You’re going to leave this workshop with: An operating budget built with your number s, for your company. laptop with wireless network card (free internet access is provided). Events budget caterpillar event landscape management network lmn nebraska nmc nnla omaha profit workshopLMN’s Business Management Workshop comes to Omaha, NB thanks to the NNLA, NMC, and Watkins Block. The hottest business workshop in the North American green industry is making 1 stop this winter in Nebraska – don’t miss out!!! Want to know more? When ? What Time? Where? MORE >>

Start Every Year From a Budget. The vast majority of small businesses, including landscape businesses, don’t use a budget. Check the success rates of small businesses who have a written budget and there’s a big difference between those businesses and their non-budgeting peers. A budget is plan for profit. A budget can make this all much more clear. One of the biggest advantages of a budget is that it also  clearly separates overhead costs from job costs. More on that a little later…   More on budgeting here: 2. MORE >>

If you’re using Landscape Management Network’s budgeting and estimating software, you’ve already got the ability to spell-check your estimates… but you might not be using them. Landscape Management Network is budgeting and estimating software for landscape contractors that ensures your jobs and estimates cover your specific costs, your overhead and the profit you want to earn. Spell-checking your work can and will make a difference in the eyes of your customer. Accuracy and professionalism aren’t very important. We rush our work. MORE >>

Join Landscape Management Network is proud to be part of Atlantic Canada’s premier horticultural tradeshow event. This year, we’ll be handing out free trials of LMN’s budgeting and estimating software – the most talked about estimating and business management software in the landscape industry. Title: HortEast Tradeshow (Moncton, NB). Location: Moncton Coliseum Complex, Moncton, NB. Start Date: 2011-11-21. End Date: 2011-11-23. We’ll be at Booth #129 during the show. Stop in to see us! We all see the waste and mistakes in our operations every day. MORE >>

A big advantage of working from a budget is the ability to check on your progress as the year is progressing. If you’re running from a budget, this is good news! So Check Your Progress As You Go… Your budget gives you the information you need to measure your progress and react to your business as things happen instead of after things happen.  Now add those two numbers together (revenue collected + revenue sold, but not collected) and compare to your budgeted sales goals. Your operating budget is the key to all these numbers.  MORE >>