Business Insights, Leadership & Culture
AI Won’t Fix Your Margins. Weekly Productivity Will. Categories: Most commercial landscapers aren’t behind on technology, they’re buried under it. New tools. New dashboards. New “AI features.” And somehow, the same margin pressure. That’s because technology doesn’t...
Best Practices, Business Insights
What Maintenance Leaders Shared in Elevate’s Shop Talk Roundtable Categories: The commercial maintenance roundtable at Elevate 2025 was one of those sessions where you immediately recognize the value of operators talking to other operators. No slides. No scripts. Just...
Business Insights, Sales Performance
Market Analysis for Landscapers: What Marion Delano Taught Us at Elevate 2025 Categories: If you’ve ever built a sales plan in commercial landscaping, you know the feeling: a blank map, a list of properties, and no clear way to prioritize where to spend your team’s...
Business Insights, Leadership & Culture
What Monarch’s Elevate Session Revealed About Leading Through Growth Categories: Attending Elevate always leaves me with pages of notes, but this year one session stood out. Monarch’s leadership talk wasn’t about tools or tactics—it was about the habits that keep...
Business Insights, Leadership & Culture
The KPI Wake-Up Call: Turning Data Into Action in Your Landscaping Business Categories: After attending the NALP Elevate 2025 conference, one thing was clear:commercial landscapers aren’t short on data — they’re short on clarity. Across sessions and conversations, the...
Best Practices, Business Insights
Weekly Over Yearly: The Small Rituals That Protect Next Year’s Renewals Categories: Many commercial landscapers treat renewals like a year-end fire drill. The spreadsheets come out, hours get double-checked, and managers scramble to explain why budgets and actuals...
