When catastrophe strikes, recovering your losses is the first thought you might have. Keeping the right insurance coverage can help your business suffering a total loss. Read more about the different types of catastrophe insurance…
Keeping Your Landscaping Business from Going Underwater When You Are a Sprinkler or Irrigation Contractor
As a sprinkler & irrigation contractor, keeping your business above water is directly tied to growing your client base while keeping your losses at a minimum. Here are some areas your landscaping business might be overlooking…
Contractual Risk Transfer: Potential Risks & How To Minimize For Your Landscaping Business
When you are responsible fiscally for your own business, there are constant risks to navigate, protecting your investment. In a landscaping business, sometimes this includes direct risks such as equipment breakdowns or downtimes related to bad weather. Sometimes this is a third-party risk. Third-party risk is the potential threat posed against your business by an… [Read More]
Safe Lawn Care Chemical Use
Landscaping employees often work with chemicals, including industry-specific chemicals such as fertilizers, weed killers, and various pesticides that are considered hazardous. Safe chemical use is essential when working, protecting both the employee and anyone else close to the job site or workspace. Landscaping Employee Training First and foremost, one of the most critical components of… [Read More]
Reducing Potential Liability When Snow Plowing
Snow plowing demands you and your employees are working in adverse conditions, and the job itself leaves the company open for liability. Before winter descends — and throughout the season — it’s essential to reduce potential liability and protect your assets and employees. The following highlighted aspects can minimize risk and improve safety and performance…. [Read More]
Preventing Landscaping Equipment Theft
The business’s nature means landscaping companies often have a considerable amount of essential, high-value equipment — large equipment designed to be pushed or wheeled and smaller landscaping equipment that is easy to carry. Which, unfortunately, means the landscaping business is a prime target for theft. You can minimize the risk of loss — both in… [Read More]
Best Practices for Effectively Growing Your Landscaping Business
No one starts a business to be mediocre. Most people strive for profitability and a solid reputation, but it isn’t something that comes overnight or without hard work and dedication. Building and expanding a landscaping business isn’t an easy task, but knowing the best practices to follow when growing a landscaping business reduces the growing… [Read More]
Preparing Your Truck For Plowing
As winter inches closer and closer to making an appearance, now is the time to make sure your plow and truck are in tip-top shape for the season. A day or two spent on maintenance in nice weather will significantly reduce the chance of breakdowns that leave you stranded — and not making money —… [Read More]
Green Industry & Construction Cyber-Risk: Protect Your Clients From Cyber Threats
The world of Landscapers, Construction Contractors & Nurseries is continually shifting and evolving, especially during this challenging time. As work becomes more reliant on technology, and exposure grows online, so too does the risk of cyber-attacks. Green industry businesses and construction contractors regularly handle their clients’ personal information, project data, financial data, and so much… [Read More]
The Ultimate Guide to Landscaping Equipment Management
For landscapers, work begins long before they arrive on a job site and continues well past when their on-site tasks are completed. Why is that? It’s because these professionals rely on complicated, expensive and invaluable landscaping equipment. Here are some pointers for landscaping equipment management, from safeguarding large stores of equipment to managing individual pieces… [Read More]