How is your company adapting to the COVID crisis? It's had some surprising impacts to the landscape market:
1)
Soaring Sales
- Stay-at-Home customers are completing landscape improvements and deferred maintenance. Contractors specializing in residential work are "booked full" and service techs are working overtime. Permanent "work-from-home" and "retirement cocooning" will keep this trend soaring.
2)
Employees Available?
- It's getting easier to find laborers as other industries experience cutbacks. Score candidates you're interviewing on values, skills and abilities to deliver results to make logical - not emotional - hiring decisions.
3)
Remote Irrigation Management Takes Off
- As consumers and contractors get more familiar with app-based technology, the move to WiFi-based controls has accelerated. Now systems can be checked and reprogrammed without going to the customer's property.
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4)
Paperless Technology Finally Embraced
- Software that allows contractors to dispatch workers remotely, to schedule appointments without office staff and to collect touch-less payments is finally taking off as teams proactively adapt to social distancing.
5)
Offer Your Customers More
- Contractors who offer a diverse menu of services are doing better than those who specialize. Add new products and services to "go deeper" in meeting all of your clients' needs.
The Team at Aqua-Flo Supply