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I really like the perspective of the new railway station of the staircases, awesome lighting.

I used the PPS ones as well, and was sucessful first time through. Not only to they let you practive the test and provide answers, they teach you how to take the test, and especially what the graders look for on the charettes. Yes, they were expensive, but once I was done with them, I got back about 75% what I paid for them (I sold them right here…[Read more]

I used the LARE Review Books from professional publications. They have been around for a while and provide great feedback on why a question is correct or false. Luckily I was able to find a few of them at my local library, the rest were on amazon. Library is much less expensive.

My post does not suggest that it is reality for everyone to go into it carefully. There is a lot of suggestion that it makes sense to supplement WHEN YOU CAN, it makes sense to stick your toe in the water before diving in IF YOU CAN, and that you can have a better sense of how much traffic you’ll have IF YOU CAN start marketing before you go i…[Read more]

I do agree with this though. If you can keep yourself from freaking out in the slow times. 🙂 My husband definitely makes way more then he would working for someone else…at least last year.

Hhmmm…I thought the most telling statement indicating that you don’t know how bad it really is out there was your statement about “small potatoes” and larger firms not batting their eye at it. Uh…they most certainly are going for these potatoes here! My dh pulled together a team to put a proposal in on a project in rural Idaho that is not that…[Read more]

In a nutshell, yes, having a crappy job is better than no job at all… wanna trade?

Andrew – Thats just not the reality of the situation for everyone.
 
When I got laid off I looked at the income/time ratio for a month of working the kind of low paying job available in my area vs how many hours I could work in landscape design to make the same amount of $ – I would only work 24 hours PER MONTH to make the same amount, so that mea…[Read more]

recently heard a rumor that apple is releasing the iphone 5 later this year and the move to verizon was to ensure sales of all backloads of the iphone 4 because it’s not selling at AT&T to add to the motivation…

Its not that its taken a long time for any company to “certify” the iPhone, its that AT&T had an exclusive contract with apple that only just ran up, and that all companies now know they need a GREAT network to deal with smartphone use.

Great tactic BZ 
There is vast pent-up demand by those who need what we do, but who may never call an established firm.  Best thing you can do is think like the people who need our expertise, instead of thinking like the ones who hire us.
A lot of discussions revolve around the (ever shrinking) traditional architect/civil/developer market–…[Read more]

All very good points Andrew. I realize that there’s no way i’ll be able to go up against larger, more established firms. But i don’t want to go up against them. The types of jobs all the firms in town are going for is not what i’m interested in. I have a specialty/niche (not residential!) that i’m interested in that i know all the other firms…[Read more]

just got a new one i thought i’d share as i’m learning to love it, go launcher. minimizes the icons, so you can add more per page, you can adjust app sizes, etc. so far i love it….

The problem with starting your own business is not the overhead or the skill set to execute the work. It is getting the work. The established people are not getting work, why do so many expect that it will be different for a new person?
 
Those that do invest in landscape architecture or even landscape design, those that I have come across, are…[Read more]

Great idea!

I’ll be your first member if you start it tanya!! i would love to hear how others have started their own businesses, ups and downs, advice etc.

I don’t know if there is one or not, but it might really be useful for some of us to start a ‘start-ups’ page – how we started our own businesses, what resources we needed and used, what our financial goals were, finding projects, etc.