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Don’t Fear the Audit

Irrigation audits give landscapers a new tool to reduce customer costs and use water more ...

BEST PRACTICES

4 Ways To Be More Productive

With work loads getting heavier and job titles becoming blurred with new expectations, we're all ...

DIGITAL TOOLBOX

Can Facebook Replace Your Website?

Using social media and having a website is almost a given in this day and ...

Can Facebook Replace Your Website?

Using social media and having a website is almost a given in this day and age. Facebook might even be the most imperative of all the social media platforms, but ...

New Guide Helps Users Budget Backyards

LandscapingNetwork.com has implemented a new guide for users to help determine how much a project might cost. The backyard landscaping costs guide is split into five cost categories starting at ...

Reaching New Heights in Urban Area

Michael Madarash and Kokobo Greenscapes reaches new heights in urban landscaping by finding a niche and building a superlative creative team. Hurricane Sandy made news in late October 2012 ...

Estimating, Invoicing App Now Available for iPhones

Joist has developed a free iPhone version of its Contractor Estimating and Invoicing Tool. The app allows contractors to build on-site estimates for clients, send invoices by email, record payments ...

3-D Software Updated with New Interlocking Pavers

The 3D pool and landscape design software company has added interlocking sand-set pavers from Artistic Pavers to the Pool Studio and VizTerra 3D Design Software library. The latest 3D design ...

How to Make Your Business Eco-Friendly

Grass may be green, but the practices and techniques to get a lawn to look lush, green and healthy are often anything but. With more and more people taking on ...

Case Develops Augmented Reality App

Case Construction Equipment has taken a digital step to help customers experience the company’s products even before he or she walks into a dealer. Case has developed the Case Experience ...

Website Helps Consumers Find Landscapers

LandscapingNetwork.com has released a free, comprehensive online directory of local, professional landscape contractors for consumers. Consumers interested in starting new landscaping projects can find, by location throughout the United States ...

Safe Drivers Could Mean More Savings

Training your employees to take care of company vehicles, not only with inspections and proper upkeep, but by the way they drive them, can be a viable method to lower ...

View Equipment Specs on eLiterature App

Terex has created a new way for users to gain any and all information about the company's machines. The Terex eLiterature app has been launched in effort for Terex to ...

Design Xeriscapes Using Phone

The Office of the State Engineer’s new landscaping app has earned a Gold Medal Award from the Association of Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Life and Human Sciences.

Dream Big

While still attending college in 1998, Jason Cromley and Matt Seiler started up Hidden Creek Landscaping in Columbus, Ohio, equipped with little more than a pickup truck, some shovels and ...

Google Engineers Develop Remote Controlled Irrigation System

Leverage the power of Android, Arduino, and the internet to build a home irrigation system that can be controlled from your smartphone. A couple of the engineers at Google, J.J ...

Harvest Landscape Calculator Designed for Landscapers, Gardeners

Harvest Power has released a new mobile app designed for gardeners and landscapers. The Harvest Landscape Calculator works by calculating how much soil, mulch or stone is needed for ...

Is SEO Dead?

That’s right, I said it, SEO is dead, but I don’t mean the strategy that we employ for our clients, I mean the term. It no longer has any meaning. ...

Fleet Management Can Help Drive Down Costs

Mike Fucile, national GPS consultant at FleetMatics, answers questions on challenges in the landscaping industry and how using fleet-management systems can help lower costs for businesses. Q. What are some of ...

How Tax Changes Will Affect You

Make sure you are prepared, and know ahead of time how these changes will affect you. You've probably heard of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 – the bill ...

Don’t Fear the Audit

Irrigation audits give landscapers a new tool to reduce customer costs and use water more efficiently. For many business owners, audits are about as popular as broadleaf weeds on a ...

Avoid Tax Audits

By now, you should have your W-2 forms in hand and be starting to work on your taxes. As a business owner, that can bring on some extra hurdles and ...

5 Tips for Success

David Katz, owner of Elite Landscape in Poughkeepsie, New York, and one of our 2013 Landscapers of the Year, offers up his tips for running a successful landscape business.

How to Keep the HOA Happy

Apply these three tips and improve your ability to keep an HOA board happy with your company.

5 Quick Internet Marketing Tips

One of the biggest challenges facing landscaping business owners that I talk to is that of generating well qualified leads for their business. Relying on word of mouth for sustainable ...

Recruiting & Retaining the Best Employees

Higher pay is not always the solution.

The Road Back Home

Jason Core’s landscaping career might have started out like most others – but his journey from being a child with a make-shift mower to running a successful, $1.8 million business ...

Add Irrigation Services

Make irrigation add-on services into a rainmaker for your landscape company. Adding irrigation installation and maintenance services to your business can boost your bottom line, increase your client base, and ...

Aeration: Minimal Costs, Dramatic Benefits

Adding aeration service to your business is simple and profitable. If you provide lawn maintenance to clients, consider adding aeration to your services. It requires minimal investment for supplies and ...

More Than Expected

Business savvy plus passion equals early success for landscaper Wesley Graves. The only outdoor project Wesley Graves won’t take on is painting a house. He sees every other job as ...

Up-Selling Residential Sprinkler Systems

With the intensity of the bidding process increasing, and the tight turnarounds for bids in our current economy, many contractors are experiencing a reduction in overall profits. I’ve observed contractors ...

New Generation, Ideas

Bobby Franz keeps Franz Nursery attuned to landscaping trends and ready for the future. One project quickly comes to mind when Bobby Franz is asked which best represents the capability ...

Best Mowing Practices

It's not rocket science, but there are correct ways to do it. Mowing is but one of several important and labor intensive practices necessary for the successful management of turfgrass. ...

Go with the Flow

Pump up profits by adding water features to your landscape business. If you run a landscape business, you probably have the skills, crew, tools and creative ability to provide a ...

Find Your Place on Google

Easy guide to claim and manage your local Google Places listing and stay atop your competition. For many small- to medium-sized businesses, the Internet is game changing. In the past, ...

Get Paid Pronto

Tips on creating an effective billing process. For businesses willing to invest the time and energy to build a more effective billing process, the rewards are worth the effort.

Adding a Nursery

It begins with a logical question: Why should I pay a wholesale distributor or plant broker for my landscape plants and trees when I could grow them myself? After all, ...

Adding Chemical Care

Adding weed and insect control and fertilizing services may be a natural fit for expanding your lawn or landscape business. With licensing laws, recertification and the necessity of staying current ...

Artistic Enthusiasm

With nature as his canvas, Sean Nutter has determination, passion and design savvy on his landscaping palette. Sean Nutter has determination, passion and design savvy on his landscaping palette. With ...

Survivor Story

With the recession forcing professionals to re-evaluate their business practices, one New Jersey landscaper went back to his law-enforcement roots and watched as his profits grew.

Say Goodbye to Washed-Out Beds

In their 91 years of business, Palazzi Landscape Gardening has encountered numerous instances of downspout rainwater washing out plant beds.

Hardscaping Certification Gives Landscapers Competitive Edge

For landscaper Bobby Franz, hardscaping certification and business success fit together as snugly as interlocking pavers. “Getting certified solidified me as a professional,” says Franz, the owner of Franz Nursery ...

Cost a Job

One of the toughest tasks in landscaping is estimating jobs for bids. One of the toughest tasks in landscaping is estimating jobs for bids. “It’s one of the biggest challenges ...

Lighten Up

If you operate even a small landscape business, you may be surprised how adding low-voltage lighting design and installation is such a natural fit.

Hardscape Certification

Hardscaping certification gives landscapers a competitive edge. “Getting certified is like putting money in your pocket,” says one contractor.

Success with Snow Removal

Learn how the business model for snow removal is changing.

Winning Websites

Word of mouth is the time-tested way to acquire new clients for your business, but don’t underestimate the importance of your website. We asked Andy Crestondina, strategic director at Orbit ...

Adding Aeration

It’s in demand, and here’s how to profit from this add-on service.

Retaining Employees

Tips for keeping your best employees.

4 Marketing Strategies

Increase your client base and awareness of your business by focusing on these 4 strategies. Implementing a successful marketing and public relations plan for your company doesn’t necessarily require major ...

Immigrant Labor Quagmire

Most agree the immigration system is broken, but the solution is nowhere in sight.

Tax Tips for Landscapers

From equipment write-offs to sales and use tax issues, advice from industry experts that can help you save money and hassle. Whether you prepare your taxes, have your office manager ...

Women in Landscaping

For some, gender is no longer an issue, but for others, challenges remain. The number of women working in landscaping has grown significantly in recent years, with women filling roles ...

Risks of Tree Work

Landscapers in today’s challenging economy are motivated by their competition and lure of profits to diversify their services and provide a steadier income to a loyal workforce. There certainly can ...

Business & Design Software

Use the latest software to gain a leg up on the competition.

YouTube for Landscapers

10 ways to employ this popular video-sharing service

Holiday Lighting Services

If you haven’t considered offering holiday decorating services, it’s a good way to expand your business, keep workers employed during a slow time and generate positive public relations. All you ...

Serving Those Who Serve

Joe Keller gets choked up when he talks about his volunteer work with area veterans and families of deployed military personnel. The owner of Keller’s Lawn Care in Statesville, North ...

Family Succession

How to avoid the perils of handing over the keys of a family-owned landscaping business.

Landscape Licensing — Pros and Cons

State requirements aim to level the playing field for contractors, but often lack enforcement.

Selling & Building Water Features

If you run a landscape business, you probably have the skills, crew, tools and creative ability to provide a range of water features for your clients. There are plenty of ...