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As your landscape company’s operations grow, one of the questions that will arise is if it is time to bring some of your services in-house. Starting out, it makes sense to subcontract others for specialties you aren’t particularly well-versed in or simply don’t have enough work to support throughout the season. Yet bringing your trades […]
When selecting tree species for your customer’s landscape design, it’s important to consider biodiversity, as having a variety of trees on a property not only creates a more dynamic space, but it’s also beneficial for the surrounding ecosystem. “The number one thing is with diversity, you will minimize the abiotic stressors such as insect and […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. For many landscape companies, seasonal color is just one service offering of the many they provide their customers. However, for Color Burst, based in Grayson, Georgia, the design, installation and maintenance of seasonal color is their […]
This article is written in an “As Told To” format. John Munie is the founder and president of Focal Pointe, a $50 million firm specializing in commercial landscape maintenance, based in Caseyville, Illinois. During the early years, I would look at the Top 100/150 lists and wonder what those guys knew that I didn’t. How […]
How often have you heard the formula that if you work harder, you’ll be more successful and that will equal happiness? Despite how commonplace this belief is, over a decade of research has shown that being positive first is the key to greater success at work. “We have been taught this from our schools, from […]
Environmental Management, Inc. (EMI), based in Plain City, Ohio, recently created a safety champion program in an effort to increase their team’s engagement and focus on safety. “It’s hard to have people be engaged with safety,” says Joe Payne, environmental health and safety associate director for EMI. “A lot of people were just like, ‘Oh, […]
Written by: Alec Kowalewski, associate professor and turfgrass specialist at Oregon State University Turfgrass is known for requiring frequent irrigation during the summer months to sustain active growth and development, and an aesthetically pleasing appearance. Due to recent concerns associated with the availability of water, turfgrass irrigation is being scrutinized. Turfgrass scientists have been exploring […]
Adding a drug-free workplace policy to your lawn or landscape company can be intimidating if you’re afraid you’ll lose your employees. Rob Ambler, president of Ambler Industries, based in Furlong, Pennsylvania, says it was this fear that stopped him from enacting a drug-free workplace policy sooner. “You can’t start it fast enough,” Ambler says. “Professionally, it was […]
Franz Witte understood the value of working with a partner from the very start when he founded Franz Witte Landscape Contracting, Inc., based in Nampa, Idaho, with a college friend in 1971. After his friend moved on to another career, Witte and his wife Vicki were the sole owners of the company until 2007, when […]
If most of your business historically comes from word of mouth, it can be hard to see the value in investing in marketing strategies, but these practices can help ensure your pipeline is always full regardless of whether past customers are talking about your landscape business. The good thing is there are numerous marketing channels […]
