Standing out from the competition and selling more pools requires an effective and scalable digital marketing strategy that encourages potential customers to set their hearts on a custom pool built by your firm in their backyards—but how is that achieved?

Our living spaces, indoors and out, form the backdrop for our lives. A quick look at the home goods and interior decorating market demonstrates the mass potential to expand this trend into the outdoor living space. The relatively new field of exterior design offers the opportunity for landscape businesses to scale by providing expertise and services to an underserved market with high demand.

Leading commercial landscaping companies consistently look for ways to improve their businesses—it’s a practice that has gotten them where they are. Today, more often than not, they’re finding success by leveraging technology, getting more creative in their business development efforts, and eliminating inefficiencies.

While the world has become more digital than ever before, there are many aspects of the landscaping industry that still depend on meaningful offline business relationships. Dealers are in a position where they interact with numerous manufacturers, designers, installers, local contractors, and homeowners on a daily basis.

With the highly competitive state of the landscape industry today, you know that your company is just one of many that a prospect is scoping out. Knowing how to stand apart from your competition is essential, and it takes an intentional effort to develop a strategy.

Leading landscape firms—both those with commercial and residential focuses—prioritize professional photo shoots every year because they experience firsthand the incredible positive impact it makes on their business. Our team pulled together this 101 to address some of the common concerns we hear from landscape professionals.

Undoubtedly, anyone in the landscape industry could learn something from a landscape contractor that has been in business for over 80 years, especially when it’s a company that is ranked number one on Lawn & Landscape’s 2021 Top 100 list based on revenue. So how exactly is BrightView getting these outstanding results? We’ve identified four key strategies that have led to their massive success.

Prospects today are far more informed and empowered than those of the past, and the buying process has completely changed. This is true for every industry, and landscape construction is no exception. Here are a few key areas of our industry that have changed dramatically.

Once you’ve mastered the foundational sales techniques, you’re ready to uplevel your sales game. Technology can be used to streamline your processes and provide better insight into your company’s performance–both online and offline.

These cloud-based construction, landscaping, and pool builder software solutions can help you optimize processes and increase efficiency throughout your entire organization, allowing you to serve a higher number of clients or customers and dramatically increase profitability—without adding additional team members and incurring extra payroll expenses.

If your design/build or landscaping company seems to be struggling as of late with handling communications with existing and potential customers, you may have been advised to invest in a CRM tool or system that will help you streamline the customer relations management process.

Every design/build needs to maximize revenue and productivity in order to thrive and grow. Competition is steep and only getting steeper, and client expectations require staying ahead of technology for those firms looking to overdeliver. Online appointment scheduling helps streamline processes and improve client experience.