A Note from Marty
At The Grow Group, we carefully choose the partners that we work with and invite to sponsor GROW!
Our sponsors help make this event possible, and they also have great products and services that we believe can make an impact on your business. Take a moment to review their offerings, I've left my comments next to each one on why I think they deserve your business!
LEAD SPONSOR
I have run Stihl equipment my entire time working on properties, almost 40 years now. We are honored to not only have a company that makes high-quality equipment involved in GROW, but we are also excited to share their expertise at GROW as well. There's a lot one can learn from a big company like Stihl. Be sure to check out their battery-operated equipment, our team at Grunder Landscaping Co. love it, and it has helped us add more profits, which is a GREAT thing.
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Aspire has changed my life, I know that sounds somewhat silly, but it has. Aspire enables Grunder Landscaping Co., and all of our clients that use it, to have complete control over their business and improve profits. What gets measured, can be improved, and Aspire helps us measure everything in our business and make better decisions as a result. Good managers make good decisions with good information, Aspire gives us everything we need in terms of information.
McFarlin Stanford is a very important part of our success at The Grow Group and Grunder Landscaping. They partner with us at The Grow Group in running our wildly successful ACE Peer Group Program and help us improve our clients' businesses with their coaching and consulting. They provide us with recruiting at Grunder Landscaping Co. and have brought us numerous top performers that we could not easily find on our own. If you have an open position, talk to them today! They can help you!
GOLD SPONSORS
SiteOne is a very, very large part of Grunder Landscaping Co.'s past, present and future success. They not only provide us with many of our hardscape materials, supplies, equipment, and plants, but they are also a valued partner in the training and education of our team. It's extremely comforting to have them a phone call away for technical help on lighting and lawn care, or any other issues we run into. Seth, Grunder's COO, worked with them at his prior job and insisted we move procurement to them when he joined our team. It's made a world of difference in how organized our team can be. SiteOne is an expert in logistics and their people never let us down, be sure to see one of their pros at GROW!
Vermeer is quality; plain and simple. Quality people making quality products. We consider their mini skid steers to be one of Grunder Landscaping Co.'s greatest labor-saving machines. Every landscaper doing installation work should have at least one mini skid steer. They are easy to run, our landscape pros love them, and they show up for work each day, eager to make money :) Talk to Trevor and his team while you are at GROW! and see how their machines can help you solve some of your labor challenges. And, if you can, get a tour of their factory some time, it's incredible.
Weathermatic is a long-time supporter of ours that knows how to save water and money. The list of clients we have that rely on Weathermatic products is too long to list. They have not only saved our clients money, but they have also shown them how to make money too. Their team here at GROW! is very creative and great at listening and solving your irrigation problems and challenges, please see them. If you tell Brody in their booth you want a drink, rumor has it, he'll buy you one! 🤓
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Gravely is our longest-tenured sponsored, and with good reason. They make excellent mowers, and their parent company is the world's largest manufacturer of snow throwers. Grunder Landscaping Co. relies on Gravely in the growing season and Ariens in the winter, and they never let us down. A family-owned business based in Wisconsin, the Ariens family is the exact kind of people you want to partner with on your mowing and snow removal equipment needs.
SILVER SPONSORS
Eby truck beds and trailers are known as super high-quality products that last. We have Eby Aluminum Truck beds in use at Grunder Landscaping, we particularly like using them in our snow and salt operation as aluminum doesn't rust! With many locations across the country, talk to Charlie and his team here at GROW! and by all means, ask to see their trailers too, we have our eye on a couple as we speak. Eby is a family business that cares, I know you'll be impressed with what they have to offer and how they do business.
There is no comparison in the industry to Hunter and FX Luminaire, they are the best money can buy, and the only kind of light fixture we install at Grunder Landscaping Co. Tommy Johnson from Hunter is our representative, and he has helped us to expand our lighting offering and find ways to make it better, too. If you aren't offering lighting as an add-on service, you are missing one of the best things you can do to improve sales at your company.
Greenius is a wonderful training tool to add to any landscaping company’s training efforts. We use it in conjunction with our in-person, in-house training efforts at Grunder Landscaping Co. and many of our attendees here this week do too. I can attest that training is an investment, not an expense, and the investment in Greenius is worth is. See our friends at Greenius and ask them how they can help you make sound investments in training!
BRONZE SPONSORS
Knowing where all our physical assets are is important, and so is knowing that our team is being safe. Since we implemented GPS tracking, I now can't imagine running a company without it. Azuga integrates with Aspire, which makes it an incredible tool for us at Grunder Landscaping Co. It’s easy to learn how to use, no matter what your platform, and we have found their technology to be the best in the business as well. If you see one of my professionals from Grunder Landscaping Co. at GROW!, ask them how they like GPS and what it does for them in their role, you’ll be impressed.
Bartlett Tree is one of our longest supporters and a huge supporter of education in the green industry. We rely on them at Grunder Landscaping Co. for arborist services and plant health care applications. I can’t stress enough what a professional firm they are. Their knowledge is the best in the business, and their safety practices are even better. They do everything from selective pruning on specimen trees to complete removal and stump grinding. Their team can show you ways to partner with them to grow your business and improve your offerings.
Payroll at Grunder Landscaping Co. used to be a complete nightmare. We switched to Inova over 2 years ago, which has been incredible. First of all, they take care of their clients and their software works, and equally as important is the fact Inova integrates with Aspire, the software we run our business with. By implementing Inova, we eliminated over 10 hours of work a week that we now no longer have to do just in reconciling time punches. This team can help you: seek them out to learn more.
LandscapeHub rocks, plain and simple. Before using Landscape Hub to procure green goods for us, we had 4 people involved in getting plants. It was an expensive nightmare, to say the least. Today, we have what I would characterize as one of the leanest, most effective, and smoothest plant procurement processes anywhere. It may be boastful to say, but I also just admitted that it took 4 people to do this job before :) Please see them and ask them how they can help you save money and eliminate frustration in finding and securing quality plant material. If you come to a GLC Field Trip this year, we’ll show you firsthand what we are doing, it's saving us thousands of dollars annually, thanks LandscapeHub.
There's not a landscape we install that doesn't have a Proven Winner planted. Proven Winners is the World's #1 Plant Brand and we are excited to have them supporting the #1 Educational Event for Landscape Pros. If you're not looking at Proven Winner's plants, you should be. My personal favorite is their Little Lime hydrangea. It's a show stopper and I have 30 of them at my own home!
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What is the biggest challenge we have? Finding labor to do the work, right? Rainbow Ecoscience can help you with their labor-saving products. Their incredible products save clients time and money pruning, among other things. The science behind what they do is incredible, regulating the growth of plants to require less maintenance for your team to perform. This is one of the many little tricks our clients in the Grow Group are using to improve profits. Talk to this team about how they can help you improve profitability by reducing maintenance requirements.
MEDIA SPONSOR
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The number one trade journal in the Green Industry is our media sponsor. Home to my monthly column, seek them out while you are here if you have a story or want to be featured in their magazine. I read this publication cover to cover each month and appreciate all that they do to help us, and all landscape professionals, grow our businesses.