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75 Easy Ways to Make Money off season during the winter

No more waiting and depending on snow

No more being pressured making 12 months income in only 8 months time

You'll get 75 Easy Ways 100% Guaranteed and Proven to Make You Money!

End the cash poor off season
Make money during the one to four months of your yearly off season winter slow downs. Have the money you need to keep your business and personal bills current and the funds available to enjoy some well deserved vacation time off during the winter season.

Reduce your dependency on snow
Easily solve the question of "what if it doesn't snow" ? Or if it only slows a little or not even enough to pay for and make the snow equipment payments. Snow money can be "good money" but you can't count on it. Our off season Winter Income Producers will help you develop reliable incomes sources 12 months a year. Depending on where your lawn care service or landscape business is located, being without income during the two to four months off season can cause serious financial shortfalls and eat into profits you earn during the regular season and limit your company growth.

Keep employees working making money for you
Guarantee your cash flow if it doesn't snow or if it doesn't snow enough to pay all the bills. Off season Winter Income Producers will allow your employees to get paid and remain on your payroll and continue to earn a living. This one company benefit alone gives them even more reason to stay with and work for your company rather than seek employment elsewhere. Employees are far less likely to have accumulated the savings needed during the off season winter months. They may have no choice but to work the off season winter slow times on temporary jobs or find more stable, permanent jobs elsewhere.

Retain key people
Have the money to pay them to get them through the slow season on your payroll. Don't let your best, most productive, experienced employees walk out the door and go to work for somebody else. Having a constant turnover of employees means your business lacks experienced people who can provide your customers with quality work.

Eliminate the need to borrow
Money to get going in the spring and spending the following season paying it back. Use and reserve your credit lines and borrowing power to grow your business ... not pay for unproductive idle time that produces nothing.

Reduce employee turnover
Reduce employee training costs and loss of productive employees not returning to work when the winter off season ends. Don't chance losing your best and most productive workers when the season ends and hope to replace them next season.

Turn idle down time into added income
You'll get 75 of the easiest ways for lawn care service and landscapers to make money in the off season, and any one of them is enough to get you started. The good news is that most of them require little, if any investment. No long start up times either. There's something for everyone. Pick a money making method that satisfies your off season income cash flow needs.

And, even if you yourself decide to "kick back", relax and take it easy during the off season winter months, doesn't mean your employees can't continue to make money for you during your slow season. No matter where you live, no matter what your specialty within the landscape industry, you'll find something of interest. I guarantee it. My Winter Income Producers book is 100% satisfaction guaranteed to make money for you.

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Nilsson's Job Estimating Package 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. 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.

The Three Problems With Job Estimating and Bidding:

1. Understanding the scope of the work how to write job specifications, how to bid, how to sell to commercial & residential, what to charge for landscape installations, lawn care, lawn mowing, mulch, spring and fall cleanups, year around contracts, writing work proposals and customer job proposals.

2. Knowing the amount of time it will take to complete the work of mowing, lawn care, fertilizing, landscaping, plowing, irrigation systems, planting grass, shrubs, trees, and hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks in general.

3. Knowing the highest price you can get covring your costs, remaining competitive, and making a profit.

email nilsson.assoc@snet.net

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Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides makes pricing faster, easier, more accurate for lawn care, commercial grounds maintenance, mowing, and landscape installation projects. The Price List serves as a price reference tool when you're not sure what to charge, and as a valuable resource to compare your prices with landscape industry averages. Before making your final pricing decision, you'll have a reliable source to double check your price. The Job Pricing Guides shows current prices. You'll get prices for hundreds of job estimates in use by professional landscapers, lawn care, LCO's, Solo green industry contractors for job pricing information, job estimating, job cost, grounds maintenance budgets, work proposals for lawn, landscape installations, grounds maintenance, snow removal, pavement services, tree care, and hardscaping jobs. The Prices are from Price Surveys from all states in the U.S.

Lawn Care Services, Landscaping Contractors, new start up businesses, LCO's and industry veterans too, sometimes lose sight of current, competitive prices. They don't know what their competition charges. And, some haven't raised their prices for fear of losing customers, and aren't sure how much to increase prices. And, those just starting in the business have no job cost or pricing experience, and have no idea what to charge to make a profit, survive, and stay in business. Some unknowingly price too low and don't make enough money or price too high, and end up without enough customers to pay the bills. Use the Price Guides to avoid pricing too low ... avoid pricing too high ... remain profitable. The Guides outline individual line item prices, job criteria, work descriptions, quantities, price ranges, averages, and shows prices for the job categories below: The Job Price Guidelines are based on lawn and landscape contractor surveys conducted nationwide by Nilsson Associates.

Job Price Surveys cover AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY

Job Pricing Guides Have Prices For All These Jobs:
Aerate lawn square foot prices spike method aerating, over seed lawns, fertilize aeration jobs
Aeration lawn square foot pricing bids for core aerating method using aerator, remove cores prices, leave core plugs on lawns surface pricing
Back Pack prices Spot Spray lawn weeds, spraying shrub beds per square foot, treat curbs lineal feet pricing: pavement cracks, fencelines, sports fields, commercial, residential applications
Bak Pak prices bid spray shrub bed weeds, parking curbs, prices spraying pavement cracks, paved tennis courts, sports areas, bleachers
Bed Edging prices using edger machine per lineal foot, remove cut materials pricing for new beds, and pricing for re-edging existing beds
BobCat Work pricing per hour machine and operator, half day price, prices full day, fuel surcharge pricing, minimum charges, commercial, residential, delivery and pick up fees
Cement Curbing and Paved Areas prices curbing installed per lineal foot, stamped concrete designs per square foot, adding color prices
Cement Borders prices bid per lineal foot pricing installed to form shrub bed retaining border using curbing machine, divide lawns from pavement
Chemical Applications prices lawn fertilizer pricing, weed controls price, grubs, insects, fungicide, crabgrass, large acreage commercial prices, residential prices, discounts, prepaid contracts
Deck Wood prices bidding installation wood decks, composite, painting, preservative treating pricing, staining price, repairs to pressure treated pricing
Deicing prices salting walks, roads, driveways, lots price walkways, parking pavement areas, salted, deicing, price per square foot
Dethatching Lawns prices dethatch lawns, raking up lawn thatch debris, per square foot pricing , dump fees charges
Drain Gutter Cleaning pricing remove leaves, drains, downspouts debris, one story house, two story, three story buildings prices per lineal foot
Drain Gutters prices Install and hang new gutters price lineal foot
Drain Gutter pricing install screening guards price per lineal foot
Edging SideWalks price per lineal foot edge, cut, remove cut sidwewalk, walkway grass using edger machine
Edging Shrub Beds pricing per lineal foot using bed edging machine
Fall Leaf Cleanup prices raking lawns leaves, leaf bagging, cleaning beds, leaf blowing & removal pricing, leaf suction truck fees & hourly rates cleanups
Firewood prices sales bundles pricing
Firewood prices Face Cords price delivered, half cords, hardwoods
Firewood prices Bundles price retail display
Firewood prices Delivery extra pricing travel distance
Flowers prices Installation Flats pricing, perennials, annuals
Flower Pots pricing installation per plant price, priced per pot
Garden Weeds Grounds Maintenance pricing per square foot treated to kill weeds in planting beds, rows, prices spot spray
Grading Lawns prices grade soil, fill, spread, rake, soil spreading for lawns, shrub beds, install drains pricing, grading with dozer price,seeding
Ground Cover Plants prices Plants installed price per square foot installation
Ground Covers Mulch Install Mulch, bark price per cubic foot, cubic yard prices
Grounds Maintenance Cleanup pricing spring cleanups lawns, grounds price lawns raked, clean leaves & debris in beds, parking lots, walks, paved areas per square foot
Hardscapes prices install patios, stairs, walks square foot prices, retaining walls pricing, driveways, poolscape settings
Hourly Rates price lawn care grounds maintenance pricing hourly work rates
Hourly Rates pricing Landscape installations, renovations, design consultations, landscape makeovers
Hourly Rates prices Landscape design preparation price rates hourly and fixed
Hourly Rates prices Snow Plowing per hour using various size plows, various size trucks
Hydroseed prices spraying of prepared lawns pricing per square foot
Hydroseeding prices square foot prices for preparing soil, grading, filling, raking, weed elimination, spraying hydroseed materials
Hydroseeding price Materials cost/price per square foot
Install Sod Prices price per square yard installed on prepared ground, and apply fertilizer
Irrigation Installation Prices price install lawn sprinkler system pricing parts and labor
Irrigation prices repair sprinkler system hourly service rates lawns & beds prices labor and materials
Irrigation pricesWinterize price per blowout of zones
Irrigation prices Repair Rates hourly service prices
Irrigation prices Controller install, setup, program, prices
Landscape Designs Construction prices designing computer image landscapes, flat fees designs, landscape drawing fees, price, design consultation rates
Landscape Lighting Installs prices Design fees, installation labor pricing per fixture
Landscape Lighting Fixtures prices typical price install fixtures & materials, low voltage, transformer, design, installation pricing
Landscape Floodlights prices install price control module
Landscape Solar Lights prices Lighting pricing ranges garden lighting installed
Landscape Grading Drainage prices per square foot rough grade, fine grade, bull dozer rates, install landscaping filler and spread soil
Landscape Installations Prices pricing lawn installs using seed, sod, soil, grading, fertilizing, landscaping labor prices to plant shrubs & trees
Lawn Aerated price Spike method price
Lawn Aeration Cores price Core method price
Lawn Care Service prices
Lawn Care Estimates prices
Lawn Care Service Pricing prices Chemical App pricing fertilizers, weed killer controls, grubs, insecticides, fungicides, 3, 4, 5 treatment program pricing
Lawn Chemicals price Per Application pricing of fertilizer, lime, weed killers, insect, fungicide, grubs, per square foot prices
Lawns Fertilizer prices square foot pricing various fertilizer products
Lawn Mow prices using zero turn riders pricing per square foot mowed, commercial and residential accounts
Lawn Mowing prices using Walkbehind mowerws pricing per square foot mowed
Lawn Mowings prices using bat wing large area mowing per acre pricing
Lawn Weed prices Treatments of broad leaf weeds pricing
Lawn Treatment prices 3 to 5 step program prices - overseeding, slit seeding, hydroseeding spot repairs, renovation prices, hydroseeding
Lawn Chemical prices - per acre, large scale square foot pricing
Lawn Grub Control Apps per square foot price
Lawn Insecticide price per square foot treated
Lawn Renovations prices seeding, slit seeding, overseeding, hydroseeding, sodding, elimination of growth
Leaf Removal Fall prices raking lawns leaves, bagging, cleaning beds, leaf blowing & removal pricing, leaf suction truck fees & hourly rates, commercial, residential
Liquid Fertilizer Prices prices fertilizers, weed killers prices
Loam Installed prices for lawn building and planting beds installed price per square yard
Mowing prices 10,000 square foot residential lawn, mow, trim, edge, blow
Mow pricing 5,000 square foot residential lawn mow, trim, blow
Mowing prices per 1,000 square feet, lawn mow, trim, edge, blow
Mowing prices per minute price rate mow lawn, trim, edge, blow
Mowing pricing per square foot price lawn mow, trim, edge, blow
Mowing prices per acre pricing lawn mowing commercial properties, office parks, condos, gated communities, apartment complexes
Mowing prices rough field mowing per acre pricing
Mowing prices Lawn mowing Sports Fields, Football, Baseball, Soccer, Running Tracks, Racing
Mowing price Cemeteries lawn mowing, trimming average price per acre
Mulch prices Install mulch price per cubic yard 2inch to 4 inch depth cover
Mulches prices pine bark mulch install price per square feet light covering on surface
Mulching price pine needles price per bail installed, wood chips, pine bark mulch spread by hand, spread by blower
Mulch price Spraying Mulch per square foot pricing using blower service price per cubic yard
Organic prices Lawn fertlilizer typical pricing per square foot
Organics price Organic Lawn Care Programs price per square foot, weeds, fertilizer, insects, grubs applications, nematode treatments
Parking Lot prices parking lot line painting marking per line, per lineal foot pricing, commercial lots, garages, shopping malls
Parking Lot Sweeping prices sweeping sand and debris - price per square foot commercial parking lots, strip malls, retail shopping centers
Paving Installations prices hardscapes install price per square foot
Pavers Stone price per square foot installed
Pavers Concrete price per square foot installed
Pavement Sweeping price per square foot, one time service, monthly contracts, weekly service, sand removal, litter routes pricing
Pavement litter prices sweeping per square foot price, by machine and policing up by hand
Pavement line marking price per lineal foot painted, repainted
Planting Trees & Shrubs pricing price ranges of species, pricing depending on size of planting stock, ball size, height, guarantees offered
Power Washing & Steam pricing pressure washing prices power washing houses, vehicles, walks, truck fleets, pavement, price lists
Pressure washing prices power washing houses, vehicles, walks, truck fleets, pavement, price lists
Pruning shrubs prices per shrub based on size, height
Pruning trees prices per tree based on height, species
Pruning ornamental trees prices based on species
Putting Greens prices golf green Installations, pricing artificial synthetic turf per square foot price range installed
Retaining Walls prices presure treated wood installed per square foot
Retaining Walls pricing timbers price, lineal foot price, foot of face, engineering costs, geo grid costs, install rate labor per man day
Roto Tilling price turf, soil, gardens lawns, price per square foot
Roto Tilling price gardens priced per square foot
Salting prices roads, parking lots, prices per 50 pound bag, low temp ice melt, per ton salt applied price
Salting Walks, Roads, Driveways, Lots price: Walkways, parking pavement areas, salted, deicing, price per square foot
Sanding pricing roads, parking lots, prices per square foot, per ton sand applied price
Sanding prices walks sanded per square foot price
Sanding prices parking lots and roads sanded for ice control
Seed prices lawns overseeded per square foot price
Seeding price install wildflowers seed price per square foot
Site Work pricing hourly rates, fixed prices for grading, hauling, rock removal prior to establishing lawns, beds, drainseeding
Slit Seeding prices lawns per square foot price
Slit Seeding price large scale square footage pricing
Snow Plow price per hour based on size of plowing vehicle
Snow Plowing price ice control price ranges based on square feet
Snow Removal prices hauling off site trucking rates per hour
Snow Plowing price driveways typical price, average size driveway
Snow Plowing prices by the inch price base on square feet
Snow Plowing prices Snow Plowing per hour using various size plows, various size trucks
Snow Plowing prices by the storm based on square feet
Snow Plowing prices fixed seasonal rates price calculations examples
Snow Removal pricing for large facility plowing using End Loader, Bob Cat, Tandem Axel Dump, One Ton Dump w/plow
Snow Blowing Shoveling prices walks & driveways prices by square feet
Sod Lawn Installations prices lawns price per square foot, square yard, prices for fine grading soil, fertilizing area before installing sod
Sod Lawn Rolls price installed pricing, prices installing big rolls
Sod Lawn price from pallets, prices to install cut sod strips on prepared ground
Sodding Lawns price to supply soil, supply sod, grade area, fertilize, install sod price per square foot
Spraying Lawns prices spraying lawn fertilizers, weed controls, weed & feed products per square feet pricing
Spraying Lawns prices weeds sprayed price per square foot
Spraying Shrubs prices shrubs sprayed price per plant
Spraying Trees price trees sprayed price per tree size
Spraying Parking Lot Curbs price curb lines prices per lineal foot
Spring Cleanups Lawns, Grounds price lawns raked, clean leaves & debris in beds, parking lots, walks, paved areas prices per square foot
Sprinkler System prices repair sprinkler system hourly service rates lawns & beds pricing labor and materials
Stone Decorative Landscape price pea stone, installations for shrub beds, landscape areas prices per cubic yard
String Trim Lawns price steep lawns, slopes, banks, rough grassed areas cleanup prices per squre foot
String Trimming SideWalks price edging lawns, walks, walls, fences, pricing per lineal foot
String Trimming Obstacles price obstacles trimmed price per item
String Trimming Trees price per tree trimmed
Stump Grinding Tree Stumps prices prices per diameter of stump
Tree & Shrub Care Programs pricing fertilizing, insect control, price ranges under 5000 square feet, under 10,000 sf price, over 10,000 sf incremental pricing
Tree Trimming, Pruning prices ornamental trees prices by size of tree
Trimming Shrubs, Plants price per plant by size of shrub height
Trucking & Hauling Lawn & Landscape Business prices per hour by cubic yard capacity of truck
Turf Lawn Installs price per square yard installed
Turf Lawn Removal price per square foot turf removed
Turf Grass Repairs price per square foot using sod, using soil & seed/fert using fast patch in bags
Vegetation Management prices for weed control, growth control price ranges, airports, railroads, highways, systemic, post emergent weeds prices
Weeding shrub prices kill weeds in beds priced per square foot, pre-emergent prices per square foot, post emergent prices weed killers, commercial, residential accounts
Weeds in lawns pricing per square foot treated to kill weeds
Weeding Pavement prices weed killers parking lot cracks, patios, walks price per square foot, curbing, parking lot islands
Weeding Parking Lot prices curbs sprayed weeds with bak pack price per lineal feet on commercial lots and curblines, cracks in parking lot pavement

The Job Price Guidelines are based on lawn and landscape contractor surveys conducted nationwide by Nilsson Associates. Job Price Surveys cover AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY

The Price Guidelines are FREE to book customers at www.nilssonbooks.com

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Other
resources
Labor Time Data Handbook

Nilsson's Job Estimating Package 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. 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.

The Three Problems With Job Estimating and Bidding:

1. Understanding the scope of the work how to write job specifications, how to bid, how to sell to commercial & residential, what to charge for landscape installations, lawn care, lawn mowing, mulch, spring and fall cleanups, year around contracts, writing work proposals and customer job proposals.

2. Knowing the amount of time it will take to complete the work of mowing, lawn care, fertilizing, landscaping, plowing, irrigation systems, planting grass, shrubs, trees, and hundreds of grounds maintenance tasks in general.

3. Knowing the highest price you can get covring your costs, remaining competitive, and making a profit.

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.





email nilsson.assoc@snet.net

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.