Jim ran a profitable lawn mowing business for over twenty years. When he went into business with his son in 1983, there was no book, so they learned everything the hard way, through experience. After retiring in 2005, Jim wrote a guide that cuts right to the heart of the mowing business, showing you how to find customers and keep them happy, and how to operate efficiently, so you'll maximize your profits. As Jim learned, trial and error is slow and very expensive. Early on, they made the same mistakes over and over, spending whole seasons using wrong machines, pursuing wrong goals. You can follow ideas that wreck your profits, and don't even realize you're doing it! The business limps along, earning little or nothing and soon disappears. Every year, Americans spend more than $100 billion on lawn care. Jim learned to steer a healthy chunk of that money in his direction, and wants to teach you to do the same, opening the door to a lifetime of security and independence. The book is based on the combined experience of Jim and his son, a total of nearly fifty years of full-time mowing. No fantasy, no pie in the sky: Just a sharp focus on the facts and the vital questions, putting you years ahead of your competitors. No wasted time or money. The book includes a Quick Start Guide, so you'll earn maximum profits, starting on the first day.

One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold. If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many things. And one of them was Joey Pow the prizefighter. That's when my 12th summer got really interesting.

How to Start a Landscaping Business By Keith Kalfas is a Classic Struggle to victory story on how to overcome fear and self-doubt. This book is for someone stuck in a dead-end job and looking to venture out into they're first small business.

If you want to start and grow a landscaping business. If you want to demolish self-limiting beliefs and transform yourself into a warrior of a self-employed lawn & landscape contractor. This book will change your life

Presents a guide to creating a garden in such unused spaces as land beside a driveway, next to steps, or between the sidewalk and the street curb, discussing how to prepare the soil and listing the varieties of plants suitable for these conditions.

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.

With Beautiful No-Mow Yards, you can transform your lawn into a livable garden and bring nature's beauty into your life! What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself at last! In this ultimate guide to rethinking your yard, Hadden showcases dozens of inspiring, eco-friendly alternatives to that demanding (and dare we say boring?) green turf. Trade your lawn for a lively prairie or replace it with a runoff-reducing rain garden. Swap it for an interactive adventure garden or convert it to a low-maintenance living carpet.