Lawn Care Job Time - Labor Hours Study

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Labor Time Data Handbook
The #1 " Best Selling " Job Labor Hours Estimates Reference Tool in the Lawn & Landscape Industry

by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants

www.nilssonbooks.com

For:
Landscaping Contractors
Lawn Care Service Providers
Parks & Recreation Managers
Snow Removal & Plowing Contractors

Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating and calculating labor time man hours for facility managers, parks and recreation departments, campus grounds, schools and university grounds. Bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance by contractors and facility managers, parks, campus grounds functions and sports complex maintenance. For Green Industry Job Bidding, Pricing, Profits, Estimating Irrigation and Hardscape Jobs and for use in non-profit situations where budgeting labor hours, scheduling the work and determining total employee production man hours is desired.
These methods of collecting information was the basis for creating my Labor Time Data Handbook of Standard Work Times of man hours needed to perform the work. Included in my time study was all sorts of grounds maintenance and landscaping installation tasks and work that is normally done by landscaping and lawn care service companies. I timed things like Mowing, edging, trimming, pruning, snow plowing, ice control, tree planting, mulch, aeration, slit seeding, shrub beds, hardscapes, blowing leaves, lawn chemical applications, spring and fall cleanups, seed, installing sod, water gardening, flowers, and over 500 common job tasks to numerous to mention. I timed the different work tasks using many different types and sizes of power equipment was used during the timing trials for edger, trimmers, riding mower, walkbehind, weed eater, tractor, ztr, chainsaws, loaders, trucks, trailers, sprayers, hydroseeders, spreaders and the usual equipment of running a green industry company.

Labor Time Data
Table of Contents:
Introduction
How To Bid Contracts
Knowing The Scope of the Work
A Few Words About Profits
Units of Work
Service Frequency
Labor Times:
Aerification
Back Pack Spraying
Blowing
Cleanups
Dethatching
Edging
Grading
Granular Applications
Hydroseeding
Installing Flowers
Installing Pavers
Line Marking
Liquid Applications
Loading
Mowing
Mulching
Pavement Sweeping
Planting Shrubs & Trees
Pruning
Raking
Sanding & Salting
Seeding
Snow Blowing
Snow Plowing
Sodding
Staking & Guying
Stump Grinding
Trimming
Watering
Weeding
Reference Section:
Annual Sales Statistics
Calculating Equipment Costs
Employee Productivity
Fertilizer Recommendations
Mowing Height Recommendations
Grounds Maintenance Statistics
Labor Management
Landscape Construction Estimating
Non-Productive Time Cost Worksheet
Tables & Measures
MIscellaneous Formulas
Financial Formulas

How to order
Labor Time Data Handbook
Written by Nilsson Associates
Book # A-7, Price $69.50
To order online Click Here:

To order by phone call Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Other resources:
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package

FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package

Complete Operations Management System

Nilsson's Job Estimating System has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate 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 on additional property improvements.

Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants and nationally known "Best Selling Authors" has the information you need to operate your lawn care service or landscape business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Resources Available in The Green Industry on the internet. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage, operate and grow your business.

FREE Job Pricing Guidelines are available from Nilsson Associates to help you avoid overpricing and not getting any work or underpricing and not making a profit. You'll see what other landscapers charge and use these prices as a starting point to developing your own prices. You can keep your business small or grow it each year. It's up to you how far you go. Some are just interested in mowing lawns as a service, then add on pruning, planting, trimming, shrubs, trees, plowing snow, and getting into job bidding, estimating and pricing grounds maintenance, landscape installations, hardscapes, patios, retaining walls and waterscapes. We also offer extensive advice about Sales and Advertising Methods.

No mattter what services you want to offer, we have the technical and managment information you need that will save you time and money getting started. Take a look at our extensive line of books, audios and videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associates Home Page and scroll down the left side of the home page to locate the business problem you want a solution to. The index includes all these categories dealing with just about all lawn care, the best mowers, how to maximize profits in mowing, job bidding and pricing , what equipment to buy, lawns, grass, chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, landscape company operations, irrigation, snow plowing, planting, pavement services and many others.

The instruction you will receive And ... The ongoing personal support from Industry Experts is the Best Professional Management & Ownership Training Program in the Industry. With us assisting you every step of the way, your business will be up and running fast, making money, organized to win, separate itself from the competition, and on the "Path To A Rewarding Future."

Nilsson Associates Covers all this information: how to Operate your business, how to hire Employees, how to Manage your company, the best ways to Advertise to get Sales and everything there is to know about Job Bidding and Pricing ... Advertising methods to get customers fast with little or no money ... Bidding Jobs to make the most profit ... Business Growth - the safe way .... Business Plans made simple, easy and effective ... Commercial customers and how to get the large contracts ... Company Policy for better employee motivationEstimating and controlling costs ... Customers - how to get them and keep them long term ... Job Specs, Labor Time Data, Pricing Formulas ... Sales, Sales Letters and Sales Skills ... Snow Removal, Subcontracting, Winter Income.

Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
374 Hart Street
Southington, CT 06489
Toll Free 866-280-2252

www.nilssonbooks.com
email nilsson.assoc@snet.net

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FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES

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FREE Job Pricing Guides

Nilsson Associates - Toll Free 866-280-2252 - www.nilssonbooks.com

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides 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
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



Other
resources:

Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package

Complete Operations Management System


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

Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
374 Hart Street
Southington, CT 06489
Toll Free 866-280-2252
www.nilssonbooks.com

email nilsson.assoc@snet.net

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Lawn Care Pricing and Pricing Landscape Jobs

Phil Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants
nilssonbooks.com

Lawn Care & Landscape Pricing for green industry contractors has gotten a lot easier with the help of the FREE Job Pricing Guidelines published by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Price Guidelines are FREE to book customers at Nilsson's website and covers an extensive line of service prices for lawn care, landscaping, job bidding & estimating landscaping installations, hardscaping bids, snow plowing, tree care, and grounds maintenance for commercial & residential lawn customers.

The Job Pricing Guidelines shows current prices in use for hundreds of work items. You name it and you'll see it priced in these lawn and landscape business price guidelines. It's designed for use by professional landscapers, lawn care, all green industry people involved in job estimating, job cost and lawn and landscape jobs from around the United States.

The prices used in the Job Pricing Guidelines are compiled and updated from Nilsson's book customers surveys chosen from various regions of the country from Phil Nilsson's book customer list of over 25,000 landscapers in the U.S. and conducted each year by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants
According to Nilsson Associates, new start up lawn services businesses and industry veterans alike, often lose sight or are unaware of current market pricing patterns and some just starting in the business have no idea what to charge to cover costs and allow a profit. The guides are best used as starting points to help avoid pricing too low or too high, so as to remain competitive with others. Pricing information is crucial to business survival, staying competitive and remaining profitable.

Nilsson's FREE Job Pricing 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.

Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
374 Hart Street
Southington, CT 06489
Toll Free 866-280-2252
www.nilssonbooks.com

email nilsson.assoc@snet.net

FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES

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Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating. Bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance. Book # A-7, Price $69.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Winter Income Producers - This book is jam packed with surefire ways to make money. You'll turn down time into added income. You'll get 75 ways. There's something for everyone. Pick a method that satisfies your off season needs. No matter where you live, no matter what your specialty within the landscape industry, you'll find something of interest. I guarantee it. Book # B-7, Price $49.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Grounds Maintenance Manual - A complete guide to maintenance. 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 to expect on a daily basis. Book # C-1, Price $49.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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Maintenance Estimating Kit - This kit has everything you need when you visit a site to get an estimate. Working from a model spec. it takes you step by step. Assesses the model, finds the price, prepares the model bid, writes the proposal, along with cover letter and outline of the work. Book # C-21, Price $32.50
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Maximizing Profits In Mowing - Some people make plenty of money mowing, while others lose their shirts! 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! Book # C-6, Price $24.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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. Book # B-2, Price $39.50
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The Art Of Selling - Good sales people aren't born that way. Learn the secrets of successful sales people and find out what you are doing wrong. Sales will increase when you've mastered the skills of selling, using tie downs, why customers buy, what will make you stand out from the others. Book # B-13, Price $19.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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Writing Your Company Policy Manual - You'll save time using this fill in the blanks format to create your own policy manual. Copy it, customize it to fill your needs. Includes owner's message to employees, sequence of info, the do's and don'ts of making promises, a benefits checklist and how to word them. Book # G-2, Price $19.50
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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 to promote team players, get better production, and create interest in a job where none exists. Book # G-4, Price $19.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Entry Level Training - Landscapers - 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, terms and definitions, and question/answer review. Book # ET-1, Price $42.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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Training In Pruning And Planting - Covers everything workers need to know 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. Book # ET-4, Price $34.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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All About Direct Mail Advertising - Direct mail is one of the most effective ways to get customers because it's one-on-one. It doesn't compete with the other ads. This book outlines the 7 cardinal rules to success and shows you how to use them. Direct mail works if you do it right! Specifically written for the green industry, this book gets you started in the right direction. Book # B-11, Price $34.50
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The Snow Removal Business - A complete guide to just about everything there is to know about winter maintenance. Bidding, costing, scheduling, how to maximize revenues, manage a storm, vehicle maintenance, bid proposal package, contract language, selling the services, documenting a storm, dealing with damage claims, pricing the work . . .everything! Book # C-8, Price $39.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Business Plan Workbook - Specifically designed for landscape companies and divided into three sections that form a master business plan model. Contains fill in the blanks sections question and answer review to form a Sales Plan, Production Plan and Management Plan for your company. Book # E-1 $39.50To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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. Book #E-1, Price $39.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

AUDIO TAPE- The Winners Triangle - If you want to know what it takes to put together the "total company". . sales growth. . control. . good profits and winning at business, this tape helps you focus on the three qualities common to successful landscape companies that made it to the "top" of the industry. $19.50 1 Tape To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

In Spanish - Entry Level Training - Landscapers
Lawn & Landscape Employee Training Spanish Entry Level

Written in Spanish
Written in Spanish, this book trains lawn & landscape employees, new hires & seasonal help and avoids you having to explain the basics over and over each season to each new entry level employee. It covers training in lawn and landscape materials, commonly used landscape tools, lawn mowers and lawn care equipment, lawn care machinery and pesticide safety isssues, employee landscape training in and trailers vehicle use, hazardous lawn care substances, landscape work practices, lawn employee attire, customer relations, personal behavior expected of employees, A to Z lawn and landscape terms and definitions most often used in training Hispanic and Spanish Speaking employees, and question/answer review for Hispanic and Spanish Speaking employees.

Table of Contents:
The Work of Landscaping Outlined in Detail
The Work of Grounds Maintenance Outlined in Detail
Tools and Equipment Used To Accomplish The Work
Mower & Equipment Engine Maintenance & Troubleshooting
Grounds Maintenance Work Descriptions
Landscaping - Basic Work Methods
Materials, Supplies used in Lawn & Landscape Work
Quality Control, Work Expectations
Time Management, Goal Attainment
Customer Relations, Landscape Employee Behavior
Work Attire, Clothing, and Lawn Safety Issues
A to Z Index of Terms, Definitions for Landscape industry
Employee Questions for Review
Answers to Employee Questions

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Video Tape - In Spanish
Lawn Care Service & Landscape Maintenance Basic Training - for Hispanic and Spanish Speaking Employees - 30 minute video covers all the basics of lawn care, mowing, safety, landscape grounds maintenance including general lawn work standards, mowing operations using walk-behind mowers and riding mowers, string trimmer use, back pack blowing of grass, spraying & weeding lawns and beds, mowing equipment use, edging lawns and shrub beds, shrub bed maintenance, general lawn and grounds maintenance cleanups, lawn mowing safety gear, lawn service operating procedures for mowing equipment, general equipment, trailers, and working procedures, safety, and equipment maintenance pre-checks. Video tape will help you train your Spanish Speaking Hispanic Employees, assign the work, and get the job done. You can also use the Video to show and tell potential job applicants what the work will be like in advance by having them look at the training Video Tape. (1 Tape Series)
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Video Tape -In English
Lawn Care Service & Landscape Maintenance Basic Training - for Hispanic and Spanish Speaking Employees - 30 minute video covers all the basics of lawn care, mowing, safety, landscape grounds maintenance including general lawn work standards, mowing operations using walk-behind mowers and riding mowers, string trimmer use, back pack blowing of grass, spraying & weeding lawns and beds, mowing equipment use, edging lawns and shrub beds, shrub bed maintenance, general lawn and grounds maintenance cleanups, lawn mowing safety gear, lawn service operating procedures for mowing equipment, general equipment, trailers, and working procedures, safety, and equipment maintenance pre-checks. Video tape will help you train your Spanish Speaking Hispanic Employees, assign the work, and get the job done. You can also use the Video to show and tell potential job applicants what the work will be like in advance by having them look at the training Video Tape. (1 Tape Series)
To order VIDEO IN ENGLISH online Click Here:
To order by phone Call Toll Free 1-866-280-2252



Other
resources

Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines

Labor Time Data Handbook

New Business Startup Package

Complete Operations Management System

Nilsson's Job Estimating Package has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate 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 on additional property improvements. Nilsson's Job Estimating Package includes a model bid example that takes you through the entire bid process step by step from work site information gathering, cost and profit calculations based on site conditions and specifications, outlines price proposal details, and customer contract writeup along with a cover letter outlining the work. Use the bid model as your permanent estimating guide and improve the accuracy of all your bids.

The Three Problems With Job Estimating and Bidding:
1. Understanding the scope of the work how to write job specifications, how to bid, how to sell to commercial & residential, what to charge for landscape installations, lawn care, lawn mowing, mulch, spring and fall cleanups, year around contracts, writing work proposals and customer job proposals.

2. Knowing the amount of time it will take to complete the work of mowing, lawn care, fertilizing, landscaping, plowing, irrigation systems, planting grass, shrubs, trees, and hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks in general.

3. Knowing the highest price you can get covring your costs, remaining competitive, and making a profit.

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