The opportunity to maintain and enhance a client’s place of residence, business, or leisure doesn’t just stop with a lawn care program. What about the ornamental landscape beds on the property? This is a tremendous area of opportunity to grow your business, but also provide additional value to your clients. Maintaining ornamental landscape beds can get a bad rap for …
Selling Irrigation System Upgrades During Spring Startup
The Spring Irrigation System Startup is always a good time to sell upgrades to your customers. In 2023, Spring offers a better than usual opportunity since many commercial customers did not use all their snow removal budget this past winter. These accounts with unused funds may be more willing to invest, right now, in improvements to make their irrigation systems …
How To Store Your Winter Equipment When The Season Ends
Now that the end of winter is near it is important you are ready and thinking ahead to preparing and storing your seasonal equipment away for the upcoming seasons. Although maintenance may be the last thing on your mind, it will save you time and money in the long run if you prepare and have a plan before all the …
4 Fixture Slump Part Two: Identifying the Next Level of Fixtures
In Part One of this series “How To Expand Beyond Your Typical Four-Fixture Routine” Central’s Director of Lighting, Glen Nyhuis gave solutions for getting ahead in the lighting industry and detailed some tips on how you can expand your offerings to include second story and niche lighting. Read below as Glen dives deeper into the next level of fixtures and …
Spring Drainage Tips: PVC vs Corrugated Pipe
PVC vs Corrugated Pipe: Choosing the best Conveyance for your project When it comes to choosing a pipe type for a drainage project, contractors tend to defer to what they are comfortable with. “We only use corrugated” or “we only use PVC” is a mantra we at Central hear over and over again. Being tied to a type of pipe …
Central’s Solution for Native Bluestone Shortage: Solving Pricing & Availability Issues
Pennsylvania Bluestone has been around for an estimated 345 Million years! So why is it hard to come by these days? We checked in with Dennis Garneau, Director of Hardscapes, in this article to discuss current supply issues, pricing, practicality along with a suitable alternative we know you’re going to love. As we forever embrace the beauty of Mother Nature, we’re here to help you change the way …
4 Marketing Trends to Watch For in 2023
Back to Basics: Marketing’s Core Aspects With 2023 in full swing, it is important to keep one question in mind: “What can I improve in my marketing strategies to make sure that I take advantage of new opportunities in 2023?” This is also the perfect time to look at the positives and evaluate what did work. Even though it is …
Ask the Expert: 6 Irrigation Training Resources To Grow Your Business
The winter months are all about preparing for the upcoming season. This includes purchasing and pricing strategies, marketing planning, and learning about new products. In addition, now is the time to focus on training your team; whether it’s refreshing your team on material/systems they already know or learning new products or product updates, these months before the season really gets …
Turf Management: Winners Are Planning Now for Spring
Back in the day, we in the professional landscape industry referred to January as “The Off Season.” We talked about down-time and getting some rest to recover from another grueling season. But the industry has changed dramatically and today’s landscape professional looks much different from the guys in the industry 37 years ago. In today’s industry, January is the most …
Dimension vs Prodiamine- The Great Debate!
Dimension (Dithiopyr) vs. Prodiamine While we are still in the heart of winter in many locations across the U.S., spring and the start of a new season is just around the corner. Each year signs of spring bring lots of energy and excitement to our industry. It’s a fresh start with lots of opportunity, but also some new challenges. For …