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Add-on Biz: Cleaning up athletic turf

Pacheco Brothers Gardening staff determined it would be tough to get into artificial turf installation, but it found a niche in cleaning services. Photo: Pacheco Brothers Gardening A California firm...

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Turn HOA blues into green

Q: We do a lot of maintenance work for homeowner associations (HOAs). Do you have any design advice on how to generate more revenue beyond mulching and adding seasonal color, maybe even some...

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Cooking up tips in the outdoor kitchen industry

Built-in grills are one of Outdoor Entertainment Concepts’ most popular outdoor kitchen products. Photos: Outdoor Entertainment Concepts An outdoor kitchen expert shares some basics of tapping into...

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Campaign to conserve water

Jeremy Hunt Smart irrigation proponents advocate for Smart Irrigation Month in 2014 and beyond. Jeremy Hunt was an early proponent of water conservation. As a student at the University of Nebraska in...

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HighGrove aims higher with new marketing tool

Gib Durden A firm develops a research report to spur new customer leads. In the years following the Great Recession, many building managers have kept a tight grip on their landscape design budgets. The...

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Pennsylvania lawn care company celebrates 50 years of service

Michael Kravitsky IV Photo: Grasshopper Lawns For 36 years, Grasshopper Lawns operated out of what Michael Kravitsky IV refers to as “the dungeon.” The basement of his grandparents’ home, which was...

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How 5 firms cut down clients’ water use, bills

The U.S. uses more gallons of water outdoors per day than there are people on the planet. The ratio: 9 billion gallons to 7 billion people. More startling than that is 50 percent of that outdoor water...

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Information and accountability in the workplace

My partners and I gather the financial data from many of our clients nationwide, dump the information into a big cauldron, stir it around and run some interesting benchmarks to provide you a report...

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Improve your landscape maintenance margins

Photo: Stuart Miles / Freedigitalphotos.net There’s hardly a contractor who’s not concerned with pricing challenges and the negative impact they have on gross margins. The competitive environment has...

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Green Industry generosity

Photo: adamr / Freedigitalphotos.net It’s 6 a.m. on Friday, June 20. I pour a cup of coffee and sit down at my kitchen counter to check my email on my smartphone like I do on all workdays. It’s...

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Web Extra: Blue Watchdog spins conservation into software

Another venture from Patrick Crais, founder of Blue Watchdog Conservation—which was featured in the July 2014 cover story of Landscape Management, Blue Pandas is a water conservation software company...

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Web Extra: Sun Valley’s marketing play

The motto–and marketing message–at Sun Valley Landscaping, featured in the July 2015 LM cover story, is “Landscapes for Life.” Sun Valley Landscaping seeks to create an “in your own backyard” feel at...

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