We just had our second of three Grunder Landscaping Co. Fall Field Trips this week and honestly I can’t speak more highly of the folks we’ve seen come through this year and what they mean for our industry. Whether they’re from a small company just finding its wings or farther along and looking for an edge, they have.

Hard to believe, but it’s now October and we’re officially headed right into the heart of fall. I love this time of year with it’s cooler weather, Bengals football (never give up on your hometown team!), and Thanksgiving just around the corner. The craziness of summer is dying down for most of us landscape pros, but.

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” These words of wisdom come from the late, great management guru Peter Drucker, and for me they really hit home. Because while there are many strategies for improving your business, you won’t succeed at any of them if you don’t first figure out how to manage your.

As we all know, financials are the ultimate scorecard in business, telling us exactly how well we’re doing and where we need to improve or tighten up. That’s why we work diligently with all our ACE Peer Group members to measure and manage their key financial metrics. Often owners focus on their profit-and-loss.

As owners grow their businesses, one challenge they face is how to remain connected to their team members and how to ensure the company culture does not get eroded as they add more and more people to the payroll. What comes naturally when you’re small gets considerably more complicated as you scale up. I have.

Lawn & Landscape September 2018 By Marty Grunder Eight months ago, I made the biggest change I’ve ever made in my company and in my career. I took the reins of Grunder Landscaping and placed them firmly in the hands of my right-hand man Seth. Overnight, I went from having nine direct reports to just one. I went from.

Do you have an efficient morning roll-out system in place at your landscaping company? Or are you the ringmaster of an early-day circus? Not getting these crucial steps right in the a.m. eats up time and money, and can deliver a real blow to your bottom line without your even realizing it. At Grunder Landscaping,.

There are a lot of variables that go into running a successful business, but in all my years of coaching and consulting with the owners of landscaping companies I have never seen a single one get ahead without placing a premium on training their crews. And yet many of us still think of training as an expense rather.

Throughout my career as a business owner, I have always been fortunate to have a number of mentors and peers to ask for advice when I need it. I can talk with them when I have a particular problem to solve, or glean ideas from them over lunch for how I can improve my landscaping company. Their input has been and.

Lawn & Landscape August 2018 By Marty Grunder At our annual GROW! Conference in Tampa this year, we were fortunate enough to have Clay Mathile, former owner of Iams, join us for our keynote session. A resident of my hometown of Dayton, Ohio, Clay purchased the now well-known pet food company for $1.2 million in 1982.