Things to consider before starting your tree care business
A business plan is the roadmap to your business’ success. It outlines your goals and details how you plan to achieve those goals. Use your business plan as a tool to help you outline action items, next steps, future activities and equipment purchases.
Insurance coverage is a necessary part of business overhead, especially in the tree care industry. All tree care businesses should be covered with general liability, commercial automobile, workers’ compensation, inland marine, umbrella and property policies.
The owner or employer is ultimately responsible for providing the education and training their team needs to be safe, productive and successful. The employer has a vested interest in giving employees an opportunity to learn and develop new skills, because it leads to a safe and productive work environment. And what owner doesn’t want that?
Preseason maintenance is vital to the performance of your tree care equipment. After sitting idle in storage during the winter months, it’s time to get your brush chippers, stump cutters, grinders, mini skid steers and other equipment geared up for the upcoming season.
The need for a solid business plan is fundamental for more reasons than financing. That document will help the owner understand why he or she is starting a new business and how he or she is going to do it.
People turn to sites like Yelp and Google when researching a business because they are free to use and provide peer reviews people may count on as a valuable tool in their decision process. It’s apparent online reviews are growing in importance and relevancy — owning your online reputation is crucial to reputation and success of your business.
The U.S. tree care industry entered 2016 on strong footing. Read to learn more about tree care trends from the rise of technology to continuing challenges in finding qualified labor.
When it comes to bidding jobs, many tree care contractors want to be like Goldilocks. They hope their estimates are not too big and not too small, but just right. Here are five tips on how to explain to potential customers that the low bid is not always the best bid.
Every company wants to have the best employees. Bob Rouse, chief program officer at TCIA, provides 5 secrets to finding and hiring good employees for your company.
At TCI EXPO, our goal is to help tree care contractors continue to learn valuable lessons from their peers throughout the year. Learn about all the exciting things happening at the event.