Have access to job bid prices, going rates in use by professional lawn care, landscaping construction prices, LCO's, and Solo Operators for landscape construction installs, lawn care, mowing, weeding, planting shrubs & trees, mulch jobs, hardscapes, chemicals, seeding, cleanups, grounds maintenance, edging, pruning, trimming, fertilizing, lawn renovations, landscape makeover & improvement construction projects, hourly rates, snow plowing, sprinkler systems, tree care, many other services.

" BEST SELLING " JOB ESTIMATING SYSTEM has everything you need to evaluate your jobs, do estimates, write job site specifications, know work hours required, know what price to charge. You'll get bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get overhead costs, materials costs, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, estimates, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to figure every job for total work hours required, the price to charge for the job, the profit you'll make, best crew size, job costs. You'll also get add-on service check lists to help you maximize sales by upselling customers by suggesting additional property improvements.

Keeping labor costs under control is the key to making more money ... Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time - studied labor hours data for landscaping job cost, and grounds maintenance jobs. You'll know how long the work will take, job cost, easily determine best crew size, set realistic daily labor goals for employees. In use by Professional Landscapers, LCO's, Solo Outfits, Lawn Care, Park Departments, College Campuses, Universities, School Athletic Sports Fields, and Facility Grounds Maintenance Managers nationwide ---> The #1 " Best Selling " Job Labor Hours Estimates Reference Tool in the Lawn & Landscape Industry.

Start Up Lawn Care and Landscape Business Kit has everything needed to go into lawn care, grounds maintenance, landscape business off the ground fast, and making money. Includes a lawn care business plan, advertising methods, all job pricing info needed, all forms, contracts, job estimates systems, costs, lawn care job bidding estimating, job specs, estimating kit, lawn care, landscape labor hours data, lawn care price bids lists , lawn care business forms, advertising & marketing strategies for residential, commercial lawn care jobs bids, job costs, employee training, management methods, and proven keys to success.

MONEY MAKING IDEAS - Discover 75 of the Easiest Ways To Make Money Off Season. 100% Guaranteed Proven Money Makers! For Lawn Care Service Business, Landscaping, Mowing Contractors, Landscape, Grounds Maintenance, Mower, Equipment Dealers, Irrigation, Hardscape Site Managers, Crew Leaders, Foremen, LCO's, Solo Lawn Outfits, Key Employees, Municipalities, Tree Care, Nursery, Garden Centers, Construction

RECESSION PROOF YOUR BUSINESS - Discover the " DIVERSIFIED INCOME SYSTEM " that's recession proof, provides you with steady, diversified, dependable cash flow. For Landscape, Lco's, grounds maintenance, irrigation contractors, nurserymen, snow plowing operators, green industry. The right strategies for companies who want to diversify income flows and not put all their eggs in one basket. Diversified streams of income for lawn care providers, landscape contractors, LCO's, growth, profits for all green industry related companies.

Book explains how to find key contacts, estimate, bid the work, locating lawn and landscape property accounts that offer good profits, and long term customer retention, opportunity to build substantial sales volumes over a short period of time. Contracts can vary from a few thousand dollars upwards to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and unlike homeowners who can sometimes limit the services of a mowing contractor for example, the commercial customer often depends on their service provider to deliver a wide range of landscaping and grounds maintenance work on a year-round schedule.

Some LCO's make plenty of money mowing lawns while others lose their shirts! Commercial Lawn mowing is about 50% of the total sales for most commercial lawn mowing maintenance contracts, therefore maximizing sales and increasing profts is important for most grounds care customer contracts. Maximizing Profits in Mowing covers all the key factors for better lawn mowing profits, mowing bids, estimates, best lawn mowing crew size, estimating the jobs, selecting the right lawn mowers for maximizing production, setting work quotas for mowing that can be accomplished on any given day of mowing a commercial or residential lawn route. How to avoid lawn mowing scheduling problems around the weather, balancing lawn mowing crews for maximum effectiveness. This book will help you mobilize your lawn and grounds maintenance employees to work as a team and accomplish the daily mowing goals assigned to them.

Complete guide to the snow plowing business. Includes job estimates bidding methods, costs of snow plowing operations, scheduling the plowing routes, snow plowing truck production by size. How to maximize snow plowing and ice control revenues, and how much to charge for your services. Shows how long it takes to plow, sand, salt. Shows billing by the storm, per push, by the inch, fixed price annual contracts, hourly and by subcontract. How to manage a snow storm, plowing trucks, snow plow maintenace, employee training, maintenance checklists, contract writeup, what to include for job specifications terminology, complete snow plowing bid proposal package, winter season contract language, best ways to sell snow plowing services, documenting a snow storm, dealing with damage claims, pricing, estimates . . . everything!

Our Complete Operations Management System (C.O.M.S.) is the most complete, comprehensive, professional landscape business training available and the lowest in cost. Shows you what it takes to make money, where most landscapers go wrong, and guides you past the obstacles. You'll get professional instruction in the five key areas of business operations critical to success in the landscape industry. Advertising, Job Bids, Operations, Estimates, Management, Labor & Employees.

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Price Your Job Bids Right - See what other landscapers are bidding for Landscaping installations, design fees, Lawn Care Chemicals, crew rates, Commercial Grounds Maintenance, site work, sprinkler repairs, landscape lighting, Mowing bids, Mulching, Weeding, Edging, stone, shrub beds, Fertlizer, Chemical Applications, Grub, insect control, Hardscaping labor prices, Snow Plowing Bids, Tree Care, and Many Others.

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You'll Get All The Jobs Sales Leads You Can Handle using Our New, Proven Advertising & Marketing Strategies. Unique marketing methods shows you how to get new lawn mowing & landscape, hardscape, commercial snow customers, get results without spending a lot on advertising! You'll beat your competition using our attention getting marketing strategies. Includes Job Price Lists forms.

Our Business Plan is specially designed for Lawn & Landscape Companies. It's fast and easy to prepare. It has time saving fill in the blanks form for your sales plan - advertising plan - production plan - job specs - your profit plan, and business success management plan. Includes a FREE Primer on How To Start & Finance Your Business.

Written By Nilsson Associates "Best Selling Authors" and Nationally Recognized Landscape Lawn Care Consultants Since 1975 - Your #1 source to Start - manage - grow - learn job estimating - contracts, operations - pricing jobs - sales - job costs

Discover a New, Easier, Time Saving way to price your jobs, check your costs, prices. Know what other Professionals charge. Compare your prices with industry averages, and going rates for Pricing: Landscape Trees, Plants, Grading, Filling, sodding, stone pavers, lawn care, turf removal, ground covers, Lawn Care Renovation, Spring, makeovers, Fall Cleanups, Grounds Maintenance, Hardscaping, Snow Plowing, Tree Care Services, Many Other Green Industry Services. Check our Price Lists to make sure you're not a lowballer with your prices and losing money.

With our system you'll bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, proposal forms, and learn how to take the guesswork out of job bidding.

Labor Time Data Handbook - Shows LCO's How Long Jobs Take - Covers over 500 jobs for lawn care, mowing, landscaping, grounds maintenance, hardscaping, tree, snow plowing, irrigation, many other jobs. Used for job estimating, learn pricing, labor hours job costing, labor budgets, plan, assign, schedule the work by hours needed, establish job time goals, track and measure employee performance, job costs and profits.

See what other Professional Landscapers charge with Nilsson Price Guides. Compare your prices, Don't chance throwing away potential profits! Before you finalize your bid price, check our price lists of the going rates. See if your prices are in line with current industry averages.

Easily calculate commercial landscape construction labor costs, overhead cost rate to your landscape site construction, trucking, materials, horticulture, grounds maintenance, job bidding & pricing estimates program.

No more trying to find the right words to explain, outline and describe your commercial landscape contracts or grounds maintenance contracts, landscaping job bids specifications. This book contains hundreds of samples of lawn specs - landscape specs - grounds maintenance bid specifications of contract bid spec language that fits any bidding situation.

Landscape Contract forms, contract terms, work specifications, estimate forms, bids, cost data, price data.

Subcontracting the Work - This book shows & tells everything you ever wanted to learn and need to know about subcontracting your work to others and being a subcontractor to others.

See what other landscapers are currently charging for landscape installations, lawn chemicals, mulching, sports field mowing, cemetery mowing, mowing parks, weeding, edging, fall cleanups, grounds maintenance contracts, hardscaping, irrigation, snow plowing, tree care, many others. Check our Price Lists to make sure you're not a lowballer with your prices and losing money. Available at nilssonbooks.com.

VIDEO in SPANISH for Hispanic, latino, Bilingual Employees covers commercial lawn mowing grounds maintenance, walk-behinds, riders, string trimming, bak pak use, weeding, edging, bed work, cleanups, safety, equipment maintenance, 30 minute video.

BOOK in SPANISH trains ENTRY LEVEL, Hispanic, Latino and bilingual employees, covers work methods, materials, tools, equip, safety, vehicle use, hazardous substances, attire, customer relations, lawn & landscaping work terms and definitions.

BOOK in SPANISH Trains Crew Leader/Foreman, Hispanic and Bilingual covers task management, work planning, Equip maint, quality control, goal attainment. Learn how to win respect, cooperation from peers.

BOOK in SPANISH covers installing and pruning shrubs, trees. Shows how, when, why to prune. Explains tools, preventing damage, planting methods, staking, mulching, transporting stock, thinning, forming, shaping, pinching, best times to prune and plant.

El trabajo de siega del césped de las cubiertas, plantas, flores, podando, trimmimg, pone a tierra las limpiezas, el barrer del pavimento

Para El Cuidado Del Césped Que mantiene, Paisajistas, Argumentos, Encargados Del Sitio, Parques, Curso Del Golf para el servicio del cuidado del césped, los paisajistas, facilidad ponen a tierra a gerencia, estudiantes de la horticultura.

For nearly a quarter century, Hispanic Business Inc. has given a voice to the vibrant and fast-growing U.S. Hispanic community.

See what other Landscapers are bidding and charging for planting trees, installing shrubs, planting flowers, weeding bed work, retaining walls, installing sod, installing seed, hydroseeding, slit seeding, mulching, ground covers, grading, filling, drainage, landscape lighting, lawn turf renovation and repair. Check our Price Lists to make sure you're not lowballing your prices and losing money.

Landscape Cost Data - Labor Work Hours - Shows how long jobs take for landscape design build labor cost data inputs, job cost, pricing & estimating bidding - based on labor time studies, best commercial production cost methods, labor cost, selling price, job labor costs for lawn care service, landscapers, LCO, hardscapers, facility grounds management, horticulture students. Used for Starting, Estimating, Bidding, Costing, Pricing Residential & Commercial Lawn & Landscape Jobs & Contracts

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#1 Best Selling Job Estimating System saves time, easy to use, proven accuracy, guaranteed to increase profits. You'll know how much you'll make on each job. You'll know what your "walkaway price" is with each bid. #1 Top Selling System in the landscape business. Thousands sold nationwide.

C.O.M.S. is the most effective system to start or improve your maintenance business. The step-by-step instruction you will receive with our program is affordable, highly focused methods and maintenance training that really works! You'll save years of costly trial and error, and reach your goals faster. In a matter of a few short weeks you'll be making money and prepared to succeed in your own landscape maintenance business.

Pricing Your Services - Never under price your work again! You'll know true cost as basis for your price. Includes bidding formulas, overhead, profit potential, pricing methods. How to avoid losing money on low priced jobs. Discover the highest price you can get, save time preparing bids. No guesswork or second thoughts when you use this system.

Estimating System enables you to correctly cost out lawn care maintenance and landscape work and how many hours the total job will take using The Labor Time Data Handbook included with the system. You'll have a wide range of work specifications forms to word your contracts and job proposals and write professionally worded maintenance & landscape job specifications. You''ll learn how to bid on a wide variety of grounds maintenance and landscape install projects, get tips on how reach and sell grounds maintenance and landscape installs to commercial & residential customers , what to charge for the work. The Labor Time Data Handbook which shows the amount of time it will take to complete hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks and landscape installation work, and also mowing, lawn care, fertilizing, landscaping, snow plowing, lawn irrigation systems, planting grass, shrub beds, maintaining and planting trees, and hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks in general.

Our New Business Start-Up Package has everything you need to get your business off the ground and headed in the right direction. Includes a complete business plan, hundreds of tips and techniques for advertising and selling your services to get residential and commercial customers. You'll understand how to bid jobs, price the work, manage your business and make money on every job you get. Using the Labor Time Data Handbook you'll know how long the jobs will take (essential to contracting) and set labor goals based on field tested labor hours. You get complete job bid outlines, forms, contract samples, scheduling formats, cost examples, equipment lists, and reminder checklists for upselling other services. You get a special book just for mowing and how to make the most money from it. You'll learn how to evaluate every job for profit potential, best crew size, best production methods to use to save time, cost examples, equipment needed, and profits to expect. Your #1 resource to start - manage - grow - learn job estimating - operations - pricing - sales - costs

Advertising And Marketing Your Services - This primer on advertising covers a lot of ground when it comes to taking the "mystery" out of this important subject. It covers how to write ad copy, design brochures, using logos, pitch lines, image, mission statements, best methods, time proven techniques, timing releases, publicity, four basic rules to follow. . .no matter what, looking professional, checklist of markets, ad samples, and avoiding the "look alike" approach. Attention getters and those ugly "turnoffs". Selling To Commercial Customers - Selling to commercial requires a different approach to finding key contacts, bidding the work, locating accounts that offer high profits. Explains professional image, getting long term contracts vital to success, how to sustain customer loyalty, how to close the sale. Selling To Residential Customers - Explains least costly, most effective advertising, services and upsells to offer, getting the appointment, projecting a professional image. How to overcome price objections, close a sale, and build a loyal customer following. Why homeowners will or will not buy from you. Includes complete set of contracts, work proposal and scheduling forms.

#1 Best Selling Books with over 25,000 customers nationwide. Nilsson Associates Specializes in - Lawn - Landscape - Pricing - Estimating - Bidding - Costs - Books - Accounts - Job Bids - Contracts - Advertising - Management - Customers - Sales - Operations - Business Plans - Profit - Growth - Employee Training

Our New Business Start-Up Package has everything you need to get your business off the ground FAST ... get residential & commercial customers and make money. Includes job estimating and pricing info you need, business plan, hundreds of ideas to get lawn, landscape, hardscape, snow plowing customers and beat the competition.

Winter Income Off Season- This book is packed with surefire ways to make money. You'll turn down time into added income. and the good news is that most of them require very little investment.

Grounds Maintenance Manual - A complete guide to maintenance contracting. How to sell services, bid jobs, assign crews, control the work. You'll get bid outlines, scheduling formats, cost calculations, checklists for year round services. You'll learn how to evaluate every site for profit potential, pinpoint best crew size, control costs, and know what profits to expect on a daily basis.

Maximizing Profits In Mowing - Mowing is 50% of most contracts. Covers key factors for better profits, best crew size, selecting the right mowers, setting work quotas, scheduling problems. Mobilize your people to work as a team!

Selling To Commercial Customers requires a different approach to finding key contacts, bidding the work, finding accounts that offer high profits. Explains how to get long term contracts, how to sustain customer loyalty, how to close the sale.

Video Tape - Lawn & Landscape Maintenance Basic Training - 30 minute video covers all the basics of landscape maintenance including general work standards, lawn mowing operations using walk-behinds and riders, string trimmer use, back pack blowing, spraying & weeding, equipment use, edging, bed maintenance, general cleanups, safety gear, operating procedures, and equipment maintenance pre-checks. (1 Tape Series)

Customer Retention is key to growth. Use these methods and you'll spend less time trying to find new customers and keep those you have. Explores what customers want and how to keep customers happy.

How To Write Effective Sales Letters - You'll never be lost for the right words with this sample pack of sales letters designed for the landscape industry. What to say to persuade, what not to say, and why. Mechanics of the letter, the do's and don'ts, appealing to logic and emotion, best mailing methods, primer on direct mail strategies.

Keys To Motivating Employees - This book focuses on the unique challenges of motivating seasonal, temporary and key people. Discusses why some people work hard, others don't. Why a paycheck alone is a poor motivator. Tactics to use in your company to promote team players, and get better production.

This book trains new hires & seasonal help and avoids you having to explain the basics over and over each season. It covers materials, commonly used tools, equipment, safety, vehicle use, hazardous substances, work practices, attire, customer relations, personal behavior, has landscape industry terms and definitions, and question/answer review.

Video Tape - Spanish Version Lawn & Landscape Maintenance Employees Basic Training - 30 minute video covers all the basics of landscape maintenance including general work standards, mowing operations using walk-behinds and riders, string trimmer use, back pack blowing, spraying & weeding, equipment use, edging, bed maintenance, general cleanups, safety gear, operating procedures, and equipment maintenance pre-checks. (1 Tape Series)

Crew Leader Training - Landscapers Overcome the difficulty of unsupervised jobs. Train your workers to accept responsibility and you'll probably increase business. This is a step-by-step approach designed for the employee with little or no supervisory experience. Covers task management, lawn, landscape, hardscape, what owners need from crew leaders, how to win respect and get cooperation from peers, planning the work, getting it done! Overseeing the equipment, goal setting, Question/Answer review.

Training In Pruning And Planting - Covers everything employees need to properly install and prune shrubs and trees. Shows how, when, why to prune. Explains the tools, how to prevent damage, planting methods, staking and guying, mulching, transporting stock, thinning, forming, shaping, and pinching. Best times to prune flowering species. Question/Answer review.

How To Grow Your Business - Growth means higher sales levels, more employees & equipment, more debt, higher accounts receivables, larger facilities. Know what to expect at each stage of growth with this behind the scenes look. Covers growth plans, profit outcomes, key systems for control, maintaining job quality, delegating to others, keeping track of production, how to finance the larger operation.

The 7 Keys To Business Success - This guide explains the reasons why some businesses do well, while others just seem to scrape by. The focus is on common traits, attitudes, winning strategies that if ignored, lead to disappointing results. You'll reprogram yourself to use the seven principles, recognize the danger signals, identify obstacles to overcome.

Nilsson Associates Specializes in - Lawn - Landscape - Pricing - Estimating - Bidding - Costs - Books - Accounts - Job Bids - Contracts - Advertising - Management - Customers - Sales - Operations - Business Plans - Profit - Growth - Employee Training. Your #1 resource to start - manage - grow - learn job estimating - operations - pricing - sales - costs