Robert A. Welcome
A COMPLETE GUIDE
Recommended for Ages 15 and Older
This book explains how to start and operate your own lawn mowing business:
It shows the easiest ways to get customers . . .
How to set prices . . .
How to make the most income per hour of work . . .
How to keep a simple schedule and much more . . .
Tells you everything you need to know . . .
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When done on a part-time basis, there are no tight schedules.
Grass can be cut at your own convenience, without interfering with other activities.
Grass grows and work is available during three seasons of the year.
There is practically no investment if you already have a mower.
Expected earnings can be three to four times higher than the minimum wage rate of pay, sometimes much more.
The author is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, with a B.S. Degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering. He was employed with GE Aerospace Industries, 30 years, where he enjoyed a wide variety of responsibilities. He was a Design Engineer; a Systems Engineer; a Test-Berth Director; a Cost Analyst; and he held several business development and management positions. He also was the GE Rep to the International Society of Parametric Analyst (ISPA), a prestigious, high-level, corporate appointment to do international analyses and reporting work for both the U.S. Government and GE-related enterprises (associated with the Department of Defense). During his last 15-years of employment he worked on advanced plans and programs and authored many documents for GE and the U.S. Government.
In his private life, he and his wife, Janice, raised three children. The children (Michael, John and Angela) were raised with a sense of knowing what it is to be in their own business. Each of them had their own paper routes. They also shared in a night-crawler sales business and in a business of selling U.S. postage stamps in vending machines in 11 local retail stores. This eventually led to his son John, at age 14, wanting to start a lawn-mowing business. After four years of effort to perfect John’s business, and to track and record all the data, this book was written.
Reviews
Unexpected offerings from grass roots ...journey to the land of publishing gems, ...some wonderful tips.
San Francisco Chronicle
A lawn mower’s route to success.
Charlotte Observer
...presents classic summertime employment...as a profitable and challenging junior business.
Boston Globe (Sunday Magazine)
...guides teens to summer profits.
Springfield Republican
[There are] tables to help the reader make profitable estimates and offers … field-tested advice.
Miami Herald
Lawn mowing tycoon ...illustrated guide explaining how to start and operate a lawn-mowing business.
Boston Globe
This is absolutely everything you need to know: equipment, technique, and how to set up and run the business. Written for, but certianly not limited to, the average 15-year old.
Whole Earth Review
· This book has received favorable reviews
· It has been on the market for 25 years as a
perennial, good seller.
· The Boy Scouts of America was interested in a
“buy-out” ( which was refused).
· The book was used by Purdue University as a business-
start-up book for Landscape Architecture students.
· It is used mostly by students for summer work and others
as a main-stay business during three seasons.
· In short, it has become a “classic” book for starting and operating a lawn-mowing business.
