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3 keys to growth for GreenEarth
In August, we shared the story of GreenEarth Landscape Services and how a focus on culture, communications and key metrics will help owners Jeremy Durgan and Shawn Knight with their 10-year goal of expanding to 16 branches between Florida and Alabama.
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Balancing culture and strategy
Your company is like a sports car. It needs a set of balanced tires to maintain traction around sharp corners at fast speeds. The same goes for your company. If you want to win the race, make sure your strategy addresses these five points presented by Jeffrey Scott, with buy-in from all your employees.
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Risk vs. reward
You might picture a debt-free company to be driving around old trucks, running beat-up equipment or falling behind the technology curve, but that’s not the case for Lawn Butler. Take a look behind the curtain of this company to find out how it leverages its conservative, debt-free philosophy for steady growth.
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Lower Your Costs On Labor, Fuel and Maintenance
The top three fleet related concerns for service businesses are labor costs, fuel costs, and vehicle maintenance. This article explores these top three challenges and identifies how service businesses, like yours, are overcoming them to maximize overall efficiency.
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10 ways to guarantee your best workers quit
In this twist on a classic human resources dilemma, our hiring and retention guru Mel Kleiman shares the top 10 things you could do that would make your best employees quit, as well as the opposite actions that will keep your star employees around.
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Kawasaki FT Engine—A Higher Cut Above
The new FT730V–EFI engine combines the latest in EFI technology with Vortical air filtration for superior debris management. Kawasaki's newest engine is purpose-built for commercial use. Two things define this engine: proven EFI, featuring our own integrated eGov system, and Vortical air filtration for cleaner, longer lasting and more consistent power.
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Double duty
For our November issue, we shared the story of Luke Scott and Larkin Scott III. In 2015 the two found out they would both be deployed, leaving their employees and mother to run their company. Check out the full story to find out what you can learn from a landscape company that survived the year both of its owners were away.
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LM150: How we got started
Think back to your humble beginnings. The starry-eyed days where you had nothing but a mower and a dream. There are many reasons the leaders from LM150 list companies may be different from the average landscape company—scale, scope and sometimes just pure luck. But a modest beginning is not one of them.
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