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 …
Improve How You Navigate Projects with Commercial Services
Commercial irrigation contracting can offer many complex challenges during the bidding, installation and turnover phases. Most veteran commercial contractors have horror stories about projects that went off the rails at some point. In a few cases, they would have avoided these projects altogether or at least approached them differently. At Central, we are here to help you navigate through the …
Diversification for Profitability: Drainage, The Forgotten Service
Landscape, Irrigation, Lawn Care, Hardscape, whatever type of contractor you may be, you are probably overlooking a service that every client has a need for…drainage! Providing drainage solutions can easily be added to your services list to enhance your job proposals and set you apart from the competition. From basic drainage issues to more involved issues, simple solutions are available …
A Look Back: Top Turf Articles from 2022
2022 saw ongoing challenges in labor, cost pressure on profits, and continued supply chain issues across the category. Now is a great time to take the opportunity to look back at the top Central Turf articles of 2022 and see what changes you might want to make, and what solutions you might need, for your turf plans heading into 2023. …
A Look Back: Top Lighting Articles from 2022
2022 saw ongoing challenges in labor, job sensitivity when selling upgrades, and creating an effective sales process across the lighting category. Now is a great time to take the opportunity to look back at the top Central lighting articles of 2022 and see what changes you might want to make, and what solutions you might need, for your outdoor lighting …
A Look Back: Top Irrigation Articles from 2022
2022 saw ongoing challenges in labor, costs, and water efficiency across the category. Now is a great time to take the opportunity to look back at the top Central irrigation articles of 2022 and see what changes you might want to make, and what solutions you might need, for your irrigation plans heading into 2023. If these are new to …
A Look Back: Top Hardscape + Outdoor Living Articles from 2022
2022 saw ongoing challenges in labor, procurement, project planning, and missed revenue opportunities across the outdoor living category. Now is a great time to take the opportunity to look back at the top Central outdoor living articles of 2022 and see what changes you might want to make, and what solutions you might need, for your hardscape and outdoor living …
A Look Back: Top Marketing, Communication, and Business Articles from 2022
It’s important to be prepared for the upcoming year to take your business to the next level of success. Now is a great time to take a look back at what drove success this year, and implement it into your business & marketing strategy for 2023. Below is a recap of this year’s top marketing & business articles that will …