Nicole Wisniewski, Author at The Edge from the National Association of Landscape Professionals

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Author: Nicole Wisniewski

4 Ways to Find Good People

Finding employees is one of the hardest parts about being a landscape business owner. The good news: A 2017 IBIS World study reported steady growth in the housing and property markets over the past five years, resulting in greater demand for landscape industry workers. Similar trends are expected into 2023 as residential and commercial construction […]

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3 Ways Students and Landscape Pros Can Get the Most Out of NCLC

Mason Shaffer says attending NALPā€™s ā€œStudent Career Daysā€ā€”now the National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC)ā€”in 2007 and 2008 ultimately led to his full-time landscape career. Today, he is the senior garden designer for Blanchford Landscape Group and Shaffer says it was his interaction with Andy Blanchford, company owner, at the event that put that opportunity in […]

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5 Ways Belknap Landscape Prioritizes Safety in Landscaping

Safety is a lot of work. But Belknap Landscape Co., in Gilford, New Hampshire, prioritizes safety, making it an every day part of doing business. ā€œThe most important reason that safety is so critical is that we want our employees to go home in the same conditionā€”if not betterā€”each day,ā€ says Angie Carignan, human resources […]

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How North Point Outdoors Handles Cash Flow & Labor Challenges

During his transition from high school to college, Andrew Pelkey started mowing residential lawns to help make ends meet. By his sophomore year, he had around 40 or 50 residential lawn accounts and decided to leave school to pursue landscaping full-time. By the end of year two, he was running a landscape and snow plow […]

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3 Key Business Trends Landscape CEOs Will Focus on in 2020

At the CEOs Unplugged panel at NALPā€™s Leaders Forum in January, six of the lawn and landscape industryā€™s top CEOs shared business advice with an audience of more than 200 other industry professionals. One question dove into what CEOs will focus on for business improvement in 2020. They highlighted three key business trends. Business Trends […]

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How Webinars & Conferences Help Build Adam Linneman’s Business

Adam Linnemann had a lawn business before he could even drive himself to his clients’ properties. “I had a push mower and a wagon when I was 14,” Linnemann recalls. “When I turned 16 and got my driver’s license, that’s when things really started to take off. I started working all around town over the […]

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NALP Members in the News: Sperber Landscape, STIHL, Vectorworks, Landscape Workshop & Project EverGreen

Read more about these NALP members and partners in the news. NALP Member Sperber Landscape Cos. Enters Florida Market With Top Cut Partnership Sperber Landscape Cos. enters the Florida marketplace with its partnership with Top Cut Lawn Services, headquartered in Palm Beach County, Florida. The Top Cut addition is the third partnership for the newly […]

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Meet NALP Board Member Brandon Sheppard from Weed Man

Brandon Sheppard is a member of the Weed Man Sub-Franchisor team and operates the Weed Man franchises in Winchester, Virginia; Annapolis, Maryland; Bethesda, Maryland; Rockville-Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Frederick, Maryland. His journey with Weed Man began in 2000 as part of the Canada-founded companyā€™s brand launch into the American market. Sheppard joined the Weed Man team […]

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Creating a Landscape Workplace Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

Most companies would likely say they welcome a more diverse workforce. But they donā€™t know how to get the culture of diversity they seek. A session at NALP’s upcoming Workforce Summit based on the association’s new Diversity and Inclusion program will provide the framework and lenses for looking at your company differently to attract and […]

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Meet NALP Member Mark Hopkins with LandCare

Mark Hopkins, regional vice president of LandCare, says the landscape industry is all heā€™s ever knownā€”and he wouldnā€™t change that for a second. During his time with The Brickman Group, he credits Scott and Dick Brickman as being big influences in his life. And, today, with LandCare, Hopkins says heā€™s inspired every day by the […]

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