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How to reduce your job cancellation rate
With over 912,000 landscaping professionals working all across America, sometimes it’s important to take a step back and understand larger trends occurring in the field.
January 30, 2019
Design-Build
How to find the right employees
Every business, including landscaping, deals with the struggles of finding the right employee in a short amount of time. But every minute counts when an employee isn’t there to fill a position, so here are some helpful tips.
October 16, 2014
Design-Build
Become the Steve Jobs of Landscaping
Have you ever talked to someone who has achieved greatness at a young age and felt under-accomplished? I had that times three last week. I interviewed a 30-year-old Birmingham, Alabama, woman who created an international marketing company and published a memoir — all after losing her father and two brothers at a young age. Then, […]
March 24, 2014
Design-Build
You Shouldn’t Be a Landscaper If…
See why jobs in landscaping, construction and trucking are labeled the “worst” for some people.
December 9, 2013
Business
How H-2B Changes Will Affect You
With this program’s wage rule in question, landscapers could be the hardest hit if Congress and the courts don’t stop it.
October 10, 2013
Design-Build
How To Start Planning for Next Year
Growth is good, right? Yes … but only if you can handle it. If you don’t have the manpower, capital or equipment to satisfy the demand, you’ll have a lot of unhappy ex-clients out there.
September 3, 2013
Business
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Sometimes you look at a business owner and wonder about his secrets for success. That isn’t the case with David Adams, owner of Landscape Associates in Aldie, Virginia. Even the most cursory inspection of Adams’s business will give you the answer: He is committed to executing every task at the absolute highest level achievable.
June 20, 2013
Business
AlturnaMats Receives Governor’s Export Impact Award
AlturnaMats recently received the Governor’s Export Impact Award. The governor of Pennsylvania presents the ImPAct Awards to companies that are creating jobs and making positive contributions to the state’s economy.
June 11, 2013
Business
Bobcat Invests $35 Million in Renovations at Bismarck Facility
Bobcat is investing $35 million in expansion and renovations to its Bismarck location. Bobcat broke ground today on a $20 million research-and-development facility at its site in the Northern Plains Commerce Centre, and construction is expected to be complete by the summer of 2014.
May 13, 2013
Design-Build
How U.S. Can Think Big With Jobs
For landscapers and equipment manufacturers trying to find trained technicians, Germany offers a great example of how to do it right. The German Engineering Federation, VDMA, last month brought in more than 10,000 teens to participate in Bauma 2013 and a program they called Think Big. There, the teens got an up-close look at the […]
May 13, 2013
Business
Hiring Slows Severely in March, but Don’t Panic
Hiring slowed sharply in March, with the economy adding only 88,000 jobs, the lowest monthly gain since last June. Economists surveyed by CNNMoney were expecting an increase of 190,000 jobs. The unemployment rate slipped to 7.6 percent, according to a Labor Department report released Friday.
April 8, 2013
Design-Build
Construction Jobs Boom on Gulf Coast
Unemployment may be raging elsewhere, but the U.S. Gulf Coast is enjoying a resurgence of construction jobs. Yesterday, the European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced plans to build an assembly plant near Mobile, Alabama. The $600 million dollar plant will employ 500 when it opens, but estimates are that building the plant will require some 2,500 construction jobs. […]
July 5, 2012
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