How to start your own lawn greeting business

Is there an entrepreneur inside you, waiting for the perfect opportunity to run your own business?

Are you stay-at-home mom (or dad) who would like to be a work-at-home mom (or dad)?

Maybe you're a parent stuck in the corporate world, but you would rather be home with your kids.

The lawn greetings industry is sweeping across the nation and it's a great homebased business. It's a lot of fun helping people celebrate the special events in their lives.

We receive so many email and telephone requests for more information about how to get started that it's hard to keep up with them and still deliver Public Displays of Affection.

To help answer these requests, we have written an ebook full of practical information and advice. It gives you more than enough facts to determine if this is the right business for you before you invest a lot of money.

Getting started involved a lot of trial and error. Guidance is available out there, but tends to cost a lot. Some companies sell their business opportunities or franchises for a fee that ranges anywhere from a couple of hundred to several thousands of dollars.

The sales pitch of one ebook we read claimed it included several years worth of business experience. It was a complete waste of money -- $30 for about 30 pages telling us the obvious, most basic information about starting a business. (Yes, we know we'll need business cards, we should put our phone number on them, and they can be purchased at office supply stores. That sure wasn't worth $30, was it?) It became a priority for us to produce an ebook full of meaningful content -- something that was worth the amount of time it took us to put it together and worth the amount of money paid by those interested -- rather than something so basic that it insults the reader's intelligence.

This is an original ebook written by a professional writer -- not like those copycat ebooks you see for sale all over the Internet.

The CEF (Chief Executive Flockologist) of A Greeting Yard, Jill Henry, is a contributing writer for Springfield Business Journal and 417 - Springfield's Lifestyle Magazine, and has written for other publications including the enewsletter at MyMommyBiz. Her first ebook spent four weeks as the #1 best seller at Booklocker.com when it debuted in 1999. She is a member of The Society of Professional Journalists, has been president of of Ozarks Romance Authors for two years, and is a member of Romance Writers of America and Sleuths' Ink.

Would you like to be notified when the new ebook debuts? If so, please send us an email: ebooknotify@agreetingyard.com

Soon we will offer patterns of our original Larger Than Life characters for other lawn greetings businesses to purchase.

More original ebooks with details about lots of fun home businesses are available at these two sites:

If you're not located in the Ozarks, click here to find a lawn greetings rental service near you!

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