Guessing Ends Here. Take Control of your Business
Winning in business is a balance of knowing the “right way” of doing things and having the proper mindset. Read up on the tactics and mindset that have propelled contractors in the SynkedUP community into profitable growth.
Business Management
Slow Down to Speed Up
I spent the day with about a dozen SynkedUP Crew members in a regional meetup in Nashville yesterday – all who were able to slow down for a day. It was awesome. There’s something refreshing about removing yourself from the daily grind, shutting off your notifications, and spending time with…
Business Management
Average Self-Employed Landscaper Salary
If you’re a self-employed landscape business owner, pushing to grow your business, trying to acquire all the equipment you need, hiring the right people, …and managing your cash flow and finances… you’ll likely arrive at the question of “What should MY salary be anyway?” One advantage of being self-employed is…
Business Management
Tired of Spending Money on Unanticipated Expenses?
It’s that time of year. The crazy time when everyone is pegged to their max capacity. Demands and issues come at you from every direction. …and sometimes, the easiest thing to do is to just throw money at the problem. Which is cool and all. …as long as your budget…
Business Management
Bought a Tool and Don’t Use It?
You wanted to get faster and more efficient at your jobs, so you followed the latest rage and bought a new tool – like a tilt rotator. Then the first hour you run the thing, you feel like you are all left-handed and all thumbs, and wonder for a brief…
Business Management
Balance What You Track for Maximum Effectiveness
In my travels and the daily grind, I get to meet a lot of people in this industry and discuss how they track in their business. There’s a couple extremes. The first extreme is just winging it, and not tracking anything. Or not nearly enough to know where you…
Business Management
Get Out of Your Head With Landscape Business Management Software
Most landscaping businesses begin with the owner personally handling everything, from sales to scheduling to estimating to invoicing, mostly based on their memory and industry experience. This method is manageable enough to start with, because the volume of jobs and the company’s scale are small enough to run through one…
Business Management
What To Focus On In The Off-Season (Part 2)
I started a new series in my last blog, of “What to focus on in the off-season.” I’m continuing that today to focus on the second point of getting all of your jobs into your system and schedule. If you haven’t already, that is. If you have good systems and…
Business Management
What To Focus On In The Off Season
Say what? Focus? The off-season is the time to catch a breath, sit back, think about the past year, then look forward and plan for the upcoming year. We all know the quote of the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again while expecting…
Business Management
How to Know If You Are On Track With Jobs
Recently I wrote a blog on “What is the point of software”, and in there I had 4 main points (one specifically about how to track your jobs): Since then I’ve been writing a deep dive into each of those. How to know if you’re on track Today,…
Business Management
Streamlining Workflows and Operations for More Profit
Streamlining workflows and operations are what I believe to be the most overlooked opportunity to increase your net profits. It’s a sneaky one. It can be hard to make tangible. It’s easy to continue doing what you’ve always done, never realizing that there’s a better way, which in turn…
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