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Only Use One Site for Social Media

Keeping up with all of your social media sites can be an overwhelming task if you don’t have help. So when you’re first getting started on social media, automate your posts. On Monday mornings, for example, figure out what you will post for the entire week: before/after project photos, coupons, interesting landscape images, business quotes, […]

April 11, 2014

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Are You Using LinkedIn to its Full Potential?

Everyone knows LinkedIn is the professional’s play place of industry connections. But are you using the social media site to its full potential?

February 10, 2014

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14 Apps to Help Your Snow Plowing Business

Not too long ago, I posted a comic related to technology not helping with the business of snow plowing. Although the comic is humorous, I have actually been proven wrong.

February 7, 2014

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If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say…

Don’t say it online.

December 19, 2013

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How To Bring Out Talent in Others

Knowing your staff’s strengths and how to best use them within the company helps both you and the employees. Here are four ways to bring out their talents.

December 11, 2013

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Why Aren’t Landscape Architects Using Social Media?

Landscape architecture firms aren’t seeing much growth right now, according to the American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) third quarter 2013 Business Quarterly survey. Their billable hours are down from last quarter by about 2 percent, and the number looking to hire in the last quarter has also dropped. But why? The economic downturn obviously […]

November 6, 2013

Business

How To Use Social Media For Job Hunt

Whether you’re a landscaper in the market looking for a new employee or you’re a landscaper looking for a new place to call a career, it’s no question that social media will be a key source of information.

September 17, 2013

Business

Four ways to be more productive

With workloads getting heavier and job titles becoming blurred with new expectations, we're all trying to get more accomplished at our jobs.

May 16, 2013

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Connect with Other Landscapers

As I have attended more and more events where I get to meet and greet with landscapers from all over the country, I have heard over and over again how landscapers are desperately trying to find ways to connect with one another.

March 20, 2013

Business

Jump on the Social Bandwagon

Here are five ways to connect with customers on social media. There was a time when customers found you via an ad in the Yellow Pages. But today, clients may come across your business through a variety of online venues.

March 11, 2013

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Time to Be Social

How to use the Internet’s advancements to your benefit With the recession continuing to cast a dark cloud over how many of us view our country’s economy, it was refreshing to be reminded of what all we have actually accomplished. Business magnate Bill Gates offered a unique perspective on the United State’s progress in the […]

March 7, 2013