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COVID-19

Lawn Care Pricing & Profit

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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 ...

Marketing Your Business For 2021

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How do you use the potentially slow time between December through February? If you have a snow removal service, you’re busy with the white side of your lawn care and landscape business. But, if you’re not busy with snow services (or even if you are) remember to spend the time ...

Turf Winter 2020 Issue

Turf Winter 2020 Issue
Editor’s Letter: In The Bleak Mid-Winter If you’re like me, you’d rather hibernate this winter under a sign reading, “Wake me when the pandemic’s over!” Since that’s not an option, we need to take comfort knowing it’s the beginning of the end. A friend of mine created a positive spin ...

Country Clipper Finds Way To Celebrate Community Despite COVID

Country Clipper
Shivvers Manufacturing, Inc. and subsidiary Country Clipper continue the holiday tradition for its associates by investing in the community in lieu of the traditional company holiday celebration. Like many companies, Shivvers Manufacturing, Inc. and subsidiary Country Clipper, located in Corydon, IA, worried that COVID-19 would end a three-decade-long tradition of ...

The Vaccine & The Workplace: Employee Attitudes

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As the U.S. starts administering the coronavirus vaccine, the good news is that the end of the pandemic is in sight. Employers, however, may face new issues and decisions when it comes to vaccination and the workplace. Should employers mandate vaccines before employees return to the workplace? Will employment be ...

Remote Strategies To Keep Business Moving

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we work for the foreseeable future, and the lawn and landscape industry is no exception. Lawn and landscape companies have had to shift gears, moving to a more remote and communicative way of operating. As circumstances related to the pandemic continue to evolve, lawn ...

Turf Fall 2020 Issue

Turf Summer 2020 Issue
The Turf Fall 2020 issue focuses on virtual work, insurance issues, pesticides, climate change, landscape lighting and more.

Portable Sanitation Spray For Crews On The Go

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  Do your crews ever worry about riding in the same truck during the pandemic? What about ensuring communal landscape equipment is germ free? ExtremeMist, based in Arizona, is working to make CDC-recommended sanitation more accessible for businesses with its Portable Sanitation System (PSS). Derived from Ron Laikind’s ExtremeMist Portable ...

White House Rose Garden In The News

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  The White House Rose Garden is getting more than its share of press lately. As President Trump battles COVID-19, a Rose Garden event announcing Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the President’s Supreme Court nominee is receiving scrutiny as a source of the virus’s spread. According to various news reports, ...

Is Your State Supporting Small Business? A Guide To Loans

Confused as to what state and regional COVID loans might be available to you? Then check out a list of over 400 loans compiled by Best Accounting Software. The report, “US States’ Small Business Support Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic,” also analyzed and ranked the states by amount of aid available. ...
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