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Industry Updates
Tapping the Best in Your Techs
United Equipment Dealers Association (UEDA)
Members of the United Equipment Dealers Association offer insights on how dealership owners and managers can maximize service technician performance.
Clean, orderly and uncluttered helps set the tone for a highly efficient service department which technicians take pride in.
Industry Updates
What Inspires Americans’ Landscaping Investments
Houzz
Recent Houzz survey results show what U.S. homeowners are having done with their outdoor spaces—and why.
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Engines, Parts & Shop Equipment
JCB Touts Tier 4 Engine Strategy
JCB Inc.
JCB says its Tier 4 Final engines offer easier maintenance and better resale.
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Industry Updates
Lawn Care Is a Real Profession!!
National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP)
NALP survey shows Americans like their landscaping and lawn care, but lack the knowledge on how to get the most of it.
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Mowing & Maintenance
Top 5 Hiring Mistakes
Super Lawn Technologies
Business guru Tony Bass says the labor shortage is a real concern, but some green industry businesses are making matters even worse.
Be strategic about when and where you advertise your open positions. For instance, if you're looking for a 20-something to hit it hard on a construction crew, running an ad in the weekly local newspaper might not generate the applications you're looking for.
Industry Updates
Association Launches Website Promoting Landscaping to Consumers
National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP)
The National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) has launched a new website, LoveYourLandscape.org.
Industry Updates
Lawn Care Providers Very Optimistic About 2016
LawnStarter
LawnStarter survey suggests that 86% of contractors expect revenue increase this year.
Industry Updates
Carolina Contractors Write Book on Landscape Industry Lies
"Landscapes, Lawns & Lies" confronts the many preconceptions, deceptions and misconceptions consumers face in selecting a landscape or lawn care professional.
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Industry Updates
Confusion, Ignorance and Flat-out Dishonesty
National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP)
Musings from the republican debates, and the distorted discussion over the H-2B seasonal guest worker program.
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Industry Updates
Growing Landscape Company Grows from Within
Ruppert Landscape
How Ruppert Landscape develops internal talent to help propel the company to new heights.
Aside from the company's major training events, numerous other training sessions are happening throughout the year, covering everything from skills, safety and equipment to finance, language and computers.
Mowing & Maintenance
Ohio Landscaper on a Hiring Frenzy
Akron-based Edenscape needs to fill 20-plus positions by April.
Industry Updates
The Organic Opportunity
BeeSafe Organic Lawn Care
Current market share for organic lawn care is still small, but the market opportunity is enormous—for contractors who figure out how to make it work.
NaturaLawn of America is a franchise system with roughly 66 licenses in 24 states. Collectively the company generates annual revenue in excess of $50 million. The company does use some pesticide control products, but its website states that its unique lawn programs have been able to reduce the use of insect and weed control pesticides by over 85%.
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