Have you ever had a big sale on the line that suddenly went dark, and you haven't heard from them a while, but you think they might buy… or is it time to reactivate your current clients for a landscape cleanup?

In today's episode, I'm going to share with you how you can reactivate lost landscaping leads FAST with one really simple, tiny little email that's very easy and effective. 

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Have you ever wanted to incorporate video, video conferencing, and digital marketing into your landscaping sales process, but you weren’t sure where to start? 

Check out today’s episode to learn the Strategy, Software, and Hardware you’ll need to get started in this replay of my live webinar with the Texas Nursery Landscape Association. 

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Are your employees proud of the work they're doing for your landscape design and maintenance clients? Do you ever try and get them to take photos and they say, yeah, boss, I'll send you a photo, and then they don't? Well then you're just like every contractor I've ever talked to anywhere in America except for Craig Attkisson from Green Side Up Landscaping. Listen to today’s episode to find out:

• What strategies Green Side Up Landscaping is using to get it’s employees to take amazing photos of their landscaping projects
• How Craig is using incredible technology to automate a ton of this so it doesn't require a lot of time from him or his team
• What software Craig is using to organize and manage his leads

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The economy is starting to open up throughout the country. This means that your customers are going to be Googling you more than ever. They’re going to look for basic information like, are you open? If you’re a retail business, are you doing curbside pickup? What steps are you taking to keep your employees and your customers safe right now?

Listen to today’s episode where I share a clip of a presentation I did with the Boulder Chamber of Commerce on The Corona Comeback: 3 Local SEO Tactics to Help You Get FOUND Now. 

If you're a lawn and landscape company or home improvement company, check out this video to see what's happening right now... What services are people actually Googling more than ever during this whole COVID-19 reopening. I don't know where we're at, but I can tell you that people are searching for a certain type of service and I'm going to give you three sales and marketing tactics to do NOW. Plus one of them is something you can do right away, even if your marketing budget has really taken a hit. 

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Are you wondering how to generate qualified leads during the coronavirus? What’s working right now? That’s exactly what we’ll share in this exciting interview with my client Casey Hendrix from Tex-Scapes Nursery and Landscape from Ennis, Texas. Casey told me his business has “skyrocketed” since the coronavirus hit, and it’s the result of some key decisions he’s made in his sales and marketing which he shares in the interview. 

Check out today’s episode to hear: 

• How to charge - yes, money - for the 1st consultation to increase your close rate
• How to use Social Media and online video to generate leads and retain clients 
• Casey’s 3-step formula for finding opportunity to serve amidst crisis
• And how to Sell during COVID-19 without offending your customers 
• Plus - some of the social media tools we use here at Ramblin Jackson that I shared with Casey

How will COVID-19 change the way that people buy commercial landscaping services? Is it going to increase demand or decrease demand?

Watch today's episode with my client, Scott, from For-Ever-Green Landscape Services where he shares:

• How does he think COVID-19 is going to impact HOAs, communities, and commercial landscape demand?
• Are millennial property managers, HOA board members, decision makers, and facility managers going to be more or less likely to meet with you in person than they were before (are they going to use more video meetings?)
• And… whether or not Scott is choosing to invest in his marketing right now to make an opportunity out of the situation, or if he’s pulling it back.

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Have you noticed that right now you can’t meet in person with your prospective landscaping clients like you used to because of this whole COVID-19 thing? That can create some real challenges when you're trying to sell stuff if you don't adapt to the new situation. 

This week we did a live webinar called What’s Working Now where I interviewed Cheri Stringer, who is the owner of TLC Gardens, a landscape design build firm in Boulder, Colorado. 

Watch today’s episode to hear Cheri openly share her sales process and:  

• How to use one-to-one Zoom video conferences with your clients to make up for the lack of in-person, face-to-face selling opportunities 
• The secret to getting your landscaping employees who are “not video people” to support you in making videos for your company
• The two KEY videos to send -- before and after a virtual sales presentation 
• AND, the winner of the full-day sales coaching raffle. Is it you? Watch or listen to the end! 

See full show notes and transcript here: http://www.ramblinjackson.com/whats-working-now-selling-landscaping-via-video-conferencing-with-sheri-stringer/

Yes, with a piece of paper that you print at home… 

Are you considered an “essential” business right now during this whole COVID-19 thing? 

But do your clients know what “essential” means and that you’re open…

… and do the neighbors of your customers know why you’re working in their neighborhood? 

Probably not… and this could be creating fear, uncertainty, doubt… and unnecessary bad will. 

In today’s episode I will share with you a secret piece of paper that will help you: 

• Take care of your client’s concerns
• Take care of your clients’ neighbors concerns AND 
• Help you plant the seed for upsells + proactively generate referrals in your ideal neighborhoods 

👉 👉 👉 Download the letter template at https://www.ramblinjackson.com/covidletter/

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#004 - Beyond Survival: Effective Leadership Through Times of Crisis with Al Killeen

If you run a landscaping company or small business, the coronavirus and change in the economy has absolutely impacted your operation.  

How you think, how you respond, and how you show up as a Leader during this time will be a defining moment on the sustainability and survival of your organization. 

In today’s episode, I share one of the most influential resources in my life right now: Al Killeen, a four-time CEO, author, executive coach, and self-proclaimed “old guy” who imparts some worldly wisdom gained from the last eight decades of his life including: 

• What you need to STOP doing, and what to START doing, every day… NOW 
• Your #1 responsibility as the leader of your organization 
• A powerful visioning exercise (bring a piece of paper while you listen) to help you see the Future you need to Create 

See the YouTube Video, Transcript, and Show Notes for this episode at ramblinjackson.com/integrativemastery/

👉👉👉Enter to win the full-day sales coaching package + see more episodes, videos, show transcripts  http://www.ramblinjackson.com/podcast/

Related Show Notes: 

Contact Al Killeen from Integrative Mastery Programs https://integrativemasteryprograms.com/

Todd Herman (the guy who did the analysis of a bunch of CEOs) https://www.facebook.com/toddherman1