Each week, Spring-Green’s lawn care expert, Harold Enger, publishes lawn care tips on Spring-Green’s Ask the Expert blog. This week’s feature is all about getting ready for the Fall. Fall lawn care is an important part of ensuring your lawn is healthy and beautiful season after season. Below find tips on the best ways to care for a lawn in the fall, specific to northern and southern regions. Northern Areas Aerate your lawn Fall is the time when a lawn naturally repairs itself from the ravages of summer stresses. You […]
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Franchisee Profile—Ben Whitehouse
Ben Whitehouse joined the Spring-Green family earlier this year as part of our Green Industry Franchise Program. Like many soon-to-be franchisees, Whitehouse had a corporate business background and became interested in his own lawn care business from a desire to build something of his own. Ben and a friend started Whitehouse Lawns in 1998, but after 12 years in business, decided he needed further support to grow the way he wanted. That’s when he discovered Spring-Green. “I wanted to scale out my business more than I’ve been able to do […]
How We Set You Up for Success
Among the most important tools any new business owner is armed with is knowledge. Spring-Green Lawn Care takes pride in the exceptional standard of service its many franchisees provide to their community and consider every new owner to be an investment. In order to make sure franchisees are starting in the best place possible, Spring-Green gives every new owner support through our Manager Training Program. The training program is a two-pronged approach to new owner support: initial start-up support and ongoing operational support. We know there are many facets of a […]
Spring-Green Lawn Care Wishes You a Happy Labor Day!
Spring-Green Lawn Care wishes all of its customers—and our support center employees—a very happy Labor Day. Did you know the Labor Day holiday was first created at the turn of the 20th century in order to recognize the social and economic contributions of American workers to all our lives, every day? All of us at Spring-Green not only appreciate all those contributions, but are proud to make them ourselves. Our franchise owners, employees and the communities we serve know how hard we work, and how proud we are of what we […]
It’s back to school time at Spring-Green Lawn Care
Many of us in the Spring-Green family have already sent our kids off to school. For many parents, the new school year means hectic days of transporting the kids to school and extracurricular activities. On top of the normal every day schedules, working parents often have to scramble on shortened school days, holidays and institute days. Having the flexibility to adjust to changing schedules is one of the best parts of being a Spring-Green owner according to many of our franchisees. Work in the field can be done around a […]
Spring-Green adds three new green industry franchisees
Please join us in welcoming three strong additions to the Spring-Green family: Frank Garrett, Barry Robinson and Chad Shaylor. We’re really excited to have these seasoned green industry entrepreneurs with us. Two of the three (the third, Chad, purchased an existing business) signed-on using the Green Associate Assistance Program, which applies $10,000 of their initial franchise fee toward approved start-up expenses. The roll-in portion of the program was designed for candidates who own independent green industry businesses and want to convert the professional lawn and tree care services portion of […]
Spring-Green Presents Prestigious Founders Award
After an amazing weekend at our National Training Conference last weekend, our franchise owners are back home beautifying lawns in their local communities. Virginia-based Charlie Marshall’s suitcase was a little heavier upon his return since he was presented with the prestigious Founders Award at the conference. This esteemed award is the highest form of recognition a franchisee can receive as a member of the Spring-Green franchise system. Marshall was chosen from a national network of franchise owners. “The National Training Conference celebrates the success of our company and allows us […]
Spring-Green’s National Training Conference
From Wednesday, August 7 through Saturday, August 10, over 200 Spring-Green franchisees, support center employees, strategic partners and all of their families gathered in Chicago, IL for Spring-Green’s National Training Conference. The theme, Building for Profit, speaks to Spring-Green’s dedication and desire to accelerate the journey to desired success. The ideas generated from the conference are the building blocks to growing individual franchises and increasing profitability to support franchisees goals and dreams. And it’s the individual goals and dreams that fuel the long term successes of the entire Spring-Green organization. […]
Spring-Green Lawn Care to Host National Training Conference
Spring-Green Lawn Care will host the 2013-14 National Training Conference (NTC) August 7-9 at the Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, Ill. The theme of the conference is “Building for Profit” and franchise owners from 26 states as well as employees and vendors will be in attendance. “This event is designed to provide franchise owners with information and actionable ideas to profitably build their businesses,” said president James Young. “The ideas presented at this conference are the building blocks to increasing profitability, allowing franchise owners the opportunity to reach their goals and […]
Lawn fertilization and weed control from Spring-Green
Lawn fertilization and weed control, sometimes called “weed and feed,” is Spring-Green’s most popular lawn service. Each new year, Spring-Green franchisees and field service professionals (FSPs) assess clients’ lawns and provide individualized lawn care programs based on what’s needed most. During the evaluations, we often find new and current customers that have been doing an impeccable job maintaining their own lawns (watering when needed and regularly checking for possible problem areas), but there are others who may have let their yard go for years and need a more intense program […]