How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business, 4th [Paperback]

"I highly recommend reading the . . . How to [Start] a Home-Based Business series. Each book in the series acts as your personal guide to starting and running a home-based business."
-Steve Rubel, Mac Home Journal

Readers will benefit from the author's experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based landscaping business. This completely revised and updated guide covers purchasing the right tools, estimating start-up costs, pricing services, and staying profitable once in business.

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 shows you how to purchase the right tools, estimate start-up costs, price services, and stay profitable once in business. He even offers tips for surfing the Internet to obtain valuable resources and marketing your landscaping services on the Net.From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, his step-by-step methods are practical, innovative, and easy to understand. (7 1/4 x 9 1/4, 336 pages, profit-and-loss worksheet, site inspection and bid worksheet, sample bid, tips on effective selling, equipment and materials loading lists, sample employee skills test, charts)

Santa Barbara, California, resident Owen E. Dell, a licensed landscape architect and landscape contractor, has been beautifying yards for almost thirty years. An award-winning garden designer, his gardens have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, California Landscape, Sunset, and other publications.