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Determining The Smartest Places to Leverage AI in Your Landscape Business

In the field, almost everyone operates at the same speed. A solid crew will build the same size patio in the same amount of time, regardless of the company they work for. ā€œThe real separation between struggling and thriving happens back at the office, in how well the work gets managed and how well knowledge […]

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Stop Being the Bottleneck: How AI Helps Multiply Your Expertise

When you started your landscape business, chances are you didn’t create it because you loved working on spreadsheets at 9 p.m. It’s because you wanted to be outdoors, running equipment and creating beautiful spaces for customers while providing for your family and your employees’ families. Yet night after night you’re still creating estimates and responding […]

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How Recruiting Technology Can Help You Stay Competitive in a Tight Labor Market

As recruiting efforts intensify and candidate expectations rise, the implementation of technology will allow you to stay competitive when attracting the next generation of landscape employees. ā€œIt is critical to invest in recruiting technologies that will improve your overall candidate experience, increase the quality of talent, reduce time to fill, and provide data-driven decision-making tools, […]

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How I Do It: Building an AI Council to Test and Scale New Technology

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the speed of new technologies coming to the market, particularly in the AI space. Rather than considering it a lost cause to stay on top of these changes, Level Green Landscaping, based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, opted to create an internal AI council that allows their team the freedom […]

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Five Cybersecurity Essentials for Landscape Businesses

This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Don’t miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. Did you know that for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the average cost of a data breach is over $3 million? Additionally, 60% of small businesses fold within six months of a cyberattack. […]

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ChatGPT for Landscape Sales Pros and Owners: A Hands-On Intro To Close More Sales

If you’ve been experiencing fewer leads or a longer sales process following the COVID boom, you’re not alone. One way to speed up your sales process is to tap into ChatGPT. ā€œA lot of sales is meeting with people, asking them questions, organizing what they tell you, and then formulating a proposal,ā€ says Jack Jostes, […]

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AI Trailblazers: How Landscape Pros Are Increasing Their Efficiency

People remember the trailblazers. The ones who were brave enough to go out on a limb and try something no one else was quite confident in yet. Implementing artificial intelligence in meaningful ways is one of those unknowns that only a minority of landscape companies are currently exploring. In a survey conducted by Aspire, over […]

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AI Recruiting Tools to Explore

While most people only think of ChatGPT when they think of AI platforms, there are numerous AI tools that can be employed to help with your recruiting efforts. Tito Caceres, managing director of Bloom Talent Solutions, based in Miami, Florida, shares some of the various apps available. AI Agents for Sourcing Moonhub, Tech1M, HireEZ, and […]

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Leveraging AI for Talent Acquisition Without Losing The Human Touch

One of the newer tools on the scene when it comes to digital recruiting is AI and its automation capabilities. ā€œAI is especially useful right now for content-related tasks — like drafting job ads or writing candidate outreach messages,ā€ says Carlos del Pozo, CEO of Team Engine, based in Boulder, Colorado. ā€œIt’s also good at […]

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Finding a Balance: Tapping Into AI Without Sacrificing Human Connection

Only a small percentage of landscape companies are currently utilizing AI, even though the vast majority says it is one of the biggest areas of opportunity in the industry. Joel Northrup, founder and CEO of Deep Lawn, based in Austin, Texas, says AI can help with many aspects of the business like analyzing data, professionalizing […]

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