In the world of design-build, the last thing on your mind in the middle of the busy season is sitting down to write a masterpiece you can use for marketing. If you’re fortunate to be booked solid all year-round, you probably won’t feel the need to market your services...
In the residential sector of the landscape industry, it’s tough to make a good living purely delivering design services. It’s common, if not the norm, for the design department of design-build firms to break even at best, much to the disappointment of their designers...
Most residential landscape designers and design-build landscape contractors take longer than they should to guide their clients from the design and costing phase of a project into the construction phase. As a guy whose entire business is based around helping...
Four out of five landscape contractors who are trying to develop the design arm of their construction businesses, struggle with design fees. They have trouble communicating the value of design to their clients, they lack confidence in discussing what’s involved in the...
When your client signs a contract with you, they are placing an enormous amount of trust in you and your team. They’re allowing you to come into a space that is normally reserved exclusively for friends and family. You may not think much of that, but that’s actually a...
I often see debate among landscape design service providers about which is the best landscape design software to use for their business. Individuals moving within or even into the landscape industry and setting up their own practice as freelancers are often interested...
