Government and other Assistance to Small Businesses    (View PDF)

Richard E. Abbott and Elizabeth L. Buchanan

Abstract: There are more than 46,000 tree and landscape service companies in the U.S.A. according to the most recent government census. The majority of these firms are good, experienced arborists/landscapers, but they have little or no formal business training. Assistance to Green Industry small businesses is available from numerous government agencies, educational organizations, commercial and trade associations, financial groups and business consultants. Some of these free or low-cost businesses management assistance resources are available to tree or landscape service companies wherever they are located, but they need to look for them. Tree and landscape business owners must truly "Become Business Professionals as well as Tree Professionals" in order to prosper and survive in today's economic and regulated society.

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https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1987.029