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Business

Bobcat Blog to Provide Industry Insight for Landscaping Professionals

To help industry professionals get more information, the Bobcat Company has launched the Bobcat Blog. The blog will feature industry experts, other individuals with the company and occasional guest bloggers to provide perspective on Bobcat products and their applications, markets, customers’ business and lifestyles, and promotions and events.

December 1, 2014

Business

Best practices: How to think like your clients

If you want to not just get new landscaping customers, but to keep them over the long haul, one good way to do so is to think like your customer. Putting yourself in your customers’ shoes can help you establish your successful landscaping business. Here are some tips on how to do just that:

November 28, 2014

Business

5 ways to get landscapes ready for winter

Properly preparing lawns for winter takes a little work but keeps clients happy by reducing the risk of property damage, lawn disease, and plant damage.

November 28, 2014

Design-Build

Best practices: Handling clients around the holidays

Build trust with your clients by being available and willing to meet their landscaping needs during the hustle & bustle of the holiday season.

November 26, 2014

Design-Build

Why Education is the Key to Success

If you had to narrow down what’s made you successful into one word, what would it be? For one landscaper, his answer was “education.” Steven Wright — owner of Creative Landscape & Irrigation in Asheboro, North Carolina, and a 2014 Landscaper of the Year Finalist — shares his thoughts below. “Our biggest key to success […]

November 24, 2014

Design-Build

5 Takeaways from TLC’s 2015 LOY Finalists

After visiting with this year’s Landscaper of the Year finalists on trips and the cruise, there are five key things that I took away.

November 19, 2014

Business

(Infographic) How To Maintain Mowers Year Round

As the snow begins to cover the freshly cut grass, landscapers need to follow proper procedures on how to store mowers through the off season. Although these tips seems simple, landscapers should always go back to basics if they want their fleet of mowers to start up next spring.

November 17, 2014

Business

Top 3 Landscaper Concerns

No matter how successful you are, you still have issues that affect your business. On TLC‘s Landscaper of the Year cruise, the top 12 landscapers in the country shared what’s made them successful and also their biggest struggles. Here are their Top 3 industry issues. 1. Employees. Something everyone agreed upon was how hard it […]

November 17, 2014

Design-Build

Why You Gotta Be So Rude?

Pulling from the popular Magic!’s lyrics, I direct this headline to every “landscaper” who takes advantage of customers: You give the industry a bad name (sorry, couldn’t resist one last lyric reference). I was looking through my Google Alerts today about landscape industry news, and several of the top stories were about how landscapers cheated […]

November 14, 2014

Business

How to use snow blowers safely this winter

Winter is on its way, and that has never been more apparent as temperatures across the United States plunge all over. The Farmer’s Almanac says this winter could see below-normal temperatures for most of the nation, which is starting to be the case since everyone’s November is feeling a little too much like January.

November 14, 2014

Business

(Photos) Bobcat, TV Co-Hosts Transform Landscape into Sustainable Habitat

The Bobcat Company, in partnership with Rick and Julie Kreuter, gave Keith Fortin of Whitehall, Montana the ultimate landscaping transformation.

November 13, 2014

Business

PLANET Recognizes More Than 100 Landscaping Projects at GIC

PLANET, the Professional Landcare Network, held its annual awards presentation during the Green Industry Conference in Louisville, Kentucky recently.

November 12, 2014