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Features - Business Management |
| Taking Control |
11/3/2009 |
| Despite myriad challenges, many landscape company owners buckled down, focused on the numbers and learned a lesson or two about improving their businesses. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski and Julie Collins |
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Features - Business Management |
| Owner Confidence Climbs |
11/3/2009 |
| Focusing on profit and efficiency drives landscape contractors’ confidence levels. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Industry News |
| Consumer Wealth and Worries |
11/3/2009 |
| Contractors adapt to residential customers reduction in spending as a result of high debt loads and diminishing nest eggs. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Industry News |
| Hitting Homes |
10/27/2009 |
| Residential home building and sales markets experience major slowdowns. As contractors adapt, the housing situation gradually improves. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski and Julie Collins |
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Features - Business Management |
| Price Pride |
10/27/2009 |
| Despite pressure from customers looking for a deal and from competitors looking to score the lowest bid, not all landscape professionals slashed prices this year. In fact, they insist, ‘We cannot work for free.’ |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski and Julie Collins |
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Features - Equipment |
| Making Do or Buying New? |
10/27/2009 |
| Some contractors repair vs. replace, while others continue to buy. However, most try to become smarter shoppers. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski and Julie Collins |
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Features - Business Management |
| Hiring Comes to a Halt |
10/26/2009 |
| Although small business optimism is on the upswing after hitting its all-time low one year ago and job cuts have abated, hiring is close to a standstill as most employers are still hesitant to add workers. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Business Management |
| Swelling Service Fees |
10/17/2008 |
| Double-digit price hikes keep landscape businesses profitable.
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| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Business Management |
| Economy Broadens Labor Pool |
10/17/2008 |
| Labor is easier to come by and owners give themselves a raise this year.
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| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Industry News |
| Housing Market Outlook |
10/17/2008 |
| The housing market may have a bit further to fall but experts predict a turnaround is in sight. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Industry News |
| The Small Business Ballot |
10/17/2008 |
| Currently, landscape business owners prefer McCain, but the picture isn’t quite that simple. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Columns - Industry News |
| 2008 STATE OF THE INDUSTRY REPORT: Weathering Economic Storms |
10/17/2008 |
| Business confidence remains steady as landscape contractors look into the eye of the economic storm, directly facing challenges to ensure profit. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Industry News |
| Today's Consumer |
10/17/2008 |
| Though polls say half of consumers are worried about cash, contractors report a slow-to-decide, but still viable customer. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Business Management, Features - Equipment, Features - Industry News, Features - Maintenance |
| The Cash Flow Crunch |
10/17/2008 |
| When it comes to juggling rising costs, equipment needs and pricing, landscape contractors say, ‘you can only play so much defense and so much offense.’ |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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Features - Business Management, Features - Industry News |
| Who Bails Out Small Business? |
10/17/2008 |
| In the midst of government bailouts and limited bank lending, landscape company owners do what small businesses do – battle it out on their own. |
| By: Nicole Wisniewski |
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