Why go into the lawn mowing business? There is a lot of money to be made for the amount of time you spend working. The lawn care industry is a $17 billion industry. There are a large number of potential clients including residential homes, hospitals, apartment complexes, business parks, golf courses, and shopping malls that require lawn maintenance.

Let’s talk about your slice of that $17 billion pie. If it takes you 30 minutes to mow, trim and edge a standard suburban yard, you charge $50 per yard and you mow 10 yards in a day, you earn $500. In my neighborhood the going rate is $60 for our lawns, so 10 lawns in a day would make you $600.

If you only worked on Saturdays 48 weeks of the year mowing 10 yards for $50 each, you would earn an extra $24,000 in a year. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Let’s compare that to a non-professional full-time job. If you worked a full-time job for $10 per hour 40 hours per week for 50 weeks a year, you would earn $20,000.

If you ran your commercial lawn mower business 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year and cut 8 yards per day for $50 each, you would earn $96,000 before taxes.

Being a commercial lawn mower is a good business to have part-time to supplement income or a great business to have full-time if you want to work for yourself and really enjoy the outdoors. Many areas of the country require mowing during 3 seasons. Here in the south we mow all 4 seasons. Although we mow less during the winter months, we still have to mow if the weather stays warm.

How does one get into the commercial lawn mowing business? There are several guides available, but the best starter guide I’ve found is How to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns.

Another good guide is from Entrepreneur’s Magazine Startup Series entitled Start Your Own Lawn Care Business.

This must-have step-by-step guide will show you:

• How to target your market
• What equipment you’ll need
• How to hire and manage employees
• Record-keeping and accounting
• Where to find working capital
• How to estimate jobs
• And more

If you’re able-bodied and enjoy working outdoors, you owe it to yourself to get the inside scoop on earning a great living working for yourself and setting your own work days and hours.

Get your copy of How to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns today!

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