What do I need to start a landscaping business, any tips, pitfalls, ideas?
Tags: Business Ideas, Pitfalls
This entry was posted
on Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 4:30 am and is filed under Business tips.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
August 10th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Powered by Yahoo Answers
You need to have some knowledge of what your going to do firstly, you can’t just really set up without experiance or qualifications. You need to get your work seen by maybe offering to do one or two jobs at cost or free and use these as a showcase for obtaining references for future jobs and a chance to show what you can do, take pictures make a record.
People are keen on who they let into the properties, so a police check will be a good start before you go looking for business as it shows your up front and honest.
The work tends to be seasonal and reliant on weather, bad weather can stop work for weeks and then your not earning, winter months the working day is shorter, and only some hard landscaping jobs can be completed at this time of year.
You need to have a good knowledge of plants, shrubs,trees, types of growing conditions, soils etc Then how to landscape them properly for height, type and over all effect.
Then there is your tools which are dependant on your chosen path of work, some people its a fork, spade and mower others its expensive scarifying and coring machines which run into the thousands.
You need some contingencies for loss of work due to poor weather or lack of work in a quiet period.
Leaflets/flyers through doors are a good way to advertise and made by hand on a computer will save you money and advertising in local shops as well is good.
But you will need to decide what services you want to provide, what services you can provide, what tools you need, what financial backing you have and is it going to be profitable?
August 11th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Powered by Yahoo Answers
carrot is right,but may i add.you need to really enjoy this type of work.take some college courses,know what you are talking about.put back some funds for the lean times,there will be some.this would be a good time to maintain your equipment,paper work,and learn,learn learn !