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Level Up: Color Burst Thrives Thanks to Their Singular Focus

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. For many landscape companies, seasonal color is just one service offering of the many they provide their customers. However, for Color Burst, based in Grayson, Georgia, the design, installation and maintenance of seasonal color is their […]

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Level Up: Rossen Landscape Seeks Revenue Growth with Sustained Profit

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Jeff Rossenā€™s passion for landscaping was born when he was gifted some unhatched Japanese koi eggs. He built his first pond for these fish, and it progressively got bigger each time he rebuilt it. Around 13 […]

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Level Up: Inside Yardniqueā€™s Steady Organic and M&A Growth

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. When Yardniqueā€™s CEO Brian DuMont was considering where to go to college, all he wanted to do was play baseball. It was when his father asked, ā€œWhat are you going to do with your life, son?ā€ […]

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Level Up: Ziehler Lawn Care Is Focused on Enhancing Their Customersā€™ and Employeesā€™ Lives

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Make 20,150 lives more enjoyable by 2030 is Ziehler Lawn Careā€™s current Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). This includes growing to over 20,000 active customers and building a team of 150 employees. Andrew Ziehler, owner and […]

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Level Up: Passion Powers Pleasant Places, Inc.ā€™s Growth

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Guy Artigues enjoys hard work. ā€œI truly enjoy the sweat on your brow type thing and just the instant gratification of this industry that it provided,ā€ Artigues says. ā€œBack then, you were just doing little things […]

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Level Up: K&D Landscaping Grows Aggressively By 25 to 50% Annually

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Justin White, owner of K&D Landscaping, Inc., based in Watsonville, California, was born into the landscaping business as his parents started the company in the 80s. ā€œI never really planned on taking it over,ā€ White says. ā€œIt […]

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Level Up: Sunrise Landscape Grows by Almost 300% in Three Years Ā 

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. In 2019, Austin Ashmore acquired Sunrise Landscape, based in Tampa, Florida, along with some outside investors. He had contemplated starting his company from scratch when he missed the entrepreneurial environment of small business, but he says […]

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Level Up: Mountain View Landscapes Priorities Their People

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. At the age of 18, Steve Corrigan, president of Mountain View Landscapes, Inc., based in Chicopee, Massachusetts, landed his first commercial client when an apartment manager told him they were looking for someone to cut the […]

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Level Up: High Prairie Landscape Group’s Careful Hiring Keeps Their Culture Strong

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. While working for a garden center in college, Robyn Schmitz realized she felt the most fulfilled and passionate when she was helping design gardens for customers. After switching her major from journalism to horticulture/landscape design, she […]

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Top 5 Level Up Stories of 2023

The Level Up series is a collection of articles sharing the successful strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies reach the next level. Check out some of the most-read stories in this series for 2023. Click on each companyā€™s name to read the full Level Up article. 5) Level Up: Expanding Services Helps Nasim […]

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