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Put down the weed killer! Youāre not ready for it yet.
As a brand new lawn care specialist, one of the first things you learned was to tell your customers to follow the one-third rule of mowing. Ā What if I told you that the one-third rule was flat-out wrong, and then recommended that you keep right on preaching it?
Spring is upon us, finally, and our lawns are slowly beginning to wake up from their long winterās nap.Ā It seems like twenty minutes has elapsed from the time the last snow bank melted to when you get the first phone call from a customer telling you that the forsythia is blooming and if you […]
Help inspire others to be a part of the landscape profession by sharing photos of your team members at work. Selected photos will be used to show students and job-seekers about the outstanding professional opportunities that await them in our field. So hit us with your best shot ā and help us demonstrate the passion, […]
What makes a great landscape or lawn care sales or account manager?Ā According to Marty Grunder, of Grunder Landscaping, who led the NALP Sales Bootcamp events recently in Philadelphia and Dallas, there are five Strategic things that good sales pros have in common.
Have you ever watched people wander around a nursery or garden center skimming plant tags trying to figure out which flowers, plants and trees would be best for their yard? You often get the feeling that theyāll be buying the wrong plants and putting them in the wrong places in their yard.Ā
As a consumer, we all have minimum expectations from the companies we do business with. But, attaining minimum expectations is not what makes us continue business. At the Account Manager Excellence workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, Ken Thomas and Ben Gandy of Envisor Consulting explained it is the “Extra Mile Service” landscape and lawn care companies […]
The continued legalization of cannabis and hemp in many states is proving to be a conundrum to regulatory agencies nationwide.Ā Since both plants are listed by the federal government as Schedule 1 narcotics, there are no federally registered pesticides that are labeled for use by growers in states where cannabis is legal. That said, any […]
Last week’s Advocate noted the injunction issued by a federal judge in California that temporarily halted the state from designating the popular herbicide glyphosate as cancer-causing.Ā This week, a state judge issued a ruling saying the state must stop using a wide variety of pesticides:
Last Thursday, NALP was present at a public hearing held by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources as the agency began the process of renewing local electric utility Eversourceās five-year Vegetative Management Plan for rights-of-way maintenance.Ā [from here link to blog post with the following text:] Under Massachusetts regulations, the public is invited to submit […]
