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Sponsored Content Milwaukee Tool is the industry leader in cordless innovation and is committed to delivering innovative solutions that increase productivity and unmatched durability for the trades. Working side-by-side with landscape and forestry professionals has provided an understanding of the requirements for performance, durability, and ergonomics. This time investment allows them to deliver disruptive innovation […]
Cyberattacks are one of those nightmare scenarios that you might think will never happen to your company. You may say to yourself, āWho wants to hack a lawn care business?ā Unfortunately, there are plenty of cybercriminals who want to do just that. In the early days, cybercriminals were focused on larger companies because you had […]
By Mike McCarron, Image Works Landscaping I once heard someone say, āEvery line is the perfect length if you donāt measure it.ā If youāre like many business owners in our industry, you probably think you know how successful your business is or isnāt, right? But, how do you know for sure? The only way to […]
You know when people start making jokes incorporating camels and lawns that it wasnāt a banner summer for most of us. The U.S. Drought Monitor map, released each Thursday by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, depicted ever-increasing areas of the country that were deficient in precipitation, while evapotranspiration data from […]
With seasonal businesses, efficiency is everything. You canāt add more hours to the day, but you can use your time wisely by taking advantage of a wide range of technology. āItās all about being more efficient,ā says Tom Gardocki, owner of New Era Excavation, LLC, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. āTechnology should equal efficiency if […]
With landscaping companies across the country rolling out all-electric lawn maintenance crews, it should be no surprise that electric construction equipment would find its way to the landscape industry as well. Electric construction equipment isnāt completely new, as hybrid diesel-electric machines have existed for a while. The most recent debuts in compact construction equipment are […]
While robotic mowers have become commonplace in the European market, their adoption has been slower in the U.S. Despite this delayed acceptance, robotic mower manufacturers are confident that as awareness increases, so will these machinesā popularity. āAs more people become educated about the availability and benefits of robotic mowers in North America, adoption will become […]
As you are growing your lawn care or landscape company, eventually, there will come a time when it is imperative to add business software to help with your efficiency. āWhen a business gets a certain size, there is no way for a person, or people, to remember everything needed to make the business work as […]
Sponsored Content When Robin Autopilot started out in 2015, founders Justin Crandall and Bart Lomont used a āUber-for-lawncareā model for their traditional mowing services. However, due to labor gaps, they switched to robotic mowing and sold off the traditional business to Porch.com. They launched a franchise model to expand the business in 2018. In 2019, […]
One of Ben Franklinās most notable quotes is, āAn ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.ā Nowhere is this more appropriate than in the landscaping industry. As you know, we live in difficult times filled with frequent client āchallengesā such as claims for damages, refusal to pay valid invoices, assertions of incomplete work, […]
