Tag: landscape business

Business

How To Grow Your Business

Marketing tips, pitfalls to avoid and ways to reach your expansion goals. For a plant to thrive, it needs a good environment, the proper nutrients, regular pruning and plenty of room to grow.

May 8, 2014

Business

Recruiting & Retaining the Best Employees

Higher pay is not always the solution.

December 12, 2012

Business

Adding holiday lighting service

During low snow years, even snow removal cash flow dries up. But Christmas is something you can always count on: It comes every year at the same time.

August 1, 2012

Business

Adding chemical care: Make the grass greener

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 on pests, diseases, application technology and new products, you’ll need ongoing education

May 1, 2012

Business

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 nature as his canvas. Surrounded by swaying palm trees and a salt-laced breeze, Sean Nutter creates landscape masterpieces with strokes of opulence and splashes of floral color. “With my work, I’m creating an emotion for the client when they look at their property,” he says. “Whether it is excitement or feeling relaxed listening to a water feature, I make people want to live outside.”

April 2, 2012

Business

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 good reasons to do so — high profit margin, repeat business and relationship building with customers — while the few negatives link back to (avoidable) contractor error.

April 1, 2010