Business Trends

The study asked small businesses to rate their state and city governments on policy factors.

April is National Lawn Care Month. And it’s the best time to blog about the benefits of healthy lawns and your lawn care business....

There is no reason that just because you don’t have a storefront or offer a tangible product you can’t get in on the holiday...

Here are six tips to meet your sales goals for next year.

One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures is the 1972 musical “Cabaret” and watching Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey singing and gyrating to “Money,...

Ready to switch to propane but not sure about the overall cost?

Brothers Jeff and Steve Rak run separate landscape businesses out of the same building located on a busy rural road about 35 minutes southeast...

Industry consultant Judy Guido shares the six key drivers pushing sustainability as a megatrend in the landscape industry.

Barrett Ersek, CEO of Holganix, reveals how landscape businesses can get a 7 to 10 times competitive advantage over their competition. His findings were published in a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review.

I continually draw inspiration from other companies about how to improve my lawn care business. Here's what I learned from a recent experience with...

Here are five things Steve Rak learned from running with The Iron Cowboy.

A common goal of water-saving initiatives could be improving relationships in your business.

Whether your market suffers droughts or not, trends shaping the huge California industry will be shaping yours as well.

Fall business can make a good year even better. Clients are looking to improve their properties before winter and will be more attentive to...

An inside look at how propane is saving some contractors money and positively impacting their bottom line.

Here are 6 common operator mistakes that lead to equipment downtime.

Some business insight about responding to complaints and in-the-field diagnostics.

For many years, service provider businesses could grow their business through organic (unpaid) search results. Yet, in the past couple of years, there’s been...

Ron Hall reflects on his experiences in the green industry over the past 31 years.

Houzz is a social media platform with offerings that are revolutionizing contractors’ marketing efforts. Houzz has more than 35 million users using the site and...