Is Your Sales Team Just "Taking Orders?" Here's How Landscape Pros Can Prepare to Sell in 2023 In the past few years, many landscaping companies have been able to get by with their salespeople functioning more as "order takers." Our clients, and potential clients, already had ideas and already knew they wanted to.
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We're Grateful for This Community of Landscapers Every year, we're reminded of exactly why we do what we do at The Grow Group. We share content in this weekly Great Idea email, put together events that inspire landscape professionals and we work with our partners at McFarlin Stanford on our ACE Peer Groups to drive.
You're Only as Strong as the Team You're With At Grunder Landscaping Co., we've learned the hard way that just because someone is talented, it doesn't make them the right fit for our organization. I've been doing this job for a long time, and I'll often say in my talks that it's important to remember that when dealing.
Safe Driving Training for Landscaping Teams At Grunder Landscaping Co., we do weekly safety training with our teams on all kinds of topics, from preventing back injuries to how to use a fire extinguisher, and we methodically work through a schedule to ensure we're covering everything our team needs to know to work.
Is Your Landscaping Company Focused? Smart landscaping companies realize that they can't be everything to everyone, they need to choose the space they want to specialize in to be successful. Some companies choose to specialize in efficient commercial maintenance while others choose high-touch residential design-build..
Is Your Company Culture Attracting Landscaping Workers? Our GROW! 2023 tour hosts, Summit Landscape & Design, have made a name for themselves within the industry for their fun and unique company culture. We have had a great opportunity to get to know them over the years as ACE Peer Group members and "unique" is an.
What Should Landscape Pros Do When They Have a Bad Day? During our Ask Marty Anything event this past summer, ACE Peer Group Member George Kennedy from Terra-scape Enterprises asked us: What was the worst day of your professional career in the last 40 years? What did you do to overcome it? What did you do to prevent.
How Do You Treat Growing Pains at a Landscaping Company? At Grunder Landscaping Co., we've nearly doubled our revenue in the past two years and in some ways have doubled our stressors too. We know we are not alone in this. Many of our ACE Peer Group companies are going through this same thing, and it's a natural part.
How Do You Know Your Business Idea Will Work? At Grunder Landscaping, we've put intentionality and careful planning behind some big expansions we're continuing in 2022. I know we're still firing away at our 2022 goals, but as you look ahead to 2023 I wanted to outline what we're doing to scale up while exploring new.