What. A. Week. I want to start out this week's Great Ideas with a few thank you's: Thank you to all of you who joined us in Columbus for GROW! 2025, to our sponsors who supported this year's event, and most of all to the team at Hidden Creek Landscaping who put on an incredible facility tour. So much learning happened.

Our Grow Group team is busy getting every last duck in a row in Columbus, OH before GROW! 2025 kicks off on Monday afternoon. For the 900+ ambitious landscape pros who've signed up to join us, we've got a truly amazing event in store for you. We can't wait to see you on Monday! If you aren't with us in person this.

As Grunder Landscaping Co. has rapidly grown the last few years, we've had to also make big capital expenditures so that we're prepared. It's expensive to grow: you need additional team members, new trucks, and additional equipment. All of this takes investment back into the business. Here's the approach we've taken:.

The winter months are a great time for landscape pros to work on their businesses instead of in their businesses, and this is true for owners as well as for every team member on the org chart. I want to be clear: we don't take the winter off. I know many of you reading this in the South work year-round, and many of my.

Welcome to GROW! Month, folks! GROW! 2025 in Columbus, OH is just 22 days away and we're so excited. Registrations are coming in, and this year's event is shaping up to be our best yet. At the same time, Grunder Landscaping is working on setting up 2025 and we're staying on top of our tasks and watching our metrics so.

At GROW! 2025, we'll tour Hidden Creek Landscaping and learn from their incredibly talented team. The team behind projects like this one: Emily and I were fortunate to get a preview of their sessions a couple of weeks ago when we did a practice run with their team. There will be so many great takeaways for teams and.

I think every landscaper in America has probably encountered clients who are wary and distrustful of us from the get-go. There's something Marty often says when doing sales training, that people are "always looking for proof that you aren't who you say you are." We have to consistently prove who we are and earning.

As a facilitator in our ACE Peer Group Program, I get to see up close landscaping companies across the country. I help owners work through the issues they're facing, and I also celebrate their successes alongside them. Through the program, I've gotten to know Jason Cromley, owner at Hidden Creek Landscaping, since he.

The best landscaping companies I've seen in my 40 years in the industry all have something in common: they're super intentional in the decisions they make. The way intentionality takes shape varies from company to company, but successful companies aren't that way by accident or dumb luck. A company I admire for the.

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.