Landscape Contracting

Our ability to get precise on the costs of doing the work, gets you the job.Our systems help you to perform exact cost estimates.

Landscape Contracting, AKA, Bid Build, relies on production rates, accurate take-offs, and operational efficiencies. People, systems and efficiencies. In other words Systems Organized by Design (SOD).

Bid build tends to be about pricing. Understanding your costs and calibrating your pricing to best meet your’s and the buyer’s needs is frequently the only way to get your foot in the door. Let us show you how to outmaneuver the competition, create opportunities to add value and demonstrate competencies.

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Sales Training

Our Sales Training Classes teach your salespeople how to guide prospects through a systemized, extremely effective, and repeatable sales process. The process we teach orchestrates the interaction between your salespeople and your potential customers and has been crafted over 35 years of selling landscape services. Our sales training can:

Bring sales teams to 70% close rates.
Teach you how to develop trust, based on expertise and not sales techniques.
Show you how to make an emotional connection through understanding your prospects needs.

"A 400% increase in profitable revenue! [...]Passion for excellence, Drive to serve and commitment to truth. A game changer for us."

JEFFREY DAWKINS

Controller - Green Thumb Nursery and Landscaping

Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman

"Dan's sales training helped me immensely with my sales efforts guiding me whenever I needed help. He has been a great resource, a sounding board and teacher."

SANDRO FELIPPE

Sales Manager - GreenThumb Nursery

Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman

"A great coach and empathetic listener. It was great to be heard. Our work together is greatly responsible for the success I’ve had as a sales person"

RICH ADAMS

Sales Manager - Teufel Nursery

Hillsboro, Oregon

Horticultural Training

It’s hands on, at your site, on your customers’ properties, and in the shop training. Our training is based on sound scientific horticultural practices, learned through trial and error in our customers’ landscapes.

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Speaking Engagements: Keynotes, Workshops and Seminars

Dan Pestretto gives high energy, entertaining, informative and motivating presentations. They are heart, values, science and art based. His, speaking engagements for landscape business owners are informed by his over 35 years in the industry.
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"Articulate, well focused on his subject matter and generous with his time. Knowledge of the landscape/nursery industry is exceptional: furthermore, he breaks down the sales process in a way that is easy to digest."

DARRYL NEWMAN

Connecticut Nursery and Landscape Association President

Newtown, Connecticut