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Lawn & Garden Care Last year, Americans spent a whopping $16 billion on their lawns. Lawns in North America cover more ground than the entire state of Virginia. You can cash in on America's obsession with their lawns by starting your own business as a lawn care professional. You can start as an owner operator and conduct all of the work yourself. As your business grows, you can hire a few employees to help you cut lawns and build and maintain gardens. The lawn care business, however, doesn't necessarily mean you have to pick up a shovel or a rake. You can act as an agent who books lawn and garden professionals to take on particular tasks. You can develop a network of gardening professionals that specialize in a wide variety of tasks and farm them out to do the work when call come in to your home office. Of course you take a nice commission for the work. Specialties include perennial gardens, water gardens, rock gardens, herb and vegetable gardens. If you are interested in starting this type of business, it is recommended that you become familiar with types of grasses, climates, watering needs, and understand what plants work in the shade and what plants work in the sun. To be successful in your landscaping enterprise, you must understand the basics of gardening. Even if you have a green thumb, you'll probably need some guidance on running a landscaping business. "Lawn Care and Gardening: A Down to Earth Guide to the Business" by lawn and garden pro, Mickey Willis, is a great reference book to help get your business started. The book contains tons of information on running this type of business including legal requirements for running the business, the essentials of a simple bookkeeping system, tips on how to come up with an estimate, how to build a base of satisfied customers, and more. To get a copy of this book, check out www.Amazon.com. The price is $22.95. |