grass can be cut at your own convenience, without interfering with other activities. Grass grows and work is available during three seasons of the year. There is practically no investment if you already have a mower. Expected earnings can be three to four times higher than the minimum wage rate of pay, sometimes much more.

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About the Author

The author is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, with a B.S. Degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering. He was employed with GE Aerospace Industries, 30 years, where he enjoyed a wide variety of responsibilities. He was a Design Engineer; a Systems Engineer; a Test-Berth Director; a Cost Analyst; and he held several business development and management positions. He also was the GE Rep to the International Society of Parametric Analyst (ISPA), a prestigious, high-level, corporate appointment to do international analyses and reporting work for both the U.S. Government and GE-related enterprises (associated with the Department of Defense). During his last 15-years of employment he worked on advanced plans and programs and authored many documents for GE and the U.S. Government.In his private life, he and his wife, Janice, raised three children. The children (Michael, John and Angela) were raised with a sense of knowing what it is to be in their own business. Each of them had their own paper routes. They also shared in a night-crawler sales business and in a business of selling U.S. postage stamps in vending machines in 11 local retail stores. This eventually led to his son John, at age 14, wanting to start a lawn-mowing business. After four years of effort to perfect John's business, and to track and record all the data, this book was written.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse; Fourth Edition edition (May 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 143437033X
• ISBN-13: 978-1434370334
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #752,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its just so so, March 17, 2010

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I'd have to say I was a little disappointed with this book. Some of the information was useful, but overall it was not very helpful and it was very dated. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone wanting to start a lawn care company. There are better choices out there like Patrick Cash's Lawn Care Business Guide.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for starting out, September 5, 2011

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This book is a great guide on how to start yourself out in business, especially if you have very little funds to invest. It is a guide for those who like money and are not afraid of hard work. Highly recommend it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book: Simple and Direct About the Business of Mowing Lawns, November 22, 2008

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I reviewed a recent, updated version of the book "How To Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns"; the 2008, Fourth Edition. First, this is not a technical book about lawn care. It is a unique book, simple and direct about the business of mowing lawns. And, it thoroughly covers the most important thing: showing exactly how to get customers and make money. This chapter alone is well worth the price of the book. Techniques here will likely never be outdated. Overall, the book is a complete guide.
Of particular interest, the author has geared this book for even a 15-year-old to go into business and to do it with only a minimal investment and approach. And to then grow to a point, where (in the book) his son (while in High School) was earning twice the weekly income of many local factory workers.
I have considerable experience in various businesses, and books like this, about making money, usually do not fully satisfy one's expectations. However this book does. It's a "gem". I highly recommend it.
Note: I noticed that there is another, particular reviewer, who was excessively critical of this book. Then he recommends a different book. Do we detect a conflict of interest here? His review, sadly, misrepresented this book. And, he referred to individuals who would do this work as being "scrubs". Why?