Critical Success Factors For Landscape Contractors

October 7, 2020 12:00 pm
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Don Winsett

VICE PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY

To run a successful business every business owner knows to write a business plan, manage the bottom line, make marketing work, cultivate referrals and build a solid team.
 
Those practices are true for just about every business. 
 
However, the landscape business, with labor issues, dealing with living things (plants and people) and a competitive environment that tends to drive pricing down while customs demand premium service is unique. There are many landscape contractors getting by and a few who figured out how to make the business rewarding both personally and financially for their teams. 
 
Don Winsett, Vice President of National Business Development for The Davey Tree Expert Company is a serial entrepreneur who founded, led and sold several successful businesses, including a $20 million grounds maintenance company.  He is a 30 year veteran of the green services industry and a pacesetting though leader. Don honed his operational, leadership and sales skills at ValleyCrest and Brickman (now BrightView) landscape companies. In this webinar Don generously shares several critical success factors specific to the landscape business. 
 
If you are in the landscape business or have customers who are, you don’t want miss this opportunity to learn from one of the industries best leaders.  
Don Winsett

VICE PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY

Don is a 30-year veteran of the green services industry and a pacesetting thought leader. He’s an oft-quoted industry expert and a frequent speaker on tree maintenance, storm readiness, irrigation management, and landscape industry success.

For the past six years, Don has led Davey’s business development team through a visionary growth plan, connecting the Company’s research-based best practices with customer experience innovation, exponentially expanding Davey’s already-impressive client portfolio.

In addition to being a serial entrepreneur who founded, led and sold several successful businesses, including a $20 million grounds maintenance company, Don honed his operational, leadership and sales skills at ValleyCrest and Brickman (now BrightView).

His passion and dedication to the industry is best exemplified by active leadership involvement in the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). He’s a former president of ISA’s Florida Chapter, and the seven-year Chair of the U.S. Forest Service Sustainable Urban Forest Coalition.

The Davey Tree Expert Company’s more than 9,000 employees provide tree care, grounds maintenance and environmental consulting services for the residential, utility, commercial and government markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. Davey has provided Proven Solutions for a Growing World since 1880 and has been employee-owned since 1979. For more information, visit www.davey.com.

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