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Ā Ā by: Jeffrey Scott, PLANET Consultant Ā If you can eliminate the risks involved with buying a company, it can be good for your company. However the chances are far greater you will get a bad deal. To increase your chances of success, avoid the following twelve scenarios: Ā 1. You buy company and […]
Ā PLANETās Renewal and Remembrance event in July has become a part of the Kuperus Family and Farmside Landscape summer plans and we always strive to make sure we can fit it in. When we first attended the event, about 10 years ago, we took the family, including our infant son carried on our back, […]
PLANET Student Career Days has come and gone for 2012.Ā Thinking back to a few months ago…it was filled with fun, excitement, intensity, late nights and early mornings but what a great success it was.Ā The Pennsylvania College of Technology team started its 1,161 mile journey to Manhattan, Kansas, two days before the events of […]
When it comes to marketing your green industry business online–in particular with social media–it is critically important that your business place strategy and principles above all else. Ā You know the cliche, āDonāt put the cart before the horseā. In our case, donāt let the ātoolsā of Internet marketing and social media dictate your marketing […]
Let me start be introducing myself. I am Jeremy Thorne, from the little town of Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania. I am a student at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, majoring in ornamental horticulture with a landscape emphasis. This year, I had the great opportunity to represent my school and PLANET at the 2011 Green Industry […]
Early in 1970, a few members of the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) (now the Professional Landcare Network or PLANET) gathered together, agreeing that the green industry should become more proactive in determining its future. They believed that if landscape contractors could accurately predict future opportunities and roadblocks, they could plan to maximize opportunities, […]
Only yesterday the opening ceremonies began and already it seems like we have been here foreverā¦ or for just the blink of an eye!Ā I should have taken notes because by now I canāt remember all of the things I learned. Judith Guido was a super informative Keynote Speaker.Ā Practical ideas about personal branding were […]
Joliet Junior College is already a beehive of activity.Ā It has been for months, laying the groundwork for this weekās PLANET Student Career Days.Ā Ā The adrenalin flows; the energy is absorbed from the very events themselves and from each other. The industry representatives are especially interesting to watch.Ā They do stuff like this all the time; […]
My brain has been waking me up every hour or two and so I have given up the fight.Ā Yesterday was a whirlwind of activity.Ā The Chattahoochee Tech TeamPLANET left the Acworth, Georgia, North Metro Campus at 5:15 a.m. We were saddened that at 5:00 a.m. teammate Nanci Lee got a phone call and had to […]
The uniqueness of PLANET’s Student Career Days (SCD)Ā does not escape me.Ā There is nowhere else I know that students have the chance to test their skills in realistic industry situations with the full support of potential employers and current educational mentors.Ā Sort of a crash course internship while still in the comfortable cocoon of a supportive family.Ā […]
