“Green Side Up" now on sale

Landscape professionals can find an accurate, fast-paced book and book-on-CD on growing their landscape business for $39.95. Based on nearly 30 years of landscape industry experience, Laflamme shares unparalleled insight into the multi-faceted world of a landscape business owner.

Whether you’re looking for ideas on running your business, managing your people, balancing your P & L, improving your operations or acquiring and retaining new customers, this book will motivate you to take action and chart a new course for your business. A new audio CD set read by the author is also available.
 
Chapter headings include:
 
•The Power of a Plan
•The Mower or the Computer
•Hire Outside Expertise
•Profit is Not a Dirty Word
•Pricing – Critical to Your Success
•Train Them to Pay – on Time!
•Retaining Valuable People
•Managing Supervisors
•Compensation
•Sales, Advertising, Marketing, Help!
•Networking Works
•Managing Your Sales Staff
•Put Your Logos on Everything
•The Contract Renewal Process
•Lost Job Analysis
•Romance Your Customers
•Vision
•Delegate Everything Possible
•Attitude Is Everything
•Are You Ready to Sell?
 
Each chapter includes specific “Take Action” tips that you can incorporate immediately into your business to effect change.

The book and audio book combo costs 27 percent less than purchasing both items seperately. The book itself is available for $19.95.

Check out the Lawn & Landscape store and order the book here today. "The Complete Irrigation Workbook" and "Turfgrass Ecology & Management" are also on sale for $4.50 each.