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Do you want the freedom to be your own boss, create your own culture, and accomplish your life dreams? Have you ever dreamed of working outdoors in a time-proven profitable industry? Did you know that with the right systems, you can manage a beautiful business from the beach? Have you already started your own lawn company and need some advice for the next step?
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Lawn Maintenance and the Beautiful Business will teach you how to bring in repeat customers, which equipment is best for your new business, when to start your business, what types of employees to hire, the marketing strategies that REALLY work, how to manage your business, what to do during the winter months, and what it takes to create a beautiful business. Lawn Maintenance and the Beautiful Business even has a chapter dedicated to those who don't yet have a driver's license but are committed to starting their own business.
If you desire to be the master of your own destiny, listen to Lawn Maintenance and the Beautiful Business to see how you can make this desire a reality!
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Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late 20th century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
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Capitalism Is The Way
- By Nathan Ruff on 04-14-19
By: John Huey, and others
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No More Mondays
- Fire Yourself -- And Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work
- By: Dan Miller
- Narrated by: Dan Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For everyone who dreads going to work on Monday mornings, inspiring advice on how to find fulfilling work in an uncertain age. Do you hate Mondays? If so, what's keeping you at your current job? If you said a steady paycheck and the promise of a secure retirement, then you're in for a big disappointment. In today's volatile economy, there is nothing safe about punching the clock for a job you hate.
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"No More Mondays"
- By Sandra on 03-09-09
By: Dan Miller
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Small Giants
- Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: Bo Burlingham
- Narrated by: Bo Burlingham, Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.
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fantastic book for small company builders
- By Amazon Customer on 08-01-17
By: Bo Burlingham
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- Seth W. Hudson
- 08-06-20
Absolute MUST Read for anyone considering entering the Lawn Business
Very well written and read. This provides a roadmap for starting a lawn maintenance business and making it efficient.
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- Squirrel
- 10-12-20
A lot of good information.
Good information. I just feel the author was pushing a specific companies software a little too hard throughout the book though.
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- Steven Davidson
- 08-21-15
very good
The first 3/4th were very good and the last 1/4 was a little all over the place, overall it was very good. The narrator has a nice voice but could have pronounced better, a lot of words had a strange accent and you had to think for a second to realize what he was trying to say which was distracting.
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- trey padgett
- 08-11-22
Sound advice
Great information. Probably could have used a better narrator for the bulk of the audience, but it worked. Put in the man "r"'s required and you'll get something out of it.
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- Graham Ducke Oldreive
- 06-15-15
Great book Horrible reader
Morris Hull made this book a chore to get through. He mispronounced words missed any sense of humour. His voice makes me want to fall asleep.
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- Jonathan Wright
- 11-14-19
The real point
The real point to this book, was the use of his Mexican workers... and imported cheap labour.
Lots chat chat but not a lot of depth to business education.
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