3 Things to Avoid When Creating Your Landscape Design Checklist As a landscaping professional, designing a beautiful landscape is just the start of your work. Your job also includes pitching those designs, managing a team, calculating costs and bidding, and lots, and we mean lots of customer service! With all of these tasks come aContinue reading “What Not to Include in Your Landscape Design Checklist”
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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing a Landscape Job Bid
Write landscaping job bids more efficiently by avoiding these common estimating mistakes There is a ton of effort that goes into landscaping work before the job even begins. For large projects especially, the bidding process can be extensive as you work with your client to formalize designs, calculate material and labor needs, negotiate the price,Continue reading “5 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing a Landscape Job Bid”
What Your Landscape Design Process is Missing
Improve your landscape design process with easy-to-use offerings from LandOne Landscaping professionals: time for real talk. We know that a critical step in the landscape design process is getting a comprehensive plan on paper. But what if it wasn’t actually on paper? What if, instead, you had a digital tool that allowed you to streamlineContinue reading “What Your Landscape Design Process is Missing”
Why Bidding for Landscape Maintenance is Easier than You Think
Bidding for landscape maintenance just got so much easier! All landscape professionals know bidding for landscape maintenance can be a real drag. Getting to know your client’s needs, making accurate estimates, and securing a contract requires time and effort. Luckily, LandOne Takeoff software offers the industry the landscape bidding software we need and deserve—and makesContinue reading “Why Bidding for Landscape Maintenance is Easier than You Think”
Selling Landscape Enhancements: Finding your Company’s ‘Secret Sauce’
Selling Landscape Enhancements: Finding your Company’s ‘Secret Sauce’ Even though we’d love for our customers to be blown away by our impressive mastery of sprinkler head spacing and our exciting new permeable paver system, this information is unlikely to inspire them to purchase enhancements. Unless your client is a landscaper or a giant nerd forContinue reading “Selling Landscape Enhancements: Finding your Company’s ‘Secret Sauce’”
Sell More Landscape Enhancement Work and Boost Your Bottom Line
As a landscape maintenance company, your goal is simple: get more jobs that lead to higher profit, and contribute to your bottom line. A company’s success is based on its ability to make a profit. Profitability influences whether a company can acquire financing from a bank, attract investors to fund its operations and continueContinue reading “Sell More Landscape Enhancement Work and Boost Your Bottom Line”
Landscape Estimating Calculators – Is There a Simpler Way?
Being a landscaper has many perks. The fresh air, the variety, and the hands-on way of working that those stuck behind desks simply don’t understand. But let’s be honest, there are certain parts of the job that we all wish we didn’t have to deal with. For many landscapers, calculating material estimates is one ofContinue reading “Landscape Estimating Calculators – Is There a Simpler Way?”
The Landscaper’s Guide to Powerful Time Management
As a professional landscaper, you know first hand how hard it can be to manage your time. The nature of our work means it is often hard to plan around our ever-changing deadlines and tasks, and on top of this, we are constantly having to adapt to outside interruptions. Unlike desk-workers, our schedules changeContinue reading “The Landscaper’s Guide to Powerful Time Management”
Avoid These 3 Common Landscape Sales Blunders
If you’re a landscaping business then chances are you already know how important it is to optimize your sales strategy out in the field. A great sales team can make the difference between a thriving business and a failing one – especially in today’s climate. With competition at an all-time high, it has neverContinue reading “Avoid These 3 Common Landscape Sales Blunders”
How Irrigation Companies Can Increase Fall & Winter Revenue
Coming out of summer in the landscaping industry, it can feel like you’ve finished a race. You just spent the last four months sprinting from job site to job site, doing estimates, landscape improvements, and of course, endless maintenance visits. So now’s the time to relax right? Put your feet up, you earned it. Right? Continue reading “How Irrigation Companies Can Increase Fall & Winter Revenue”
