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Team Building: How to Choose and Use an Applicant Tracking System Effectively

Applicant tracking systems can be a double-edged sword for lawn and landscape companies that are facing labor shortages and a high volume of applications. Designed to assist with organizing, reviewing and ranking resumes, an ATS can save your HR team time and allow you to hire more quickly. Yet overreliance on this tool can result […]

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A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity for Mobile DevicesĀ 

As technology becomes more commonplace in the landscape industry, chances are your field workers utilize smartphones or tablets to do some of their work or at the very least clock in and out of jobs. Yet, how much consideration have you given to the cybersecurity of your team’s mobile devices? While your field staff may […]

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Making the Most of Your Technology Stack: Ownership, Adoption, and the Buy Versus Build Question

Your tech stack should consist of software that improves your overall team’s performance, but it only provides true value if someone is consistently managing how it evolves and if employees are actually using the tools. Have a Dedicated Tech Person Just like any other role in your company, there comes a point where it becomes […]

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How to Spot Gaps, Overlaps, and Hidden Costs in Your Tech Stack

Whether you are looking to prepare your company for future sale or you simply want to run as efficiently as possible, auditing your technology stack is a critical process you cannot afford to do on an inconsistent basis. Failing to monitor your tech stack can result in your business paying for overlapping subscriptions, underutilized tools […]

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Drones as a Workhorse: Turning This Technology Into a Core Tool

If you’re on the fence about investing in drone technology, you may be limiting the possible ways that this tool can be used for your landscape company, especially if you choose to have one in-house. Ā  While most operations tend to use drones for marketing purposes, so they can capture aerial photos and videos of […]

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How Recruiting Technology Can Help You Stay Competitive in a Tight Labor Market

As recruiting efforts intensify and candidate expectations rise, the implementation of technology will allow you to stay competitive when attracting the next generation of landscape employees. ā€œIt is critical to invest in recruiting technologies that will improve your overall candidate experience, increase the quality of talent, reduce time to fill, and provide data-driven decision-making tools, […]

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How I Do It: Building an AI Council to Test and Scale New Technology

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the speed of new technologies coming to the market, particularly in the AI space. Rather than considering it a lost cause to stay on top of these changes, Level Green Landscaping, based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, opted to create an internal AI council that allows their team the freedom […]

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Harnessing the Power of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide

This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Don’t 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 you’re one of the landscape companies that have been wary about whether this technology […]

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The Practical Guide to Videography for Landscape Companies

It’s easy to be daunted by the concept of incorporating videography into your marketing for your landscape business. Should you shoot everything in-house or hire a professional firm? What mistakes should you avoid? How do you make your videos memorable? The following guidance breaks down how to make strategic videography decisions without wasting time or […]

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Videography That Sells: How to Build Trust On Camera

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. Yet many landscape companies have yet to explore the possibilities of videography in their marketing efforts or are investing in ineffective formats. ā€œVideo is a fast and proven path to connection,ā€ says Corey Halstead, co-owner of HALSTEAD Media. ā€œWhether the decision maker […]

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