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Make Your Employees Lovable

Jim Paluch of JP Horizons helps landscape contractors get their clients to fall in love with them by helping them make their employees the most lovable in the industry.

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Gregg Wartgow
May 7, 2010
JP Horizons Inc.

Jim Paluch of JP Horizons helps landscape contractors get their clients to fall in love with them by helping them make their employees the most lovable in the industry. Follow these simple steps and you can do the same thing.


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