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Landscape Job Bidding & Estimating
Lawn care service Job Estimating Package of four books takes the guesswork out of bidding. It has everything you need to prepare residential and commercial grounds maintenance and landscape installation bids. You'll price with confidence, save time on paperwork, and make money on every landscaping job you get.
Using the Labor Time Data Handbook (written by Nilsson Associates) (see description below) you'll know how long the jobs will take, never under or overprice a bid again, and be able to set realistic labor goals based on field tested and time studied labor hours for just about every job you perform. Includes complete bid outlines, customer contracts, scheduling formats, cost calculations, overhead ratios, and reminder checklists for upselling other services. You'll learn how to evaluate every site for work required, profit potential, crew size, job costs, and know profits to expect on a daily basis.
This package also includes an model bid example that takes you through the entire bid process step by step from information gathering, cost and profit calculations, price proposal 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.
For: Landscapers, Maintenance, Lawn Care, Site Managers, Parks & Rec Depts, Campus Grounds, Facility Managers, Municipalities. Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating. You will learn to: bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, get a full days work from employees, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for 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 many other common job tasks. Just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance.
The Three Problems With Bidding and Estimating
. Understanding the scope of the work
. Knowing the amount of time it will take to complete the work
. The highest price that can be charged while still remaining competitive
Since time or payroll costs are the biggest expense, payroll hours need to be controlled. Most errors in bidding are time estimates. If you don't know how long the work will take, you can't accurately bid the job, or assign the right number of employees. Without "time knowledge" on some days unplanned overtime is incurred, on others crews return to the shop without having put in a full day's work. Workers have a tendency to "stretch out" the days when not enough work was assigned. The owner in that sutuation never discovers what amount of work could have been done since he wasn't aware of the time requirements to begin with. Who to blame, where to look when profits are too low for a job? Workers too slow, price not high enough?
Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating. You will learn to: bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, get a full days work from employees, 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.
More info click here (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
Above package deal includes Job Price Guidelines:
Nilsson Associates Job Pricing Guides covers all lawn & landscape bids, estimating work, job costs, lawn turf mowing prices, pricing landscapes, pricing installing mulch, pricing chemical cost applications of fertilizer weed controls, pruning trees and shrubs, pricing snow plowing & ice, hardscape, irrigation, seed, sod, hydroseeding subcontract prices, edging beds prices, pricing spring & fall cleanups hourly price and rates , pressure washing, stump grinding, gutter cleaning, dethatching, snow blowing prices , snow plowing prices, salting prices, sanding prices, mowing using walkbehinds, ztr riders, trim mowers and Price Guide for everything!
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gifNilsson Associates has the information you need to operate your business (http://nilssonbooks.com/)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 a small or large, simple or complex business doing millions in sales! You can keep your buisness small or grow it each year. It's up to you how far you go. Some are just interetsed in mowing lawns as a service, then add on pruning, planting, trimming, shrubs, trees, plowing snow, and getting into bidding and estimating grounds maintenance, landscape installations, hardscapes, patios, retaining walls and waterscapes.
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, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associates home page (http://nilssonbooks.com/)and scroll down the left side of the home page to locate the lawn care service or landscape business problem you want a solution to. The index includes all these categories dealing with just about all lawn care, the best lawn mowers, how to maximize profits in lawn mowing and landscape installation work including seeding lawns, hydroseeding lawns, sodding lawns, slit seeding and drilling, lawn care service job bidding & pricing, what lawn tractors and equipment to buy, seed to use for lawns, grass types, lawn chemicals, lawn fertilizers, lawn pesticides, lawn herbicides, managing landscape company operations, installing irrigation, snow plowing, planting shrubs and trees , pavement sweeping services and many others.
The instruction you will receive is affordable, and highly focused training that really works! And ... The FREE ongoing personal support from our Industry Experts (http://nilssonbooks.com/about_the_author.htm) 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."
Business solution links:
Advertising (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Bidding Jobs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) - (http://www.asharpdesign.com/nilsson/discounts_and_deals.htm)
Business Growth (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Business Plan (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Business Planning Workbook) -
Commercial (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Company Policy (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Writing Your Company Policy Manual) -
Contract Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) -
Customers (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Employees (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) -
Estimating (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) -
Job Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Job Specs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Writing The Maintenance Speci-fications) -
Labor Time Data (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Maintenance (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Grounds Maintenance Manual) -
Management (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Mowing Profits (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Maximizing Profits In Mowing) -
Pricing (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Pricing Your Services) - Sales (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Sales Letters (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#How To Write Effective Sales Letters) -
Sales Skills (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Snow Removal (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#The Snow Removal Business) -
Subcontracting (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm#Subcontracting the Work) -
Training Video (http://nilssonbooks.com/video_tapes.htm) -
Website Services (http://nilssonbooks.com/other_services.htm#Web Design) -
Winter Income (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm)
If we can help you in any way don't hesitate to give us a call Toll Free at 1-866-280-2252
Lawn Care & Landscape Business - Books - Videos - Tapes - Software (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
________________
Phil Nilsson
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
Lawn care service Job Estimating Package of four books takes the guesswork out of bidding. It has everything you need to prepare residential and commercial grounds maintenance and landscape installation bids. You'll price with confidence, save time on paperwork, and make money on every landscaping job you get.
Using the Labor Time Data Handbook (written by Nilsson Associates) (see description below) you'll know how long the jobs will take, never under or overprice a bid again, and be able to set realistic labor goals based on field tested and time studied labor hours for just about every job you perform. Includes complete bid outlines, customer contracts, scheduling formats, cost calculations, overhead ratios, and reminder checklists for upselling other services. You'll learn how to evaluate every site for work required, profit potential, crew size, job costs, and know profits to expect on a daily basis.
This package also includes an model bid example that takes you through the entire bid process step by step from information gathering, cost and profit calculations, price proposal 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.
For: Landscapers, Maintenance, Lawn Care, Site Managers, Parks & Rec Depts, Campus Grounds, Facility Managers, Municipalities. Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating. You will learn to: bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, get a full days work from employees, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for 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 many other common job tasks. Just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance.
The Three Problems With Bidding and Estimating
. Understanding the scope of the work
. Knowing the amount of time it will take to complete the work
. The highest price that can be charged while still remaining competitive
Since time or payroll costs are the biggest expense, payroll hours need to be controlled. Most errors in bidding are time estimates. If you don't know how long the work will take, you can't accurately bid the job, or assign the right number of employees. Without "time knowledge" on some days unplanned overtime is incurred, on others crews return to the shop without having put in a full day's work. Workers have a tendency to "stretch out" the days when not enough work was assigned. The owner in that sutuation never discovers what amount of work could have been done since he wasn't aware of the time requirements to begin with. Who to blame, where to look when profits are too low for a job? Workers too slow, price not high enough?
Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating. You will learn to: bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, get a full days work from employees, 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.
More info click here (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
Above package deal includes Job Price Guidelines:
Nilsson Associates Job Pricing Guides covers all lawn & landscape bids, estimating work, job costs, lawn turf mowing prices, pricing landscapes, pricing installing mulch, pricing chemical cost applications of fertilizer weed controls, pruning trees and shrubs, pricing snow plowing & ice, hardscape, irrigation, seed, sod, hydroseeding subcontract prices, edging beds prices, pricing spring & fall cleanups hourly price and rates , pressure washing, stump grinding, gutter cleaning, dethatching, snow blowing prices , snow plowing prices, salting prices, sanding prices, mowing using walkbehinds, ztr riders, trim mowers and Price Guide for everything!
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gifNilsson Associates has the information you need to operate your business (http://nilssonbooks.com/)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 a small or large, simple or complex business doing millions in sales! You can keep your buisness small or grow it each year. It's up to you how far you go. Some are just interetsed in mowing lawns as a service, then add on pruning, planting, trimming, shrubs, trees, plowing snow, and getting into bidding and estimating grounds maintenance, landscape installations, hardscapes, patios, retaining walls and waterscapes.
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, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associates home page (http://nilssonbooks.com/)and scroll down the left side of the home page to locate the lawn care service or landscape business problem you want a solution to. The index includes all these categories dealing with just about all lawn care, the best lawn mowers, how to maximize profits in lawn mowing and landscape installation work including seeding lawns, hydroseeding lawns, sodding lawns, slit seeding and drilling, lawn care service job bidding & pricing, what lawn tractors and equipment to buy, seed to use for lawns, grass types, lawn chemicals, lawn fertilizers, lawn pesticides, lawn herbicides, managing landscape company operations, installing irrigation, snow plowing, planting shrubs and trees , pavement sweeping services and many others.
The instruction you will receive is affordable, and highly focused training that really works! And ... The FREE ongoing personal support from our Industry Experts (http://nilssonbooks.com/about_the_author.htm) 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."
Business solution links:
Advertising (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Bidding Jobs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) - (http://www.asharpdesign.com/nilsson/discounts_and_deals.htm)
Business Growth (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Business Plan (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Business Planning Workbook) -
Commercial (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Company Policy (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Writing Your Company Policy Manual) -
Contract Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) -
Customers (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Employees (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) -
Estimating (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) -
Job Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Job Specs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Writing The Maintenance Speci-fications) -
Labor Time Data (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Maintenance (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Grounds Maintenance Manual) -
Management (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Mowing Profits (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Maximizing Profits In Mowing) -
Pricing (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Pricing Your Services) - Sales (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Sales Letters (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#How To Write Effective Sales Letters) -
Sales Skills (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Snow Removal (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#The Snow Removal Business) -
Subcontracting (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm#Subcontracting the Work) -
Training Video (http://nilssonbooks.com/video_tapes.htm) -
Website Services (http://nilssonbooks.com/other_services.htm#Web Design) -
Winter Income (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm)
If we can help you in any way don't hesitate to give us a call Toll Free at 1-866-280-2252
Lawn Care & Landscape Business - Books - Videos - Tapes - Software (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
________________
Phil Nilsson
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)