ICYMI: Snow Removal Equipment: Do More With Less This Winter
Jessica Schwartz
Which CRM Software Is Right For Your Landscape Business?
With so many customer relationship management (CRM) software choices on the market, choosing the right one can be quite overwhelming. As a lawn care or landscaping business owner, you know the meaning of hard work. Between bidding new jobs, servicing existing accounts, providing for your team, buying and maintaining equipment, ...
Are You Landscape Account Management Material?
With a U.S. workforce of nearly one million and more than 600,000 businesses, the nation’s landscaping industry is showing strong growth in 2021, reporting annual revenues of a massive $105.1 billion. There is no doubt, the landscaping space is currently ripe with career opportunity. The current demand for landscape services, ...
Going Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty For Military Families
Military families face many challenges when a loved one is deployed. Project EverGreen’s GreenCare for Troops was founded to ease the burden on the families of deployed military personnel by providing complimentary lawn and landscape services during the length of deployment. The nationwide program recognizes June 20-26, 2021, as National ...
Adding Design-Build Services
If you have a turf maintenance company, you may notice additional revenue opportunities on client properties that you wish you could take advantage of. However, you might feel unsure of the skill sets needed to take on those projects successfully. All landscape services are not created equal. As a matter ...
Safety On A Snowy Campus
At the 1,200-acre Western Michigan University campus in Kalamazoo, MI, a significant task for the Landscape Services team, a unit of the WMU Facilities Management, is to maintain safe and accessible routes for students and staff. With a relatively long snow season, the team created an annual snow removal plan ...
What New Services Should I Add In 2020?
There’s a reason why “growing pains” is a well-known term. Growing any business can be tricky, but for landscapers the statistics can be downright disheartening. In fact, 95% of landscaping businesses peak and get stuck in the adolescence phase without reaching maturity, with only 5% reaching $1 million in annual ...
PGMS President Plants Ideas And Grows Leaders
By Amy Byrnes Much like the Johnny Appleseed of lore, Jeff McManus – who will serve as president this year of the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) – is a planter. Instead of apples though, the director of Landscape Services at the University of Mississippi grows ideas and cultivates leaders, ...
My Landscape: The Grove At Ole Miss
Featuring 160 trees, this 10-acre area is a daily stop for students and faculty as well as a gathering place for commencement and other special events. Keeping this landscape healthy and attractive is the job of Landscape Services at Ole Miss. Jeff McManus, CGM, director of landscape services at the ...
