Our team puts together a lot of content each year in our quest to help landscape professionals like you with their businesses, and each year as we look back on it, all there are usually a few pieces that stand out as our favorites and yours. As we mark the final Sunday of 2024, I thought I'd share a short list of the.

Every year this Great Idea ends up following a similar theme: this is the time of year to celebrate with the people we love, reflect back on the year behind us, and spend a little time unwinding before the calendar turns over. All four of my kids are grown and scattered around the country now, and with them rarely all.

I have been selling landscaping for more than 40 years now, and I've found that the more things change the more they also stay the same. In many ways selling is much easier now than it was when I started out, in a time when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. I'm kidding, but we didn't have the technology that makes our.

GROW! 2025 will feature Hidden Creek Landscaping as our tour host, and as part of the event we'll learn directly from their talented team, find out the ins-and-outs of how they operate, and also walk through their facility to understand how they set themselves up for success. Without a doubt, one of Hidden Creek.

At our most recent ACE Summit in New Orleans, LA held with our partners at McFarlin Stanford, we hosted more than 225 of our ACE Peer Group Members and their spouses for three days of networking, learning, and a lot of fun, too. My favorite parts of the event were the annual awards dinner, our VIP tour of the National.

To grow a business it's important to always keep your focus on sales. Sales are the fuel for your organization, folks, without them the business can't go anywhere. Having sales targets helps us stay focused and motivated. We set goals that are larger than what each salesperson managed in 2024 but still numbers we.

Effective teams are effective because they have the right people in the right roles. This happens by being intentional and aware of teams' strengths and weaknesses, and then allowing team members to be in roles that let them play to their strengths. We have continued to learn new and different ways to leverage this.

Little drips of inefficiency in your business, especially within your production team, can add up to big problems for landscaping companies. Profitable companies are efficient and effective companies, no matter the type of work they specialize in. There are many places to look for drips: in your morning roll-out, the.

We frequently get asked "How do you find team leaders?" and the answer is both simple and complicated: "We don't find them, we create them!" So how do we do it? One of the many ways is by trusting in our existing team leaders to train the others on their crew. On our current team, there's one team leader who does an.

🚨Before you read this week's Great Idea: don't forget to register yourself and your team for GROW! 2025 in Columbus, OH on February 24-26. Early Bird pricing ends this week - head on over to our website to grab your registrations at a $200 per person discount before you forget and miss the deadline! Register for.