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Business Advice & Stories

How I Do It: Offering Only Organic Maintenance Services

Since Nussbaum Group, based in Redmond, Washington, started their maintenance team in 2005, they have only offered 100% organic maintenance services. ā€œWhile some companies may offer the choice to be organic, or not, we only allow 100% organic – for the good of our people, clients, the environment, and society,ā€ says Dale Nussbaum, founder and […]

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Business Smarts: When to Launch a Secondary Brand

If you’re wanting to add another service offering for your customer base, typically, you’ll want to simply create a new division within your lawn or landscape business. However, there are certain cases where spinning off this new service into a secondary brand can be a better fit. Reasons To Create A Secondary Business Chase Coates, […]

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Business Smarts: How to Deal with a Bad Quarter

No one wants to experience them, but bad quarters will happen as you operate your lawn care or landscape business. Sometimes a bad quarter is due to external factors utterly out of your control, like Mother Nature not delivering the snow you expected for the winter season. Other times, internal factors like poor marketing strategies […]

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Tactics to Implement from Field Trip at Russell Landscape Group

Russell Landscape Group has achieved 20 percent annual organic growth over the last eight years. How they achieved this, as well as how they plan to continue to grow, is one of the aspects attendees of the seventh annual NALP Field Trip were able to discover on June 6-7. This $62 million-dollar company headquartered in […]

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REPLAY: How Coaching Drives Success with Taylor Milliken

In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast hosts Miles Kuperus III, system architect at Include Software, Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench and Luke Melograno, production coordinator at Mariani Landscape talked to Taylor Milliken, owner and president of Milosi. Milliken founded Milosi in 2001 with a truck, a trailer, and […]

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How I Do It: Adding a Home Services Division Ā 

If you have your residential clients often asking if you know a handyman or provide home services, you may be considering taking on these services yourself. This was the case for Krisjan Berzins, founder of Kingstowne Lawn & Landscape, based in Alexandria, Virginia. He started offering painting services for his clients over 10 years ago. ā€œI […]

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How I Do It: Composting Green Waste

How often does your company have to haul away piles of green waste from a job to a dumpsite? One alternative is to start composting your green waste. Sun Valley Landscaping, based in Omaha, Nebraska, has been turning their green waste into compost for over 10 years. They sell their compost from their supply yard […]

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REPLAY: Marketing Your Unique Brand with Lara Omick

In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus III with Include Software and Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, talk to Lara Omick from Conserva Irrigation. Omick oversees brand marketing for Conserva Irrigation. Conserva is the nation’s largest irrigation franchise founded on the principle of water conservation. In the brand […]

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Changing the Game: Entrepreneurs 35 and Younger Share Their Outlook on the Industry

Some common threads you’ll often find in entrepreneurs’ stories are a desire to be their own boss and a background of starting side hustles from a young age. For instance, Quinn Kampf, 26, owner of White Pine Landscaping, based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, started his first business when he was six. He dabbled in […]

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Business Smarts: Setting Clear Boundaries with Customers

Do you have issues with clients calling day and night with questions and concerns about their projects? Is your inbox flooded with constant emails, or is your phone buzzing with frequent texts from customers? While timely communication is an important aspect of customer service, lines must also be drawn for your team and your own […]

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