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How To Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: mowing small lawns, minor maintenance requirements, mower repairmen, Hourly Rate, Owner's Manual, United States (more...)
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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.

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.

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  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse (May 29, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143437033X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1434370334
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #256,944 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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51 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A book for those aspiring to be scrubs, February 13, 2004
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This book is geared towards what the lawn care industry calls "scrubs". The author's suggested methods of getting to the jobs? Walk, or put your 20" push mower in the back of your station wagon. Money saving advice? Use your customers lawn mower! This book is full of bad advice for anyone truly wanting a legitimate lawn care business. No metion is ever made of figuring overhead expenses, insurance, or any of the other day to day business concerns. There are better books out there for starting a lawn service. Lawn Care & Gardening A Down To Earth Guide To The Business By Mickey Willis is much more in depth and benefitial to someone wanting to break into the biz. If your 12 years old, and can borrow your parents mower, you might like this book. DO NOT buy this book thinking you will start a business.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, May 27, 2005
This review is from: How to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns (Paperback)
Easy read with very simple instructions on how to be sucessful at a mowing business. I read this at a library, however I did just notice there is a more up to date version, but only available as an electronic book at greenfromgreen.com. I found this book like a handbook that filled my wallet. I recommend it without reservation.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for a start up in business! Or refinement of existing., April 3, 2006
This review is from: How to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns (Paperback)
The paperback is a little dated, however on greenfromgreen.com you can get the 2006 version. I found this updated version to be much more helpful. Thanks for the tip OLDSAGE it has helped me lots.
Who would think I can get my execise and make money at the same time. Great book that any lawn care professional would want to ban in his area least he face stiff competition. It takes complex buisness planning and simplifies them for the average reader.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Its just so so
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. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Ronnie G. Sanders

5.0 out of 5 stars A good gift--birthday or otherwise
This book was used as a gift to my brother who soon will be retiring and I thought perhaps this would be a good side job for him and he could do it on his own hours. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Janice E. Welcome

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book: Simple and Direct About the Business of Mowing Lawns
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. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Billy Lunt

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Old
The book over all was OK. I was able to get some pointers from it. However, the data and examples are very outdated (in some cases more than 20 years). Read more
Published on June 8, 2007 by W. Sanchez

2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated but informative
I recieved the above book, although it was a bit outdated the techniques and tribulations seem to have remained somewhat the same. Read more
Published on February 27, 2006 by Gary Beaulieu

5.0 out of 5 stars Real life experiences in starting a lawn care business
Great, easy to understand charts. Simplistic pricing method. Simple to understand and extremely helpful/useful in earning extra income. Read more
Published on April 25, 2004 by W. Roberts

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