Partnering Up

Cleveland, Ohio – The Lawn & Landscape Media Group has announced a partnership with Mattingly Associates on a series of one-day business management seminars led by veteran industry consultant Jack Mattingly.

The seminars, titled “Improving Profits and Growing Your Business,” will offer landscape contractors valuable information about how to improve operating efficiencies and financial performance in their companies. The seminars will help attendees do the following:

· Learn proven methods to grow business and ensure profits.
· Discover how to improve operational efficiencies – tracking labor hours, identifying labor costing and learning how to purchase and maintain equipment.
· Sharpen financial management practices with QuickBooks and learn how to structure pricing.
· Identify strategies for positioning a company for long-term, sustained growth.

The one-day seminars will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at each location) and are scheduled for the following locations:

Friday, July 25, 2003  Baltimore

Friday, August 1, 2003  Philadelphia

Friday, August 8, 2003  Northern New Jersey

Friday, August 15, 2003  Orlando

Friday, August 22, 2003  Ft. Lauderdale

Friday, September 5, 2003  Greensboro, N.C.

Friday, September 12, 2003  Atlanta

Friday, September 19, 2003  St. Louis

Friday, September 26, 2003  Chicago

Friday, October 3, 2003  Dallas

The registration fee is $145 per person, $105 per person for groups of three or more from the same company. Registration includes all seminar materials and lunch.

For registration information please call 800/456-0707 and ask for a Conference Division registration representative.