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Boosting Your Business

Boosting Your Business: The Lawn Care Routing Playbook for Tighter Routes and Bigger Returns

When it comes to lawn care, route density isn’t just a ā€˜nice-to-have’ aspect of the business. It plays a direct role in your company’s profitability, efficiency and ability to deliver a better overall customer experience. ā€œWhen your stops are tighter together, your trucks spend less time driving and more time actually servicing customers,ā€ saysĀ Eric Lehmann, […]

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Selling Smarter: How Enhancements Can Drive Growth and Retention

Selling enhancement work isn’t a way to nickel-and-dime your client base; rather, it can serve as a core growth engine that strengthens your customer relationships when approached as a proactive partnership. Tyner Tew, vice president of sales for Bland Landscaping Company, based in Apex, North Carolina, says they’ve sold enhancements since the start of the […]

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Boosting Your Business: Turn Clients Into Advocates for Your Brand

There’s a reason why word of mouth is one of the most common ways lawn and landscape companies get new business. While your traditional marketing efforts can convey what sets your business apart, it is often the recommendation from peers that converts leads into customers. ā€œIn or outside of the industry, a company is going […]

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Creating a Cohesive Marketing Strategy: Plan, Measure, Adapt

It can be easy to stick with the status quo when it comes to your marketing and advertising plans year in and year out, but you’re also missing out on significant ROI if you don’t have a cohesive strategy or aren’t regularly reviewing your marketing initiatives. Similar to only treating a customer’s property once a […]

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Predictable Profits: The Case for Flat Monthly Billing Rates

If you offer recurring services like lawn care and landscape maintenance, your company has the opportunity to improve your cash flow by implementing monthly installment payment plans. Rather than only invoicing customers after completing a service, this payment model allows you to spread bills out across the 12 months of the year. ā€œIt helps in […]

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Boosting Your Business: The Keys to Maximizing Your CRM Usage

What gets measured can be maximized. If your business lacks true visibility into your sales pipeline, it’s much harder to know where your team can improve. This is where customer relationship management (CRM) software comes in. This tool can help with streamlining your sales process, tracking customer communication and improving your overall efficiency. However, simply […]

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Boosting Your Business: Fostering Transparency Through Open-Book Management

If you’re watching the Super Bowl, or any sporting event for that matter, and you don’t know what the score is, it can be hard to stay engaged. Similarly, it can be difficult for your team to feel like they have a stake in the business when they don’t know how your landscape company is […]

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Boosting Your Business: Mastering the Art of Overcoming Sales Objections

Objections are something your sales team will face on a regular basis as landscape projects call for a significant investment. However, these can turn into lost sales if your sales staff doesn’t know how to address these common objections from customers properly. ā€œAccording to data, 44% of salespeople give up after a single rejection, and […]

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Boosting Your Business: Forecasting for Growth – Why Every Landscape Company Needs a Budget

Your client always has a budget, and you should, too. While you can operate without one, the sooner you start creating an annual budget, the better. Brian Mark, partner and president of Chris Mark and Sons, Inc., based in Pocasset, Massachusetts, says they’ve been budgeting for the last 10 years and over the past five […]

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Boosting Your Business: The Power of Mentorship Programs — Growing Your Own Leaders

Your company is only as good as its leaders, so it pays to invest in leadership growth. Sure, you can recruit good leaders — with the attendant recruitment costs, onboarding time, cultural fit issues, and risk of bad hires along the way. However, growing leaders from within can yield many benefits. You can foster leadership […]

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