Landscaping is big business in the United States — a $97.8 billion market — and it’s an industry with plenty of growth potential across the country. But California represents a unique opportunity to landscaping entrepreneurs, because it’s the single largest state market. According to the latest numbers from BLS.gov, 106,000 ...
What’s more difficult: managing snow or managing the employees needed to manage the snow? “Hands down it’s the employee part,” says Michael Krintz, owner of Proscapes LLC, a landscaping/snow services company in Madison, Wisconsin. “I don’t stress out about the snow — I’m used to that.” It’s continually finding, training ...
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Costs are killing snow contractors, but they don’t have to. You’re going to need labor, equipment and de-icing materials at every jobsite. There is no way around that. But you can control the pricing of that jobsite relative to the costs you incur ...
Economic indicators point to strong consumer demand for green industry services again in 2018. But even in strong markets and operating in favorable economic conditions, unforeseen events can dramatically rock your landscape company’s revenues and damage its profitability. For example, you can lose one of your cornerstone accounts to a ...
We turn to a very valuable weather tool to track precipitation and approaching storms. While some may not fully understand the intricacies of weather radar, most have at least seen several varieties of weather radar either online or on your local news channel. While radar is quite important to a ...