Updated September 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team
What it actually costs, how to register and insure it, what to charge so the work is profitable rather than merely busy, how to win the first clients, and how to survive the cash-flow gap that ends most first years. Written for someone who can do the work and needs to build the business around it.
The short answer
Landscaping is one of the cheapest real businesses to start and one of the harder ones to make profitable. The work is straightforward and the failure modes are financial: underpricing, buying equipment before demand exists, and running out of cash in March. This guide is organized around avoiding those three.
Who this is for
Someone who can already do the work — or can learn quickly — and needs the business side: registration, insurance, pricing, client acquisition and cash flow. If you have never operated a commercial mower, work a season for someone else first. It is the cheapest education available.
The honest assessment
Most people who start a landscaping business end up with a demanding job rather than a business, because they price the work at what competitors charge instead of at what it costs them plus profit. The difference between those two approaches is the difference between one truck forever and a company you could eventually sell.
Is this a good business to start?
It is worth being clear-eyed before spending anything. The advantages are real and so are the constraints.
| In favor | Against |
|---|---|
| Low barrier to entry — you can start solo with used equipment | Low barrier means constant new competition, much of it underpriced |
| Recurring revenue from maintenance contracts | Maintenance carries the thinnest margins of any service line |
| Demand is genuinely stable; grass grows regardless of the economy | Strongly seasonal in most of the country |
| Cash flow is fast on residential work | Commercial work pays in 30-60 days while your costs are weekly |
| Skills are learnable without formal qualification | Some services — irrigation, pesticides, tree work — are licensed |
| Clear route to higher margins via installation and hardscaping | Those routes need capital, skill and equipment |
| Local market; you compete with neighbors, not national firms | Weather can remove a fortnight’s revenue with no notice |
The realistic income picture
A competent solo operator with a full route can gross roughly $60,000 to $100,000 in a season and take home meaningfully less after equipment, fuel, insurance and tax. Two or three crews run well is where the business starts producing an owner’s income separate from an operator’s wage, and reaching that generally takes two to four years.
What separates the ones that work
Pricing discipline, route density, and a willingness to fire unprofitable clients. Not equipment, not marketing spend, and not working harder. Every operator who has been at it ten years will tell you some version of this, and almost every new one ignores it for two seasons.
What it costs to start
You can begin with a pickup, a walk-behind mower and a trimmer, or you can spend $50,000 before the first invoice. The sensible path buys good used equipment and holds back a genuine cash reserve.
| Item | Lean start | Solid start | Crew-ready |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle | $4,000 used pickup | $9,000 used truck | $25,000 truck |
| Trailer | $1,200 open | $3,000 open 16ft | $7,000 enclosed |
| Primary mower | $1,500 used walk-behind | $4,500 commercial walk-behind | $10,000 stand-on or rider |
| Handheld equipment | $900 | $2,200 | $4,000 with spares |
| Insurance (year one) | $1,200 | $1,800 | $4,500 incl. workers comp |
| Registration and licensing | $300 | $600 | $1,200 |
| Marketing | $500 | $1,500 | $4,000 |
| Working capital | $2,500 | $5,000 | $15,000 |
| TOTAL | ~$12,100 | ~$27,600 | ~$70,700 |
Buy used, but buy commercial
Homeowner-grade equipment fails under commercial hours and the replacement cost exceeds the saving within a season. A used commercial mower is almost always a better purchase than a new residential one at the same price. Check hours, service history and deck condition rather than appearance.
The working capital reserve is not optional
Your clients pay on their schedule and your fuel, payroll and repairs happen on theirs. A transmission failure in June is a five-figure event that arrives with no notice. Operators who start with no reserve usually survive the first breakdown by taking on debt at bad terms, and that debt shapes the next three years.
Financing, briefly
Equipment dealers offer financing that is convenient and rarely cheap. The SBA loan programs are slower and materially better priced for anyone who qualifies. Guidance on estimating what you need is in the SBA’s startup cost calculator.
Registering the business
Do this before the first job, not after. Working uninsured and unregistered exposes personal assets to any claim, and many clients will not hire you without proof of both.
- Choose a structure — for most landscapers this is an LLC, for the liability separation
- Register with your state’s business filing office and pay the formation fee
- Obtain an Employer Identification Number from the IRS, which is free and takes minutes
- Open a business bank account and never mix it with personal spending
- Register for state and local tax accounts, including sales tax where services are taxable
- Obtain any municipal business license your city or county requires
- Get the service-specific licenses you need before advertising those services
- Set up bookkeeping from day one rather than reconstructing it next April
Why an LLC rather than a sole proprietorship
Landscaping involves heavy equipment, chemicals and work on other people’s property. A sole proprietorship puts your house behind every claim. The SBA’s guide to business structures covers the trade-offs, and the formation cost is trivial against the exposure.
The EIN takes ten minutes and is free
Apply directly through the IRS EIN application. Third-party services charge for something the IRS provides at no cost. You need it for a business bank account and for payroll when you hire.
Sales tax on services varies by state
Some states tax landscaping services, some tax only materials, and some distinguish maintenance from installation. Getting this wrong accumulates a liability quietly for years. Check your own state’s department of revenue specifically rather than relying on general advice.
Licenses you may need beyond a business registration
| Service | Typically requires | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mowing and maintenance | Business license only | Lowest regulatory barrier |
| Pesticide and herbicide application | State applicator license | Testing required; penalties for unlicensed work are severe |
| Fertiliser application | State license in many states | Often bundled with the pesticide license |
| Irrigation installation | Contractor or plumbing license | Backflow prevention is separately certified in many areas |
| Landscape lighting | Electrical license for line voltage | Low-voltage work is often exempt |
| Tree removal | Arborist or tree service license | Insurance requirements are much higher |
| Hardscaping and retaining walls | Contractor license above a value threshold | Walls above a certain height need engineering |
| Snow removal | Usually none | Insurance requirements are the real constraint |
Pesticides are the one to take seriously
Applying restricted materials without a license carries fines that can exceed a season’s profit and, in some states, criminal exposure. The EPA’s pesticide guidance sets the federal frame and states administer certification. If you intend to spray, get certified before you advertise it.
Check thresholds, not just categories
Many contractor licensing rules trigger above a project value — commonly somewhere between $500 and $5,000. A business doing only mowing may need nothing; the moment it builds a patio it may need a license it did not know existed. Check the threshold in your state before quoting the work, not after winning it.
Insurance, and what actually gets claimed
Landscaping insurance is not a formality. Property damage claims are common, and the ones that hurt are the ones people assume are covered and are not.
| Cover | Typical annual cost | What it is for | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| General liability | $800-2,000 | Property damage and injury to others | Commercial clients demand a certificate |
| Commercial auto | $1,200-3,000 | Vehicles used for business | A personal policy will deny a work claim |
| Inland marine / equipment | $300-800 | Theft or damage to mowers and tools | Cheap relative to what it protects |
| Workers compensation | Varies by payroll | Employee injury | Required in nearly every state once you hire |
| Pesticide / herbicide liability | $400-1,200 | Chemical drift and misapplication | Excluded from most general liability policies |
| Umbrella | $500-1,500 | Excess above other policies | Often required by commercial contracts |
The three claims that catch people out
- A stone thrown by a mower through a car or house window — extremely common, and cheap to cover
- Herbicide drift damaging a neighbor’s planting, which general liability usually excludes
- A vehicle accident while working, denied because the truck was on a personal auto policy
Get the certificate before you need it
Commercial and municipal clients will ask for a certificate of insurance naming them as an additional insured, often at the quoting stage. Not having one ready costs you the bid. The SBA’s business insurance guide covers the basics of what to carry.
Choosing your services
The temptation is to offer everything. The better approach is to start with one or two things you can do profitably and add lines as capability and demand justify them.
Maintenance is the floor, not the plan
Recurring mowing contracts fill the calendar and stabilize cash flow, and they carry the thinnest margins and the fiercest competition in the industry. Treat maintenance as the base that funds the week, and build margin through cleanups, mulch, aeration and eventually installation work.
Mulch is the most under-rated service line
It is high margin per hour, requires no license, needs almost no additional equipment, and it visibly transforms a property, which means existing maintenance clients buy it readily. For a first-year operator it is usually the fastest available margin improvement.
When to add installation
Once you have a stable maintenance route, a reliable crew and enough working capital to fund materials before payment. Installation work pays far better and consumes cash first. Taking on a large installation before you can fund the materials is how profitable businesses end up insolvent.
Pricing, which decides everything
More landscaping businesses fail from underpricing than from lack of work. The correct method is to calculate what an hour costs you and add profit, not to look at what the operator down the road charges.
How to work out your true hourly cost
- Add every fixed annual cost — insurance, licensing, phone, software, accounting, advertising
- Add equipment replacement — purchase price divided by realistic life in years
- Estimate your genuinely billable hours for the year, which is far fewer than you think
- Divide total overhead by billable hours to get overhead per hour
- Add labor at a real wage including payroll taxes, not what is left over
- Add fuel and vehicle cost per hour including travel between jobs
- Add your target profit margin on top of all of it
- That number is your minimum rate. Anything below it is a loss you have not noticed yet
Billable hours are the number everyone gets wrong
A forty-hour week does not contain forty billable hours. Travel, loading, equipment maintenance, quoting, invoicing and weather routinely remove a quarter to a third. Pricing against forty when you bill twenty-eight guarantees a shortfall that shows up as an unexplained empty bank account in August.
Per-job pricing beats hourly for maintenance
Quote the job rather than the hour once you know your times. It rewards efficiency — as you get faster you earn more per hour rather than less — and clients prefer a predictable figure. Track actual time against quoted time for the first season so the quotes get accurate.
Raise prices annually, without apology
Fuel, insurance, wages and equipment all rise every year. A business that does not raise prices is choosing to shrink its margin annually. A three to five percent increase, announced in writing before the season, loses almost no clients. Not doing it is the slowest and most common way to end up working for nothing.
Winning your first clients
The first ten clients are the hardest and they should be chosen for geography rather than enthusiasm.
Route density is the whole strategy
Fifteen clients spread across a county earns less than eight on adjacent streets, because unbillable drive time destroys margin. Pick a small target area and saturate it. Turning down work outside your area feels wrong in year one and is almost always correct.
What actually works to get started
- Door-hangers on the streets you have chosen, distributed the week before the season starts
- A lettered truck, which is the cheapest continuous advertising available
- A complete Google Business Profile with real photographs of your own work
- Asking every client for one referral, specifically, once the work is done well
- Local community groups, where recommendations travel fast
- Approaching property managers, who control multiple properties at once
- Neighbor-of-a-client outreach — the highest conversion rate available to you
The neighbor method
When you finish a job, knock on the four nearest doors and offer a quote. They have just watched you work, the property looks good, and you are already on the street. Conversion is several times higher than any cold approach and the resulting clients are perfectly placed for route density.
Photograph everything from day one
Before and after photographs of your own work are the single most persuasive marketing asset a landscaping business has, and they cost nothing. Take them on every job whether or not you have anywhere to put them yet. In two years you will have a portfolio competitors cannot match.
Marketing once you are established
Once the route is stable, marketing shifts from finding any client to finding better ones.
- A full landscaping marketing program covering search, local and paid
- Search optimization aimed specifically at landscaping searches
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile management
- A website that converts rather than just existing
- Paid search for high-intent local terms
- Review generation and response, which drives local ranking
Google Business Profile is the highest-return hour you will spend
For a local service business it outperforms almost everything else per unit of effort. Complete every field, add photographs of real work weekly, respond to every review, and use the posts feature. It is free and most competitors maintain theirs badly.
Reviews are the local ranking currency
Ask every satisfied client, in person, at the moment the work is finished and the property looks its best. A steady flow of recent reviews outranks a higher score with nothing new, and responding to every one — including the occasional bad one — matters more than most operators realize.
Seasonality and cash flow
This is where first years end. The revenue is seasonal and most of the costs are not.
The February problem
Insurance renews, equipment needs servicing, and no money is coming in. Every landscaping business faces this and the ones that survive planned for it in October. Set aside a fixed percentage of peak-season revenue specifically for the winter months and treat it as untouchable.
Level billing smooths it
Offer annual maintenance contracts billed in twelve equal monthly payments rather than only during the mowing season. Clients like the predictability, and it converts a nine-month revenue curve into a twelve-month one. This single change removes most of the cash-flow risk from the business.
Winter options
- Snow removal, which uses the same trucks and fills the dead months
- Holiday lighting installation, which is high margin and genuinely seasonal
- Firewood, gutter clearing and storm cleanup
- Equipment maintenance and next-season planning, which is not revenue but prevents cost
- Selling and signing next season’s contracts, which is the highest-value winter work
Be careful with snow
Snow work is lucrative in a heavy winter and can lose money in a mild one, particularly on seasonal-rate contracts where you are paid a fixed amount regardless of snowfall. Per-push pricing transfers that risk to the client. Understand which one you have signed.
Contracts and getting paid
A one-page written agreement prevents most disputes and costs nothing.
What the agreement should contain
- Exactly what is included, and specifically what is not
- Frequency and the schedule, including what happens after rain
- Price, payment terms and what late payment costs
- How either party ends the arrangement and with what notice
- What happens if the property is inaccessible or the gate is locked
- Who is responsible for damage to irrigation heads, cables and hidden fixtures
- Whether materials are billed separately and at what markup
Take deposits on installation work
Never fund a client’s materials out of your own cash. Fifty percent up front on installation projects is standard and reasonable, and a client who will not pay a deposit is telling you something useful about how the final invoice will go.
Automate maintenance billing
Card or bank auto-pay on recurring maintenance removes the single most tedious and expensive part of running the business. The small processing fee costs far less than the hours spent chasing payment, and it dramatically improves cash flow predictability.
Hiring your first employee
The decision to hire is the point at which a job becomes a business, and it is more expensive than most people budget for.
The real cost of an employee
A worker paid $20 an hour costs meaningfully more once payroll taxes, workers compensation insurance and unproductive time are included — commonly 25 to 40 percent above the wage. Pricing that assumed the wage alone will produce a crew that is busy and unprofitable.
Employee or contractor
Misclassifying workers as contractors to avoid payroll tax and workers compensation is common in this industry and is expensive when discovered. The Department of Labor’s guidance sets out the tests. If you control their hours, provide the equipment and direct the work, they are an employee regardless of what the paperwork says.
Hire before you are desperate
Hiring in July because you are drowning produces bad hires. The better pattern is to hire in early spring when you can train properly, absorb the learning curve and let them become productive before peak season.
Safety is a real cost and a real risk
Landscaping has genuinely high injury rates. Basic training, hearing and eye protection and clear procedures for equipment use are cheap. The OSHA small business resources cover the obligations, and workers compensation rates fall over time for operators with clean records.
Systems and software
Paper works for ten clients and fails at forty. Put systems in early, while switching is cheap.
| Function | When it starts hurting | What to use |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling and routing | Around 15-20 clients | Dedicated field service software |
| Quoting | Immediately | Templates with your real costs built in |
| Invoicing and payment | Immediately | Automated recurring billing |
| Job costing | End of first season | Actual time and materials against quoted |
| Bookkeeping | Day one | Accounting software, reconciled monthly |
| Client communication | Around 25 clients | Automated arrival and completion notifications |
| Equipment maintenance | Second season | A simple log; unplanned failure is far costlier |
Job costing is what separates guessing from managing
Recording actual hours and materials per job against what you quoted turns pricing from an opinion into a measurement. Most operators discover at the end of their first season that two or three clients have been losing money all year. You cannot fix that without the data.
Scaling beyond yourself
Going from one truck to two is the hardest transition in the business, and doing it too early is a more common failure than doing it too late.
The signals that you are ready
- You are consistently turning away profitable work in your target area
- Your route is dense enough that a second crew would not spend the day driving
- You have working capital to cover payroll for two months without revenue
- Your pricing includes real profit, not just a wage for yourself
- You have written procedures somebody else could follow
- Job costing shows which work is profitable, so you know what to give the second crew
Fire your worst clients annually
At the end of each season, rank every client by profit per hour and drop the bottom three. It feels counterintuitive and it is the most reliable single profit improvement available, because it frees your best hours for better-paying work in the same area.
Mistakes that end first years
Pricing against competitors instead of costs
The operator down the road may be losing money without knowing it. Copying their price copies their mistake. Calculate your own number and hold it.
Buying equipment before demand exists
A financed rider mower with no route to justify it is a monthly payment against seasonal income. Let revenue justify each purchase.
Taking every job anywhere
Route density is the profit lever. A client forty minutes away has to pay for the eighty minutes of unbillable driving, and they will not.
No working capital
One equipment failure or one slow-paying commercial client is enough. A reserve is what turns a crisis into an inconvenience.
Working uninsured ‘just for the first few jobs’
One thrown stone through a windscreen costs more than a year of premiums, and a claim against an unregistered business reaches personal assets.
Not tracking job times
Without actual times against quotes you cannot know which work is profitable, so every pricing decision afterwards is a guess.
Never raising prices
Costs rise every year. Holding prices flat is a decision to earn less annually, taken passively and usually unnoticed until it is severe.
Mixing personal and business money
It makes bookkeeping impossible, weakens the liability protection an LLC is supposed to provide, and makes tax season far more expensive.
Your first ninety days, concretely
Weeks one to four
Form the entity, get the EIN, open the business account, bind insurance. Work out your true hourly cost on paper before buying anything. Decide your target service area — a few adjacent neighborhoods, not a county.
Weeks five to eight
Buy used commercial equipment. Letter the truck. Set up the Google Business Profile with real photographs. Build quote templates using your calculated costs. Distribute door-hangers in the target area before the season starts.
Weeks nine to thirteen
Start work. Track actual times on every job from the first day. Ask every client for a review and one referral. Knock on neighboring doors after each completed job. Reprice anything that is clearly losing money rather than hoping it averages out.
Landscaping conferences and industry events
Answer first: industry events are worth attending mainly for suppliers and equipment rather than for the sessions. For a small landscaping business the practical value is seeing machinery in person, negotiating with suppliers, and meeting subcontractors — none of which happen online.
Somebody searching landscaping conferences 2026 wants a list with dates. Rather than publish specific landscaping conferences for a given year, which dates and venues make stale quickly, the useful advice is where to look: the national and state trade associations for your sector publish their own event calendars, and equipment manufacturers publish where they will be exhibiting. Both are current by definition in a way that a third-party list is not.
What to get out of an industry event
- Supplier pricing conversations you cannot have by email.
- Machinery you are considering, operated rather than described.
- Subcontractors and crew contacts for the busy season.
- One or two specific operational problems solved by somebody who has had them.
- Certification or training that has a genuine commercial value locally.
Questions about starting a landscaping business
Writing a landscaping business plan
Answer first: a landscape business plan needs to answer four questions — what you sell, who buys it, what it costs to deliver, and how many jobs you need to cover your fixed costs. Everything else in a landscaping business plan is supporting detail, and most templates bury those four under sections nobody reads.
| Section | What it must answer | What goes wrong |
|---|---|---|
| Services | Exactly what you sell, and what you refuse | A list so broad it prices nothing |
| Customers | Residential, commercial, or both — and why | Assuming both from day one |
| Pricing | Your rate, and how you arrived at it | Copying a competitor’s price with different costs |
| Costs | Equipment, fuel, labor, insurance, disposal | Forgetting disposal and downtime |
| Break-even | How many jobs a month cover fixed costs | No fixed-cost figure at all |
| Seasonality | What you do in the off months | Planning only for the growing season |
| Equipment plan | Buy, finance or rent, and when | Buying before the work exists |
| Growth | The first hire, and what triggers it | Hiring on optimism rather than backlog |
The break-even number is the whole plan
Fixed costs divided by the profit on an average job gives you how many jobs a month you must win before anything is yours. A business plan for a landscape company that does not state that number has not done the work, and it is the figure a lender looks for first.
Business plans for landscape companies fail on seasonality
Most landscaping business plans model a growing season and stop. The months with little mowing still carry insurance, finance payments and, if you have staff, wages. Planning what those months earn — cleanups, snow, hardscape, maintenance contracts — is what separates a plan from a forecast.
A business plan for landscape company lenders will accept
If the plan is going to a bank or an equipment financier, they look for the break-even figure, the cost model behind your pricing and evidence of demand. A business plan for a landscape company showing those three clearly gets read; one that opens with a mission statement usually does not.
Where to get a template worth using
The US Small Business Administration publishes business plan guidance and templates at SBA — write your business plan, and local Small Business Development Centers will review a draft at no charge. Both are more useful than a paid template, and neither will do the pricing arithmetic for you.
- State exactly which services you sell and which you decline
- Choose residential or commercial to start, not both
- Price from your own costs, never from a competitor’s rate
- Include disposal, downtime, fuel and insurance in the cost model
- Calculate fixed costs and the jobs per month that cover them
- Plan revenue for the months outside the growing season
- Decide the trigger for the first hire before you need one
Ready to get the phone ringing?
Once the business is set up, the constraint becomes finding better clients in a tighter area. That is what we do for landscaping companies — local search, Google Business Profile, reviews and paid campaigns aimed at your service radius.
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Getting found in search
AI, AEO and what is changing
Paid media and lead generation
Websites and design
Choosing and working with an agency
Social, content and brand
By industry and by situation
- Starting a graphic design business
- Sales personality types
- Retail competitive analysis
- What is product mix?
- What is BNI?
- When your market shifts
- Virtual conference best practices
- Landscaping profit margins
- Landscaping business structure
- Landscaping marketing
- Pest control marketing
- Nonprofit marketing
- How to get more customers
- Marketing ideas for small business
- Marketing plan template
- Roofing marketing agency
- Marketing agency for contractors
- Landscaping marketing agency
- Auto dealer marketing agency
- Med spa marketing agency
- Chiropractic marketing agency
- Marketing agency for accountants
- Restaurant marketing agency
- Tech marketing agency
- Cannabis marketing agency
- Real estate marketing agency
- Medical marketing agency
- SEO agency Los Angeles
- SEO company in Seattle
- Kitchen remodeling marketing
- Bathroom remodeling marketing
- Bathroom remodeling leads
- What does a PR firm do?
- Jewelry marketing agency
- What is a sizzle reel?
- B2B PR agency
- Data center marketing
- Credit union marketing agency
- Marketing agency in Detroit
- Google Business Profile optimization
- Google Business Profile logo size
- SEO for plastic surgery practices
- Hotel SEO and direct bookings
- SEO agencies in Florida
- What is considered a small business?
- Digital marketing agency in Los Angeles
- Marketing agency in Columbus, Ohio
- Film production company
- SEO myths
- Brand activation
- Experiential marketing, Los Angeles
- Web design in Columbus, Ohio
- Marketing agency in Charleston, SC
- Logo design in Nashville
- Shopify jewelry stores
- What makes a small business website work
- What is a burner account?
- Car videography and cinematography
- How often to post on social media
- Digital marketing in Sarasota
- Marketing agencies in Atlanta
- Squarespace templates explained
- Contractor leads in Colorado
- SEO company in Washington DC
- Google Business Profile verification
- Law firm video production
- Press release examples
- Advertising agency in Raleigh NC
- WordPress developers in NYC
- PR firms in Austin, Texas
- SEO in Portland, Oregon
- Houston ad agencies
- B2B SaaS marketing agency
- Cybersecurity marketing agency
- B2B intent data providers
- Marketing for home builders
- Oregon business licensing
- Landscaping contract template
- Attracting high-income clients
- Human Design coaching explained
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to start a landscaping business?
Do I need a license to start a landscaping business?
How much should I charge per hour?
Is a landscaping business profitable?
What equipment do I need to start?
Do I need insurance?
Should I form an LLC?
How do I get my first landscaping clients?
What is route density and why does it matter?
How do I survive the off-season?
Should I offer snow removal?
When should I hire my first employee?
What does an employee actually cost?
Can I pay workers as contractors?
How many clients do I need to go full time?
What is the most profitable landscaping service?
Do I need a website?
How do I price a job rather than an hour?
Should I raise prices on existing clients?
What is the biggest mistake new landscapers make?
How long before the business supports me properly?
Do I need to charge sales tax?
Sources and further reading
- Google Search Essentials — SEO starter guide
- Google: creating helpful, reliable, people-first content
- Google: intro to structured data
- Google: LocalBusiness structured data
- Google: FAQPage structured data
- Google: Article structured data
- US Census Bureau QuickFacts: New Jersey
- US Census Bureau: American Community Survey
- US Census: Statistics of US Businesses
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: New Jersey data
- BLS: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
- NJ Department of Labor: labor market information
- FTC: CAN-SPAM Act compliance guide
- FCC: telemarketing and robocall rules (TCPA)
- FTC endorsement guides — reviews and testimonials
- FTC: rule on consumer reviews and testimonials
- HHS: HIPAA guidance on online tracking technologies
- New Jersey Courts: attorney advertising guidelines
- SBA: calculate your startup costs
- SBA: choose a business structure
- SBA: get business insurance
- SBA: loan programs
- IRS: apply for an EIN
- IRS: self-employed tax center
- US DOL: Fair Labor Standards Act
- OSHA: small business resources
- EPA: safe pest control and pesticides
- BLS: grounds maintenance workers
- USDA: plant hardiness zone map
- National Association of Landscape Professionals
- EPA WaterSense: efficient irrigation
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