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Jill Odom is the senior content manager for the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
The recent heatwave that impacted much of Western North America from June 26-29 set all time-records for daytime temperature highs over the four-day period. The main cause for the heatwave was from a high-pressure system that sat over the region, earning it the term āheat dome.ā Warm overnight temperatures also helped temperatures climb over the […]
Every industry has been affected by supply chain struggles in one way or another recently and the landscape industry is no exception. Landscape professionals and landscape supply companies have experienced issues with raw material and plant shortages, delays with receiving trucks and equipment and cost increases across the board. āPlastic products (pipe, rotors/sprays, fittings), fertilizers, […]
In the newest episode of The Big Green Podcast, NALP CEO Britt Wood catches up with Mark Tipton, CEO of Aspire Software about their recent acquisition by ServiceTitan, a software provider for home and commercial service businesses. In this podcast, they discuss how Aspire has grown over the years, trends that Tipton is seeing in […]
In season 2, episode 8 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus III, system architect at Include Software, Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, and Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape, talk with Bob Grover, LIC, president of Pacific Landscape Management. Grover graduated from Oregon State University in 1983. After 15 […]
If youāre like us, youāve probably missed attending in-person events. If youāre wanting to catch up on the latest trends, donāt miss out on all LANDSCAPES has to offer this year in Louisville, Kentucky on Oct. 19-22. Opening General Session To kick things off, Kaihan Krippendorff, author of Outthink the Competition, will share a systematic […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Arcadia Gardens, LLC, based in Bridgman, Michigan, was started in 1990 by Dot Hollerbach. Her son, Todd, joined her a year or so after. Hollerbach was an avid gardener and she had been encouraged to start […]
Communication is crucial to getting the job done, keeping your teams informed and having a cohesive workforce in your landscaping business. Nowadays there are multiple channels of communication and you can have up to five different generations working together. With all these different avenues of communication and various generational interpretations of behavior and messaging, miscommunication […]
Posting on social media is a rather straightforward process but if you donāt have a strategy you may be wondering why youāre not seeing results. Mike Haynes, president of LOVING, based in Gastonia, North Carolina, says itās all about having a learnerās posture when it comes to testing things out to find what works on […]
If you have taken the time to produce quality videos highlighting your lawn or landscape company and your services, the last thing you want is for them to go unwatched and unappreciated on your website. Incorporating videos well on your site can help increase the likelihood they’ll be viewed. Videos help increase dwell time, improve […]
In season 2, episode 7 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus III, system architect at Include Software, Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, and Luke Melograno, production coordinator at Mariani Landscape talk with each other. In this podcast, our hosts reflect back on recent episodes, while also looking forward to […]
