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Business Advice & Stories

How to Stick to Your Business New Year’s Resolutions

2021 is right around the corner and many are eager to leave 2020 far behind. With this new year comes a fresh start and the opportunity to set new resolutions. Often New Year’s resolutions are mocked since after the first few weeks of January, they have already been forgotten or abandoned. However, this doesn’t have […]

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Level Up: Southern Botanical’s Commitment to Quality Drives Company Growth

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Like many companies in the industry, the seed of Southern Botanical, Inc. was planted when a young boy started mowing his neighbors’ lawns. President and CEO Jason Craven launched his business officially in 1995 as J.C. […]

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Happy Holidays!: Episode 31 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

Happy Holidays from the Growing in the Green Podcast!  Whether you’re continuing long-standing traditions or creating new ones (because….you know…2020), we hope you can enjoy some time with those you love this holiday season.  Listen to the full podcast below.

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Business Smarts: Creating a Mailing List and Checking It Twice

There are so many ways to communicate with your customer base nowadays, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the different ways you can reach them. ā€œIt’s impossible to be across every single marketing channel and do it very well,ā€ Joseph Stark, marketing director for Ground Works Land Design, based in Cleveland, Ohio. ā€œWhat I […]

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Faces of the Industry: Kristy Mathews

Kristy Mathews, owner of K&B Lawn and Landscaping based in Jacksonville, Florida, has only been working in the landscape industry for less than a year. She started her business in April 2020. Thanks to contactless payments and their work being done outside, Mathews says the pandemic has not caused any issues for the business. ā€œEverybody’s […]

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Women in Landscape Network Virtual Networking Series Takeaways

Since August, the NALP Women in Landscape Network powered by Bayer has hosted over a dozen meetings via Zoom in conjunction with their new Virtual Networking Series. The WILN Leadership Team has worked to develop timely, relevant, and interesting offerings, and cultivate a variety of speakers and formats, including presentations by industry veterans and open […]

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Setting the Path for Sales Success with Kirk Armstrong: Episode 30 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In the 30th episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus III, system architect at Include Software, Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, Luke Melograno, production coordinator at Mariani Landscape and Macey Wollenberg, an account manager with LandCare, talk with Kirk Armstrong from Armstrong Sales Coaching. Armstrong is a graduate of […]

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How I Do It: The Business Case for Brine

If you offer snow and ice removal services during the winter months, chances are you’ve heard of contractors using brine. This tool has been touted as a solution to use less rock salt, but it has also been met with skepticism. Here to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding liquid brine are two companies […]

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Why KPI? Tracking, Understanding and Utilizing Your Numbers with Miles Kuperus: Episode 29 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In the 29th episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, Luke Melograno, production coordinator at Mariani Landscape and Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape interview their fellow host, Miles Kuperus, system architect at Include Software.Ā  Kuperus grew up in a family landscaping business, Farmside Landscaping & […]

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SiteRecon Allows Mainscape to Save Time and Earn More on Each Bid

Sponsored Content Mainscape, based in Fishers, Indiana, started using SiteRecon in July 2020 and since then they have saved 1,200 hours in sales times. Their closing rate has doubled to 20 percent as well and some of their bids have been optimized by more than $150,000 per contract. SiteRecon is an online platform that automatically […]

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