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WalletHub: 2023’s Best & Worst States To Start A Business
With around 20% of new businesses failing within one year and inflation making entrepreneurship even more difficult, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2023’s Best & Worst States to Start a Business. To determine the most fertile grounds for planting and growing new ventures, WalletHub compared the 50 U.S. ...
Trends For Snow Contractors To Watch
Virtually every industry has been changed by the pandemic. From minor inconveniences due to a change in protocol to major disruptions in livelihoods, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed industries and businesses of all shapes and sizes. All this against a backdrop of shifting economic, social, and environmental conditions. Business owners ...
Ruppert Landscape Helps Install Flags Commemorating Pandemic Toll
In Washington, DC last week, over 150 employees from Ruppert Landscape’s Maryland, DC, and Virginia branches came together to assist Maryland artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg bring to fruition “In America: Remember”, a public art installation commemorating all Americans who have died due to COVID-19. From September 14-16, Ruppert helped ...
Irrigation & Water Conservation
COVID-19 has shifted consumer perspectives in unexpected ways. Residential clients have analyzed their outdoor living spaces and engaged in improvements. They’ve also sought ways to tighten budgets due to economic impacts. With that, sustainability has become a hot topic—not only saving the environment, but saving costs. At Conserva, an irrigation ...
Design-Build Thrived In 2020. Will It Continue?
It’s not news that COVID-19 has people spending more time outdoors, and it put a renewed emphasis on outdoor projects in 2020. Not only was landscaping deemed an essential service, but after a shaky few weeks at the start of the pandemic, landscape design-build firms found their businesses were booming. ...
National Park Service Requires Masks At Parks, Federal Buildings
To protect the health of those who live, work and visit U.S. national parks and facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, the National Park Service (NPS) has implemented a mask requirement for employees, visitors, partners and contractors. “Wearing a ...
Landscaping, Lawn Care Services Saw Record Growth In 2020
Landscaping, lawn care, and other outdoor services — the Green segment — were the only home services that saw year-over-year growth in median revenue every month during 2020, according to Jobber’s recently released Home Service Economic Report: 2020 Review. Green segment growth accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2020, hitting ...
Keeping Workers Safe In The Field
Compiled from OSHA.gov During the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA generally recommends that employers encourage workers to wear cloth face coverings at work to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, workers who wear cloth face coverings in hot and humid environments or while performing strenuous activities outdoors, such as those in ...
Vaccine Priority For Essential Snow & Ice Workers?
COVID-19 vaccines are now being rolled out and areas are determining their timelines of priority for vaccination scheduling. Deeming it’s members as providing “essential critical infrastructure work,” the Snow & Ice Management Association (SIMA) is distributing a request to all state and provincial health departments in charge of vaccine distribution ...
Lawn Care Pricing & Profit
After a hectic and decidedly unexpected 2020, looking ahead toward spring 2021 brings two key questions: How will COVID-19 affect lawn care pricing? Should you raise or lower prices? Despite COVID-19 and the profit/loss you may have experienced in 2020, you can still make 2021 a profitable year and win ...
