March 2024 - Page 4 of 4 - The Edge from the National Association of Landscape Professionals

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Month: March 2024

Accelerate – The Future of Crew Management Is Here: Ensure High Labor Cost Savings for Commercial Landscapers

Sponsored content by Shiva Dhawan, CEO and co-founder of Attentive.ai For commercial landscaping businesses like yours, every second and cent counts. Traditional approaches to managing labor hours and crew costs often result in inefficiencies that can bleed a company’s resources dry. And every unverified hour can chip away at your profit margins. It’s a problem […]

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How I Do It: Maintaining a Strong Employee Retention Rate

For the past three years, Myatt Landscaping & Construction, based in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, has maintained an employee retention rate of 94-95%. Why They Stay The company started tracking their retention numbers in 2017 and based on the conversations managers have had with their employees, one of the main reasons their team members stay is […]

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Evaluating the Viability of Establishing a Nursery as Part of Your Landscape Company

If you have an abundance of land on your property or if youā€™ve encountered issues sourcing plant material, you might have wondered at one time or another if adding a nursery is a good idea. This venture is not a cheap one, so take time to think through how this addition would serve your operation […]

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Business Smarts: Unveiling the Untapped Potential of Hiring an Executive Assistant

As a lawn care or landscape company owner, you wear many hats, especially starting out, but as you grow, hiring an executive assistant can open up your schedule to focus on the bigger picture. Reasons to Hire an Assistant Taylor Milliken, owner and president of Milosi, based in Hendersonville, Tennessee, found himself in this position […]

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