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Jill Odom is the senior content manager for the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
Ideally, you never want your employees to submit a resignation. However, if you arenāt taking the time to conduct exit interviews, you can miss out on critical information that can prevent others from leaving. āFor us, that exit interview is critical for our development,ā says Daniel Garcia-Enriquez, a recruiter and human resources generalist for Mullin, […]
When The LaurelRock Company, based in Wilton, Connecticut, took on the maintenance of an estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 2020, the plant health care was nonexistent and the multi-million-dollar landscape was in decline. Two years later, their work on the property earned LaurelRock one of the two prestigious Judges’ Awards presented in 2022, which is […]
Sponsored Content Depending on your location, the start of fall cleanup season varies, but sooner or later, the leaves will be falling, and customers will be calling. The question is ā are you prepared to make the most of it? Michael Bedell, owner of Bedell Property Management, LLC, based in Milford, Michigan, says since heās […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. GoldGlo Landscapes, LLC, based in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, was founded in 2002. President Steven Stoltzfus was just 21 at the time, but he had worked in residential construction for five years as a general contractor. Stoltzfusās father […]
In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus at Include Software, Neal Glatt of GrowTheBench and Brett Lemcke of R.M. Landscape, talk with Josh Flynn, CEO of Seabreeze Property Services. After finishing up his degree in environmental studies from the University of Richmond, Flynn joined up with the […]
During ELEVATEās closing Main Stage session, former Super Bowl-winning NFL quarterback Joe Theismann spoke to attendees about how to win despite challenges with anecdotes about his life as a football player and as an entrepreneur. He challenged landscape professionals to determine their own definition of success and to help others. āTrue success comes when you […]
The ELEVATE Expo featured 147 exhibitors representing experts and manufacturers of everything from equipment to business software. This expo not only provided attendees the opportunity to connect and learn about these new products but also featured numerous educational sessions. āWe definitely have been pleasantly surprised with just the whole conference, the exhibit hall itself,ā says […]
ELEVATEās opening Main Stage session speaker Alex Banayan, author of The Third Door, has obsessively been studying success since he was a freshman in college. He shared with attendees some of the surprising lessons heās learned along the way from individuals such as Larry King and Steve Wozniak. Growing up, Banayan was expected to become […]
Many in the industry see themselves as stewards of the environment and work to find ways to be more sustainable businesses. Being more sustainable is a broad concept, but also means there are multiple opportunities to take advantage of. āI think trying to become more sustainable can be discouraging for some businesses ā more specifically, […]
When it comes to making a profit, there is significant confusion between markup and margins. āWhen we say the word markups, there are markups for recovering overhead and then there are markups for recovering what we call labor burden,ā says Tony Bass, founder of Tony Bass Consulting. āThere are markups for profit. In my view […]
