The Grow Group team is busy making its way to Denver to ensure we’ve got every last duck in a row before GROW! 2019 kicks off Wednesday afternoon. For all those ambitious landscape pros who’ve signed up and are traveling from near and far, we’ve got a truly amazing program in store for you. But if you aren’t able to.

When deployed right, digital technology can dramatically improve your team’s ability to communicate with each other and your clients, to operate efficiently, and to find and keep talented people—especially younger folks. In this video, I share what I learned this week about using tech to grow Grunder Landscaping:.

Recently, I was conducting an onsite consultation for a landscaping company whose owner had an ambitious vision for his business. He thought they were doing okay but he knew he could accomplish so much more if only his team were more engaged and invested in the company’s success. Sound familiar? I hear this a lot. And.

If you were to take a look at my calendar this time of year, you’d see that on nearly every day that I’m not on the road coaching and consulting for The GrowGroup, I have lunch plans with someone in town. This is not because I love to eat out, or because I can’t be bothered to pack my own lunch—though both are true on.

Without a doubt, one of the most common questions we get at The Grow Group from the landscape pros we work with is What numbers should I be looking at? This discussion invariably leads to the need for a financial and efficiency dashboard, a central location with meaningful data points from which you can run your whole.

As we all know, finding and keeping talented professionals and hard workers is one of the greatest challenges our industry faces. And next month in Denver, we’ll be tackling this issue from every angle and touching on it in every session at GROW! 2019, from locating and attracting good candidates, to building the kind.

By far and away, one of the smartest steps I’ve taken in recent years to move my landscaping company forward has been developing a stronger relationship with my bank. When I was first starting out in business, I thought of the bank only as the place I had to go to ask for a line of credit or a loan; they had money and.

Somehow, someway 2018 has nearly gone by and we’re about to kick off a new year. It’s a time when many of us look ahead to what we want to accomplish in the coming months, what we want to change, and where we want to get better. And this time around it may be especially important to do this, with the wild fluctuations.

Earlier this week The Grow Group touched down in Denver, CO, to spend a few days gearing up for our GROW! 2019 Annual Conference in February. This time around we’ll be going behind the scenes of Lifescape Colorado, a leading Denver landscaping company that CEO Michael Hupf and his team have grown from $3 million to.

As those of you who have been watching this space the last several weeks know, I have been on the road a lot lately for Grow Group events and consulting—from Whistler and Vail to Kalamazoo, Orlando, New Orleans, and parts in between. I am often asked how I can keep this schedule up and run Grunder Landscaping Co. at.