Follow 4 steps to build business in 2018

We’re busy right now at Marty Grunder! Inc., gearing up for our annual GROW! conference for landscape pros who are serious about growing their businesses. Scheduled for February in Tampa, Florida, the 2018 conference will be my 23rd straight year of putting on this event.

It‘s hard for me to believe I’ve been at this so long, especially on those days at my landscaping company when nothing seems to go the way I want it to and I realize just how much more I have yet to learn. In those moments I think, ‘What in the world am I doing teaching others?’

But that’s the great thing about conferences like GROW! You’re surrounded by other landscape pros of every stripe, from the owners of some of the most successful companies in the country to smaller operations that are looking for ways to make the leap from $1 million to $2 million or meet another milestone of their making. There’s always someone bigger to learn from and there’s always someone smaller to share your insight with. It’s true, too, that you can learn a lot from companies smaller or younger than you. Sometimes fresh, eager eyes in our industry drive the greatest innovation.

When my consultancy team and I sat down this year to plan the 2018 agenda, we began by thinking about what landscape pros really need to do in order to grow. Then we distilled that into four main areas.

Read the full story from the December issue here.