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In times when your clients might be less likely to spring for a major landscape project or if their budget is on the smaller side, offering a phased project can be a good compromise. “When the scope exceeds the client’s budget at the time of installation, and the client values the quality your company provides, […]
Running a business can be hard, but who better to partner with than your spouse? These work dynamics, when done right, can be a beautiful balance of one another’s talents. However, there are pitfalls. You can avoid some of these troubles with these three practices. Define Your Roles One of the first steps to working […]
The pricing of your services can be a tricky business as while you’d like to be able to set it and forget it and never have to approach your clients about your work costing more, doing so will only hurt your lawn or landscape business in the long run. Jud Griggs, a landscape design/build sales […]
To be sustainable, a balance must be struck economically and environmentally. Salt in snow and ice operations is often overused in an attempt to appease customers, but taking the time to properly calibrate and use the right type of salt for the job can result in savings and less salt waste. “What it boils down […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. In 2019, Austin Ashmore acquired Sunrise Landscape, based in Tampa, Florida, along with some outside investors. He had contemplated starting his company from scratch when he missed the entrepreneurial environment of small business, but he says […]
Certainty and savings are two things any lawn care operator would love to have, and early order programs can deliver just that. These programs allow you to order the products you need in advance and reap financial savings as well through discounts, rebates and extended payment periods. “Early order programs can seem very daunting, and […]
Guest post by Robert Murray with Intrigue Media Marketing. Everyone has an opinion. Some are good, most are not, and few are backed by data and facts. So, how do you figure out who to trust and what to do? For the last three years, the wind has been at our back and business has […]
Sponsored content by Shiva Dhawan, CEO, Co-Founder, Attentive.ai Dealing with a business management software that falls short of supporting your construction division alongside maintenance can be frustrating. You are bogged down with manual tasks, such as clicking & drawing polygons in blueprint PDFs, endless number crunching for estimates, and haggles with inaccuracies in purchasing data. […]
Bringing on a full-time recruiter can be extremely beneficial for your workforce pipeline and your retention efforts. “The way I look at recruiting is very similar to sales,” says David Koehn, president of Koehn Outdoor, based in Jacksonville, Florida. “You’re building your pipeline; you’re following up. There are a lot of the same processes in […]
This winter has marked the return of snow for many landscape contractors after a considerable drought. One of the workhorses of the snow and ice management business is salt, as it can lower the freezing point of water, but overuse of this material can be hazardous to the environment. As you reflect on the […]
