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Business Advice & Stories

What You Need to Know about Web Marketing in 2016

Having a responsive website is a must this year. On a recent webinar, a roundtable of professionals from Market Hardware covered the latest need to know methods to improve your web marketing. Here are a few takeaways: Having a responsive website is a must this year. Prospects are using a wide variety of platforms to […]

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5 Ways to Get Paid Faster and Stay Cash Flow Positive

64% of small businesses suffer from late payments, and landscape business owners are no exception. On a recent NALP webinar, David Tulkin, of Fundbox, share some tips on how to get paid faster and stay cash-flow positive this year. He suggests: Proper time tracking. Manage operations effectively by ensuring you have proper time tracking in […]

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Maximum Efficiency: 5 Tips For Landscape Professionals

This article is written by the experts at Fleetmatics,Ā an NALP Preferred Content Partner andĀ leading provider of web-based fleet management solutions. When the weather starts to turn warmer, many people start thinking about things like baseball. The crack of the bat, the cheer of the crowd, and the first sip of a cold beverage says ā€œsummer […]

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Ā 5 Key Ways to Improve Your Employee RetentionĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 

Bill Arman, of the Harvest Group, an NALP consultant member, shared these tips in his webinar,Ā Don’t Let Them Quit: How to Keep Your Keeper Employees. Here are 5 simple ways that landscape and lawn care companies can improve their employee retention. Get these into place and they will help with keeping your keeper team members.

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Why Building Your Team is Like Managing an NBA Team

Guest Blogger Peter Haakon, with Lawn Business Consultants, is an NALP Consultant Member. There are many similarities between a championship sports team and a winning team in business.Ā  Building a winning team in the green industry is no different than how championships sports teams are built.Ā  Championships teams are built with great leadership or a […]

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5 Things Owners of Multimillion Dollar Landscaping Businesses Do

Bill Silverman, of Springboard Business Coaching, and an NALP consultant member, shared these tips in his webinar,Ā What the Owners of GreatĀ Multimillion-Dollar LandscapingĀ Businesses Do That You Should Do Too.Ā  Run your businesses with a vision of the business you’re building and an annual plan that links the actions you take with the results you want to […]

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10 Steps to Better Cash Flow

MostĀ businesses monitor cash pretty closely but everyoneĀ seems to have their own system. NALP Consultant member, Monica Muir, discussed this and more in her NALP webinar QuickBooks Tools and Strategies for Better Cash Flow. Ā The webinar is now available in the archives. Here are Monica’s 10 ways to help you monitor and/or improve cash flow. 1.Monitor […]

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First 5 Things Foreman Should Look at When Evaluating a Site

Damion Draeger, Landscape Horticulture Instructor at theĀ Milwaukee Area Technical College, provides pointers about the first things foreman should consider on a job site. He will cover a lot more ground in his two-part webinar series Summing Up Landscape Math, April 21 & 28, 2016. His tips for foremen include: Equipment Access- Think about your equipment […]

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6 Things Successful Account Managers Do

In NALP’s Become the Ultimate Account Manager virtual conference, Phil Harwood of Pro-Motion Consulting, Inc. shared some of the secrets of successful account managers. He says they should: Develop and expand relationships with prospective and current customers with their long-term value in mind – not just short term sales goes Set sales and renewal goals […]

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