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Sealing Profit Leaks: Understanding Consequences of Manual Estimates and Lost Sales Opportunities

Sponsored content by Shiva Dhawan, CEO, Co-founder, Attentive.ai For commercial landscaping businesses, profit leaks often stem up. Two key reasons are inaccurate estimates and the opportunity cost of manual sales processes. The former risks the viability of each project, while the latter squanders precious time that could be spent securing new business. But identifying these […]

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Leveraging Technology: Getting the Most Out of Your Landscape Business Software

Just like how a piece of equipment is only useful if you operate it, business software can seem like a wasted expense if you arenā€™t using it to its full potential. Landscape companies can struggle to be successful with their business software, either from a technical or cultural perspective. ā€œCompanies kind of miss things when […]

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Staying Ahead of the Curve

There are numerous elements of the lawn and landscape business that are out of your control, but how ambitious you are when it comes to innovation is one aspect that you can manage. Monitoring what new products and software are available, what the economy is doing and what future sustainable practices to implement can all […]

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Accelerate – The Future of Crew Management Is Here: Ensure High Labor Cost Savings for Commercial Landscapers

Sponsored content by Shiva Dhawan, CEO and co-founder of Attentive.ai For commercial landscaping businesses like yours, every second and cent counts. Traditional approaches to managing labor hours and crew costs often result in inefficiencies that can bleed a company’s resources dry. And every unverified hour can chip away at your profit margins. It’s a problem […]

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Accelerate: End-to-End Business Management For Your Landscape Construction & Maintenance Divisions

Sponsored content by Shiva Dhawan, CEO, Co-Founder, Attentive.ai Dealing with a business management software that falls short of supporting your construction division alongside maintenance can be frustrating. You are bogged down with manual tasks, such as clicking & drawing polygons in blueprint PDFs, endless number crunching for estimates, and haggles with inaccuracies in purchasing data. […]

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Are Commercial Autonomous Mowers Safe?

Safety is paramount in the landscape maintenance business and even when you take human operators out of the equation, you still have to consider how robotic mowers will perform around pedestrians and other obstacles. Autonomy in Mowers Versus Cars A primary concern that can keep lawn and landscape companies hesitant about implementing robotic mowers is […]

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How I Do It: Milosi Invests in R&D to Stay on the Cutting Edge

An R&D department sounds like something only multimillion-dollar corporations can afford to have, but Milosi, based in Hendersonville, Tennessee, has started a bit smaller by creating an R&D committee at the end of 2022. Taylor Milliken, owner and president of Milosi, says heā€™s wanted to start an R&D committee for years. ā€œWith Create and Innovate […]

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Business Smarts: Implementing Expense Management Measures

Visibility into your lawn or landscape companyā€™s expenses is vital to ensure bad actors are not abusing your operations. For instance, fuel cards are historically hard to track as different employees might be using different cards or sharing pins when they need to fill up at the pump. An employee could easily use this lack […]

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Mariani Premier Group’s Approach to Software Integration After an M&A

When you consider growing your landscape company through mergers & acquisitions, one of your last considerations might be, ā€œHow are we going to combine our different software and technology?ā€ Yet this is a critical step in the integration process to set your newly acquired company up for success post-merger. Mariani Premier Group has dealt this […]

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Electric Sheep Takes on Landscape Maintenance with Their AI-Powered Robots

If youā€™ve been keeping up with the robotic mower market, youā€™ve probably heard of the brand, Electric Sheep Robotics, Inc., based in San Francisco, California. While the brand initially launched as a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering, they have now pivoted to become a large-scale outdoor maintenance company powered by artificial intelligence and robotics. ā€œWeā€™ve spent the […]

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