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Lawn Care Service & Landscaping Business FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES From Nilsson Associates

FREE Job Pricing Guides are in use by Lawn Care Service, Landscape Businesses, Arborists, Tree Care Technicians, Hardscape Companies, Mowing Contractors, Snow Plowing Contractors & Grounds Maintenance Managers and others who buy the services bid on by lawn care providers and landscapers to park departments, university and facility managers.

The FREE Job Pricing Guidelines shows Current Prices in use by lawn care service and landscaping business for most all lawn care & grounds lawn care maintenance, lawn care, lawn mowing using ztr, lawns mowed using riding lawn care turf care tractors, and commercial lawn mowing equipment.

Job Price Guide includes lawn care jobs and landscaping jobs such as edging lawns, pricing lawn edging walks, pricing lawn edging shrub beds. Prices for spring cleanup of lawns and fall leaf cleanups of lawns and grounds and pavement, landscaping pine straw mulching and woodchips for mulching landscaping beds. Lawns and Grounds maintenance and landscaping work prices include lawn equipment servicing, grass planting, lawn sodding, seeding lawns, weeding lawns and weeding landscaping shrub beds, weeding curbs and blacktop areas, planting landscaping shrubs, snow removal and pricing ice management, salting for ice control, trimming lawn obstacles, pruning shrubs prices and landscaping ornamental trees, and shows you prices for hundreds of items you need to bid on. You name it and you'll see it in these price guidelines.

Refer to the list below. For landscaping, lawn care service providers, for job estimating lawn care - landscaping services and landscape installs. Includes landscaping retaining walls,landscaping hardscapes, landscaping patio work, landscaping waterscapes, lawn care and landscaping job cost and other various landscape jobs. The prices are compiled and updated from surveys conducted by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultans. The Job Pricing Guidelines Makes Job Bidding and Estimating a lot easier and faster. Figure and compare your prices and profits before you bid. See what other landscapers are charging in over 50 work categories as shown below:

Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Back Pak Spraying lawns, landscape shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns, landscapes
Cement Curbing Landscaping Installations
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Decks in landscape Installations
Dethatching of lawns Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Flower Installations in landscapes
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns & landscapes
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Work Rates on lawn care service & landscape business
Hydroseeding of lawns
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & landscapes beds
Landscape Designs - designing computer image landscapes
Landscape Lighting Installations
Landscape Installations lawns, shrubs, plants & trees
Lawn Care Service Chemical Applications Fertilizers Weed Controls
Lawn Renovations - Slit Seeding, Reseeding, Elimination of Growth
Liquid Applications of lawn care Fertilizers, Lawn Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and landscape planting beds
Mowing of lawns
Mulch Installations of pine straw, woodchips, pine bark mulch
Organic Lawn Care of lawns
Parking Lot Line Marking
Parking Lot Sweeping of sand and debris
Paving Installations and hardscapes
Pavement Sweeping and litter control
Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs, pruning landscape ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations
Retaining Walls Landscape Installed of wood, stone
Rotary Tilling of turf and soil for lawns and gardens
Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
Site Work of grading, hauling, rock removal prior to seeding
Slit Seeding of lawns
Snow Plowing and ice control
Sod Installations on lawns
Spring Cleanups of lawns, beds and paved areas
Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Lawn Programs - Lawn fertilizing - Lawn weed & Lawn insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Vegetation Management for lawn weed control, growth control
Weed Controls in beds and lawns


Other
resources:
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package
Complete Operations management System

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more lawn & landscape business jobs pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides Books 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 university campus grounds maintenance. The prices books cover; business estimating & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bids the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimating contracts, campus grounds, 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.

For more information: FREE Job Pricing Guidelines


Nilsson Associates has the information you need to operate your lawn care service or landscaping business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Lawn Care & Landscaping Resources available in the Green Industry on the internet. Everything from how to sharpen a lawn mower blade to how to manage a small or large, simple or complex lawn or landscaping business doing millions in sales! You can keep your lawn and landscaping business small or grow it each year. It's up to you how far you go. Some offer lawn mowing as a service, then add on landscape pruning, landscaping planting, landscaping trimming, landscaping shrubs, landscape trees, plowing snow, and getting into bidding and estimating lawn care, grounds maintenance, landscaping installations, landscaping hardscapes, landscape patios, landscaping retaining walls and waterscapes.

No mattter what lawn care or landscaping services you want to offer, we have the technical and managment information you need that will save you time and money getting started in the lawn care and landscaping business. Take a look at our books, audios, 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 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 lawns and drilling, lawn care service job bidding & pricing, what lawn tractors and equipment to buy, seed to use for lawns, lawn grass types, lawn chemicals, lawn fertilizers, lawn pesticides, lawn herbicides, managing lawn care - landscape company operations, installing lawn irrigation, snow plowing, planting lawns, 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 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."

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscaping jobs, nobody has more lawn care and landscaping industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care job bidding & estimating, landscaping job bids for commercial & residential lawn customers. How to Get more lawn customers. Lawn Price estimates & bids, lawns & grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price of seasonal lawn work, year around commercial lawn care & landscping estimate contracts, best price per square foot, best lawn, grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, lawn maintenance estimating & pricing, lawn mulching prices, pricing lawn chemicals, lawn weeding & lawn aerating pricing, lawn fertilizer prices, prices for organic lawn fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, landscaping hardscape pricing, pricing lawn hydroseeding, lawn 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 lawn cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing landscaping trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price sanding.

Other
resources:
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package
Complete Operations management System


Lawn and Landscape Books - Manuals - Free Price Guides

When it comes to lawn and landscape nobody has more 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 customers. 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.

Also see how other landscapers price out and cost out lawn and landscape 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, 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, 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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Lawn and Landscape

Books and Resources ...

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 with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size for any lawn and landscape,, make money on every 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 to make money. 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
To order Click Here: 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: 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


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
To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252


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


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


AUDIO TAPE-Employees. . . Find Them, Keep Them - Listen & learn the secrets to finding and keeping employees. These tapes reveal untapped sources of finding prospects, what to offer, how to prevent the competition from hiring away your people, benefits, incentives, what works, what doesn't, interviewing and selection. $39.50 2 Tape Series To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252


AUDIO TAPE- Job Estimating the fast, easy way! Phil Nilsson's job estimating seminar on tape. Gives you special insight on bidding the fast, easy way. This is an easy listen and learn tape series from one of the country's leading job estimating seminar presenters. Covers landscape construction and grounds maintenance. You'll put this information to work starting with your very next job bid. Told by a person who's "been there", "done that". $29.50 2 Tape Series To order Click Here: or order by phone 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

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more lawn & landscape business jobs pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides Books 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 university campus grounds maintenance. The prices books cover; business estimating & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bids the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimating contracts, campus grounds, 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.

For more information: FREE Job Pricing Guidelines


Nilsson Associates has the lawn and landscape information you need to operate your lawn care or landscape business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Resources available in the Green Industry on running a lawn and landscape business. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage a small or large, simple or complex lawn and landscape 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 Associatres home page www.nilssonbooks.com 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 & 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 is affordable, and highly focused training that really works! And ... The ongoing personal support from our 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."

Other
resources:
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package
Complete Operations management System


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