So you are planning to put up a landscaping business despite your findings that based on statistics of out of ten new businesses nine are failures and their failures occur on the first year they started?, yes and why not since your greatest asset is you passion on that kind of work, you know the trade by art and have an identified sure market for your services. Your proposed venture is a service business and service enterprises are easy to manage and beside, the statistics gathered are not that small business like yours were included in the survey conducted in arriving to such findings.

Of course, you are very sure with your instincts that the odds are in your favor to succeed in landscaping and you would like to defy those findings in such a way that you are more than encouraged to pursue your business plans. There are several reasons and approaches to do your business easier than the others and that knowledge give you the edge to success than fail just like nine who failed when they started. Start your business in a different way from the others by starting with a small capital investment and minimal and controllable overhead and manage your business properly by keeping tabs on your operating expenses and formulate control or monitoring mechanism to get alerted. You would not encounter financial difficulties if you manage your business properly even during slow non productive periods which is the common pitfalls of businesses who cannot survive during slow periods because they started with big overheads that demands a large amount of money to meet like salaries of employees, rentals, and sometimes loan payments. You can always consider these factors in your business plans before starting your own.

If you are starting with little or no capital to start with landscaping business, you may consider the following guidelines in starting your own service business.

1. Study carefully the business about landscaping though you have a working knowledge about it because in an actual set-up it’s quite different and an additional learning about it would not be detrimental to your business. Your passion for gardening is an asset in your bag, but a deeper study of landscaping which may involve buying and sourcing of several types of materials like rocks, pebbles, garden soil and other planting materials might not be familiar ground for you. A little background information on who supply these items would a great help when you hit the road unto landscaping. A visit to your favorite bookstore for reference materials about the business would also help you built a wealth of knowledge in your head and surely would be an added tools in your arsenal of weapons when battling business adversaries that may put down your business later.

2. If you are still working, don’t quit your job; just find a way how to work on both as your business will take time to take off. Buy some basic used equipments only but shop wisely and if possible starting renting first until you have a customer base. Putting a considerable part of your budget on equipments would cause you serious problems later during lean months.

Having your own business at your own time is best alternative for a career change especially if suits your passion like landscaping.

Author Bio: This writer for Pool Prodigy is a leader in chlorinator systems and more specifically in pool chlorinator generators.

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