This authoritative handbook will tell you how to:

• Start your landscaping business now with a minimum investment.
• Decide if you would make a good landscaper.
• Run a successful landscaping business from your home.
• Write your own business plan.
• Define your specialty and attract clients.
• Work effectively with subcontractors.
• Deal with taxes, zoning, and insurance.
• Manage your cash flow.
• Balance work life with home life.
• Screen and hire employees . . . and more

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based landscaping business? Have you ever been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you will need to launch and grow your business.

Author Owen Dell, a successful home-based landscaper, shares his experience and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based landscaping business. He will show you how to purchase the right tools, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you're in business. From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, his step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand.

Whether you want to earn your living maintaining lawns and gardens or creating beautiful landscapes for homes and businesses, with this guide at your side you may soon experience the satisfaction of building your own home-based business.

KUDOS FROM BOOK REVIEWS & OUR READERS

"I recently finished your book and I wanted to say thank you. I am starting a business this spring, and I really do feel I have an edge over anyone else that intends to get into the business. The book has helped me in countless ways and I feel as though I won't go to a job without it (at least for a while). I am in the planning process right now, focusing on maintenance for at least the first few years. I have been working in the business on-and-off for six years and combined with reading your book, I feel I have a solid grasp on just about everything."

James Thornton Jr.
Thornton Landscaping
New York

Peter L. Ottes
Peter's Lawn Maintenance

"Your book is an excellent read so far. Your insight into the profession of landscape maintenance, contracting and architecture obviouly comes from the numerous years of practical application. I certainly appreciate and applaud your efforts, knowing just how much work it takes to run a business, let alone turn a profit and have some fun at the same time."

Timothy F. Pruss
Landscape Architect

"This authoritative handbook is written by a knowledgeable person who opened a landscaping business. (He is a Southern Californian, too.) It covers every aspect of the business from buying tools through obtaining permits and keeping required records. I was particularly impressed with sample worksheets, bid forms, invoices, and statements. The book is readable and to the point. It is well indexed so you can find topics easily. If you have been thinking about using your love of plants and the outdoors in a landscape business, this is the book to read before you make a final decision."

- from California Garden Magazine

"Successful landscape architect, contractor, and award-winning garden designer Owen E. Dell has created a down-to-earth and informative guide to setting up and running your own landscaping business. Written in an engaging, readable style, How To Start A Home Based Landscaping Business (The Globe Pequot Press, Old Saybrook, CT) details everything, from deciding to quit your day job and start your own business, to dealing with sub-contractors and knowing what supplies you'll need to protect your knees and hands when planting trees and shrubs."

- from Landscape & Nursery Digest

"We applaud Dell's no-nonsense attitude, since it could save a wanna-be professional landscaper a lot of grief a little way down the line...whether you decide that you love or hate Dell's message, checking it out is well worth the money and time."

- from HortIdeas Magazine

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