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Business Advice & Stories

The Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up Payroll for Your Small Business

Sponsored Content Congratulations on starting your own landscaping business! Whether you run a small business with employees or are simply paying yourself, you’ll find that payroll is not only an essential part of your operations, but it is also legally required. New to the process? Don’t worry! This small business payroll checklist explains what you […]

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How I Do It: Keeping Employees On All Season

Since the 1980s, Wonderland Tree Care + Landscapes, based in Oyster Bay, New York, has been able to keep all their staff on during the off-season by providing tree care services. The company started as a tree care company that eventually added landscape services. David Golon, general manager for Wonderland Tree Care + Landscapes, says […]

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Business Smarts: Four Tips for Handling Price Increases

It is a simple fact that it costs significantly more to run your business than it did a few years ago. From fuel and material prices to increased labor rates, you won’t have a profit margin to speak of if you don’t adjust accordingly. Despite this necessity, you might be reluctant to raise prices and […]

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REPLAY: Preparing for the Snowy Season with Brian McNichol

In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke, VP at R.M. Landscape, Miles Kuperus, systems architect at Include Software, and Neal Glatt, at GrowTheBench, talk to BrianĀ McNichol,Ā sales and operations manager withĀ Snow and Ice Management.Ā  McNichol provides solutions to property managers, facility engineers, and building owners who are worried […]

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Attracting and Engaging Talent with Jennifer Burnett: Season 3: Episode 29 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 3, episode 29 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke with R.M. Landscape, Macey Robison with LandCare and Neal Glatt with GrowTheBench talk Jennifer Burnett, EVP of organizational development with LandCare. Burnett has worked at LandCare for seven years and has been in the industry for over 24 years. […]

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Business Smarts: Offering Different Electronic Payment Methods

To keep your lawn or landscape business running smoothly you need steady cash flow. One consideration to improve that cash flow is making bill payment for customers as easy as possible. While cash or check are still viable options, more companies are opting to include additional electronic payment methods. Depending on the size of your […]

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REPLAY: Cultivating Company Culture with Michele Posehn

In this replay episode of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, Macey Robinson at LandCare, Neal Glatt of GrowTheBench, Luke Melograno at Mariani Landscape, and Brett Lemcke of R.M. Landscape, talk with Michele Posehn, senior manager of diversity initiatives and university relations atĀ SiteOne Landscape Supply. Posehn came to SiteOne three years ago and has built […]

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Are You Ready to Sell Your Business? Use This Checklist

Sponsored Content If you own a landscaping business and you’re thinking about your exit strategy and how to one day retire, we’ve prepared a thorough checklist of all the things you’ll need to consider to get ready for the sale of your business. The first question most potential buyers will ask is: ‘Why are you […]

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Faces of the Industry: Mari Medrano

Mari Medrano was 16 years old when she first started working in the office at CoCal Landscape Services, Inc., based in Denver, Colorado. She worked as an office assistant there and then left the industry for a time. She returned in 1998 while she was in college and started working in the field. ā€œIt was […]

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Gain a Competitive Edge With Stronger Sales Leadership

This information came from a session during the 2022 ELEVATE conference and expo. Don’t miss the 2023 ELEVATE in Dallas on Sept. 10-13. Sales cannot be managed but leading sales activities and leading metrics can be. When you put effort into building an outstanding sales organization, you can create a sustainable competitive advantage and maintain your growth […]

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