Great Idea: Could You Sell a Pool in the Arctic Circle?

GROW! 2025 will feature Hidden Creek Landscaping as our tour host, and as part of the event we'll learn directly from their talented team, find out the ins-and-outs of how they operate, and also walk through their facility to understand how they set themselves up for success. Without a doubt, one of Hidden Creek.

Great Idea: Different Generations, Different Work Styles

At our most recent ACE Summit in New Orleans, LA held with our partners at McFarlin Stanford, we hosted more than 225 of our ACE Peer Group Members and their spouses for three days of networking, learning, and a lot of fun, too. My favorite parts of the event were the annual awards dinner, our VIP tour of the National.

Great Idea: Prepare Your Sales Team for 2025

To grow a business it's important to always keep your focus on sales. Sales are the fuel for your organization, folks, without them the business can't go anywhere. Having sales targets helps us stay focused and motivated. We set goals that are larger than what each salesperson managed in 2024 but still numbers we.

Great Idea: Does Each Team Member Use Their Strengths?

Effective teams are effective because they have the right people in the right roles. This happens by being intentional and aware of teams' strengths and weaknesses, and then allowing team members to be in roles that let them play to their strengths. We have continued to learn new and different ways to leverage this.

Great Idea: Trailer Tricks

Little drips of inefficiency in your business, especially within your production team, can add up to big problems for landscaping companies. Profitable companies are efficient and effective companies, no matter the type of work they specialize in. There are many places to look for drips: in your morning roll-out, the.

Great Idea: Say it Out Loud

We frequently get asked "How do you find team leaders?" and the answer is both simple and complicated: "We don't find them, we create them!" So how do we do it? One of the many ways is by trusting in our existing team leaders to train the others on their crew. On our current team, there's one team leader who does an.

Great Idea: Two Marketing Priorities We Have for 2025

🚨Before you read this week's Great Idea: don't forget to register yourself and your team for GROW! 2025 in Columbus, OH on February 24-26. Early Bird pricing ends this week - head on over to our website to grab your registrations at a $200 per person discount before you forget and miss the deadline! Register for.

Great Idea: What Makes a Landscaping Company Successful?

GROW! 2025 will include a tour of Hidden Creek Landscaping, a top landscaping company in Columbus, Ohio specializing in high-end residential work and pool installations. One thing we see often, and remind our ACE Peer Group members like Hidden Creek owners Jason Cromley and Matt Seiler, is that as goes the leader, so.

Great Idea: An Admin Change That Can Improve Scalability

We're constantly trying to get better at Grunder Landscaping Co., and when you've been in business for 40 years there's always a new project on the horizon. Sometimes the projects are exciting, sometimes it is small things will make a big impact. This week, I'm sharing one of those little changes in the hopes you can.

Great Idea: Get Your Team to See What's Possible

We've had a big year at Grunder Landscaping Co. We're on track to surpass our revenue goal and recently closed on the purchase of our second location. These two big wins didn't happen overnight, though, there were lots of smaller steps along the way. Who gets credit for the success? The team. We needed team members to.