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Business Advice & Stories

Cultivating Quality: How Myatt Landscaping’s Horticulture Team Sets Them Apart

What started as a specific hire to help with a unique project in 2022 has evolved into the development of a new horticulture team for Myatt Landscaping & Construction, based in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. When Myatt Landscaping was hired to install landscape architect Max Cohen’s design at Raleigh Iron Works, they brought on Kate Watts […]

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Industry Optimism: What Challenges and Opportunities 2025 Holds

When landscape professionals headed into 2024, there were concerns surrounding the election and talk of a recession. Now, with 2025 on the horizon, businesses are optimistic about their growth next year. ā€œThe landscape industry has a good mix of technology coupled with a continuing need for customer service provided by actual people,ā€ says Nada Duna, […]

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Selecting Your Fleet and Equipment Acquisition Strategy

Do you have a strategy for how you go about buying, renting and leasing your trucks and equipment or is it simply haphazard improvisation? Each of these options has valuable benefits for your landscape business, which is why it’s important to think through some of the different considerations for each approach. Short-Term Versus Long-Term Needs […]

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Business Smarts: Managing Cash Flow Through the Slow Season

The song might claim it’s the most wonderful time of the year, but if you’re not prepared for the slow season, it can be the most stressful time of the year for your business. ā€œThe offseason can be a challenging time,ā€ says Austin Zakow, CEO of Outerland, based in Mashpee, Massachusetts. ā€œThere is not much […]

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The Power of Knowing Your Numbers: Harnessing Data to Drive Success

When you consider all of the data at your fingertips that come from running a lawn or landscape company, it can be truly overwhelming. However, you shouldn’t let analysis paralysis keep your business from digging into these valuable insights. These numbers can tell a significant story about your business and help you make more informed […]

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Buy, Lease, or Rent? Choosing the Right Equipment Strategy For Your Landscape Business

To buy or not to buy…that is the question. Or perhaps the question is to buy, to lease, or to rent? When it comes to your fleet and the equipment needed to get the job done, the decision to buy, lease or rent will vary greatly based on various factors Below are some of the […]

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Level Up: Blue Marble Landscape’s Strong Client Retention Drives Long-Term Success

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. At Blue Marble Landscape, based in Mesa, Arizona, large-scale HOAs are their bread and butter. Not only do they provide a wide range of services to this commercial property type, including landscape and turf management, water […]

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Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late: Why You Need To Start Exit Planning Today

The consequences of being too late for various things in life will vary. Miss the bus? That’s okay; you can wait for the next one. However, when it comes to exit planning, being too late to build your business into something buyers are interested in can result in the destruction of the value of your […]

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Team Building: Strengthening Your Leadership Team and Fostering Feedback Loops

With growth comes the essential need for delegation. You simply cannot do everything by yourself, which is why it is critical to have a set of leaders who can nurture your company culture. If you don’t have strong leaders in place, they can drive away other good employees with their poor management and stifle feedback […]

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How I Do It: Increasing Fleet Safety with AI-Powered Dashcams

As adding GPS tracking to landscape fleets becomes more commonplace, an additional piece of hardware that is rising in popularity are dashcams. These cameras can have road-facing and/or in-cab lenses to capture what your crews are encountering as they drive between job sites. Seth Kehne, president of Lawn Butler, based in Knoxville, Tennessee, says they started putting […]

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