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Download Course Brochure: Managing a Garden Business-20hr
Are you currently running a Garden Business ?
Reinvigorating an existing Garden Business ?
Thinking of starting a Garden Business ?
This course will help you learn the essentials of running a successful garden business. To be successful you will need to have a thorough understanding of business management practices.
This course can be taken as Self Paced 20 hour online course OR our Intensive 2 day workshop held at our Latrobe campus (See the Workshops link for details). In the 20 hour course you will work through the course at your own pace, supported by videos and checking your progress with online tests. If you want to get more into your learning, you there are tasks throughout the course that will help solidify and reinforce your learning.
What’s inside this course?
CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED
- Points to watch out for
- Two ways to begin in business
- Starting a new business compared to buying one
- What sorts of records do i need to keep?
- Seeking advice
- Promoting a new business
- Understanding contract law
- Review what you have been learning
CHAPTER 2 WHAT SERVICES COULD YOU OFFER?
- Types of service
- Other options
- Complimentary fringe services
- Considering the options
- What do you need to offer these services?
- Specialist niche areas for landscape construction
- Specialist areas for a design business
- Buying equipment and tools
- Finding materials
- Developing a business
- Review what you have been learning
CHAPTER 3 GARDEN MAINTENANCE SERVICES
- Plant care
- Why plants get sick
- Preventative medicine in the garden
- Planting
- Moving established plants
- Feeding plants
- Watering
- Providing a spraying service
- Starting a pruning service
- Pruning equipment
- Starting a lawn care business
- Types of mowers
- Lawn aeration
- Watering
- Tree care and tree surgery
- Tree surgery techniques
- Safety aspects
- Gardening landscaping tools
- Tool maintenance
- Power tools
- Power tool maintenance
- How to manually handle objects in the garden
- Starting an indoor plant service
- Review what you have been learning
CHAPTER 4 LANDSCAPING
- Options for specialisation
- Starting a garden design service
- Starting a landscape construction service
- Improving soils
- Improving drainage
- Improving surface drainage after construction
- Mulches
- Hard surfacing
- Water in the garden
- Steps
- Review what you have been learning
CHAPTER 5 MANAGING FINANCES & COSTING
- Business planning
- Landscape specifications & contracts
- Review what you have been learning
- Final assessment
How it all works:
- You can enroll at any time.
- Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
- Study when and where you like.
- Work through at your own pace.
- You can download your study guide to your Smartphone, tablet, or laptop to read offline.
- There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results.
- You will need internet access to complete the self-assessment tests.
- At the end of the course, you are presented with a larger assessment that can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
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