The author, Robert A. Welcome, is a graduate of the
University of Massachusetts, with a B.S. Degree in Electrical
Engineering. He was employed with GE Aerospace
Industries, with various responsibilities. He was a Circuit
Design Engineer, a Systems Engineer, a Test Berth Director,
a Cost Analyst and he held several business management
positions. He also was the GE Rep to the International
Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA), a prestigious appointment. During his employment, he authored many GE technical and U.S. Navy documents. He also authored several Business plans for GE. He additionally had several part-time businesses, unrelated to lawn mowing. He is now retired.

William Roberts, M.B.A.
President/Owner of Kayo Marketing Management

This book is the result of a cooperative effort between myself (the author) and my son John. Thanks to John for having the motivation to work for himself, part-time, during his high school years and for his cooperative effort to keep making changes that would continually improve upon his business. Many changes were made by experimenting with marketing, advertising, estimating, pricing, scheduling and all phases of the business; this is quite difficult, even for mature adults. But, it was necessary so as to achieve a high level of success. John had some weeks when he was earning nearly $1,000. This was in 1984, when he was a senior in high school. And incredibly, at this young age, he was earning considerably more money each week than the local factory workers.

And, thanks to my wife, John's mother, Janice, for her patience and ability to smooth over the delicate phone calls, when John would occasionally be late, or forget to mow a lawn. Also, much appreciation to Donna Murphy for her typing services and to Georgia Wirth for her help with typesetting and layout work, for the first edition.

Robert A. Welcome, Author