News and Press from Super Lawn Trucks
Landscape Business Owners Response
Last week's essay on the subject of lowering landscape prices in 2023 attracted a number of comments from our readers. This one from Mark Dubois at Quality Landscape and Lawn Care grabbed my attention:"You had to bring up a bank collapse..."Yes...I sure...
Lower Landscaping Prices?
Dear Landscape Business Owner:Did you see the new report from the BLS released Friday morning (3-10-23): More Jobs - Jobs - Jobs - up 311,000 for the month of February 2023. The unemployment rate is now 3.6%, near a 54-year low.Wages...they keep going up...
2 Landscapers + 2 Price Increase Lessons for Spring
Dear Lawn or Landscape Business Owner, These two conversations were 180 degrees apart. We think there's a valuable lesson in each. Read these two short case studies and then hit reply and let us know what you think.Case Study #1 - Results from the 3% increase...In...
Should Landscapers Raise or Lower Prices in 2023?
We received a great question about pricing lawn and landscaping work in 2023. We thought it would be a good idea to share the question and our answer with our readers. Due to the sensitive nature surrounding pricing work, we chose to keep the company name...
Landscape Employee Pay Rates 2023 (new data just released…)
Dear Lawn or Landscape Business Owner:Did you see the latest employment situation report? In case you missed it, we will share the key points provided by our friends over at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Then we will share data we collected from landscape...
Isuzu Truck Owner Special Alert
Bad news - Good news. Here's the bad news... The call came in on Friday morning from Kingstown Landscaping. The damn crooks cut catalytic converters off of 8 trucks. That's a total of 16 catalytic converters. The cost estimate to replace them is almost $60,000 for...
Firing Landscape Employees?
Dear Lawn or landscape Business Owner:Have you fired any of your lawn or landscape employees lately? It's a serious question to consider.Why in the world would we be talking about firing employees? After all, isn't the hardest job in America finding, hiring, training...
Tax Reduction Strategies for Lawn and Landscape Contractors – Part 2
Lawn and landscape business owners are always interested in learning more about reducing their tax bills. When you know that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published tax code has over 17,000 pages of rules and regulations, plus countless pages of guidance from tax...
Tax Reduction Strategies for Lawn and Landscape Contractors – Part 1
It’s December - Have You Spoken to Your Accountant Yet?Meeting with your CPA is a very smart use of your time...especially when the subject is TAX CREDITS and TAX REDUCTION.Tax credits are like cash in the bank. Unlike a tax deduction, a tax credit creates a dollar...
Getting Better Landscape Employees: Creating Opportunities
There’s no guarantee of success when you go into the landscaping business for yourself. Most of us understand that right out of the gate. We tend to focus on the possibilities of high rewards with hard work plus creative thinking and ignore the risk of failure. You...
The Internship Story: How Landscapers Lower Wages & Build a Superstar Workforce
We’ve been working side-by-side with owners of landscaping companies since 1998. We’ve been an employer since 1987. We believe this data to be useful for our readers, listeners, followers, clients and friends. We want you to know that our opinions and recommendations...
Keeping Better Landscaping Employees
Will your lawn or landscaping company be easier to run if you are able to keep your best employees longer? Our experience working with over four hundred owners of companies clearly show this to be a common belief. After all, new employees create a ton of special work...
