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Tips and tricks to build strong dealer/distributor relationships

Dealers and distributors’ five key insights to help utilize this business relationship

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Grow with Grunder: Lessons from Mildred and Tad

Marty Grunder shares tidbits of knowledge he picked up from his aunts throughout his childhood.

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Tips for negotiating your earnout

Author Phil Harwood talks about how your earnout needs special attention if you're selling your business.

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The leadership to-do list to grow your business

Ben Gandy shares a leadership to-do list, including the importance of culture, vision, strategy and more.

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Business Boosters: Practice makes perfect

With labor at the top of mind for landscape business owners, software companies step up to speed the process up.

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Editorial Advisory Board: November 2024

How does your company celebrate and recognize your employees? Richard Bare Arbor-Nomics Turf Norcross, Ga. “We take a lot of pictures of our people in…

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ServiceTitan prepares for initial public offering of common stock

ServiceTitan said the number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have yet to be determined.

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Editorial Advisory Board: October 2024

Industry leaders share tips on how to deliver what you learned at a trade show with your entire team.

Hunter Irrigation webinar focuses on the gender gap in leadership roles

While many think soft skills are the key to a strong leadership team, many aspiring women leaders lack specific business acumen skills.

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More than a cheeseburger in paradise, here’s 3 business lessons from Jimmy Buffett

With the death of Jimmy Buffett recently, Jeffrey Scott takes a look at his life and shares some business practices to learn from Mr. Margaritaville himself.

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5 Questions with Josh Perkins of Plant Studio Landscapes

Josh Perkins, president of Plant Studio Landscapes shares a memorable day at work and what labor is like in the Muncie, Ind., area.

10 financial mistakes when scaling your landscaping business

Landscape Management columnist Jeffrey Scott lays out 10 financial mistakes landscape company owners make when scaling their business.

Landscape pros share their 2020 business goals

You’ve likely seen LM’s Question of the Week on social media. We wanted some insight on readers’ goals for the new year, so we posed…

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Scale up your business by ‘trimming the fat’

Doug Taylor’s lean approach to growth has helped his Ontario-based Frontiers Landscape Architecture design/build firm thrive.

Leading: 3 things a leader can adjust to keep the business on course

I’ve kept this picture on the corner of my desk for quite a few years. It serves as a daily reminder to me, and to…

High Performance: Marketing strategies that reap results

As I mentioned in last month’s blog post, marketing strategies are often ignored as marketers are in a rush to focus on marketing tactics. This…

Business Basics: Making your strategy relevant

One of the biggest challenges with strategic planning is making it real on a daily basis. Just because a plan exists doesn’t mean that day-to-day…

Jeffrey Scott to bring business workshop to St. Louis

Jeffrey Scott is partnering with Scott's Power Equipment and LM magazine to bring his one-day business workshop to St. Louis on March 17. The Grow Your…

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How to build wealth

A wise old man once told me your definition of wealth will change as you accumulate it and grow older. In my work with large…

GreenMark offers business workshops

GreenMark Consulting Group released the dates for its Landscape & Irrigation Business Bootcamp. This work session will bring together industry experts to help landscape and…

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Simplify strategic planning

Several large-scale studies have shown that most organizations in the U.S. haven’t embraced strategic planning as a regular, ongoing, essential business process. Strategic planning is…

2015 Lawn Care Forum: M&A activity in the green industry

Ron Edmonds, principal consultant for The Principium Group, talks about mergers and acquisitions occurring in the green industry. Read a Q&A with Edmonds on this…

2015 Lawn Care Forum: Business challenges pt. 2

2015 Lawn Care Forum, including Phil Fogarty of Weed Man; Derek Blumberg of Quality Seasons; and James White of Advantage Green Lawn & Pest Control,…

High Performance: Offense or defense?

When I was a young boy, I played organized football. I was relatively smart, quick and athletic, but small—especially for football. I ended up playing…

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