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How to Use Environmental Product Declarations for Your Hardscape Business
Business Topics, Operations, Permeable, Product Knowledge, Sales & Marketing, Strategy & Planning
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Learn about the relevance of a product's carbon footprint to the environment, and how Unilock is utilizing the information from their Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
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Working with Your Unilock Territory Manager
Business Topics, Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Sales & Marketing, Strategy & Planning, Tools & Equipment, Uvision 3D Tutorials
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Working hard to keep their businesses running smoothly, landscape contractors are often forced to balance many roles throughout each day. When the heat is on and the season is at its busiest, the landscape construction industry can be demanding to say the least. Unilock Territory Managers help keep business operations moving smoothly. Let’s have a look at some of the contractor support services that Unilock offers day in and day out.
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The Three P’s of Attending a Unilock Contractor Advantage Seminar
Business Topics, Operations, Strategy & Planning
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Shortly after Unilock began manufacturing concrete paving stones and retaining wall systems nearly 50 years ago, we determined that offering contractor training was essential. Our Contractor Advantage Seminars were born from the deep respect we have for the manufacturer/installer partnership that is part of our DNA. So each and every year, we work hard to produce seminars that bring real value to our customers, as well as drive the overall industry forward. It’s not just something we do each year; it’s something we are determined to do better each year.
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Polymeric Sand and Sealers: Putting the finishing touch on your hardscape job, in style
Business Topics, Operations, Paver & Slab Installation, Product Knowledge
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Owners of landscaping businesses across the U.S. and Canada are often on the lookout for growth opportunities. But ambitious small-business owners can easily find themselves spending days (and nights) working to grow their business, taking precious hours away from day-to-day business operations and even personal and family time. Finding new ways to increase sales in the landscape industry with minimal additional work is not an easy task, but it may not be impossible.
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Keeping the Team on the Same Page with UVision
Business Topics, Human Resources, Operations, Tools & Equipment
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There’s no more efficient or productive machine than a crew that’s worked well together on multiple jobs. There’s a mutual understanding that forms — of work styles and of each individual’s strengths and weakness. A common language develops, making every subsequent job run more smoothly.
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Increasing Profits Effortlessly! Optimized Design, Optimized Base, and Optimized Crew
Business Topics, Finance, Operations
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If you feel like “optimizing your business” just sounds like more make-work, you may not be alone. Skilled landscape craftsmen, those who have built successful businesses and are ready to grow again, inevitably find themselves doing less of the work they love and more of the business tasks they don’t.
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Controlling Non-billable Time: What Makes Great Companies, Great.
Business Topics, Finance, Operations
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Non-billable time is one of those things that almost every company gets far too comfortable accepting as a necessary evil. It happens every single day, it’s easy to hide, and it’s necessary to the everyday mechanics of a business. It’s particularly insidious because it isn’t just limited to overhead staff. The time you spend estimating, accounting, fixing equipment, selling new work—none of it is passed to the customer. Unfortunately, that’s not even the worst of it.
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The Importance of a CRM for Landscape Contractors
Business Topics, Operations
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While a pocket notebook and an Excel spreadsheet may provide enough organization for the first few customers, the average landscape design/build business often gets overwhelmed with pools of data faster than is humanly manageable. Enter the CRM, or Customer Relationship Management system. This is a digital software system that is crucial for any successful landscape contracting company.
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Jobsite Layout
Business Topics, Operations
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This video provides a comprehensive walkthrough of how to layout a jobsite by transferring measurements from the design to the ground on the actual site.
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Contractors Turning to Open Graded Base Installations
Business Topics, Operations
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For decades, experts in the hardscape industry have recommended a particular process for the installation of interlocking concrete pavers. Specifically, it has been recommended that contractors use a compacted base conforming to ASTM D 2940. The terminology for this product — a mix of fines and angular stone up to +/- .75” in size — varies across regions and ranges from ‘Item 4’ to Crusher Run. Regardless of the name, for quite some time, this is how contractors performed the base installation.
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Making the Most of Bad Weather
Business Topics, Operations, Strategy & Planning
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Weather – it can make or break the progress of a job. The effects of weather can completely alter the course of a landscape construction project. It can impact employee management, material costs, equipment repair expenses, client relations – basically, anything involved in the construction process.
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Making the Most of the Off Season
Business Topics, Operations, Strategy & Planning
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Many landscaping companies schedule their winter seasons with snow removal operations as a way to ensure a year-round revenue stream. But what about all the days in between snow events or those businesses that choose not to offer snow and ice services? Regardless of how you choose to operate, there are a number of ways to utilize the winter months to better prepare your business for the fast approaching spring.
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