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Not all landscape designs may come from your in-house designers. When you have the opportunity to work with outside landscape architects, not only can you enjoy a fresh design perspective but you can also foster a relationship that leads to future business. By maintaining strong relationships with landscape architects, they can direct new clients your […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Hursthouse Landscape Architects, based in Bolingbrook, Illinois, was started 32 years ago after Bob Hursthouse left the landscaping company he had spent a decade working at. He was interviewing with other landscaping companies when his former […]
All landscapes start in the design phase and landscape architects and designers can be influential in how outdoor spaces are crafted and how they impact the areas around them. As for the future of landscapes, sustainability is the most important element landscape architects and designers see moving forward. Joe Hanauer, ASLA, owner of Landscape Architecture, […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Barry Schneider didnāt plan on owning his own landscaping company starting out. He fell in love with the landscape industry after watching a design/build firm transform his parentsā backyard as a teenager. He says it was […]
Think of a skilled profession where you donāt have to pay a consultation fee. If you had trouble thinking of a field where this happens, itās because itās rare for people to give away their expertise for free. Yet it is a common practice for those who do offer design/build services to not charge for […]
When it came time for the Bethesda, Maryland homeowners to begin the transformation of their backyard into a resort-style wonderland, they gave the green light to Bethesda-based Fine Earth Landscaping, Inc. It was always the plan to add a pool and outdoor entertainment area and they were eager to get started once the complicated, lengthy […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Aridscape Utah, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, isnāt Charlie Schaulās first time owning a landscaping company. He first got into the landscape industry when he started a landscape maintenance company to keep his two ski […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. It was seven years ago when Tim Hawkins, LIC, decided to take the leap and start his own landscaping company. The business he was working for at the time had just been bought and he had […]
Tara Piergies-Baker has been in the industry since 2004. She was steered towards landscape architecture by her professor Roy DeBoer at Rutgers University thanks to her love of the outdoors and working outside. She took on the role of design/build construction sales manager at Milosi, based in Hendersonville, Tennessee, last August and she says itās […]
As a lawn care or landscape company providing a service, you are bound to encounter difficult clients. While you canāt control another personās behavior, you can control how often you end up working with these individuals and how you respond to them. If handled properly, you can even transform these āproblemā customers into loyal proponents […]
