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5 Landscaping Billing Blunders and How to Prevent Them

Billing is a fundamental process of your landscaping business. That’s because billing is your “bridge to cash flow,” making it an essential process that allows you to sustain your operations.

Despite the importance of billing, it’s a process that can go awry for many different reasons—and that’s a...

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6 Landscaping Website Design Ideas & Tips to Consider

At Include Software, we’ve worked with hundreds of landscape companies and often end up discussing their business needs. Occasionally, we hear a lot of companies are looking at updating or improving their websites.

This is a smart business move. After all, your website is one of your most important...

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How Landscaping Career Pathways Reduce Employee Turnover

If you’re worried about retaining landscaping employees, you aren’t alone. No matter what trade show, conference, or other green industry events you attend, listen to the chatter and you’ll likely hear about the same struggles come up again and again.

Landscape business owners nationwide are all...

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What is Job Costing and Why it’s Crucial for Landscape Contractors

Let’s be honest, the financial aspect of your business can be a big challenge. While the landscaping part of your operation may be cut-and-dry to you, the inner-workings of the business, may not be. After all, financials are complicated and require a certain level of business acumen that typically...

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Landscaping Profit and Loss: 4 of the Biggest Impacts on Your Business

Chances are, you started your business because you’re passionate about landscaping. Not because you are passionate about accounting. While you know that staying on top of the financials, and making better decisions is key to your profitability, it may be a struggle to do so.

After all, very few...

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Expert Tips for Recovering Landscaping Overhead Costs in Your Pricing

If you’re like a lot of landscape companies, then chances are a good chunk of your revenue is being hijacked by landscaping overhead. Certainly, a lot of that is to be expected. There are always going to be overhead costs associated with doing business that you can’t avoid. Paying the mortgage on...

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7 Great Ways to Improve Your Landscape Sales Team

You already know that your landscape sales team is at the heart of your profitability. How they perform can either positively or negatively impact your business. But what can you do to make improvements? How can you ensure that your team is constantly getting better and not repeating bad habits or...

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6 Winning Ideas for Selling More Landscaping Services to Existing Clients

New client acquisition is expensive. Chances are, you’ve heard the stats. It’s been said that it costs five times as much to attract a new customer as it does to keep an existing one. That’s why you do everything you can to treat your clients right and to keep them happy.

While it’s undoubtedly...

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5 Tips for More Profitable Commercial Mowing Contracts

There are a number of factors that go into creating the best commercial mowing contracts and all of them must be in line in order to have success. In fact, even if you have just one item askew, it can eat away at your profitability.

As a commercial mower, your goal is for all of your jobs to be...

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3 Innovative Recruitment Strategies for Landscaping Companies

Recruiting in the landscape industry is often cited as being one of the biggest challenges landscape business owners face. How many times have you heard an industry peer say (or maybe you’ve even said it yourself), “I just can’t find good people!”

There’s no question that it’s become increasingly...

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