The E-Myth Contract Landscaper

Description

Running a successful landscape contractor company is a juggling act. You need expertise in your area of landscaping to provide services to clients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You have probably been well-prepared by your education and experience for the technical ins and outs of running a landscape contracting company. Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Landscape Contractor fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful company from scratch or maximizing an existing company’s performance. Loaded with practical, powerful advice you can easily use, this one-stop guide helps you realize all the benefits that come with a thriving landscape contracting business. Combining the wisdom of renowned business development expert Michael E. Gerber and the landscaping expertise of Anthony C. Bass, The E-Myth Landscape Contractor equips you to:

• Liberate yourself from the predictable and oen overwhelming tyranny of unprofitable, unproductive, and time-consuming routines
• Transform yourself from a successful landscaping technician (landscaper) into a successful landscaper-manager-entrepreneur
• Rethink your company, shifting from tactical thinking (working “in” your business) to strategic thinking (working “on” your business)
• Stop trading time for dollars
• Manage those processes through which people get things done, which becomes your Management System—for everything you do
• Implement innovative systems to produce consistent results as your company grows
• Take the sanctity of time seriously, blocking time for entrepreneurial work
• Create the story that becomes the heart of your company

Leading a landscape contracting business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and problems that landscape contractors at large firms do not seem to face. ­The E-Myth Landscape Contractor offers you a road map to create a landscape contracting business that’s self-sufficient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your business to levels you did not think possible with this unique guide!

About the Co-Author

ANTHONY C. BASS (Michael E. Gerber Partners) is an entrepreneur, inventor, author, consultant, and speaker. He built Bass Custom Landscapes from scratch, sold it for a seven-figure profit, and retired at age forty-one. The high-efficiency Super Lawn Trucks™ system Tony invented for his company is now used by contractors in forty-two US states and Canada. He has produced several audio and video training programs and five books, including Th­e Money Making Secrets of a Multi-Million Dollar Landscape Contractor. Tony lives with his wife, Lynn, and their children, Holly and Maxx, in Warner Robins, Georgia.