How can landscape contractors guard against “giving away the store” when meeting with prospective or present customers? Perform a SWOT analysis: List strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for your six largest competitors. Look closely at each area of the service delivery model and see what makes your company different. Build a service model on value […]
From Hell to Heaven, the Life of a Landscape Business Owner…
When loading myself into the F-250 this morning, I had a short list of goals to achieve today. They went a little something like this: (1) Go to work happy, go home happy, look forward to returning to work happy tomorrow. (2) Hope for a smooth morning start-up of my twenty-two landscape crews. (3) Hoping […]
Head Trash, How Much Information Is too Much Information?
After years of thinking I knew it all, (never know too much) today, I heard a new term from a potential client. During my discovery call he said to me and I quote…”Steven, I’ve spent in excess of $ 50,000.00 with on-going consulting, countless educational seminars, webinars and listening to endless industry nameless […]
Why Culture Trumps Strategy….
A self-reliant team is essential for a company to exist and thrive. In order for a company to be successful it must have people who buy-in the company’s Purpose. TEAM members at all levels need to feel and act like owners. TEAM members must continually set goals individually and always work in alignment with the […]
Systemize Your Landscape Business
So what’s the difference between Lowe’s and your business when it comes to optimization? They have the staff with the training and responsibility for building these systems. You’re running lean and mean. There’s a lot of software on the market that claims to make it easy. But you probably don’t have the time to tackle this yourself and your staff isn’t qualified. When considering the best way to take your business to the next level, instead of looking for do-it-yourself software consider a partnership. Find the right consultants who can lead employees from each department through a process of getting best practices from everyone and loading it into a system.
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