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Monthly Archives: March 2017

Green Industry Business: How Continued Learning Can Power Growth

National Lawn Care Month is in April, and it offers a great reminder of the importance of continual learning for any green business owner. As a lawn care entrepreneur and professional, you already place a strong value on creating a healthy lawn, but if you need some quick facts to share with your customers about why they should focus on their lawns, the National Association of Landscape Professionals offered these: • The oxygen a family of four needs can be generated by a 50-foot by 50-foot section of lawn. • […]

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Spring-Green Welcomes Newest Franchise Owner Dan Hillenbrand

Spring-Green Lawn Care is proud to announce Dan Hillenbrand is taking over an existing franchise location in the Edmund area of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hillenbrand has long possessed an entrepreneurial drive. “Since I was 10 years old, I’ve been thinking about what business I wanted to own and run,” he explained. For five years, while in college, he operated his own lawn maintenance business. He sold it after graduation and began working with a franchise of Scott’s Lawn Service in Colorado. A move back to Oklahoma City in 2007 led […]

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Does Your Green Industry Business Have the Right Insurance?

Any entrepreneur who has opened his own business knows the many layers of responsibility that come with owning and operating a small company. A big area of concern revolves around insurance. Having a hedge against the unforeseen can mean the difference between your business recovering from an accident or having to shut its doors. For a green industry business, this can protect you from a variety of situations, from the expected to the unexpected, while offering valuable peace of mind. How insurance helps What are some of the possibilities that […]

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Spring-Green Welcomes Newest Franchise Owner David Roman

Spring-Green Lawn Care is proud to announce David Roman, of Enviroscapes of Georgia, is taking over the Logansville, Georgia, franchise location. Roman has a long history in the landscape industry, following in the footsteps of his father. “I’ve been in the landscape industry since I was 13 years old,” he explained. “It’s definitely something I enjoy, and it’s evolved and grown into a way to make a living.” A full service landscape company, focusing on residential maintenance and mowing, Roman started Enviroscapes of Georgia in 2012. As he explained, “Working […]

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Customer Service: What Can Small Business Learn from Big Business?

Standing out as a small lawn care company used to be pretty simple—just focus on providing the best customer service. The advent of the internet and social media changed the playing field for what constituted good customer service, however, now big companies can interact on a more personal level, too, whether through messaging and live chat or social media. How’s a local green industry business to compete against the 24/7 capabilities of larger organizations? Listen to your customers. One of the keys for quality customer service is truly listening to […]

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Buy Wisely: It’s All About Vendor Relationships for Green Business Owners

Green business entrepreneurs know that the relationships you have with your vendors can have a serious impact on the health of your bottom line. Developing a working relationship with vendors and buying wisely are essential. How can you make the most of your connections with suppliers to keep your green industry business thriving? Here are five ways to ensure you are buying wisely and developing healthy supplier relationships as well. Be loyal Developing a loyal relationship to a particular vendor doesn’t happen overnight. But cultivating this kind of relationship over […]

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