Marisa PalmieriNov 3, 2023
A decade ago, there were only a handful of green industry software options. Thanks to the cloud and the advent of mobile technologies, many…
We hear from readers a lot. Sometimes you ask us to address a problem. Sometimes you pitch story ideas. Sometimes you’re just giving us a…
Have you asked your customers what they want lately? “We don’t need to do that,” you might say. “We’ve been at this for a long…
"Do you know what Uber is?” I’ve found myself asking people that question often over the last few months as I’ve worked on the cover…
Marisa PalmieriNov 9, 2023
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…
Marisa PalmieriAug 14, 2023
It’s been said many times that there are no shortcuts to success. Yet, it’s graduation season, a time when universities and high schools (heck, even…
Are your ears ringing? They should be. People are talking about the collective landscape industry, and it’s a good thing. Who do I mean? Investors…
This column’s headline is a phrase I’ve cringed at since my first experience as a manager. For several years, starting at age 17, I supervised…
What makes the difference between you and your competitors? You may think you know, and you may have an answer you give to customers and prospects…
The Pew Research Center reported last month that nearly a quarter (23 percent) of American adults had not read a single book in the past…
Have you ever had one of those days or weeks where multiple bits of information—all with the same message—seem to materialize out of thin air, like…
I don’t know about you, but I always want to know what technology tools others are using to make their lives easier. After all, that’s the…
The U.S. military discharges about a quarter million service members annually and about 10 percent of post-9/11 veterans are unemployed. Those figures—and the landscape industry’s…
Welcome to the Business Planner 2014 edition of Landscape Management. I sat down to write an editor’s note about the importance of the three areas…
So maybe you’re not Scotts LawnService. Maybe you’re a small lawn care operator, irrigation company, maintenance contractor or design/build firm. And maybe you saw the…
Research shows about 40 percent of all health care expenses in the U.S. stem from preventable chronic illnesses that are most often caused by three…
Marisa PalmieriNov 7, 2023
In late spring I traveled to Naperville, Ill., to see how that city has put in place an aggressive program to save its 16,000 municipal…
Marisa PalmieriJul 10, 2013
There’s an intriguing quote attributed to artist Pablo Picasso, “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” That’s what the best of the best in any profession…
The way a publication writes and applies grammar and punctuation is called its “style.” Landscape Management uses the Associated Press Stylebook and we have our…
With a husband who’s an Army sergeant, I’ve grown accustomed to military slang and acronym-speak. In our house we eat chow (food). We spell things…
I’m on the cusp of the generation Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle, defines as having “nature deficit…
… the terms “fiscal cliff,” “mini cliffs” and “debt ceiling” are eliminated from our vernacular thanks to sensible solutions in Congress that include spending cuts…
This column isn’t about us, as in Landscape Management. It’s about you. Rather, it’s about your website’s About Us page and why you probably need…
Have you heard of a hack day? How about a hackathon or hackfest? These are different names for the same thing: an event where computer…
