Nilsson Associates
09-24-2006, 07:22 AM
Job Estimating & Bidding System
For:
Commercial Lawn Care Service Companies & Landscape Contractors developing grounds maintenance and landscape installation work job bids and job estimates for all landscape, grounds maintenance and installations for residential and commercial properties.
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.
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.
How to order
Job Estimating Package
Consists of 4 books
Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
You save $41.00 when you buy the Package
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
To order by phone call toll free 1-866-280-2252
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gif
Job Estimating Package Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
The FREE Job Pricing Guidelines shows Current Prices (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) in use by lawn care service and landscape business for bidding and estimating lawn care & grounds maintenance jobs, lawn mowing, using riding turf care tractors, and commercial lawn mowing equipment. Includes prices for bidding and estimating lawn work, edging lawns, edging walks, edging shrub beds. spring cleanups, fall leaf cleanups of lawns and grounds and pavement, pine straw mulching woodchips for mulching beds. Grounds maintenance and landscape work prices shown include equipment servicing, grass planting, lawn sodding, seeding lawns, weeding lawns and weeding shrub beds, weeding curbs and blacktop areas, planting shrubs, snow removal and ice management, salting for ice control, trimming lawn obstacles, pruning shrubs and ornamental trees, and shows you prices for hundreds of items you bid on.
Job Pricing Guidelines Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Back Pak Spraying lawns, shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Cement Curbing Installation
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Flower Installations
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Work Rates on lawn care service & landscape business
Hydroseeding of lawns
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & 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 Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing of lawns using walkbehinds, ztr, riders, trim mowers
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 ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls 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 Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weed Controls in beds and lawns
Other resources ...
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
What Your Colleagues Say ...
"Nilsson Associates provides an important source of information, a highly respected PLCAA Consultant, and Best Selling author with our membership."
Professional Lawn Care Association of America
"Nilsson has some of the best ideas for the green industry ... their books have comprehensive in-depth coverage, knowledgeable step-by-step approach for business improvement"
PRO Magazine
"Our members have found your books extremely helpful. Thanks for your insight and creativity"
Professional Grounds Management Society
"Nilsson's books are must reads, and have helped our readers tremendously. Thanks for your continued support."
Landscaper Publications
"Your way of explaining the subject shows you know what we need to do to make money in this business, thanks."
H.L., Madison, Wisconsin
"Nilsson's series of books filled a void in our program ... Our students needed more insight into management, costs, profits, and how to successfully operate a business.
University of Tennessee, Horticulture Dept.
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gifNilsson Associates has the information you need to acquire customers, estimate and bid the work correctly, operate your business on a professional level, (http://nilssonbooks.com/) and make it a success. We offer the Largest Resources available in the Lawn and Landscape Business. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage a small or large business, simple or complex lawn care, landscape business doing millions in sales!
No mattter what lawn care, maintenance or landscape services you offer, we have the information you need to save you time and money. Take a look at our extensive line of books, audios, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associates home page (http://nilssonbooks.com/). The index of solutions includes categories dealing with estimating and bidding lawn care and landscaping, best lawn mowers, maximizing profits in lawn mowing and landscape installation work including seeding lawns, hydroseeding lawns, sodding lawns, slit seeding and drilling, lawn care service job bidding & pricing, what lawn tractors and equipment to buy, seed to use for lawns, grass types, lawn chemicals, lawn fertilizers, lawn pesticides, lawn herbicides, managing landscape company operations, installing irrigation, snow plowing, planting 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 (http://nilssonbooks.com/about_the_author.htm) 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 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.
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
How to order
Job Estimating Package
Consists of 4 books
Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
You save $41.00 when you buy the Package
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
To order by phone call toll free 1-866-280-2252
Other
resources:
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
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.
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
Click here for: Labor Time Data Handbook (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#)
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gif
For:
Commercial Lawn Care Service Companies & Landscape Contractors developing grounds maintenance and landscape installation work job bids and job estimates for all landscape, grounds maintenance and installations for residential and commercial properties.
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.
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.
How to order
Job Estimating Package
Consists of 4 books
Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
You save $41.00 when you buy the Package
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
To order by phone call toll free 1-866-280-2252
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gif
Job Estimating Package Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
The FREE Job Pricing Guidelines shows Current Prices (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) in use by lawn care service and landscape business for bidding and estimating lawn care & grounds maintenance jobs, lawn mowing, using riding turf care tractors, and commercial lawn mowing equipment. Includes prices for bidding and estimating lawn work, edging lawns, edging walks, edging shrub beds. spring cleanups, fall leaf cleanups of lawns and grounds and pavement, pine straw mulching woodchips for mulching beds. Grounds maintenance and landscape work prices shown include equipment servicing, grass planting, lawn sodding, seeding lawns, weeding lawns and weeding shrub beds, weeding curbs and blacktop areas, planting shrubs, snow removal and ice management, salting for ice control, trimming lawn obstacles, pruning shrubs and ornamental trees, and shows you prices for hundreds of items you bid on.
Job Pricing Guidelines Includes Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Back Pak Spraying lawns, shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Cement Curbing Installation
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Flower Installations
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Work Rates on lawn care service & landscape business
Hydroseeding of lawns
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & 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 Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing of lawns using walkbehinds, ztr, riders, trim mowers
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 ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls 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 Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weed Controls in beds and lawns
Other resources ...
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
What Your Colleagues Say ...
"Nilsson Associates provides an important source of information, a highly respected PLCAA Consultant, and Best Selling author with our membership."
Professional Lawn Care Association of America
"Nilsson has some of the best ideas for the green industry ... their books have comprehensive in-depth coverage, knowledgeable step-by-step approach for business improvement"
PRO Magazine
"Our members have found your books extremely helpful. Thanks for your insight and creativity"
Professional Grounds Management Society
"Nilsson's books are must reads, and have helped our readers tremendously. Thanks for your continued support."
Landscaper Publications
"Your way of explaining the subject shows you know what we need to do to make money in this business, thanks."
H.L., Madison, Wisconsin
"Nilsson's series of books filled a void in our program ... Our students needed more insight into management, costs, profits, and how to successfully operate a business.
University of Tennessee, Horticulture Dept.
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gifNilsson Associates has the information you need to acquire customers, estimate and bid the work correctly, operate your business on a professional level, (http://nilssonbooks.com/) and make it a success. We offer the Largest Resources available in the Lawn and Landscape Business. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage a small or large business, simple or complex lawn care, landscape business doing millions in sales!
No mattter what lawn care, maintenance or landscape services you offer, we have the information you need to save you time and money. Take a look at our extensive line of books, audios, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associates home page (http://nilssonbooks.com/). The index of solutions includes categories dealing with estimating and bidding lawn care and landscaping, best lawn mowers, maximizing profits in lawn mowing and landscape installation work including seeding lawns, hydroseeding lawns, sodding lawns, slit seeding and drilling, lawn care service job bidding & pricing, what lawn tractors and equipment to buy, seed to use for lawns, grass types, lawn chemicals, lawn fertilizers, lawn pesticides, lawn herbicides, managing landscape company operations, installing irrigation, snow plowing, planting 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 (http://nilssonbooks.com/about_the_author.htm) 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 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.
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
How to order
Job Estimating Package
Consists of 4 books
Includes FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
You save $41.00 when you buy the Package
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
To order by phone call toll free 1-866-280-2252
Other
resources:
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
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.
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
Click here for: Labor Time Data Handbook (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#)
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