It's been a great sales year for our team at Grunder Landscaping Co. We have already hit our company and individual sales goals for the year, and we're in the process now of setting our largest goals ever for 2022. But we aren't taking our foot off the gas for 2021 yet. Instead, we're setting stretch goals and.

I've been successfully running a business for almost 40 years. On one hand, that means I have a lot of experience, and on the other, it means it's easy to keep doing something because "we've always done it this way." That's why I enjoy getting around my peers at our events, and even more so I really enjoy the deep and.

It's that time again: time to start looking ahead and planning for next year. The budgeting process is a key step in planning for the year ahead. It helps your team understand your goals, align around a common vision for the future, and lay the groundwork for a successful year. Budgeting can be daunting, but it.

Whether you’re an owner or a team member, the next couple of months can be pivotal for a business. With the hectic demands of summer starting to wind down, it’s the perfect time to look back at what you’ve accomplished so far this year and where you hope to finish, what you did well, and where you came up short. We.

I often warn first-time attendees at our events that it can feel a bit like drinking through a fire hose. I've been on a lot of company tours in my time in the industry, and I've led a lot of them myself too. I always leave with new ideas and pages and pages of notes. This week our tour of Ruppert Landscape as part of.

Having a strategy is critical to the success of our businesses each year. In its simplest form, a strategy is what your company is going to do, and not going to do, in the coming years. Your strategy is a key first building block to prepare for 2022. It helps you to define what projects you should be selling more of,.

Last week, our leadership team at Grunder Landscaping met to discuss priorities about 2022. One of our biggest priorities for 2022 is maximizing what we are calling our “Revenue per Property”. Some people call it a “penetration rate”, but ultimately what we are trying to do is ensure that we are taking total control.

This year it has been hard to find everything we need to get each job done. We have had shortages in labor, plants and materials, and sometimes even patience. We've fought and succeeded through the worst of it alongside all of you, and looking back I think there has been one saving grace for us: the camaraderie among.

The Landscape Trucks that Work for Us I started my business with an old, red pickup truck in 1984. It wasn't new, even then, and it wasn't branded or flashy. But it got the job done. As my business grew and I realized the importance of branding, the Grunder-Green truck was born. Since 1995, our trucks have all been.

In 31 days we'll be in Gaithersburg, Maryland for the 2021 NALP Field Trip: Frank & Marty's Excellent Adventure. This year our host company is Ruppert Landscape, a commercial powerhouse known for the quality of work they do and the scale they do it at. This week, Marty Grunder and Frank Mariani of Mariani Landscape.