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Designing a Facility Supports Crews and Company Growth

If you’ve decided it’s time to upgrade your facilities, either through expansion or relocation, this investment only pays off if you can thoughtfully design the space around your team’s true needs. Ideally, your new facility should boost productivity and employee morale. Identify Your Pain Points The first step to designing your new space is to […]

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Time to Expand? When to Invest in a New Facility

When your business is growing, there comes a time when there is simply not enough space to operate efficiently at your facility. Investing in expanding or relocating is a major financial decision, which is why it’s important to think through all the various considerations. Buying more land or a new building shouldn’t just solve the […]

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Business Smarts: Creating Processes that Scale with Your Company

When you’re on the smaller side, many of the processes you create work when you only have five or 10 employees. Yet as your team grows, cracks can begin to appear as bottlenecks and inconsistencies cause issues. ā€œStrong processes allow us to grow while maintaining quality, performance, and accountability across all branches,ā€ says Loren McIrvin, […]

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Scaling Up Too Fast? The Case for Sustainable Growth

When you’re growing rapidly, it can look great on paper, but it can come at the cost of your people becoming burnt out. Knowing when you need to slow down requires you and your leadership team to take the time to check in with your employees regularly.   Rick Sartori, vice president of East Coast […]

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Growing the Right Way: How Green Lawn Fertilizing’s People-First Strategy Is Paying Off

Often when businesses grow rapidly, company culture can fall by the wayside, but this has not been the case for Green Lawn Fertilizing, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, which recently earned four major awards all in the same quarter. These awards include ranking on the Inc. 5000 2025 list, the 2025 Philadelphia100 list, being named […]

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Landscape Professionals Define What Success Looks Like For Them

A successful business is often equated with how profitable it is, but this isn’t the only lens you can view your company through. When it comes to success, the measuring stick is whatever you choose it to be. If you haven’t taken the time to consider what makes you feel truly successful, below are some […]

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Inside Southern Botanical’s Strategic Branch Opening In Fort Worth’s Booming Market

Fort Worth, Texas, is the nation’s 11th-largest city, and of the 30 most populous cities, it has grown the fastest since 2020. Capitalizing on this booming market, Southern Botanical, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, recently opened a new branch to serve Fort Worth. ā€œFort Worth has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, both in residential […]

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How I Do It: Creating a Systemized Sales Process That Boosts Close Rates

When Stuart Ward, owner and general manager of Buckhead Landscape and Design, based in Chamblee, Georgia, started looking for a salesperson several years ago, he realized they did not have a defined sales process in place. ā€œTo bring in a salesperson who may or may not be from the industry, who probably didn’t have any […]

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Industry Leaders Share Their Top Priorities for 2026

With the last portion of 2025 flying by, many landscape professionals are setting their sights on 2026. As the new year approaches, this is a prime time to reflect on lessons learned and determine what areas of the business should receive the most focus moving forward. ā€œAs we scale, the business constantly changes and our […]

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Level Up: Bumgardners Landscape’s Full-Service Line Fuels Their Growth

Bumgardners Landscape, based in Medford, Oregon, has been growing steadily since they started in 1993, and they have recently experienced a sudden burst of growth over the past three years. Bill Bumgardner, owner, president and CEO of Bumgardners Landscape, says this was due to the post-pandemic market shift, as many commercial and HOA clients realized […]

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