How To Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns
How To Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns
A COMPLETE GUIDE Recommended for Ages 15 and Older This book explains how to start and operate your own lawn mowing business: It shows the easiest ways to get customers . . . How to set prices . . . How to make the most income per hour of work . . . How to keep a simple schedule and much more . . . Tells you everything you need to know . . . * * *When done on a part-time basis, there are no tight schedules.Grass can be cut at your own convenience, without interfering with other activities. Grass grows and work is available during three seasons of the year. There is practically no investment if you already have a mower. Expected earnings can be three to four times higher than the minimum wage rate of pay, sometimes much more.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A good gift–birthday or otherwise
This book was used as a gift to my brother who soon will be retiring and I thought perhaps this would be a good side job for him and he could do it on his own hours. It was autographed and he was pleased to receive it.
5 Stars A Great Book: Simple and Direct About the Business of Mowing Lawns
I reviewed a recent, updated version of the book “How To Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns”; the 2008, Fourth Edition. First, this is not a technical book about lawn care. It is a unique book, simple and direct about the business of mowing lawns. And, it thoroughly covers the most important thing: showing exactly how to get customers and make money. This chapter alone is well worth the price of the book. Techniques here will likely never be outdated. Overall, the book is a complete guide.
Of particular interest, the author has geared this book for even a 15-year-old to go into business and to do it with only a minimal investment and approach. And to then grow to a point, where (in the book) his son (while in High School) was earning twice the weekly income of many local factory workers.
I have considerable experience in various businesses, and books like this, about making money, usually do not fully satisfy one’s expectations. However this book does. It’s a “gem”. I highly recommend it.
Note: I noticed that there is another, particular reviewer, who was excessively critical of this book. Then he recommends a different book. Do we detect a conflict of interest here? His review, sadly, misrepresented this book. And, he referred to individuals who would do this work as being “scrubs”. Why?
3 Stars Too Old
The book over all was OK. I was able to get some pointers from it. However, the data and examples are very outdated (in some cases more than 20 years). A re-write with more modern information would make this book much better.
5 Stars Great book for a start up in business! Or refinement of existing.
The paperback is a little dated, however on greenfromgreen.com you can get the 2006 version. I found this updated version to be much more helpful. Thanks for the tip OLDSAGE it has helped me lots.
Who would think I can get my execise and make money at the same time. Great book that any lawn care professional would want to ban in his area least he face stiff competition. It takes complex buisness planning and simplifies them for the average reader.
2 Stars Outdated but informative
I recieved the above book, although it was a bit outdated the techniques and tribulations seem to have remained somewhat the same. Do not purchase this book if you are new to the business.