Imagine this scenario: You meet with a prospective client, and within a single visit, you’ve not only secured their commitment to your design services, positioned your company as the clear choice over the competition for the construction of the project as well. How is this possible? By leveraging the power of design. Offering in-house design […]
A series of HOW TO articles on selling design work profitably.This is article #1. Why Offer Design Most landscape and hardscape design build companies make their money on construction. But find building other people’s designs less than satisfying from a creative and financial perspective. The way to beat the competition in any market is through […]
Have you noticed how difficult it has become to call most of the larger companies in the US? I mean if you have a technical problem or a service issue just try to find a number to call them directly. Heck even sales are becoming mostly automated! This is not a rant on AI, automation, […]
We can choose to commit to a recursive and infinite path that elegantly creates more of the same. We can choose possibility. We can choose connection. We can choose optimism. We can choose justice. We can choose kindness. We can choose resilience. And we can decide to take responsibility. Each leads to more of the […]
January 7, 2021 In this episode of the Green Industry Perspectives Podcast, Ty Deemer welcomes Dan Pestretto to the show. Dan is a former landscaper turned coach/consultant that focuses his time on helping landscape companies implement systems to support healthy growth. Dan shares how he learned from his biggest failures and now uses those lessons […]
It’s a reflective time of year. This year showed a lot of us what we’re made of. The realization that the businesses we’ve spent so long to build are underpinned by things out of our control. Government’s reaction to the pandemic was surprising. Both good and bad. But as they say, there is light at […]
Landscape Design Builders – Are the plans even half of it? From Seth Godin Nov. 9th – “One difference between science and art If you can’t replicate the work and get the same outcome, then it’s not science. If you can replicate the work and get the same outcome, it’s not art.” This brings me […]
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Around the world, there are harvest holidays with gratitude at their core. No matter who we are, or what has happened, there is always reason to be grateful. Even in a pandemic. Yesterday I posted a video on the blog about our future. I am grateful for the young people […]
A purpose in life. Make the world better, more beautiful, resilient, sustainable, colorful, and delicious. Congratulations #RINLA Great thoughts and a really nice video.
Let’s start with a definition, Steve Jobs defined it well. “Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.” Good design works well and feels right. Good design doesn’t start with an aesthetic objective, good design starts with a communication objective. By that I mean what do we want to say? […]