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How a SpringGreen Franchise Partnership Gives You the Tools (and Time) to Grow Smarter

You started your green industry business because you love the work. You know how to make lawns healthy. You understand landscaping. You’re good with customers. But now you spend most of your time doing paperwork. Scheduling crews. Chasing payments. Handling complaints. Local marketing. The list truly never ends. You’re working harder than ever, but your business isn’t growing the way you want. You’re stuck working IN your business instead of working ON your business. Sound familiar? This is where SpringGreen partnership changes everything. Since 1977, we’ve helped green industry professionals […]

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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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Spring-Green at the GIE+Expo

It’s October, which means it’s time to start thinking about the Green Industry and Equipment Expo (GIE+Expo). Each year, the Expo serves as the industry’s introduction to a score of innovative new lawn care products and services, with over 700 exhibitors attending in 2014. This year’s expo will take place from Wednesday, October 22 through Friday, October 24 with access to all industry participants beginning on Thursday, October 23 starting at 9:00 AM. The Expo will be held at the KY Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky. If you haven’t registered for […]

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Spring-Green Lawn Care Announces All-New Website

Autumn may be approaching, but at Spring-Green Lawn Care new ideas continue to bloom. Today, Spring-Green is pleased to announce a number of additions to the company’s all-new website that will benefit visitors by providing a streamlined, smoother interface, a deeper wellspring of lawn care knowledge and an overall ability to tailor the website to a user’s nearest Spring-Green location to provide customized offers. Users who visit Spring-Green.com will notice a breadth of new content to educate users on lawn care ranging from videos to detailed how-to guides. All visitors […]

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Spring-Green Makes Military Times Best For Vets Franchise List

Spring-Green Lawn Care is honored to be recognized by Military Times for the company’s commitment to America’s veterans and their spouses. Spring-Green appears on Military Times’ 2014-2015 Best for Vets: Franchises List, which was published in the September 2014 issue of Military Times EDGE magazine. The list, which was formed after assessing the results of a 110-question survey given to franchises, considers each company’s efforts in helping veterans achieving success with their business. Criteria include financial incentives offered to veterans, brand performance, and policies which cater to those who have […]

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Whitehouse Lawns: At a Crossroads

For Ben Whitehouse, the lawn care business he built with his own two hands was enjoying great success. He had recently acquired a competitor, increasing business and doubling his revenues. For Whitehouse, the future looked bright. Yet with his success came a realization: as his business increased, so too did his amount of time and effort invested in building his company. Not happy with that realization, with it came his change of heart that had until recently told him to ignore the call to become a franchise. Through Spring-Green, Whitehouse […]

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Spring-Green Lawn Care: Building on Success

Owning a small business is hard work, particularly when it’s a family one. You have to find a balance between staying true to the core principles of your business and keep it under your family’s control, while still recognizing the value of growth and in staying competitive with rival companies. That’s where Spring-Green came up to bat for Chris and Shelia Casselberry, owners of GreenSeasons in Baton Rouge. Not content with the success of their existing business, the Casselberry family leveraged Spring-Green to secure their long-term growth potential through diversification […]

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Spring-Green Profiled in Turf Magazine

Turf Magazine, the comprehensive publication on all things related to lawn care, recently featured Spring-Green Lawn Care in a three-part series about franchising. Part one, released in April, focused on the top franchisors in lawn care and their programs to seek out independents in the industry that are already performing services that can be enhanced by adding the Spring-Green Lawn Care model to their own brands. This program is called the Green Associate Roll-In Program. James Young, president of Spring-Green, is creating new opportunities for would-be franchisees and a conversion […]

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Happy Mother’s Day from Spring-Green Lawn Care

We could do a contest on this post telling readers to send in their response to “Who created Mother’s Day?” But that’s not fair in this age and time, because our readers can Google that fact just like we did. There are some discrepancies. Some say it was Woodrow Wilson who declared in 1914, that we put aside a day to honor our mothers. He made a presidential proclamation and everything! Others say that a lady names Julia Ward Howe thought the holiday up way before Wilson, in 1872. Still […]

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Mosquito Week!

Every year Shark Week raises awareness for the most feared creature of the sea, but fewer than a dozen people a year actually die from shark attacks. Surprisingly enough, the animal that kills more than 725,000 people a year is the mosquito. This is why philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates is calling attention to the deadly insect by naming this week Mosquito Week on his blog. Despite their tiny size, mosquitoes carry devastating diseases including dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis and malaria to name a few. They can be found […]

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