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Future-Proofing Your Landscaping Business: Why Diversification Matters More Than Ever

Your landscaping business just got a warning signal. On September 21, 2025, the Trump administration hit H-1B visas with a huge fee increase. The cost jumped from about $4,500 to $100,000 per worker. That’s a 2,000% increase overnight. You might think this doesn’t affect you. H-1B visas are for tech companies hiring skilled foreign workers. But here’s the thing: if they can change H-1B fees this fast, what stops them from doing the same with H-2B visas? Why This May Matter to Landscaping Businesses Many landscaping companies depend on H-2B […]

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How Green Industry Business Owners Diversify and Scale Efficiently

How Do You Make Money All Year-round? What happens when your busy season ends? How do you grow without taking huge risks? These problems keep business owners awake at night. Your lawn care company might depend too much on summer work. Your landscaping business might struggle when construction slows down. Your pest control company might need more steady income. You’re not alone. Smart business owners know that adding different services helps reduce risk and makes money more steady. But most don’t know where to start. SpringGreen has been solving this […]

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How to Grow Your Green Industry Business To Sell

Think about why you started your business. Maybe you were 15 years old, mowing lawns for neighbors during the summer to raise money for your senior trip. Maybe you graduated from college and loved being outside so much you found a way to make it your job. Whatever your reasons were then, chances are you aren’t spending a ton of time mowing lawns or enjoying the outdoors these days. So what’s your “why” now? And do you have an exit strategy planned? These are all important questions to ask yourself […]

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Growing Your Green Industry Business: Know your Options and How to Evaluate Them

In the green industry, business owners often reach a pivotal point where they find themselves at the crossroads of deciding whether to maintain or grow their already blossoming business. The most ideal time to consider growing and expanding your business is when business is good and all signs point to a bright future. This will not only help expand your business when it’s booming but it’ll also provide relief when the economy cycles in the opposite direction. When you diversify, you’ll have more stability to handle economic ups and downs […]

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The Best New Year’s Resolutions for Small Business Owners

As a small business owner, it’s critical that you adopt New Year’s resolutions that’ll help thrust your business forward toward profitability and security. Create actionable and achievable resolutions so that you can enter the New Year with optimism and stamina. Incorporate these ideas into your New Year’s resolution to help take your business to new heights in 2022 and beyond: […]

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The Four Types of Diversification Strategies

As the workforce continues on a trend toward globalization and as competition becomes steeper than ever before, the need for a diversity strategy is transitioning from a “nice to have” to a necessity. Use this brief guide to help you unpack the four types of diversification and the strategies that align with each one.

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Social Recruiting: Is Facebook Your Best Tool To Recruit Employees?

The job market is becoming increasingly competitive. With unemployment rates the lowest they’ve been in decades, recruiting top quality candidates has become increasingly difficult for businesses in nearly all industries. Because of this challenge, along with the pervasiveness of social media in today’s society, businesses have found a new outlet to connect with potential new employees on Facebook. Facebook, with 2.41 billion users, offers vast potential as a channel to tap into candidates actively seeking employment as well as the harder-to-reach talent that isn’t looking but might consider making a […]

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Spring-Green Named as a Top 10 Franchise to Purchase in 2019 by Forbes

Forbes Magazine has named Spring-Green Lawn Care as one of the Top 10 Best Franchises of 2019 with an initial investment of under 150K. In an effort to give investors who are interested in purchasing a franchise a look into how different franchise’s line up against each other, the Forbes top ten franchise list is a great starting point for research on available opportunities. Forbes has commissioned FRANdata by applying a methodology which ranks franchise brands based on appeal and health. This is the fifth ranking that FRANdata has produced […]

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Spring-Green Lawn Care Welcomes Newest Franchise Owner Cory Benoit

Spring-Green Lawn Care, provider of residential and commercial lawn fertilization and weed control is proud to announce its newest franchise owner, Cory Benoit of Saline, Michigan. Benoit, a seasoned green industry expert, started mowing lawns at the age of 19 and by the time he was 25 years old he began his own business, Evergreen Maintenance. By adding Spring-Green, he will now be able to offer his customers lawn care services along with maintenance, snow removal, and more. Benoit has always considered himself an entrepreneur, but when his family began […]

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