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Business Advice & Stories

Team Building: Creating Goals Your Team Can Drive Toward

How often are you going to get in a friend’s car if you don’t even know where they’re going? Similarly, it’s going to be very hard to convince current employees and job candidates to stick with your organization if you don’t have concrete goals you’re aiming for. While you’ll always have that handful who are […]

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Creating Cohesion: Inside Monarch Landscape Companies’ Rebrand

How long does it take to finalize a company rebrand? For Monarch Landscape Companies, based in Los Angeles, California, their CMO Karen Schakarov jokes it takes as long as carrying a baby to term. Monarch has grown rapidly through mergers and acquisitions since the company’s founding in 2015. Yet they did not have a clear […]

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Scaling Strategically: When To Expand With Branches

If growth is your goal, there comes a time when you have to consider if you’d like to expand with branch locations. This form of growth can be an exciting time for your team, but it also should be executed with care. This process takes time, and rushing can be detrimental to your overall brand […]

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Discover How McHale Landscape Design Develops Clients for Life at Field Trip

Want to build stronger relationships with your clients and team members? Discover how McHale Landscape Design, Inc., empowers people and has crafted a company culture rooted in success at NALP’s Field Trip in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on Sept. 23-24, 2025. McHale is a high-end residential landscape design, build and estate gardening firm. With an annual revenue […]

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Need Guidance? Contact An NALP Member Advisor!

Ever wished you had a collection of subject matter experts to consult for various business concerns related to safety, legal issues, lawn care regulations or government affairs? As an NALP member, you have access to our specialty advisors, free of charge. ā€œNALP advisors are an invaluable resource and members’ benefit,ā€ says Sam Steel, NALP’s safety […]

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Owner of Piedmont Landscape Management Recognized as Georgia’s Small Business Person of the Year

Small business owners demonstrate hard work, ingenuity and dedication daily. Often, they are striving to become industry leaders while facing failures and wins along the way. ā€œI believe it’s important to celebrate the wins,ā€ says Patrick Wells, president of Piedmont Landscape Management, based in Augusta, Georgia. ā€œToo often, we focus on the setbacks.ā€ As part […]

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Always Be Marketing: How One Landscaper’s Radio Waves Strengthened His Referrals

Like many other landscape companies starting out, Bret Achtenhagen’s Seasonal Services, based in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, initially worked with anyone and everyone. Bret Achtenhagen, president and CEO of the company, says in the beginning, they served middle-class clients and starter homes. Now their reputation has taken them to higher-end clientele. ā€œIt’s very referral-based, but I think […]

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From Burnout to Balance: Practices to Preserve Your Mental Health

Burnout can be a real threat to both your team and yourself if you are not taking care of your mental health. ā€œMental health is such a wide sweeping topic with a million and a half definitions – one for about every individual talking about it,ā€ says Brandon Sheppard, a Weed Man franchisor in the Mid-Atlantic. ā€œAt […]

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Effective Leadership: Habits to Cultivate and Those to Eliminate

As a leader, establishing effective routines can play a major role in your overall excellence as an organization. It takes discipline to both develop good habits and eliminate those that no longer serve you. Below are some of the habits that have positively impacted leaders in the landscape industry as well as practices they decided […]

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Earth Day Every Day: How Landscape Companies Are Leading With Sustainability Year-Round

Earth Day serves as the birth of the modern environmental movement. Prior to 1970, many Americans were oblivious to the threats a polluted environment posed to themselves and the planet as a whole. For more than half a century, this day has been celebrated as a time to conduct service projects or educate the public […]

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