Mike McGroarty has more than thirty years experience in the landscape gardening and nursery industry. He's spent the better part of his life working directly with in dirt with plants. Using his practical hands-on experience, McGroarty is able to write in a no-nonsense way that both gardeners and web-entrepreneurs find both insightful and beneficial. He’s taken his green-thumb know-how and combined it with some innovative web marketing strategies to become a very active Internet entrepreneur as well as author who has written several books and reports on creative gardening innovations, self-publishing and internet marketing.

In 1996, McGroarty wrote and self-published a gardening book that described easy plant propagation techniques called Free Landscape Plants, and has been featured in both magazines and newspapers across the nation as well as a book entitled, The Step by Step Internet Success Formula - How I Went from Broke to Tens of Thousands of Dollars on the Internet.

Mike McGroarty has two main websites, www.freeplants.com (devoted to his gardening features) and www.homemadebooklets.com (which focuses on self-publishing and internet marketing).