A Consultant's Guide to Writing Effective Reports, 1st Edition
ASCA is pleased to announce the release of its newest publication, A Consultant's Guide to Writing Effective Reports, edited by Christine A. Keefer. Many ASCA members have benefited from ASCA's first book on the subject, The Guide to Report Writing for Consulting Arborists, published in 1995 by ISA. This new book includes many of the basic report writing practices presented in the 1995 book while incorporating information from the Report Writing curriculum from ASCA's Consulting Academy. Where necessary, the information has been updated to reflect more contemporary practices in report writing and technical communication.
Member Price: $60 |
Non-Member Price: $90 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
The Consultant's Legal Guide
The Consultant's Legal Guide is your complete resource for understanding basic legal terms, negotiating better agreements, protecting intellectual property, controlling legals costs, and more. Throughout the book, real-life examples and case studies illustrate the problems- and the solutions to those problems-that, as a consultant, you face on a regular basis. The accompanying disk provides you with useful tools, sample forms, checklists, and paths to technology-based resources.
Member Price: $55 |
Non-Member Price: $55 |
Shipping/Handling: $15.00 |
The Consultant's Quick Start Guide
Consulting can be a most rewarding career-but being good at consulting is not always enough to keep your business profitable. It is essential that you also learn the skills you need to manage your business. A complete blueprint for your first year in business. The Consultant's Quick Start Guide offers you a practical approach to setting up a consulting business. Throughout this guide, Elaine Beich, shares both her own secrets as well as those of numerous other successful consultants. With a focus on the business side of consulting, she takes you through a painless, fill-in-the-blanks, step-by-step process for setting up your consulting firm.
Member Price: $24.95 |
Non-Member Price: $24.95 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
The Business of Consulting: The Basics and Beyond
No matter if you are a consultant with years of experience under you belt or you are just starting out in your career, The Business of Consulting is the reference you'll turn to again and again. The second edition offers new features, contains the most current information on the topic, and
- Addresses dynamic growth areas and trends, such as coaching and new pricing models
- Explains how to protect your business with trademarks, contracts, business licenses, and other legal concerns
- Offers a wealth of new samples, including contracts, marketing plan templates, sample proposals, and more
- Shows how to generate multiple income streams and passive income
- Includes advice on balancing a professional consulting with a personal life
- Explores the challenges of conducting international business
The companion CD-ROM contains the worksheets and forms presented in The Business of Consulting. Personalize these tools as needed and print them out in order to project cash flow, track your time, tabulate your expenses, hire a subcontractor, plan your marketing campaigns, and much more!
The Business of Consulting has all the information you need to run your consulting business with confidence.
Member Price: $50 |
Non-Member Price: $50 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
Marketing Your Consulting Services
Marketing Your Consulting Services is a complete how-to guide that will help you develop and implement a dynamic marketing plan that will make your consulting business more visible to clients and more competitive in the marketplace. Written by Elaine Beich- one of the foremost experts in the field of consulting- this practical and easy-to-use resource includes useful guidance, practical ideas, special consulting considerations and creative tips.
Member Price: $45 |
Non-Member Price: $45 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
A Photographic Guide to the Evaluation of Hazard Trees in Urban Areas
This second edition, co-authored by Nelda Matheny and James Clark of HortScience, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, is designed to assist managers in evaluating trees for their potential to be hazardous. By providing a systematic rating approach, evaluations allow mangers to identify hazard situations, rank their relative severity, and create a priority for work. Along with numerous one-color figures, there is a 16-page section containing 43 full-color figures. The guide concentrates primarily on trees in urban areas. These environments are recognized as having unique combinations of tree species and site characteristics that place trees in proximity to a variety of targets requiring a more systematic approach to evaluation and abatement.
Member Price: $35 |
Non-Member Price: $45 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Arboriculture & the Law
This publication is a great reference manual. Although it cannot be substituted for specific legal advice, it discusses many duties and responsibilities a landowner, municipality, private tree company, practicing arborist, or public company has under various circumstances. It also covers the rights and measures of damages a property owner has in given situations.
Member Price: $35 |
Non-Member Price: $50 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Example Report Book
Developed by Russell E. Carlson, RCA#354, this publication is a significant resource for answering questions about information to be included and format for Consulting Arborist reports. The book encompasses practice reports from students of the ASCA Consulting Academy and a real-life report as submitted by the author to an actual client.
Member Price: $45 |
Non-Member Price: $70 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
Guide for Plant Appraisal, Ninth Edition
Authored by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers, this publication is intended to provide the professional plant appraiser with information to properly determine the size, species, condition, and location factors that influence the value of plants. It can be used for the valuation of plant casualties, insurance purposes, real estate transactions, plant condemnation actions, and tree inventories.
In the 9th edition of the Guide for Plant Appraisal, the most significant procedural change is that in both methods (Replacement Cost and Trunk Formula) the costs of the replacement tree and its installation are adjusted by the Species rating. The rationale for this is that the costs of an installed replacement tree are based on its cost of production and its cost of installation. These costs do not necessarily reflect the quality of the species when mature, therefore, they also are adjusted by the Species rating.
The individual steps in the written directions and in the appraisal worksheets are similarly numbered in both the Replacement Cost Method and the Trunk Formula Method so that there is less chance for confusion. Within each, the steps are divided into: 1) Field Observations, 2) Regional Plant Appraisal Committee and/or Appraiser Developed or Modified Information, and 3) Calculations by Appraiser Using Field and/or Regional Information.
Member Price: $75 |
Non-Member Price: $125 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Workbook for the Guide for Plant Appraisal, 9th Addition
This workbook, which is a companion to the Guide, was developed by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers and is published by ISA.
Member Price: $15 |
Non-Member Price: $25 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Landscape Appraisal Court Cases
This small paperback briefs Landscape Appraisal Court Cases in the following areas: Negligence, Trespass and Damage, Expert Witness, Construction Damage, Destruction by Fire, Earth Slide, Treble Damage, Pine Beetle, Infestation, Woodborers in the Old Oak, Municipal Compensation, Personal Injury, Adjoining Property, Damage from Tree Roots, Tree Limb overhang, plus more.
Member Price: $15 |
Non-Member Price: $15 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Standards of Professional Practice
This document was written as a day to day reference tool to guide ASCA members in their consulting practices. The professional standards may be used by any Consulting Arborist and may help the consumer understand what to expect from a professional consultant. The general ethical principles are applicable to many "green" industry businesses. This document includes a comprehensive Table of Contents, an extensive definitions section, and detailed explanations of ethical principles. Issues addressed include: consultants' duties to various parties; appropriate methodology; reports; compensation and fees; and much more.
Member Price: $35 |
Non-Member Price: $35 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Tree Law Cases in the USA
Written by Lew Bloch, this expanded second edition of Tree Law Cases in the USA is an intriguing overview of more than 200 cases in tree law. This book reflects the experiences of more than 25 attorneys and Consulting Arborists in these areas: trespassing, roots, real estate, views, negligence, boundary & border line trees, municipalities & highways, utility companies, easements & rights of way, and safety practices. This book offers a fascinating look at interesting, relevant, and sometimes amusing tree cases past and present- an excellent resource for consulting arborists, lawyers, and insurance professionals.
Member Price: $50 |
Non-Member Price: $50 |
Shipping/Handling: $8.00 |
Cost of Cure: Field Form Reports
Cost of Cure is a detailed packet of worksheets to assist the professional arborist in determining the cost of replacing and/or repairing plants and landscape features to pre-casualty condition. Produced by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers, the publication includes a site layout grid and worksheets for estimating the cost of debris removal, hardscape restoration, plant replacement, and plant restoration and establishment. The kit also includes a guide to assist with the determination of plot size for assessing plant loss and damage. Includes 10 file folders and a 50-page tablet of plant replacement cost worksheets.
Member Price: $25 |
Non-Member Price: $30 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
Field Report Guide Folders
Developed and authored by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers, and designed for use with the ninth edition of the Guide for Plant Appraisal, this is a heavily constructed manila file folder that includes four sections: Tree Appraisal Field Notes (Information for Replacement Cost and/or Trunk Formula Method); Field Report Guide for Trunk Formula; Guide for Judging the Condition of Landscape Trees; and a Location Chart. (Site/Contribution/Placement Factors to Consider in Determining Location Values.) Price is for a set of 12 folders.
Member Price: $25 |
Non-Member Price: $30 |
Shipping/Handling: $10.00 |
ANSI A300 Standards
ANSI A300 (Part 1) Pruning
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
ANSI A300 (Part 2) Fertilization
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
ANSI A300 (Part 3) Support Systems
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
ANSI A300 (Part 4) Lighting Protection System
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
ANSI A300 (Part 5) Management
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
ANSI A300 (Part 6) Transplanting
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
Green Industry Standard Definitions
Member: $25 |
Non-Member: $40 |
Shipping/Handling: $6.00 |
Please note: Shipping/Handling charges are per item.