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lbtcadmin
11-03-2007, 09:48 PM
Lawn Care Business Course
Lawn & Landscape Business Training Centers
Sponsored by Nilsson Associates Green Industry Consultants
www.lawncarebusinesstrainingcenter.com (http://www.lawncarebusinesstrainingcenter.com/) www.landscapebusinesstrainingcenter.com (http://www.landscapebusinesstrainingcenter.com/)


Welcome to the Lawn Care & Landscape Business Training Centers where you can learn a new and exciting career or start a business in the Green Industry. The State of the Lawn & Landscape Industry is such that thousands of new businesses are started each year to satisfy the demand for new housing construction for a growing population. This offers an opportunity to become self employed, build a business, a future, and grow a business in a career field that is likely to remain strong and continue expansion for many years to come. Good incomes are possible from self employment within the Green Industry. The profit level you reach is up to you but many report personal take home pays from self employed income of $50,000 to $100,000 a year and for those who are ambitious income levels over $250,000 a year are doable and not out of the question for those company owners who do millions is gross sales volumes.

Nilsson Associates Landscape Industry Consultants has career and business startup and development training websites that can help you enter the landscape industry. We provide information in both Spanish and English, and if you're like most of our visitors:

You want professional help to solve business problems.
You want the finest information available to build your business.
You want to buy the right equipment, and avoid making costly mistakes.
You want to get ahead fast, start making money NOW, not 10 years from now.

Since 1975, Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants and nationally known "Best Selling Authors" have been The Nation's Leaders in lawn and landscape business training. We can help you start or improve your business. We have the information you need to operate your commercial lawn care service or landscape business and make it a success. You'll have access to professional level advice, and proven business solutions that you can put to work immediately to improve your lawn care or landscape operation.

Nilsson Associates is a name you know and trust ...
Over 25,000 landscapers coast to coast have used our profit building resources to create wealth, and build financial independence. For over two decades we've been helping landscapers succeed and served the leading national trade association as their designated business advisors. During that process we earned the credentials and developed the resources and know-how to help you make money. We offer business training books, tapes, videos, consulting services, software, and Nilsson's "best selling" job estimating books and a Complete Operations Management System for starting, growing, and managing a lawn care service or landscape business.

20% of landscapers could be making more money ! ...
Learning from the mistakes of others is wise. It can make all the difference in the Landscape Industry where over 70% fail and another 20% could be making more money! A Dun & Bradstreet survey showed 90 percent of all small business failures can be traced back to poor management, lack of planning or under capitalization.

Since 1975 Nilsson Associates has helped landscapers make money. We'll show you where the others went wrong,and guide you past the obstacles they failed to overcome. The end result means higher than average earnings for you, and a business that's easier to run. You'll have the best training materials and FREE advice from Nilsson Associates, industry experts who are committed to your success.

Nilsson Business Training Centers:
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www.landscapebusinesstrainingcenter.com (http://www.landscapebusinesstrainingcenter.com/)
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www.treecarebusinesstrainingcenter.com (http://www.treecarebusinesstrainingcenter.com/)

lbtcadmin
05-31-2008, 04:07 PM
FREE Job Pricing Guides

Nilsson Associates - Toll Free 866-280-2252 - www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)


Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) makes it faster and easier for you to price lawn care, grounds maintenance, and landscape installation projects. The Price List serves as a quick job price reference tool when you're not sure what to charge, and as a valuable resource to compare your prices with landscape industry averages. You'll have a way to check your price before making your final pricing decision and submitting your bid to your customer.

The Job Prices are from surveys conducted nationwide by Nilsson Associates. Survey participants names and locations are confidential, and not available. Nilsson's Price Guides include job specifications, work descriptions, quantities, A to Z individual services price lists, price ranges, and price averages of what contractors are currently charging for the work categories below:

Includes
Job Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Cement Curbing Installation
Cement Borders Installed
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Drain Gutters Installed
Drain Gutter Screening
Edging Walks
Edging Beds
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Firewood Cords
Firewood Bundles
Firewood Delivery
Flower Installations Flats
Flower Pots
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Ground Covers - Plants
Ground Covers Mulch
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Rates lawn care
Hourly Rates - Landscape
Hourly Rates Landscape design
Hourly Rates Plowing
Hydroseeding of lawns
Hydroseeding Preparation
Hydroseeding Materials
Install Sod
Install Shrubs
Install Trees
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & beds
Irrigation Winterize
Irrigation Repair Rates
Irrigation Controllers
Landscape Designs - designing computer image landscapes
Landscape Lighting Installations
Landscape Lighting Fixtures
Landscape Floodlights
Landscape Solar Lighting
Landscape Grading
Landscape Installations lawns, shrubs, plants & trees
Lawn Aeration Spike
Lawn Aeration Cores
Lawn Care Service Chemical Applications Fertilizers Weed Controls
Lawn Chemical Applications
Lawns Fertilized
Lawn Mowing Riders
Lawn Mowing Walkbehinds
Lawn Mowing Trim
Lawn Weed Treatments
Lawn Treatment Programs
Lawn Chemical Prices - Acre, Square Foot
Lawn Grub Control Apps
Lawn Insecticide
Lawn Renovations - Slit Seeding, Reseeding, Elimination of Growth
Liquid Applications of Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing with walkbehinds
Mowing with ztrs
Mowing with riding mowers
Mowing with trim mowers
Mowing Residential
Mowing Commercial
Mowing Condominium
Mowing Sports Fields
Mowing Cemeteries
Mulch Installs
Mulch pine bark mulch
Mulch pine needles
Mulch Spraying
Organic Lawn Care of lawns
Organic Lawn Programs
Parking Lot Line Marking
Parking Lot Sweeping of sand and debris
Paving Installations and hardscapes
Pavers Stone
Pavers Concrete
Pavement Sweeping
Pavement and litter control
Pavement line marking
Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs,
Pruning trees
Pruning ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls Installed of wood, stone
Retaining Walls Timbers
Roto Tilling turf, soil, lawns
Roto Tilling gardens
Salting Roads
Salting Walks
Sanding Roads
Sanding Walks
Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
Seeding lawns
Seeding wildflowers
Site Work of grading, hauling, rock removal prior to seeding
Slit Seeding of lawns
Slit Seeders
Snow Plowing Prices
Snow Plowing and ice control
Snow Removal
Snow Plowing Driveways
Snow Plowing Hourly Rates
Snow Plowing By The Inch
Snow Plowing By The Storm
Snow Plowing Fixed Seasonal Rates
Snow Shoveling
Snow Blowing Walks & Driveways
Sod Installations on lawns
Sod Rolls Installed
Sodding from Pallets
Spraying Lawns
Spraying Weeds
Spraying Shrubs
Spraying Trees
Spraying Curb Lines
Spring Cleanups of lawns, beds and paved areas
Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
String Trimming Lawns
String Trimming Edging
String Trimming Obstacles
String Trimming Trees
Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trimming Shrubs
Trimming Trees
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Turf Installs
Turf Removal
Turf Repairs
Underpricing Mowing
Underpricing landscapes
Underpricing grounds maintenance
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weeding shrub beds
Weeds in lawns
Weeding Pavement
Weeding Parking Lot Curbs

For more information click here: Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)




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Other
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Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
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New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)


Nilsson's Price Guidelines are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be.

Background & References
Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America. Our Learning Systems are endorsed by the leading Industry Associations, by the Horticultural Departments at Ohio State University, The University of Tennessee, The University of Georgia, and in use by thousands of Landscape Contractors, Lawn Service Companies, Property Managers, Government Facilities, Park Departments and Municipalities nationwide.

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.

Information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)

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