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...
View ArticleTurn 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...
View ArticleCooking 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...
View ArticleCampaign 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...
View ArticleHighGrove 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...
View ArticlePennsylvania 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleInformation 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...
View ArticleImprove 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...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleWeb 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...
View ArticleWeb 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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