Weston Zimmerman
CEO and Founder
Weston Zimmerman started in landscaping as a teenager at Tussey Landscaping in central Pennsylvania. Over 15 years he grew to lead crews on award-winning design/build projects while diving deep into operations and leadership. Struggling with figuring out profitability and dealing with over complicated workflows between the office and field, he co-founded SynkedUP — a business management app built by contractors, for contractors. Now leading SynkedUP, Weston is driven to end entrepreneurial poverty in the trades and help blue-collar contractors build profitable, thriving businesses.
Crew Management, Software & Technology
The Landscaper’s Guide to Landscaping Crew Tracking Software & Job Costing
Running a landscaping company means keeping a lot of pieces moving at once. Crews, materials, equipment, routes, estimates, and deadlines all have to line up on every job. Out of all those moving parts, labor is usually the largest expense, and it can quickly get out of hand if time…
Business Management
What Do Landscapers Do in the Winter for Income?
The leaves are off the trees. The mowers are parked. Snow might be covering the ground, or maybe it’s just cold enough that growth has stopped and jobs have slowed to a crawl. Your bills don’t stop just because the temperatures drop, so what do landscapers do in the winter…
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Making Landscape Management Software Work for You
Running a landscaping business can feel like you are juggling everything at once. You have crews to manage, materials to line up, jobs to schedule, invoices to send, and customers who want answers fast. What used to be trackable on whiteboards or in spreadsheets starts getting messy once you have…
Estimating & Pricing
A Smarter Landscape Estimate Starts With Better Job Tracking
A strong landscape estimate starts with a strong understanding of what happens on the job site, not what you hope will happen. Some contractors, as a rule, use educated guesswork to reach a figure, but that figure is often less tied to job reality than that contractor might think. When…
Business Management
Overlooked Advantages of a Landscaping Budget
As a landscaping business, what does a landscaping budget mean to you? For many contractors, the concept of a budget is associated with busy work; they build it once, file it away, and then never update it during the actual season. To be fair, when a budget is treated like…
Business Management
It’s Time to Love Running Your Business With SynkedUP
I’ll be really straightforward. Every business management software you have a tab open for and researching right now says this in one way or another: “Be better than you ever were before!” We know… How are you ever supposed to know which one to try? It’s gonna cost money. But…
Estimating & Pricing
Using Landscape Estimating Software To Help Build Accurate Production Rates
Accurate production rates are the core of every reliable estimate. However, too many contractors still choose to build those rates based on inaccurate or outdated methods. Manual estimating using rough averages and spreadsheets with no real benchmarking, for instance, can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate bids, lost time, and reduced…
Estimating & Pricing
The 3 Most Costly Estimating Mistakes Contractors Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Discover the 3 most costly estimating mistakes contractors make—and how to avoid them. Learn how production rates, logistics, and estimating systems can protect profit margins and streamline your landscaping business.
Estimating & Pricing
The Ultimate Guide to Profitable Pricing for Landscape Contractors
Crews keep calling? They may not be a people problem; it might be your process. Here's how to fix it and cut the noise.
Software & Technology
Choosing a Landscape CRM: The Features Every Contractor Needs
Crews keep calling? They may not be a people problem; it might be your process. Here's how to fix it and cut the noise.
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