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Benchmarking for Improved Profit

As an owner, it’s your job to become a data scientist and learn how to manage your landscape business like any other business: by the correct numbers and benchmarks. This will allow you to become a successful investor in your own business! Start by getting a handle on these seven benchmarks: 1. Five-year trends. The […]

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Make Your Company a Talent Magnet

Becoming a destination company that attracts the best employees involves the mastery of seven key areas. Why is it that some landscaping companies have an easier time attracting talent? Yes, they typically pay more than their market’s going rate. But the real key is that they have become places where good people want to work. […]

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11 Tips to Get the Most Out of Conferences

  Just in time for LANDSCAPES 2017, NALP Consultant member and conference speaker, Jeffrey Scott, MBA, is an author, business coach, hall-of-fame consultant, and expert in growth and profit maximization in the lawn & landscape industry. MAKE FRIENDS FIRST. I have found that it is important to make new contacts you can talk to after the […]

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Is Non-Billable Time Killing You?

Author Jeffrey Scott, MBA, is an NALP consultant member and author, business coach, hall-of-fame consultant, and expert in growth and profit maximization in the lawn & landscape industry. Every service company has to make an assessment of how much unproductive non-billable time their crews will have in a year, and this in effect becomes part […]

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11 Tips for Training New Employees

Jeffrey Scott, NALP consultant member, and author and owner of his own business development consultancy, shares his top tips to get new employees off to the right start.  1. The First Impression You get one chance at setting the first impression with your new hire – make their first (half) day count. Do you have […]

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