Snow Plowing Business Book

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The Snow Plowing & Removal Business Handbook

The Snow Removal Business Book is a complete guide to just about everything there is to know about the winter snow plowing and snow removal maintenance business. Includes bidding methods, costs of snow plowing operations, scheduling the plowing routes and snow plowing trucks by capacity, how to maximize snow plowing and ice control revenues. Shows you how much to charge for the services. Shows the average time snow plowing takes to do the work. Shows different ways to bill clients for snow plowing ... such as 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 and overhaul, snow plowing employee training, snow vehicle . maintenance checklists, snow removal contract preparation and 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 the work . . .everything!

The Snow Plowing Book
Table of contents:
. How to find the best snow plowing accounts & make the most from a storm
. Tapping into the snow plowing business commercial accounts
. How to get snow plowing contracts that pay you even if it doesn't snow!
. Custom Designing of a commercial snow removal contract to fit site conditions
. How to properly price and profit from snow plowing, snow removal, ice controls, sand, salt, blowing, shoveling
. The Snow Plowing Bid Proposal Package - a complete outline sample contracts that fit any situation
. How to write Snow Plowing and Ice Management Specifications - and what to say to limit your liability
. How To Maximize each Snow Storm for Income from Plowing
. Documenting a Snow Plowing Event - why it's important to keep records - what's needed
. Snow Plowing Truck Maintenance & Repairs
. Snow Plows, Snow Equipment & Parts rundown lists to keep you plowing
. Suggested Spare Parts for Snow Plowing Vehicles
. Snow Plowing Business - Business Forms - Formats - Schedules

How to order
The Snow Removal Business Book
Book # C-8, Price $39.50
To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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The Snow Removal Business Book
Book # C-8, Price $39.50
To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for lawn and landscape and grounds maintenance job estimating. You will learn to: bid landscaping jobs with confidence, save time preparing lawn and landscape bids, easily determine best crew size for any lawn and landscape, make money on every lawn or landscape job you get, get a full days work from employees, never under or overprice a lawn and landscape bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees to complete lawn and landscape work within cost budgeted times. Includes labor hours for just about every lawn and landscape job performed in commercial and residential 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 for lawn and landscape contractors to make money off season. You'll turn down time into added income. You'll get 75 ways. There's something for every lawn and landscape contractor. Pick a method that satisfies your off season needs. No matter where you live, no matter what your specialty within the lawn and 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 lawn and landscape maintenance. How to sell services, bid jobs, assign crews, control the work. You'll get lawn and landscape bid outlines, scheduling formats, cost calculations, checklists for year round services. You'll learn how to evaluate every lawn and landscape 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

Writing The Maintenance Specifications - No more trying to find the right words to explain lawn and landscape job bids. Contains hundreds of samples of contract language that fits any lawn and landscape situation. Produce professional landscape specs, avoid bidding unrealistic site requirements for lawn and landscape projects. What to include and exclude. Also covers summer and winter work elements, and work options to look for on any site to boost sales. Book # C-2, Price $34.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Maintenance Estimating Kit - This kit has everything you need when you visit a lawn and landscape site to get an estimate. Working from a model spec. it takes you step by step. Assesses the landscape maintenance 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 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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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Selling To Commercial Customers - Selling to commercial requires a different approach to finding key contacts, bidding the work, locating lawn and landscape 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. Book # B-12, Price $24.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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. Your lawn and landscape 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

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. Covers almost any sell situation. 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. Book # B-8, Price $24.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Writing Your Company Policy Manual - You'll save time using this fill in the blanks format to create your own policy manual for your lawn and landscape firm. 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 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Keys To Motivating Employees - This book focuses on the unique challenges of motivating seasonal, temporary and key lawn and landscape 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

Crew Leader Training - Landscapers - Overcome the difficulty of unsupervised jobs. Train your lawn and landscape 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, 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. Book # ET-2, Price $39.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Training In Pruning And Planting - Covers everything workers need to know to properly install and prune shrubs and trees in lawns and landscapes. 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

How To Be A Great Boss! - Ever wonder how employees like you as a "boss"? Highly respected, well liked? How they perceive you is key to your success in today's labor market. This report examines easily misunderstood concepts of attitudes, work ethics, and self esteem that can make or break your lawn and landscape business. You can either "turn them on" or "turn them off" by what you do and say. Book # G-5, Price $12.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Advertising And Marketing Your Services - This primer on advertising for the lawn and landscape business 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, checklist of markets, and ad samples. Book # B-1, Price $42.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

How To Improve Customer Retention - Repeat business 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 lawn and landscape customers really want from you, renewal incentives, quality control, projecting the right image, price increases, and finally how to keep customers happy. Book # B-3, Price $22.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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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

The 7 Keys To Business Success - This guide explains the reasons why some lawn and landscape 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. Book # H-3, Price $15.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Business Plan Workbook - Specifically designed for lawn and 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 for the lawn and landscape company 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

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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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For all - Lawn Care Service - Landscapers - Nurserymen - Grounds Maintenance - Snow Plowing Contractors

75 Easy Ways to Make Money off season during the winter

No more draining your savings
No more waiting and depending on snow
No more seasonal lay offs for your key people for lack of work
No more borrowing money to make it through the winter slow season
No more being pressured into making 12 months income in only 8 months time

You'll get 75 Easy Ways 100% Guaranteed and Proven to Make You Money!

End the cash poor off season

Make money during the one to four months of your yearly off season winter slow downs. Have the money you need to keep your business and personal bills current and the funds available to enjoy some well deserved vacation time off during the winter season.

Reduce your dependency on snow
Easily solve the question of "what if it doesn't snow" ? Or if it only slows a little or not even enough to pay for and make the snow equipment payments. Snow money can be "good money" but you can't count on it. Our off season Winter Income Producers will help you develop reliable incomes sources 12 months a year. Depending on where your lawn care service or landscape business is located, being without income during the two to four months off season can cause serious financial shortfalls and eat into profits you earn during the regular season and limit your company growth.

Keep employees working making money for you
Guarantee your cash flow if it doesn't snow or if it doesn't snow enough to pay all the bills. Off season Winter Income Producers will allow your employees to get paid and remain on your payroll and continue to earn a living. This one company benefit alone gives them even more reason to stay with and work for your company rather than seek employment elsewhere. Employees are far less likely to have accumulated the savings needed during the off season winter months. They may have no choice but to work the off season winter slow times on temporary jobs or find more stable, permanent jobs elsewhere.

Retain key people
Have the money to pay them to get them through the slow season on your payroll. Don't let your best, most productive, experienced employees walk out the door and go to work for somebody else. Having a constant turnover of employees means your business lacks experienced people who can provide your customers with quality work.

Eliminate the need to borrow
Money to get going in the spring and spending the following season paying it back. Use and reserve your credit lines and borrowing power to grow your business ... not pay for unproductive idle time that produces nothing.

Reduce employee turnover
Reduce employee training costs and loss of productive employees not returning to work when the winter off season ends. Don't chance losing your best and most productive workers when the season ends and hope to replace them next season.

Turn idle down time into added income
You'll get 75 of the easiest ways for lawn care service and landscapers to make money in the off season, and any one of them is enough to get you started. The good news is that most of them require little, if any investment. No long start up times either. There's something for everyone. Pick a money making method that satisfies your off season income cash flow needs.

And, even if you yourself decide to "kick back", relax and take it easy during the off season winter months, doesn't mean your employees can't continue to make money for you during your slow season. No matter where you live, no matter what your specialty within the landscape industry, you'll find something of interest. I guarantee it. My Winter Income Producers book is 100% satisfaction guaranteed to make money for you.

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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, price landscape installs, or complete a lawn analysis. 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.

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