What would your business look like if you suddenly had to operate with 55% less revenue?
What if that was not even the most difficult challenge you would face?
We have added Kurt LaButte, co-founder of Todd’s Services Inc. (Hamburg, MI), to the speaker lineup for our Summer Growth Summit.
His presentation, “Growing Through Every Season,” is a story of entrepreneurship, devastating setbacks, rebuilding, leadership development, scaling to new heights, and succession.
Long before anyone called it a “daily huddle,” John D. Rockefeller had stumbled upon the value of the short daily meeting.
Rockefeller would walk to work with his brother and three key leaders every morning. During that walk, they discussed what was happening across the business, what decisions needed to be made, and where problems were beginning to surface.
He then walked home with the same group.
It was simple, consistent, and powerful.
As a consulting firm helping more than 120 landscape firms, we see AI moving well beyond basic writing and research.
(See below for 9 use cases.)
The most forward-thinking companies use AI not just to save time, but to think, coach, communicate, and execute faster and better.
That is why we are featuring an AI panel at our Summer Growth Summit. In preparing for it, I asked several panelists how they are actually using AI in their businesses.
Their answers…
10 Reasons to Visit Great Lakes Landscape Design
Here are ten standout reasons to meet Ivan Katz and visit his company, Great Lakes Landscape Design, in Oak Park, Michigan, outside of Detroit.
(They are co-hosting our upcoming Summer Growth Summit, Aug 18–20)
For some context: Ivan has been a longtime member of our community. He has spoken at past summits and hosted our Leader’s Edge peer group at his company last year.
This makes him exceptionally well positioned to give attendees an unforgettable educational experience.
To get to know Ivan even better, we recorded a fantastic 30-minute podcast with him last week. He shares raw truths about the challenges he faced growing his business and the lessons he has learned along the way.
Registration is now open for our 9th annual Summer Growth Summit at two leading Detroit-based companies, owned by Troy Clogg and Ivan Katz.
The “super” early bird registration discount ends May 8th.
This year’s theme is Building A Powerful Growth Engine.
In today’s economy, sales success doesn’t happen by working harder. Someone must own the responsibility of building the sales team — hiring, motivating, steering, and managing.
That person has the title of Sales Manager.
Sales management is a strange profession. You can’t study it in school. There are very few books on it. And many “sales managers” are your top salespeople straddling both worlds, perhaps pretending they enjoy managing.
For those committed to mastering this craft, here are seven practical, real-world principles drawn from our upcoming Sales Symposium (taking place March 10th, early bird ends in 16 days).
Coming off our recent Summer Growth Summit, many attendees told me this was our smoothest best event ever.
What makes an event (or job) go so smoothly?
Of course, it’s the content and people involved, both from our community and from Schill Grounds Management—but it’s also the planning behind the scenes.
At Jeffrey Scott Consulting, we invested heavily in pre-planning: detailed checklists, same-page meetings, dry runs, and early timelines so nothing was rushed.
This same planning principle applies directly to your business.
Registration is now open for our 8th annual Summer Growth Summit at Schill Grounds Management in Cleveland, OH
It takes place in August but we have a super early bird discount that ends April 24th.
NEW THIS YEAR:
We’ve expanded our event to include a third day!
Join us on Tuesday, ahead of the Summit, for an exclusive Pre-Event—an immersive day of education featuring insights from both Schill leadership and the Jeffrey Scott community.
This extra “Pre Event” is separately ticketed.
Register and details here.
For those who missed our blockbuster 7th annual Summer Growth Summit, here are a few nuggets for you to chew on and implement in your business.
1. #1 Priority. Until your #1 priority is recruiting, developing and retaining employees, you don’t have a #2.
This quote was relayed by the host, Larry Ryan, who has successfully scaled to over 80M without outside investment.
This week we are busy in KC, holding our 7th annual Summer Growth Summit, hosted by Ryan Lawn & Tree.
Next week we will be holding our first ever livestream on the topic of Maximizing Conversion from Design-Build to Maintenance.
It will be a Q&A, moderated by Kelly Dowell.
We have already collected 20 burning questions related to this topic that we will tackle.
Please join us August 28th, 1pm ET, using the link below. It’s complimentary.
