Numbers can work for you, not against you, with accounting that enables real-time decision-making and invoices that invite customers to interact with you
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.
Finance for Landscaping Business Owners of All Sizes, Part 6
Here was my first lesson in small business finance – cash is your rarest resource and only use it to (1) buy an appreciating asset (building) or (2) something that generates revenue (new equipment). Otherwise do you need it? If the answer is yes, look at your financing options.
When is Enough, Enough?
Sometimes the best ideas result from an innocent question. In a recent conversation with Gregg Wartgow at Green Industry Pros magazine he discussed their vision for the publication. They want to be the resource for the aspiring landscape companies under a million in revenue that want to grow. This represents 80% of all landscape companies, […]
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. […]
