The Grow Group

Is Your Landscaping Facility Organized? Distractions can add to your team's indirect time and impact your company's efficiency. With our costs steadily rising, whatever a company can do to improve efficiency helps us keep prices in check and maintain our margins. Grunder Landscaping has always placed a focus on.

Be Landscape Professionals A little over a week ago, we were at R.P. Marzilli for our annual Field Trip in partnership with NALP. It was a great, fast-paced two days together learning from everything that R.P. Marzilli does well. We heard first-hand from Bob and Christine Marzilli how the business began (with a messy.

Build a Stronger Cash Position There's a lot of uncertainty in the market right now, and while no one on our team is an economist we do know that the economy is always cyclical. It doesn't stay up forever, we always see years of expansions and recessions just with varying severity. It is almost certain that we'll see.

Help Your Team Understand Each Other We aren't breaking news: the costs of doing landscaping work are rising. Gas prices, the wages and benefits for our team, material costs, and so many other smaller costs. It's all going up, and while it's always smart to be cognizant of how we can control costs, at some point we.

Help Your Team Understand Each Other "The sales team just drive all over town in their air-conditioned cars all day. They have it so easy." "The production team pays no attention to detail! If they could just do their jobs, I wouldn't have to deal with this unhappy client." "The owner just sits in their office all.

Are You Asking for Referrals? Without a doubt, I can tell you there is no better source for new team members and new clients than referrals. In both cases, whether it is a referred team member or a referred new client, we have success because generally, they have a better understanding of expectations, they have a.

Is Your Sales Team Overwhelmed with Demand? The unofficial start of summer is here: Happy Memorial Day Weekend! As we look ahead to the summer, our schedules are pretty full at Grunder Landscaping, but we're still talking as a team regularly about the number and quality of leads coming in. We're keeping our fingers on.

Is Your Landscaping Company Short Staffed? For years, the biggest challenge landscaping companies faced has been labor. The market is tight, and finding and keeping talented people is hard. We're fortunate to have started this season fully staffed at Grunder Landscaping Co., and we're working hard to keep it that way..

How Strong is Your Company's Reputation? The team at R.P. Marzilli has grown to $53 million in annual revenue, all without a dedicated sales team. This is a pretty astounding business model and is rare in our industry. While it's not the model we follow at Grunder Landscaping, I'm intrigued by how it works for them. I.

Four Topics Grunder Landscaping is Training On this Spring The 100 Days of Victory are in full swing, and while we're all busy executing right now, at Grunder Landscaping we are also always focused on training our teams. Often when we get so busy executing, we overlook that there are other, easier solutions to our.