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lbtcadmin
01-07-2007, 05:04 PM
For New Business Startups
Just Getting Started in Business
Lawn Care Service - Commercial Landscape - Mowing Routes

Nilsson Associates
Toll Free 866-280-2252
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Our New Business Start-Up Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm) has everything you need to get your business off the ground FAST ... get customers and make money. Includes all the job estimating and pricing info you need, a complete business plan, and hundreds of ideas to get customers and beat the competition.

You'll learn how to bid jobs, price the work, manage your business and make money on every job you get. Using the Labor Time Data Handbook (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#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 also get a special book about how to make the most money from mowing. (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Maximizing Profits In Mowing)

You'll learn how to evaluate every job for profit potential, best crew size, best production methods to save time, cost examples, equipment needed, and profits to expect. This package also includes a working bid sample model that takes you through the entire process step by step (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) from job site information gathering, cost and profit calculations, to the 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.

Start-Up Package includes 9 Books: (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Labor Time Data Handbook......$69.50
7 Keys To Biz Success. ...........15.50
Advertising Your Services. .......42.50
Maintenance Estimating Kit. .....32.50
Pricing Your Services......... .....39.50
Grounds Maintenance Manual....49.50
Maximizing Mowing Profits.........24.50
Business Plan Workbook............39.50
Training Pruning & Planting........34.50
Total Package Value..........$347.50
Your Special Discount ........ $72.50
Your Final Price.................$275.00

FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) ...... N/C

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What Your Colleagues Say:

" I went into business using C.O.M.S. seven years ago, and followed Nilsson's advice. Today, I have over 500 customers and sales of $1,500,000. I'm happy!"
C.B.

"With C.O.M.S. we went from $300,000 to over TWO MILLION IN SALES, and plan to double that within the next 5 years." I'm sticking with your original vision for my business, thank you very much!"
Modern Companies, MA

"I bought The Complete Operations Management System. Well worth it! I'm a small company that floats around 200k...my goal was to reach 500k in 5-6 years. Phil.....keep up the good work! I'll be in touch!"
Michael McGilvray

"Excellent materials, very comprehensive, on target with the problems of running a business, doing much better now."
J. McDermott, Seville, Ohio

"Nilsson Associates provides an important source of information, a highly respected PLCAA Consultant, and Best Selling author with our membership."
Professional Lawn Care Association of America

"Nilsson's books breakdown what we need to do to be profitable and sucessful in this industry. They teach you proven techinques to help enhance your w**** enterprise. The books, are a good investment."
Brian Klimek

"Thanks for your help. My costs are now in line with my prices and I know how low I can go before I start losing money."
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PRO Magazine

"For the first time since I started my business, finally got my numbers together, thanks for spending the extra time with me. My banker was very impressed."
P.L., Seattle, Washington

"Our members have found your books extremely helpful. Thanks for your insight and creativity"
Professional Grounds Management Society

"Nilsson's books are must reads, and have helped our readers tremendously. Thanks for your continued support."
Landscaper Publications

"Your way of explaining the subject shows you know what we need to do to make money in this business, thanks."
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Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)


Nilsson's Job Estimating System (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)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.



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When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential customers. Get more customers. Price estimates & bids, grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, best 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, 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 sanding.
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lbtcadmin
05-06-2007, 08:03 PM
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) are in use by lawn and landscape contractors nationwide. See what other landscapers are currently charging from price lists compiled and updated by Nilsson Associates. Avoid Pricing Too High - Avoid Pricing Too Low - Win More Bids. Compare Your Prices With Nilsson's Price Lists Before You Bid - Makes Pricing Lawn & Landscape Jobs Fast, Easy, Accurate, Competitive.

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides takes the guesswork out of bidding, and helps build confidence in your bids before you present them to your customers. Makes Job Bidding easier, faster. (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) Figure your price for a job, then compare your price (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) with the list price before you bid, or use the price given in the price lists to bid on jobs shown below:

Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak weeds shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Bed Construction
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

Cluick here for more info: FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)

About Nilsson Associates
Business consultant, speaker, nationally recognized best selling author, Phil Nilsson's articles are published in Lawn & Landscape, PRO Magazine, The Arborist and Landscaper Publications. Nilsson's books are endorsed by national trade organizations and are in use by thousands of landscapers, parks, municipalities, universities and property managers.
Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years. Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.

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Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)

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lbtcadmin
10-14-2007, 05:20 PM
Lawn Mowing - Lawn Care and Landscaping Books


When it comes to landscaping books ... nobody has more landscaping industry information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's lawn and landscape Job Pricing Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential landscaping customers. Using the landscaping price guides, get more customers. Price lawn and landscape jobs estimates & bids correctly as well as grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts.

We also have employee training books & videos in Spanish.

See how other landscapers price out and cost out lawn and landscaping work with best price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & lawn and landscape job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, maintenance estimating & pricing, landscape mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic lawn fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds and lawns, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, lawn and landscape irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential properties.

Also price a wide variety of landscaping jobs such as 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 sanding.

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

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

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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm) 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
To order Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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 lawn and landscape 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) 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: (http://nilssonbooks.com/audio_tapes.htm) or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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FREE Job Pricing Guidelines

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) are in use by lawn and landscape contractors nationwide. See what other landscapers are currently charging from price lists compiled and updated by Nilsson Associates. Avoid Pricing Too High - Avoid Pricing Too Low - Win More Bids. Compare Your Prices With Nilsson's Price Lists Before You Bid - Makes Pricing Lawn & Landscape Jobs Fast, Easy, Accurate, Competitive.

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides takes the guesswork out of bidding, and helps build confidence in your bids before you present them to your customers. Makes Job Bidding easier, faster. (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) Figure your price for a job, then compare your price (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) with the list price before you bid, or use the price given in the price lists to bid on jobs shown below:

Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Arborist Rates
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak weeds shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Bed Construction
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
Grounds Maintenance Rates
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 Hourly Rates
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 Care Prices
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

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About Nilsson Associates
Business consultant, speaker, nationally recognized best selling author, Phil Nilsson's articles are published in Lawn & Landscape, PRO Magazine, The Arborist and Landscaper Publications. Nilsson's books are endorsed by national trade organizations and are in use by thousands of landscapers, parks, municipalities, universities and property managers. Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years. Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.

When it comes to pricing nobody has more industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential customers. Get more customers. Price estimates & bids, grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, best 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, 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 sanding.

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New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
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