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As your company grows, it can feel inevitable to lose small bits and pieces that make up the soul of your business, but this doesnāt have to be the case. Focal Pointe, based in Caseyville, Illinois, grew more than 200% in three years without sacrificing their culture, values and customer experience that fueled their growth […]
Does your companyās growth rest on the shoulders of one or two individuals, or is it something your entire team is driving towards? Without a system in place to recognize, capture and act on opportunities, your team can easily walk past various forms of growth on properties every day. āCommercial landscape companies have hundreds of […]
As your fleet grows, so does your accident frequency and claim severity if you do not take appropriate steps to address your fleet safety and defensibility. āInsurers evaluate fleet risk by looking at both historical losses and the company’s overall commitment to risk management,ā says Drew Garcia, vice president of Rancho Mesa Insurance Services and Landscape Group […]
If you removed the name of your company from your website and replaced it with a competitorās, would the claims made still be true for that business? If so, chances are your organization isnāt leaning into your clear positioning statement. āMost companies don’t struggle because they aren’t good at what they do,ā says Katy Doss, […]
It can feel like the odds are not in your favor when your business is competing against other operations that are private equity-backed, yet this position does offer you some unique advantages. āPrivate equity has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in landscape companies,ā says Greg Herring, founder and CEO of The Herring Group. āThat reality […]
Are you running the business based on your bank balance and intuition, or do you know your actual job-costed financial data? āOwners usually know how many crews they have, how busy the schedule looks, whether the phone is ringing, but they usually can’t answer what 20% of customers generate 80% of their profit or what […]
If you want to change what happens on a property, you have to change what the person standing on the property is focused on and rewarded for. This is where front-line incentive programs come in. āBase pay buys the job,ā says Joe Socolof, COO of Landscape Workshop. āIncentives don’t buy effort; they direct attention. A […]
If you want to go behind the scenes with a landscape company that has grown rapidly from a single-location landscape construction provider to a multi-site operation offering landscape maintenance, you donāt want to miss On Tour held during ELEVATE, presented by NALP and powered by Cat. This exclusive facility tour with Sunrise Landscape, based in Tampa, […]
When you are trying to be strategic about where youāll get the most ROI out of the events you choose to attend, it can be daunting to know for certain which ones cater to your specific revenue size. WithĀ ELEVATE, presented by NALP and powered by Cat, you donāt have to worry about this, as this […]
One aspect that makes the networking events at ELEVATE, presented by NALP and powered by Cat, so unforgettable is their unique venues. These events are more than a place to gather, but a way to experience the host city while tapping into one of the best resources in the industry: your peers. With this yearās […]
