Start and Run a Gardening Business: An Insider Guide to Setting Yourself up As a Professional Gardener

by Paul Power

Overview

You don't need pots of money to start your own gardening business. With this book and a willingness to learn, you could soon be enjoying a profitable and enormously satisfying career doing something you love. Whether your aspirations are simply to sell a selection of home grown plants from the boot of your car or to establish a succesful all-year-round gardening business, this book will show you how. It covers: - Preparing your business plan - Getting kitted out - How to find work - and keep it - What services to offer - Book-keeping for gardeners - Planning the gardening year - How to get commercial contracts - Providing estimates - The top ten most profitable gardening jobs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845284145
Publisher:	How To Books
Publication date:	08/15/2010
Series:	Small Business Start-Ups
Edition description:	3rd Revised ed.
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

When Paul Power left school he joined the civil Service, but hated the bureaucracy, commuting and the office poiltics. He finally decided to turn his hobby into a profession and made it a huge success, far exceeding his expectations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. A Growing Opportunity
2. Getting Started
3. Getting Your First Customers
4. Starting and Running a Gardening Round
5. Starting and Running a General Gardening Business
6. Adding Value Through Spin-Off Opportunities
7. Launching Your Business and Creating the Right Image
8. Bookkeeping and Adminstration Systems
9. Managing the Gardening Year
10. Resolving Problems and Building On Opportunities
11. Growing Your Business
Help Directory
Index