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Business Advice & Stories

Business Smarts: Offering Financing for Clients

Oftentimes when a consumer is making a sizable purchase for a house, a car or other investment, they look for financing to help make the cost more manageable. Yet frequently, landscaping companies opt not to offer their customers any financing options, believing this is best left to the banks to handle. However, offering financing has […]

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REPLAY: Balancing Employee Development and Business Needs

In this replay episode of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, Miles Kuperus, system architect at Include Software, Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape, and Luke Melograno, production coordinator at Mariani Landscape talk with Chris Joyce, president of the Joyce Companies. The Joyce Companies consist of the following […]

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Climbing High: Alisha Amundson’s Experience as an Arborist

If you reach Alisha Amundson’s voicemail, it says she’s either in a tree or assisting another customer. This sums up the majority of this arborist’s day, but she is also a mother and owner of Tree Girl Designs, based in Orlando, Florida. Amundson says getting into arboriculture was fated for her, although she didn’t seek […]

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A Touch on Mental Health with Paul Fraynd: Season 2, Episode 48 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 2, episode 48 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus with Include Software, Brett Lemcke with RM Landscape and Neal Glatt with GrowTheBench talk with Paul Fraynd, CEO of Sun Valley Landscaping. Fraynd leads the company’s growth and strategy while maintaining core values and operating in a way that […]

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How I Do It: Celebrating Earth Day

For landscape and lawn care companies, one could argue that every day is Earth Day. However, holidays can help bring attention to a specific topic. Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate why you do what you do on a daily basis and educate others in the community about the importance of caring for the […]

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Faces of the Industry: Triston Parsons

To Triston Parsons, landscaping isn’t just a commodity. He sees the value that plants add to a person’s home and life. Parsons developed a love for beautiful landscapes as he grew up helping care for his family and his grandparents’ properties. In high school, he started knocking on doors and quickly had 15 yards that […]

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If You’re Not Putting Yourself Out There, You’re Not Growing with Teddy Russell: Season 2, Episode 47 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 2, episode 47 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus at Include Software, Brett Lemcke with RM Landscape, Neal Glatt with GrowTheBench and Macey Robinson with LandCare talk with Teddy Russell, CEO of Russell Landscape Group. Russell grew up in a family business that his father began in 1987. […]

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How I Do It: Creating an Employee Waitlist

Can you imagine having potential new hires sign up for a waitlist to be hired by your company? At Local Roots Landscaping based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this is a reality at certain times of the year. Patrick Murray, managing partner of Local Roots, says this isn’t always the case but they do have periods throughout […]

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Consistency is Key: Season 2, Episode 46 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 2, episode 46 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus at Include Software and Brett Lemcke with RM Landscape talk with Doug McDuff, president and co-owner of Landscape America. McDuff has a bachelor’s degree in urban forestry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate’s degree in landscape […]

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How I Do It: Being A Woman in A High-Intensity Position

Tara Piergies-Baker has been in the industry since 2004. She was steered towards landscape architecture by her professor Roy DeBoer at Rutgers University thanks to her love of the outdoors and working outside. She took on the role of design/build construction sales manager at Milosi, based in Hendersonville, Tennessee, last August and she says it’s […]

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