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Business Advice & Stories

How I Do It: Creating a Quality Landscape Blog

To blog or not to blog, that is the question. Adding a blog to your lawn or landscape company’s website can help establish your business’s authority as an expert, attract new customers and educate existing clients. However, a landscape blog requires work, focus and commitment before you can reap these benefits. Both Borst Landscape & […]

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REPLAY: Living Your Passion with Sara Bendrick

In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench and Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape talk withĀ Sara Bendrick, a licensed landscape contractor, author and TV personality. Bendrick has more than 10 years of experience specializing in residential design. She has been featured on several […]

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Self-Reflection: Are Your Employees Leaving for These Reasons?

Sustaining a healthy business without consistency within your workforce is almost impossible. This is true for both management and field-level positions.Ā  Not only is it harder to grow if you’re constantly replacing your current staff, but it also costs 20 to 40 percent of an employee’s annual wage to replace them. Employees leave for various […]

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Business Smarts: Crafting Resolutions to Benefit Your Company

New Year’s resolutions are often ambitious and well-intentioned goals you set for your personal life, but you can also craft some for your business as you head into the new year. As you reflect on another year finished, these are just a few possible business resolution suggestions to focus on as you continue to grow […]

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Happy Holidays!: Season 3: Episode 32 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In this special episode of Growing in the Green Industry, we want to wish you and your families happy holidays! This episode is hosted by Miles Kuperus at Include Software, Neal Glatt at GrowTheBench, and Brett Lemcke with RM Landscape. Listen to the full podcast below.

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Recertification FAQs and Industry CEU Opportunities

Being Landscape Industry Certified can help you win more work, expand your career opportunities and help you build a better business. NALP also providesĀ marketing materials, logos and more for Landscape Industry Certified individuals to promote their expertise. If you or your team members have taken the time to become Landscape Industry Certified, you want to […]

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Top 10 Stories of 2022

We are closing out the year with a look back at our top 10 stories of 2022. If you missed any of these popular stories that offer tips, insights, and feature profiles, now is the time to check them out! 10) Team Building: The Benefits of Conducting Exit Interviews Ideally, you never want your employees […]

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Methods for Keeping the Design Pipeline Full Over the Winter

In the landscape industry, it’s natural for things to slow down in the winter as clients think less about their outdoor spaces and bad weather in some areas of the country presents challenges. However, keeping your design pipeline full over the winter season is still possible. While it was more of a struggle to keep […]

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Team Building: Five Ways to Strengthen Your Company Culture

It’s no secret that the main key to lawn and landscape companies successfully recruiting and retaining their employees is strong company culture. Good companies are constantly looking for ways to improve and provide more for their teams. Be Consistent It’s natural to want to test things out before rolling changes out full-scale, but you need […]

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The Bigger Picture with Sales and Marketing with Vanessa McQuade and Rob Murray:Ā Season 3: Episode 31 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 3, episode 31 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke of R.M. Landscape and Neal Glatt with GrowTheBench talk to Vanessa McQuade, senior account executive and owner, and Rob Murray, CEO and co-owner of Intrigue Media, a digital marketing company that has been empowering and growing businesses in the […]

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