For a business owner, being able to delegate tasks and responsibilities is critical to the ability to sustain and scale the business.
That might seem obvious, but what’s less obvious is the risk a business owner assumes if they choose NOT to delegate responsibilities.
I’ll get to the risks, but first let’s look at a couple different levels of delegation.
NORFOLK, MA – October 23, 2017: Driven Landscapes Franchising, LLC – an innovative leader in the residential landscaping industry – announced they’ve awarded a new franchise territory to Josh Schultz of Naperville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.
Schultz has served his community as a firefighter for the last several years. Now, with a wife and two little boys, Schultz has decided to serve his community in a different way, starting his own landscaping business.
A lot of landscape company owners say they want to scale their business, but their biggest challenge is that they can’t find good employees.
We can look at that from a couple different perspectives:
Some people would consider that a catch-22. They figure they just can’t win and they spend time talking about how tough or unfair the situation is, rather than working on solutions.
Here’s the secret:
Scaling a business and building a strong team of employees go hand-in-hand, so take them both seriously and work on them together.
We're happy to have been featured on the Lawn & Landscape website recently. Writer Brook N. Bates took the time to talk with our boss, Jonathan Orcutt.
See what Brook learned about Jon and about Driven Landscapes!
Imagine you’re captain of a large ship. You’re sailing along, but you have a feeling something’s not right. You look at the horizon, check your charts and instruments, and discover – sure enough – you’re headed completely in the wrong direction.
Sometimes running a business is a little like that. Sometimes you find yourself off course, but there is almost never any one thing you can do to instantly fix things. Usually, it’s a series of smaller things that you need to work on to gradually bring the business around.
That’s the million-dollar question? Someone asks me that question almost every day.
Attracting new customers is a common problem, but it doesn’t have a simple, one-size-fits-all answer. Every business is unique and the best answer depends on quite a lot of details.
No matter what the specifics are for any given company, getting new customers and growing your business always starts in one place.
Your Marketing Plan
I know what kind of jobs I look for in landscape. What kind of job do you consider sexy?
Is it a five- or six-figure design and install job?
A huge job that keeps a crew busy for three months?
We’re going to look at three ways maintenance differs from design-and-install...
We're proud that Driven Landscapes has been featured twice in the early part of 2017 on the Total Landscape Care web site.
I’m always fascinated by the results of various surveys and reports about the landscaping industry. Even though I keep up with these things, I’m often surprised when I see some of the data.
I’ve been a fan of Lawn and Landscape’s State of the Industry reports, so I thought I’d dig in and share my thoughts about a few of the statistics they reported.
Some of the biggest challeneges landscape business owners deal with are related to finding and keeping good employees.
Here are three tips for building your team.
