In the landscaping industry, we know that loyal customers are key to business success. Great landscape companies achieve this daily by finding ways to tune into customers’ voices each and everyday, and then take action on what they learn from each client interaction. Acting on feedback continuously ‘closes the loop’ between what the brand […]
High Impact Firms
Introduction – The End Game If you look hard at the business practices of the most successful companies, the elite 5% of all small businesses, you will find 4 general competencies. This is not a tale of just landscape companies, it is the story of all companies that started small and became billion dollar firms. […]
High Impact Firms Part 2
Introduction – Marketing Spend In our last post we summarized HIF’s- High Impact Firms – let me backtrack and spend a little more time describing how we got here. One of the top entrepreneurial foundations (Kauffman) built on the research started in 1980’s by MIT. One of their researchers, David Birch, identified the characteristics of […]
Why You Need Coaching
This is the first of a four-part series on coaching, business coaching to be exact. However, before discussing the results from having a business professional on call and working with you, I thought back to my experience in sports. Although not a big fan of tennis or golf, I am reminded of this while […]