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Thirty-two percent of homeowners have been putting off at least one home improvement project for 12 months or more. And landscaping is in the top five on that list, according to a new study on home improvement site Porch.com. Home Improvement To-Do List The study says nine of these jobs on homeownersā to-do lists ādesperately […]
What does the 2019 home buying season look like? According to Realtor.com, rising prices, an influx of inventory and moderate sales pace will dictate the home buying season. Let’s take a look at these segments. Home Buying Update: 2019 Mortgage Rates Could Be Best Since 2005 Housing forecasts suggest the recent plunge in mortgage rates […]
Motivating employees and making them feel like valued members of the team has always been at the core of how Jason Musch, owner and president of Dutch Valley Landscape Contractors, has run his business. He says āwithout our employees, we are nothing.ā Even so, in the past, the Chicago-area landscape maintenance company has experienced problems […]
Joshua Pool, chief operations officer of Timberline Landscaping, says he has always been one to gravitate toward the outdoors. Growing up in Central Kansas, Pool admits he loved playing in the dirt and being outside as often as he possibly could. After working with a local landscape company during his last year of high school, […]
Employee retention has never been much of an issue at McHale Landscape Design, a $20-million full-service landscape and maintenance company based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. In fact, the company has many long-term employees who have been with the business for two decades or moreāincluding McHaleās 50 foremen. But Kevin McHale, president, says he was getting […]
Like many other landscape business owners, Richard Arlington says he got his start in landscaping as a kid. Mowing grass, raking leaves and shoveling snow was an easy way to earn some income. Upon returning home from some time in the Marines, Arlington says he couldnāt find a jobāso he returned to doing what he […]
Though his son has grown up around the businessāand the industryāCody Whelchel, owner of Texas-based Cody Landscape, says the process of transitioning business ownership to his son has been more complicated than he anticipated. Currently in the midst of that process, Whelchel, who founded the landscape design, installation and maintenance business in 1986 along with […]
Letās face it: As a result of the lack of knowledge available to people about the landscape industry and the career potential within, its image is tainted. This is particularly true with younger generations. āStudents and parents think itās a dirty job and that you donāt make any money in landscaping; we just have this […]
Chris Lee admits he canāt pinpoint exactly what got him into the landscape business. But he is certain that the opportunity to ādo his own thing,ā and to āput his stamp on something bigger than himselfā were driving factors. Since founding Earthworks Inc., in 1979, Leeāwho serves as presidentāhas adapted and evolved the business many […]
A savvy business owner knows he or she constantly needs to be on the lookout for a growth bottleneck. If they want their businesses to continue to grow and perform, they need to remove these āhold-ups.” But what if the owner is the bottleneck? That was exactly the case for Doug McDuff and his business […]
