For Ben Whitehouse, the lawn care business he built with his own two hands was enjoying great success. He had recently acquired a competitor, increasing business and doubling his revenues. For Whitehouse, the future looked bright. Yet with his success came a realization: as his business increased, so too did his amount of time and effort invested in building his company. Not happy with that realization, with it came his change of heart that had until recently told him to ignore the call to become a franchise. Through Spring-Green, Whitehouse […]
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Spring-Green Lawn Care: Building on Success
Owning a small business is hard work, particularly when it’s a family one. You have to find a balance between staying true to the core principles of your business and keep it under your family’s control, while still recognizing the value of growth and in staying competitive with rival companies. That’s where Spring-Green came up to bat for Chris and Shelia Casselberry, owners of GreenSeasons in Baton Rouge. Not content with the success of their existing business, the Casselberry family leveraged Spring-Green to secure their long-term growth potential through diversification […]
Spring-Green Profiled in Turf Magazine
Turf Magazine, the comprehensive publication on all things related to lawn care, recently featured Spring-Green Lawn Care in a three-part series about franchising. Part one, released in April, focused on the top franchisors in lawn care and their programs to seek out independents in the industry that are already performing services that can be enhanced by adding the Spring-Green Lawn Care model to their own brands. This program is called the Green Associate Roll-In Program. James Young, president of Spring-Green, is creating new opportunities for would-be franchisees and a conversion […]
Happy Mother’s Day from Spring-Green Lawn Care
We could do a contest on this post telling readers to send in their response to “Who created Mother’s Day?” But that’s not fair in this age and time, because our readers can Google that fact just like we did. There are some discrepancies. Some say it was Woodrow Wilson who declared in 1914, that we put aside a day to honor our mothers. He made a presidential proclamation and everything! Others say that a lady names Julia Ward Howe thought the holiday up way before Wilson, in 1872. Still […]
Mosquito Week!
Every year Shark Week raises awareness for the most feared creature of the sea, but fewer than a dozen people a year actually die from shark attacks. Surprisingly enough, the animal that kills more than 725,000 people a year is the mosquito. This is why philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates is calling attention to the deadly insect by naming this week Mosquito Week on his blog. Despite their tiny size, mosquitoes carry devastating diseases including dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis and malaria to name a few. They can be found […]
Spring-Green Seeks Donations to Plant Trees in Honor of Arbor Day
Lawn Care Company Joins Forces with Arbor Day Foundation to Plant 10,000 Trees As a growing initiative to increase awareness for tree care programs across the country, Spring-Green Lawn Care has once again teamed up with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees around the community. For the fifth consecutive year, Spring-Green, an active supporter of Arbor Day, maintains their mission to plant a minimum of 10,000 trees a year. Celebrating the holiday on April 25, Spring-Green remains committed to being environmentally responsible by enlisting the best practices in lawn and tree […]
Find the Perfect Balance with Flex Start® Program
Becoming a franchise owner can seem like quite the risk if you’ve never been involved in one before. The transition between your current career and your future entrepreneurial dream may appear to be a far leap, but that doesn’t always have to be the case. At Spring-Green, we’ve designed the Spring-Green Flex Start® Program which offers franchise owners a greater control of their time and flexibility as they transition from their current occupation into the lawn care business ownership. The right candidate is able to operate their lawn care franchise […]