Some owners don’t have GPS systems in their vehicles because they think it’s expensive but owners who have them installed save so much money and have so much control, they […]
Category: Friday Videos
Harvester Bill talks with Angie who attended his Breakfast of Champions table in Louisville at NALP’S LANDSCAPES-2019. The subject of his table was, How to Recruit Needed People. Angie offers some […]
Harvester Bill is talking with David a client representative in the Chicago market for Mariani Landscaping. They are at the breakfast of champions at LANDSCAPES 2019. He sat in on […]
In this quick video, watch as Harvester Alison talks with Nate Moses from Greenville, S.C. at LANDSCAPES-19, In Louisville, KY this Fall. The subject of their discussion that morning was […]
In the video today, Harvester Bill is talking with Lee one of the attendees at his Breakfast of Champions table at LANDSCAPES-19 in Louisville, KY this Fall. The subject was […]
This week Harvester Steve Cesare talks with Kyle Onorato an account manager from Yard Apes in New Milford, Connecticut. Kyle sat in on Harvester Steve’s breakfast of champions table where […]
The Harvesters are on he trade show floor in Louisville, KY talking with Johnathan Jouban the owner of Signature Estates Lawn and Landscaping from Spring City, Tennessee and his daughter […]
The Harvesters interview Antonio Zeppa owner of Zeppa’s Landscaping Service, they’re at LANDSCAPES-19 in Louisville, KY on the trade show floor. Antonio shares numerous ideas he learned from the convention […]
Watch Head Harvester Ed talk with Joel Sullivan from Sullivan’s Landscaping in Delaware at the Louisville, KY LANDSCAPES-19 convention. Their subject was near and dear to all landscapers hearts, how […]
Today watch Harvester Alison, a partner in Harvest the GREEN Partners, Inc., a mergers and acquisition company, talk with Todd McCabe owner of Landscapes Unlimited in Wilmington, North Carolina. Todd […]
One question the Harvesters continuously get is, “what software do you recommend? Their answer WAS ALWAYS, “it depends”. It depends on your size, what you need it for, what type […]
Harvester Fred Haskett is talking with the COO of David J. Frank Landscape, John Joestgen. He attended Harvester Fred’s Breakfast of Champion table where he picked up one idea that […]
With the extremely tight labor market, the last thing we want to lose is our good people but it does happen. There is no point in having a strong recruiting […]
The Harvesters are at the Verizon Connect booth in Louisville, KY at LANDSCAPES-2019 with Rebecca Anderson, Sr. Business Development Manager and Kevin Schwartz, Fleet Management Consultant. Watch as they share […]
Most landscape contractors use sub-contractors in their business. They are necessary for most operations because of limited expertise and equipment. In most cases, the relationship between contractor and subs are […]
Owning a landscaping business brings on stress, you can’t help it. People deal with stress in different ways but one thing for sure sustained stress is very unhealthy. So what […]
The Harvesters visit numerous companies and one of the common problems they find is owners don’t delegate enough. They are so used to doing it, doing it, doing it, it’s […]
No matter how hard we try we are going to lose jobs, and that hurts. If we sense there is a problem with a job we need to jump on […]
Last week Harvesters Bill & Ed toured the Headquarters of Corona Tools, in Corona, California. Wow, were they in for a surprise. Before the tour they thought Corona was a […]
Business is not easy, it never was. Competition is tough, finding good people to do the work is even more difficult. And then the customers. Most are great but there […]
You might have seen information about these tours in Lawn & Landscape magazine or maybe from the Harvesters but if you haven’t check it out. The tours are called, Backstage Pass. […]
Don’t you love the signs that say, “We guarantee fast service, no matter how long it takes”. That’s too funny. But guarantees, real guarantees do matter. Companies that guarantee their work […]
Without realizing it we negotiate quite a bit in our personal and business life. Our children, especially teenagers test our negotiation skills, as well as our mates, vendors, subcontractors, clients, […]
The Harvesters have found over the years that most companies don’t produce accurate estimates. After all, estimates are what prices are based on, so if they’re not correct how could […]
This week The Harvesters are in Fort Worth, TX with Craig McNitt the Director of Commercial Maintenance for Earthtones Landscaping. Craig is a veteran landscape professional heading up the company’s […]