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Tips for Selecting the Right Ice Melting Solutions This Season

Choosing the right ice melting solution isn’t a decision to be taken lightly. You’re making an important decision that impacts your profitability, your customers’ safety and your potential liability. Select the products you will use this season carefully, considering these important factors: Product performance. Key performance factors include: effective melting temperature – typically the better the product, the lower the melting …

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Making the Most of an Extended Fall Season

Many parts of the country are enjoying warmer and drier weather than normal. This gives you an opportunity to extend your season and capture additional profit dollars. Here’s how to make the most of the weeks ahead: Fill remaining openings in your schedule. Got room to squeeze in more work? Pick up the phone! You’ll be surprised how many sales you …

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Four Ways to Make Your Landscape Lighting Designs More Professional

How do you create landscape lighting plans that grow your reputation as a true professional? The right installation methods are essential. But what about design? We asked our team of lighting experts to share their ideas on simple things contractors can do to take their lighting designs from good to great: 1) Move past stake-mounted fixtures. Basic lighting designs rely on …

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The Importance of Applying Turf Fertilizer in the Fall

Autumn is an important season for turf management. During shorter days and cooler nights, turf begins to grow vigorously again, filling in open areas, becoming more dense and accumulating carbohydrates efficiently. Experts agree that it is important to do a final application of fertilizer before the on-set of winter. This helps assure that the turf roots remain healthy and allows …

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Five Landscape Lighting Design Mistakes to Avoid

What makes professional landscape lighting stand out from amateur efforts? Certainly using the right product makes a difference. Professional quality components are better constructed, aim light more effectively and stand up tough landscape conditions. Equally important is the design and layout of the system. There’s a real difference in professionally-designed installations. Professional designers select each fixture type, output and placement …

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Service Contractors Enjoy Added Profits by Applying Deer Repellents

Are your customers irritated by deer munching on their shrubs and newly-planted flowers? Growing populations of deer in suburban areas are creating a new opportunity for savvy contractors to protect their clients’ plants from being trampled and eaten. Deer resistant plants? Not a solution, say experts. Deer adapt and keep eating. The best solution is application of professional deer repellents. …

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5 Ways You Can Reduce Stress and Nagging Hassles This Season

All signs indicate that 2016 will be a fantastic year for landscape and irrigation professionals. There will be plenty of work out there from both new construction and landscape upgrades. Now is a great time to get organized for the season ahead so you’re not strained by unnecessary hassles that will get in the way of your ability to take …

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Outdoor Sound Systems Are Latest Landscape Trend

Some of the most important living spaces in today’s homes are outdoors. Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a surge in popularity of outdoor spaces for relaxing, entertaining and enjoying time with family and friends. The popularity of outdoor living spaces has driven dramatic growth in products for outdoor kitchens, pavers and decking, and of course landscape lighting. Now …

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Where to Find Employees Now

There’s plenty of work out there. Your success this season will depend on having the right people on your team. It’s harder than ever to find responsible, capable and motivated employees. Contractors who are not actively working a recruiting plan (as well as a plan to retain existing employees) are likely to be short-handed in the months ahead. Here are …

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Hunter’s New App Helps You Close More Sales with Homeowners

Add Hunter’s FREE SiteRec App to your mobile phone or tablet to get a wealth of powerful new marketing tools that can help you sell irrigation system upgrades. The app will help you make more effective proposals of irrigation upgrades. The templates can be customized with your company logo, your photos, your website address and contact information. You can quickly …