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Boost Your Landscape Sales Skills with These Expert Tips

Creating an effective sales strategy is one of the most impactful areas we coach clients. Because of the discomfort many landscape business owners have with selling their services, their sales pitches are often rushed, tone-deaf, or poorly thought out. If you are stressed by the thought of a sales meeting filled with pushback, reduce those feelings of discomfort by building the following elements into your sales process.

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How to Spend Money the Right Way for Huge Growth In Your Landscape Business

The age-old problem for entrepreneurs, especially those in the early stages of building their business, is how and where to secure the leads that will generate meaningful growth. It can be a scary thing to make a ...

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To Make a Huge Impact On Your Profits, Understand These Elements of an Estimate

One of the most significant fail points in the landscaping industry is the inability to estimate project costs accurately. If your goal is to be more profitable as a landscape business, you must devote the proper amount ...

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6 Expert Tips to Fulfill Your Landscape Proposal Promise

Honest, hardworking landscape pros always have the best intentions at heart when they sell a project to a client. They sincerely want to deliver a top-quality project, on-time and on-budget, that will exceed client ...

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How to Win More Landscape Jobs When you Write Killer Proposals

As landscapers, we’re most comfortable with our hands in the dirt and bringing projects to life for clients. What many of us are not so comfortable with is the art and science of crafting proposals that sell. As a ...

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Why is my landscape business growth stalling?

I spend a lot of time talking about marketing because that is a fundamental element of business growth that often gets overlooked in a “down-and-dirty” profession such as landscaping. We like to get our hands dirty, and ...

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4 Massive Mistakes Landscape Companies Make in Their Marketing & Sales Messaging and How to Avoid Them

Landscape business owners – like a lot of business owners – spend a considerable amount of time and money crafting traditional sales and marketing tools such as truck signage, brochures, and now websites. However, more ...

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Expert Advice to Establish a Landscape Business Pricing Strategy

Here is a question I hear over and over again: “Our pricing is all over the place, how do I set landscape service prices and stick to them?” Confusion about pricing strategy is commonplace in many service industries and ...

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Competitive Advantage: What Makes You Unique?

Every business, like every person, is unique. Even businesses that provide products or services that are virtually the same have something unique about them that can be promoted to set them apart from their competitors. ...

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Marketing A Landscaping Business: Getting People to Buy What You’re Selling

Owning a landscaping business – heck, owning any business – is not for the faint of heart. If you’re struggle with getting the kind of work you really like to do, then this post provides some tips to fine-tune your ...

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Don’t Like Selling? Change How You Do It.

As the owner of a landscaping business, chances are you do everything from managing the books to driving the truck. And that includes sales. If you’re like most people, selling doesn’t come easy – you’re uncomfortable ...

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Super Easy Ways to Avoid Price Wars with Competitors

If you’re a small business, it’s often hard to avoid competing on price. Perhaps you’re afraid to lose a prospect or worse a client to a lower-priced competitor. Or you’re looking to get established in a new market. Or ...

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The #1 Pitfall To Avoid with Your Business’s Cash Flow Variation

One of the biggest challenges for landscape contractors is managing cash flow. Seasonal variations, fickle customers, weather, and suppliers can all wreak havoc on your cash flow – one week you can be rolling in dough ...

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4 Cash Building Tips for Landscaping Business Owners

Does it seem like each new landscape year brings a roll-of-the-dice when it comes to figuring out how much start-up cash you’ll need and if you’ll have enough to get things going at the beginning of your peak season? If ...

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7 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Landscape Sales Timeline

The landscape industry is seasonal, so no matter where you live in the world, there are peak seasons and off seasons. If you’re like most landscape designers and contractors, the all-at-once influx of new business in ...