Get Your Landscape Sales Team Ready to Sell Spring is here, folks. While we had a little snow in Dayton, Ohio this week, we also have daffodils and tulips starting to poke out of the ground, lawn care applications starting at Grunder Green, and Spring Clean Ups have been on the production schedule now for weeks.

Fundamental Lessons to Help Your Landscaping Business Thrive There's been a lot of talk and speculation about the economy recently. Are we headed for a recession? How do we plan for the year ahead with uncertainty in supply chains and logistics? What if demand does stay high, how do we plan for that?

Execute a Marketing Plan for Your Landscaping Company I like to think of marketing as air cover for the sales team. While it's unlikely that a single social media post, or even a postcard, will be all it takes to close a $10,000 landscape installation when done right, your marketing should be consistently driving.

Are Your Landscaping Sales and Production Teams at War With Each Other? The handoff between sales and production is often the sticking point for landscaping companies. It's frequently the spot in the process where miscommunications happen that can irritate clients or cause issues for team members, whether a team is.

Is Your Sales Team Just "Taking Orders?" Here's How Landscape Pros Can Prepare to Sell in 2023 In the past few years, many landscaping companies have been able to get by with their salespeople functioning more as "order takers." Our clients, and potential clients, already had ideas and already knew they wanted to.

Is Your Landscaping Company Focused? Smart landscaping companies realize that they can't be everything to everyone, they need to choose the space they want to specialize in to be successful. Some companies choose to specialize in efficient commercial maintenance while others choose high-touch residential design-build..

How to Decide It's Time to Hire Your Next Sales or Production Team Member At GROW! 2023 in San Antonio, TX on Feb. 28-March 2, we're looking forward to spending a breakout session going in-depth on what has possibly been our most-asked question in 2022:

How to Train Your Landscaping Sales Team Even experienced salespeople need to continue sharpening their saw, especially in an industry like ours. Refining closing skills, preparing for objections that are becoming more common in a changing economy, learning new ways to find leads, and even finding inspiration for.

Last week our team was at Aspire's Ignite conference connecting with landscape pros and both learning and teaching best practices for using systems to get the most out of your business. Over and over again we talked about the quality of data available to landscaping companies, and how they can best use that data to.

Three Steps to Create a Marketing Plan for Your Landscaping Company Since last year, I have been working with the Grunder Landscaping team to align marketing goals with sales and revenue goals; ensuring that our marketing reflects the types of work we actually want to sell and perform and resonates with our ideal.