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Yes, I am new to gardening as a business, but not to running a business. In my husbands automotive businesss, we used to have a sign up:
Price per hour:
Price if you help:
Price if you worked on it first:
And all prices went up incrementally. Maybe I need to dig out that old sign. In that business, I was pretty good at markup, and upselling, and there was a flat rate book for time/labor.
Can you suggest a good book for estimating? I have been to the library and bookstores, have a lot of books on landscape design, but most seem to focus on hardscapes, and which I have no training for and have sense enough to know is totally out of my realm.
Yeah, $25 is probably cheap, but I'm a gardener, nothing else. I don't want to misrepresent myself nor do I want to get in over my head. At this rate, I can pick and choose my jobs and still stay busy. I've turned down several, my pet pieve is the "Oh, do this job cheap for me, and I'll get you a lot more jobs!"
You are right, this guy may be a big red flag. I didn't recognize him as such at first.
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