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Do you find that too many of your design/build jobs have a low profit bar? At the NALP Field Trip with Marty Grunder, Marty and Frank Mariani, of Mariani Landscapes in Oak Bluff, Illinois, shared some insights to help raise the bar and your bottom line: Pick the right job and client. Start targeting and […]
NALP recently had a chance to pick the brain of Brian Kraff, the co-founder of Market Hardware, a provider of small business website marketing products and services that cater specifically to the landscape industry. We asked him our top 5 burning web marketing questions. Bring your questions to his session at LANDSCAPES 2016 in Louisville […]
What to do when your competition low balls you and you are feeling pressure to lower your prices? Ā Don’t panic says LandOpt President and CEO Tim Smith. The following are five actions Smith recommends to help neutralizeĀ price concerns:
As any professional knows, diagnosing problems with trees isn’t easy – there are so many potential factors at work. We were lucky enough to travel to Charlotte, North Carolina, recently, to go behind the scenes at the Bartlett Tree Experts’ 400 acre arboretum and research laboratory. Ā We always wondered what the life of a tree […]
Being recognized as an award winning company has its perks. Aside from impressing customers and creating a sense of pride among staff, the exposure award winning companies receive in the media is invaluable. In addition to Awards of Excellence winners being featured in The Landscape Professional, on landscapeprofessionals.org, and on NALPās consumer site loveyourlandscape.org, winners […]
āEntering projects in NALPās Awards of Excellence program is a great way to showcase our companyās work and talent,ā said Kathleen Dangelo, Vice-President and General Counsel for The Ohio Valley Group, Inc., in Chagrin Falls, OH. āIt is a great source of pride for our team to win national landscape awards, and clients are impressed. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 āsummer […]
Bill Arman, of the Harvest Group, an NALP consultant member, shared these tips in his webinar,Ā Donāt 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.
