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Are You Profitable or Just Busy? Unlocking Job Costing for Landscape Success

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Are You Profitable or Just Busy? Unlocking Job Costing for Landscape Success

Landscaping

As a landscape business owner, you’re constantly moving, managing crews, and delivering incredible results for your clients. But at the end of the day, when all the hard work is done, are you actually making money, or are you just incredibly busy? That’s the million-dollar question, and it’s exactly what job costing helps you answer. […]

3 Landscape Business Metrics to Grow Your Operations

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3 Landscape Business Metrics to Grow Your Operations

Landscaping

Growing your landscape business becomes a simple process once you fully understand which metrics drive growth and which don’t. We took some time and thought to pen three proven metrics that drive operational growth. It’s easy to get caught up in money. Large numbers look great when isolated from the other business metrics that influence […]

Stay Connected, Go Offline: LMN Crew’s New Superpower for Landscape Teams

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Stay Connected, Go Offline: LMN Crew’s New Superpower for Landscape Teams

Landscaping

Your crews do not stop working when the signal cuts out — and now, neither does LMN Crew. Our latest update to LMN Crew now works offline, with low or no cell service.  Landscape crews work wherever the job takes them and often, that means low signal, bad weather, or no connection at all. Now, […]

5 Ways to Level Up Your Plant Health Care Business

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5 Ways to Level Up Your Plant Health Care Business

Tree Care

Here are five ways you can improve your plant health care (PHC) company and stand out from the competition.

The Nine Deadly Wastes

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The Nine Deadly Wastes

Landscaping

Although the concept of Lean originated in the manufacturing sector, it has tremendous application in the service industry. Waste is In fact, the “waste” is even more in services because of two reasons:

The Snow Removal Pricing Formula (With a Worked Example)

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The Snow Removal Pricing Formula (With a Worked Example)

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The snow removal pricing formula is: price = (labor + equipment + materials + subcontractors + overhead) ÷ (1 − target profit margin). Add up what a job costs you, then divide by one minus the margin you want. A job that costs you $303.60 at a 30% margin prices out at $435. Keep reading […]

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