Posts in category From the Editor

Good news for the landscape industry: For the second straight year, Americans name real estate as the best long-term investment over stocks, gold or savings …

Read July’s Letter From the Editor column.

When I drive through a neighborhood, I can’t help but admire landscaping that looks good. Maybe it’s a shady spot, and I envy the way …

Well, it’s May. And that means as I write this (mid-April), you have been thrust into the busy spring season, whether you were ready or …

A study by RealEstate.com suggests that landscaping and hardscaping can deliver a return on investment as high as 150 percent—an ROI that puts it ahead …

As a business owner, you wear a lot of hats. One minute you’re figuring out your marketing plan and the next minute you’re focusing on …

How responsive are you to changes in the market? Is your company stuck in its ways or continuing to strive for better?

Did you know that when Google was developed in 1996, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named their first search engine BackRub? Yeah. It just …

As landscape contractors prepare for next year, one thing they are always concerned about is attrition. How many clients are they going to lose and …

Keeping It Green By Ron Hall “You know, sometimes when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you …

Keeping It Green By Ron Hall Many successful professional landscape company owners start modestly and go down one of three well-trodden paths in growing their …

Keeping It Green By Ron Hall The premiere event in field and track is the 100 meters. No other competition in the Olympics excites spectators …

Keeping It Green By Ron Hall Steven Covey in his “Seven Habits of Highly Successful People” writes the following, which expresses what I want to …

Keeping It Green By Ron Hall The professional landscape/lawn service industry is a male-dominated industry. At least us males (unthinkingly?) assume it’s so. The numbers …