As a business owner, I always felt it was necessary to look over my shoulder, wondering what will get in the way next. Always asking myself what will be the next obstacle I will face. I asked myself this question repeatedly when I was the young entrepreneur. Encountering obstacles is one thing we all have […]
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, […]
Sell Into the Economy, Not Against it
We perform market research and are frequently asked, “so how does this impact my business”? Trying to provide a simple answer with immediate action steps forced us to develop a smarter approach. The following is what we use to run our business and the advice we provide. Start with looking at the economy as a […]
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 […]
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