There are few guarantees in business, but at least one thing is for certain: At one time or another you will lose a key team member—whether it’s to another company or industry, to retirement or another life change, or to firing—and how you prepare for this and respond to it can make all the difference. In other words,.

Last week we discussed the importance of tracking your indirect labor costs, or the amount of money you’re spending on hourly team members when they’re clocked in but not producing billable work. If you want to succeed in the green industry, you can’t afford to ignore this metric. Some of the biggest buckets of.

If you’ve been keeping up with our Great Idea week after week, you’ve heard us talk about the work we at The Grow Group do with our coaching clients and ACE Peer Group members to help them monitor their financial metrics and maximize their profits. We always start with the numbers that come right from their financial.

In the latest Spiderman movie, the character named Mysterio tells the young Peter Parker (aka Spiderman), “Never apologize for being the smartest person in the room.” While this was a nice bit of encouragement for the timid teenager, it can be a dangerous mindset for business owners to have. If you think you’re always.

I am just back in Dayton after three days in San Diego co-leading the 2019 NALP Field Trip with industry great Frank Mariani, and wow did Mike Bogan and his team at LandCare deliver. As promised, they gave us a behind-the-scenes confidential look at how they execute and operate and at what has enabled them to become.

No one likes rejection. But everyone in the landscaping business knows you’re going to experience it, and sometimes several times in a season. You bid on a job, all signs are promising, you develop a real rapport with your prospect, you follow up, and follow up again, and then...nothing, until you see another.

Over the years, we’ve had a lot of landscape professionals tour Grunder Landscaping Co. as part of our Fall Field Trips and the other educational events we offer through The Grow Group. The tours are an opportunity to see exactly how a successful $5-million landscaping company operates, what the GLC team does well,.

Years ago I used to dread this time of year, when temperatures soar and the sun shines bright. At Grunder Landscaping Co., we provide a one-year warranty on all the plants we install, and by the time late July rolls around, I can pretty much count on seeing plants on our clients’ properties that have died because they.

It should come as no surprise that we talk a lot about growth here at The Grow Group. How can we help our clients to grow their businesses? And, just as important, how we can help them to control their businesses—because, as many of us know all too well, if you grow too rapidly without the people and systems to.

Every other Friday at Grunder Landscaping, we text a new video in our Team Builder series to everyone on our staff. Just a few minutes in length and usually presented by me and/or members of our leadership team, the videos are a simple but effective way for us to reiterate our mission and core values, communicate.