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Snow Plow Manufactures - Parts - Dealers - Lighting - Accessories
SnowPlow Manufacturers on the web
The Snow Removal Business Book
Book # C-8, Price $39.50
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To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252
Western Snowplows - Uni-mount system snowplows
Fisher Snowplows - Minute Mount System snowplows
Boss Snowplows - Quick Hitch snowplows and also a V plow
Meyer Snowplows - EZ Mount system snowplows
Diamond Snowplows - snowplows
Arctic Snowplows - Quik link mounting system, wide variety of blades
Blizzard Corporation - Power expanding snowplows
Northman Snowplows - Supermount snowplows
Hiniker Snowplows - Quick Hitch snowplows for full size trucks
Frink Snowplows - Sno-King contractor grade snowplows
Kodiak Snowplows - Custom built, Alaskan snowplows
Sno-Way Snowplows - Full line of truck plows with exclussive Down pressure system
Curtis International - truck and loader snowplow
Trailblazer Snowplows - Quick detach, commercial level snowplows
Lawtons Machine and Equipment - Custom line of pickup truck snowplows
Trailbbuster Snoplows - Exclusive V blade design snowplows
SnowBear Snowplows - personal use snowplows
Pathfinder Snowplows - Full line of heavy and light duty snowplows
Snowman Snowplows - Rear mounted hydraulic plow
White Tail Plow Systems - Rear bed and receiver mount hydraulic plow
Daniels Pull Plow - Rear mount pull plow to complement your regular plow
Driveway Superplows, Inc - Rear mount commercial/homeowner grade back drag plow
D & G Welding - Rear mount back drag snowplow
Side Wing plows - North America - side mount wing plow
Side Wing plows - side mount wing plow
SnowSport Snowplow - Small, personal use plow
Snazzy Snowplow - small, unique front or rear trailer hitch mounted snowplow
Back it Off Snowplows - rear mount trailer hitch snowplow
Solotec Car snowplows - small, solid mount car snowplow
Snowplow part and accessory sources
RCPW Parts - Snowplow parts, order a catalog on-line
The Coooler - The Coooler, an auxillary cooling duct to help direct radiator airflow
D & J Industrial Sales - Snowplow parts
Mill Supply - Snowplow parts Catalog
Angelo's Supplies, Inc - Snowplow parts and supplies, on-line troubleshooting guides
After Market Snowplow - A Large selection of new and used snowplows and parts
Snowplow Division of NBC Truck Equipment - Replacement parts for Fisher, Meyer and Western plows
ESI Snowplow parts - plow parts for most all makes
Plow Pump Service - Rebuilt pumps and tool kits for Meyer plows
Central Parts Warehouse - Full line service and shop, large mail order catalog of Snowplow parts
SeaSunAll Products - Snowplow Distributor and parts
Plow Parts Warehouse - Snowplow parts for Meyer, Western, Fisher
Valk Manufacturing - Replacement cutting edges for plows
Fall Snow Plow Motors - Replacement lift motors for snowplows
Traffic Safety and Equipment - Snowplow Distributor[/font]
Parkview Niagra Ltd - Snowplows, snowplow parts and Accessories
Snowplow Dealers
OK Auto - Sales of Fisher snowplow
Zappia Enterprises Inc - Sales of Sno-Way snowplows
ArrowHead Equipment - Sales of Fisher plows, special conversion for Hummers!
Snowplow Sales, Inc. - Sales of Fisher snowplows and parts
Jellison Equipment - Sales of Western snowplows
Carnegie Body - Sales of Western snowplows
American Truck and Trailer Supply - Sales of Diamond, Meyer and Snowbear snowplows
Plow-Parts.com - Sales of Wester, Meyer, Fisher, Boss and Daniels snowplows
Drive Products - Sales of Diamond, Meyer, Swenson and Western snowplows
Nocciolina Enterprises - Online discount distributor of snowplows, parts and accessories, all major brands
After Market Snowplow - A Large selection of new and used snowplows and parts
Plows Unlimited - Sales of Snoway and Daniels Pull plows
Gag's Camper Way - Sales of Blizzard Power plows
Complete Hydraulic Sales and Service - Sales of Hiniker and Sno-Way snowplows
DPI - Snow Removal Products - Sales of all major brands of snowplows
SnowplowSupply.com - Sales of all major brands of snowplows
Miscellaneous Snowplow Accessories
Pak Systems - Pickup truck mounted snow blower for your normal snowplow mount
Snow Plow Dolly - The snowplow dolly for moving your plow when its off the truck
Fall Line Corporation - Polyurethane replacement snow plow blades
Smith Industrial - Replacement rubber edges for snow plow blades
Winter Equipment Company - Full line of replacement snowplow wear products
Snow Plowing Stuff - Snow plowing merchandicse, shirts, caps, etc.
Lighting sources
Tomar Electronics - Strobe Lights
Whelen Engineering - Lighting and Warning systems
JCWhitney - a good selection of warning strobes in their hardcopy catalog
Emergency Signal & Siren - Distributor of light bars and other equipment
Star Warning Systems - Strobes and Light bars
Gall's Inc. - Warning Lights[/font]
Code 3 Public Safety Equipment - Warning Lights and Lightbars
AEM Electric Company - Makers of replacement snow plow headlight systems
The Snow Plowing Business
The Snow Removal Business Book is a complete guide to just about everything there is to know about the winter snow plowing and snow removal maintenance business. Includes bidding methods, costs of snow plowing operations, scheduling the plowing routes and snow plowing trucks by capacity, how to maximize snow plowing and ice control revenues. Shows you how much to charge for the services. Shows the average time snow plowing takes to do the work. Shows different ways to bill clients for snow plowing ... such as by the storm, . per push, by the inch, fixed price annual contracts, hourly and by subcontract. How to manage a snow storm, plowing trucks, snow plow maintenace and overhaul, snow plowing employee training, snow vehicle . maintenance checklists, snow removal contract preparation and what to include for job specifications terminology, complete snow plowing bid proposal package, winter season contract language, best ways to sell snow plowing services, documenting a snow storm, dealing with damage claims, pricing the work . . .everything!
The Snow Removal Business Book
Table of contents:
. How to find the best snow plowing accounts & make the most from a storm
. Tapping into the snow plowing business commercial accounts
. How to get snow plowing contracts that pay you even if it doesn't snow!
. Custom Designing of a commercial snow removal contract to fit site conditions
. How to properly price and profit from snow plowing, snow removal, ice controls, sand, salt, blowing, shoveling
. The Snow Plowing Bid Proposal Package - a complete outline sample contracts that fit any situation
. How to write Snow Plowing and Ice Management Specifications - and what to say to limit your liability
. How To Maximize each Snow Storm for Income from Plowing
. Documenting a Snow Plowing Event - why it's important to keep records - what's needed
. Snow Plowing Truck Maintenance & Repairs
. Snow Plows, Snow Equipment & Parts rundown lists to keep you plowing
. Suggested Spare Parts for Snow Plowing Vehicles
. Snow Plowing Business - Business Forms - Formats - Schedules
How to order
The Snow Removal Business Book
Book # C-8, Price $39.50
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Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package
Complete Operations Management System
Nilsson's Job Estimating Package has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, price landscape installs, or complete a lawn analysis. 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. Nilsson's Job Estimating Package includes a model bid example that takes you through the entire bid process step by step from work site information gathering, cost and profit calculations based on site conditions and specifications, outlines price proposal details, 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.
Labor Time Data Handbook
Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating. Bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance. Book # A-7, Price $69.50 To order Click Here:or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252
Grounds Maintenance Manual - A complete guide to lawn and grounds maintenance. How to sell lawn services, bid jobs, assign crews, control the work, increase profits. You'll get lawn and grounds maintenance bid outlines, maintenance scheduling formats, cost calculations, checklists for year round grounds maintenance and landscape services. You'll learn how to evaluate every landscape site for profit potential, pinpoint best mowing 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, landscape and grounds maintenance job bids. Contains hundreds of samples of contract language that fits any landscape situation. Produce professional maintenance specs, avoid bidding unrealistic site requirements. What to include and exclude in contracts and proposals. Covers summer and winter work grounds maintenance elements, and work options to look for on any site to boost sales. Book # C-2, Price $34.50
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Maintenance Estimating Kit - This kit has everything you need when you visit a site to get an estimate. Working from a model spec. it takes you step by step. Assesses the 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
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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
Writing Your Company Policy Manual - You'll save time using this fill in the blanks format to create your own policy manual. 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
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Keys To Motivating Employees - This book focuses on the unique challenges of motivating seasonal, temporary and key 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 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. 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
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
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 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
Subcontracting the Work - This book shows & tells everything you ever wanted to know about subcontracting your work to others and being a subcontractor to others. The ins and outs of partnering jobs, legal requirements, how to make money on others, limit your risks, protect customer contacts, forms & agreements, qualifying your partners, performance guarantees, insurance concerns, covenants not to compete, lien waivers, ... all about "owning the work" but not "doing the work" and how to profit from the growing trend in subcontracting. Book # H-4 Price $49.50 To order Click Here: or order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252
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Professional Grounds Management Society
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University of Tennessee, Horticulture Dept.
 Nilsson Associates has the information you need to operate your business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Resources available in the Green Industry on the internet. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage a small or large, simple or complex 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."
Nilsson's Job Estimating Package has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, price landscape installs, or complete a lawn analysis. 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. Nilsson's Job Estimating Package includes a model bid example that takes you through the entire bid process step by step from work site information gathering, cost and profit calculations based on site conditions and specifications, outlines price proposal details, 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. When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides 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 univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, 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.
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The Snow Removal Business Book
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To Successfully Compete in The Lawn & Landscape Business
You Must Master Job Estimating and Bidding
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Hit or miss bidding is out of the question because virtually every customer looks for, and usually takes, the absolute lowest price. There less room for error in setting a price that not only covers cost, but also provides an adequate profit. Easier said than done because the entire process must take into account numerous variables of cost in an industry where "time is money" is an understatement.
Of course the lazy way out is to totally ignore the cost of doing business, and focus instead on price. The reasoning is that if the price is right, you'll be awarded the job inspite of your costs. This is the same as saying that you have very little control over price and that price is decided in the market place. That may be true but the real reason you want to know cost is not so much that price is solely determined from costs but that cost is your "command center" of control. If you don't know cost you have no reference point of control. Without cost knowledge you actually give up control and don't know for certain on any completed project what the profit was, and in some cases may be uncertain if indeed costs were covered.
With job cost knowledge you can know if you have efficient costs (can't be done cheaper or faster) and that's about as good as it gets. Using your efficient costs as a starting point you can then develop prices. You might want to come up with three price levels for the very same job.* Base Price, Realistic Price, and Premium Price. For any one bidding event do the mental "gymnastics" of trying them on for size price wise to see which you'd like to go with. Sometimes a contractor may find himself "hungy" for work and at other times booked so far in advance that a lower price is not needed to generate work. Nevertheless, bidding and pricing is the single most important thing you'll do because it is the "future" of where your business is going. Today's bids are tomorrows' customers and the real "make up" of your company. Your company is the customers, you, employees, and assets necessary to deliver your services.
Determining job cost is the starting point to intelligent bidding and estimating. And, mastering the skills of estimating is the best defense to help ensure that the work is not over or underbid. Plenty of jobs are lost because of high bids where an acceptable profits could have been made with a lower price tag if the contractor had only known at the time. By the same token, plenty of jobs are won based on low price, too low in fact, making it a miserable experience having done the work. Priced just right is where you want to be but of course this doesn't guarantee you the work, just that if you do get it, there's a chance at profits.
Nilsson's job estimating and bidding system is in widespread use by landscape contractors, lawn & grounds maintenance companies, mowers, tree care operators, for preparing landscape estimates, maintenance costs, grounds maintenance bids, and irrigation contractrors for installation and service work. Nilsson's job estimating system are also used by snow & ice managers, Park and Recreation Grounds Maintenance Departments, and Golf Course Superintendents.
The Job Estimating System enables you to understand the scope of the lawn maintenance or landscape work and how many hours the total job will take from using The Labor Time Data Handbook - one of four books included with the system. You'll have a wide range of work bid specifications language to choose from to word your contracts and proposals and write professionally worded maintenance & landscape job bid estimate specifications. You''ll learn how to bid on a wide variety of grounds maintenance and landscape install projects, and get tips and pointers on how to reach and to sell grounds maintenance and landscape installs to commercial & residential customers , what to charge for the work estimates based on average work times as given in the Labor Time Data Handbook which shows the amount of time it will take to complete hundreds of grounds maintenance job tasks and landscape installation work, and also mowing, lawn care, lawn fertilizing, landscaping, snow plowing, lawn irrigation systems, planting grass, shrub beds, maintaining and planting trees, and hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks in general.
Labor costs are the biggest expense in lawn and landscape work and labor hours need to be controlled. You need to know how long the work will take, and can't accurately bid the job, or assign the right number of employees without "job time information". The Labor Time Data Handbook serves as a valuable reference to use for job estimating and bidding that gives you the job time information needed to complete bids and estimates. Use the average times found in the handbook for developing lawn services and landscape project costs as well as your bid price. Later, use these same labor times to plan the work, assign crews to carry out the work, and to monitor labor inputs into the job. Know at all stages of job completion where you stand as to bid estimate labor hours and actual time to confirm that job completion goals are being met.
Main Reasons why lawn and landscape work bids get rejected by customers
1. Unrealistic view of the scope of the work ... you guessed at the time required.
2. Your costs really are what you say they are (but) compared to the competition your costs are (too high) to be competitive.
3. Workers don't perform efficiently and you bid the jobs based on that inefficiency, end up forecasting excessive hours, inflated price.
4. Your view of market conditions are unrealistic, you never checked what the competition charges.
5. You never kept records or measurement data for similar jobs and are guessing as to work task times, you always play it safe on bids, too many hours are "packed into" the price.
6. Your market is saturated with competition to the point where the close ratios are extremely low.
7. You never viewed your prices as to keeping them as low as possible and "affordable" to the customer base ... based on the theory that you would monitor the "best production method" to keep labor times down, prices low as well ... instead you price based on your cost, which may be unrealistic based on "real" but "slow" methods. Customers can't "afford" your production methods.
The Job Estimating & Bidding system includes four books: Labor Time Data Handbook - Grounds Maintenance Manual - Maintenance Estimating Kit - Pricing Your Services and used for job bids and job estimating on fixed contracts, and bidding on a per hour, and hourly rates requests, preparing contract price estimates and bid work proposals and detailed lawn and landscape job specifications that outline and explain job specifications and work for lawn & landscape customer contracts for homeowners, business owners, site developers.
Pricing Your Lawn Care - Landscape Services
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.
More information about Nilsson's Labor Time Data Handbook ...
For Grounds Maintenance and Landscape Management & Installation Work shows How Long The Jobs Will Take based on time studies of the work under various conditions including weather, day of week, working conditions and factors that improve or decrease labor efficiency. Labor Time Data Handbook #1 Best Seller for Job Hours Estimating, by individual work task for Lawn Bids, Lawn Care Service & Commercial Landscape Business Contractors, Commercial & Residential sites of any size acreage. Also useful to Parks & Recreation Grounds Maintenance Departments, Schools, Playground Maintenance, Facility Grounds Managers For: Lawn Care & Landscape Business Maintenance Estimates, Commercial Landscaper bids for cost comparisons, Lawn Maintenance Operators who Bid: Lawns, Bid Chemical Programs, Bid Lawn Renovations & seeding, Campus Lawns & Grounds Managers and industrial cost and labor accountng applications as well as public bid labor cost and job cost expectations. The labor time data Has over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for all grounds work, landscapes, lawn bids, service & landscaping and commercial grounds maintenance job estimating. Bid with more confidence, save time preparing bids using the labor hours time tables broken down by job criteria and know best crew size based on work assigned using a balanced labor crew time application that results in getting a full days work from lawn care & landscape employees, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for commercial grounds maintenance & landscape employees. Among many work task categories ... Includes labor hours for lawn Mowing, edging beds & walks, trimming shrubs, pruning plants & trees, snow plowing, ice control, tree planting, mulching beds, aeration, slit seeding, shrub beds, hardscapes, blowing leaves, lawn chemical applications, spring and fall cleanups, seed, flowers, and commercial lawn maintenance job tasks. Just about every job performed in a lawn mowing service landscaping business and grounds maintenance. Price and cost jobs fast using the daya by finding the lawn care, grounds maintenance or landscape job category, follow the tables for task time within the work category and developing a line-by-line job bid. When a lawn care or landscape job is finished, compare your budgeted hours gotten from the time tables with actual job time spent. Use the time tables to assign realistic daily work goals. Compile a month by month hourly work schedule for grounds maintenance work, landscape job tasks and know how many workers you need for mowing, cleanups, pruning, bed work etc. Post the labor hours to your customer records. Know the profitability of each custoemr account, see exactly where too much time was spent by work category. In the reference section capture and pinpoint job costs for lawn care, cleanups, edging, pruning, trimming, and all landscape and grounds maintenance work underway and use the outlines to recap labor costs, materials, direct costs and overhead costs. Use the landscape instalation formats as a guide to developing sequential, step by step work outlines for estimating landscape job costs and use these as a goal to plan and do the work each day that a landscape project is inderway and upon completion, compare budgeted goals or hours to actual hours the work took to completion.
Labor Time Data Table of Contents:
Introduction
How To Bid Contracts
Knowing The Scope of the Work
A Few Words About Profits
Units of Work
Service Frequency
Labor Times:
Aerification
Back Pack Spraying
Blowing
Cleanups
Dethatching
Edging
Grading
Granular Applications
Hydroseeding
Installing Flowers
Installing Pavers
Line Marking
Liquid Applications
Loading
Mowing
Mulching
Pavement Sweeping
Planting Shrubs & Trees
Pruning
Raking
Sanding & Salting
Seeding
Snow Blowing
Snow Plowing
Sodding
Staking & Guying
Stump Grinding
Trimming
Watering
Weeding
Reference Section:
Annual Sales Statistics
Calculating Equipment Costs
Employee Productivity
Fertilizer Recommendations
Mowing Height Recommendations
Grounds Maintenance Statistics
Labor Management
Landscape Construction Estimating
Non-Productive Time Cost Worksheet
Tables & Measures
MIscellaneous Formulas
Financial Formulas
Other
resources
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
Labor Time Data Handbook
Complete Operations Management System
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 and Job Estimating Strategies and Methods for 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 are from surveys conducted throughout the United States and covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating methods and trends for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers. Nilsson's Price Guidelines are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be. The price guides are also useful if you are not aware of lowballer pricing levels or have no experience dealing with lowball contractors.
Nilsson Associates Pricing Your Services Book is a good companion reference to the Job Pricing Guides as is the Job Estimating Bidding System that Nilsson offers for lawn and landscape business estimating methods & 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. Nilsson's books cover 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.
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Nilsson Associates - Toll Free 866-280-2252 - www.nilssonbooks.com
Phil Nilsson
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
374 Hart Street
Southington, CT 06489
Toll Free 866-280-2252
Nilsson's Job Estimating System 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.
The Snow Removal Business Book
Book # C-8, Price $39.50
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