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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 […]
This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. Company culture isnāt an optional aspect of your business. It already exists whether you put effort into shaping it or not. The question is, do you have work culture that complements your personal values? […]
This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. AI has become ubiquitous and almost every form of software now offers some type of internal AI integration. Yet if youāre one of the landscape companies that have been wary about whether this technology […]
This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. The quality of your work is one of your best forms of advertising, but it is also the first thing that starts slipping as you grow. This is why developing a training program that […]
This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt 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. […]
This information came from a session during the 2025Ā ELEVATEĀ conference and expo. Donāt miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. If you count on word of mouth for new business, you cannot overlook social media as part of your marketing strategy. Many potential clients are scrolling, searching and deciding through social media who they […]
This information came from a session during the 2025Ā ELEVATEĀ conference and expo. Donāt miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. Do you consider yourself a disruptor in the landscape industry? This is a person or company that intentionally challenges the existing order to create better outcomes. As a disruptor, you are able to write […]
Labor is the Achillesā heel for many landscape maintenance companies. However, utilizing herbicides and plant growth regulators can enhance both the quality and efficiency of your landscape maintenance operations, whether residential or commercial, large or small. āWhat we’re trying to do is give clients the clean, green look, but we’re trying to reduce the amount […]
