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Strategic Planning & Your Team: Building Alignment for Growth
Every business needs more than great people and strong craftsmanship to succeed; it needs a plan. A strategic plan is the difference between reacting to every urgent issue that pops up and proactively steering your business toward long-term growth. It aligns your team, sharpens your focus, and sets the pace for progress. So, it’s time… -
3 Elements of a Great Bid
Long-term success hinges on achieving and sustaining lasting business growth. However, many entrepreneurs simply work to work—without a clear process, metrics, or profit goals for their business. All of this is key to your overall business plan. However, it’s also key to every individual project you bid on. Without a strategic framework at the project… -
Passion vs. Business Skills: How to Become an Entrepreneur
As a small business leader, your success depends on two things: passion and business skills. While passion for your work can get you far, entrepreneurial skills are essential if you want to create and maintain growth. What Is an Entrepreneur? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an entrepreneur as one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks… -
It’s Game Time: Win with 3 Blocking & Tackling Basics
For many landscaping and hardscaping companies, this season is go-time. But the most successful organizations among us run like well-oiled machines not because of fancy new systems and the latest-greatest technology, but because they’re committed to getting the basics right. The leaders of winning home-services companies spend a significant amount of time planning and preparing… -
Permeable Pavers vs. Base Systems
I’ve owned a hardscaping company for more than 3 decades and have been coaching fellow landscaping and hardscaping businesses for over 2 decades, so as you can imagine, I frequently field questions about basic hardscape install techniques from companies and manufacturers in our industry. I believe that, from time to time, such industry-specific content will… -
Raise Your Quality Standard
A few years ago, I came across a collapsed retaining wall. A huge section had fallen away, so that the prep work and build were completely exposed. As a hardscape professional, I recognized in an instant that the reason for the collapse was a completely improper installation. This retaining wall was built on slag sand—an…