Landscape Disruptors

Discover the efficiency-boosting power of LMN CREW, a mobile app designed for landscape professionals. Learn how this app revolutionizes time management, enhancing productivity, accuracy, and accountability across your workforce.

A 360-degree feedback program is all about getting input from all directions, providing a comprehensive view of employee performance. So rather than managers only providing feedback to the people they manage, employees review their managers, coworkers, and even leadership.

Mike dives into the ways budgeting strengthens financial control, manages expenses, projects revenue, sets goals, allocates resources, handles risks, controls cash flow, evaluates performance, builds investor/lender confidence, plans strategically, and calculates overhead—essential elements for success in the landscape construction industry.

Discover how efficient routing and scheduling impact cost control, customer satisfaction, safety, and overall snow business performance. Learn why they are vital for well-managed snow removal operations.

Discover why revenue per hour is a vital metric for landscape companies. Explore its impact on profitability, pricing strategies, resource allocation, and overall business performance. Join us to gain essential insights for smarter decision-making and financial success in your landscape business.

Lisa Buyer is an industry disruptor in all things related to marketing, PR, web 3.0, and beyond. The latest episode featuring her and your favorite host Stanley Genadek the Dirt Monkey, was thought-provoking on all levels. She had Stanley's head spinning by the time they finished the recording, leaving us all wanting to learn more. 

Throughout this episode, Lisa and Stanley get into everything related to business. From finding a better balance as an entrepreneur to achieve health and wellness, what future business trends are emerging in 2022, what the new web 3.0 could potentially look like, and how business functions from sales and marketing will change. 

She also most recently wrote an article on the future of the Meta Verse and a more decentralized web 3.0 and spoke about all things related to NFTs on Search Engine Journal. 

If you want to learn more about Lisa Buyer and the future of everything related to marketing, PR, NFTs, and web 3.0, catch her social pr secrets podcast.

Most landscapers look at equipment as tools—a way to get the work done more efficiently and effectively without adding additional labor costs to projects. But the way George Urvari from Oriole Landscaping looks at equipment is a whole new level.

George has his numbers so dialed. He can tell you exactly his equipment to sales ratio, how it impacts his bottom line, how it improves productivity, and the list goes on. 

He is a leader in the art, math, and science; yes, we said the science of buying and selling equipment. But don't take our word for it. Take the time to listen to George Urvari and Stanley Genadek the Dirt Monkey on the latest episode of the Landscape Disruptors podcast. This episode will change the way you acquire landscape equipment completely.

How well do you know and understand your dirt? No, we're not talking about the job site gossip or the dirt on your boots. We're actually talking about soil. The stuff plants are grown in and how they absorb nutrients from the ground. 

It's exactly what President and co-founder Kris Borgman has built his business on at Soul Solutions Monitoring. Their key message goes something like this: "It's not the total amount of nutrient in your soil, but can your soil release those nutrients in forms and rates to match plant uptake demands at critical growth stages."

And throughout this episode of the podcast with none other than Stanley Genadek the Dirt Monkey, they get into soil sampling and how taking a predictive and prescriptive approach can help make you more money and all the other applications that could apply your business. Everything from the upsell, garden enhancements, reducing plant warranty, customer trust, and so much more.

Skilled labor shortage aside, another reoccurring issue plaguing our industry is mostly employee engagement, specifically around the up-and-coming generation of skilled laborers. 

Generational theory, gen x, gen y, whatever you want to call it, we're not sure it matters. Anyone can work for a paycheque, but the reality is, most people want to work to build a career for themselves and find day-to-day purpose within their professional life. The average person works roughly 90,000 in their lifetime, so for an employee to seek that opportunity to grow professionally and thrive is not an unreasonable ask. 

And the latest episode of Landscape Disruptors discusses just that. Stanley Genadek, the Dirt Monkey, and green industry business consultant Jackie Hart go into great detail on better engaging the next generation of skilled labor and what most people, not just the next-gen, are seeking within their professional lives.

Solutions to problems, in most cases, don't always stem from the root of the issue. More often than not, they are complex and require a much broader and holistic look at solving the challenge. 

Step into Brent Giles's world. Former landscape business owner, he worked at and led one of North America's largest snow removal providers. Entrepreneurial at heart, team builder, and now a high-performing leader in the green industry world, he's learned firsthand how to take a holistic approach to solve recruiting and retention problems in the skilled trades.

Throughout this episode, Stanley Genadek, the Dirt Monkey, and Brent Giles discuss the current challenges in retaining team members within your landscape company and how to ensure they develop into high performers within your company.