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Starting a lawn care business.

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02-14-2007, 11:45 AM

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Beginner Mistakes from our friend Jim of promower.net

Here are some things beginners often get wrong:

Late Starts/Early Shut Downs: Students who mow sometimes think the season starts and ends with summer vacation. Wrong. As far north as Chicago, the “summer” season is about eight months long. Miss the extreme ends and you’ll lose both money and customers.

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