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Financial Strategies for Tree Care Businesses

  • tree care digital marketing
    January 6, 2025

    Grow Your Own Business’s Digital Landscape

    By Brian LeDonne

    In the tree-service industry, particularly for TCIA members, the challenges of managing a successful business extend beyond physical labor and service quality. The digital landscape can feel overwhelming, with countless tools and platforms that demand your time and attention. [...]

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  • Climbing Into Profitability
    January 1, 2025

    The SRS Approach to Climbing Into Profitability

    By Edward Morrow

    This image is from the cover of the author's latest book, “Climb: 5 Supercharged Lessons to Elevate Your Arborist Career & Enhance the Urban Forest.” Image courtesy of the author. You’ve either read about it or experienced [...]

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  • “Having telematics is great, but managing the data it provides is the most important thing,” says Rory Anderson. TCIA file photo courtesy of ClearWay Industries LLC, a utility-contractor accredited, nine-year TCIA member company based in Glenwood, New Jersey.
    September 15, 2024

    Incorporating Fleet Telematics: Pros and Pitfalls

    By Don Staruk

    Telematics is a tool that may help lower insurance premiums, as well as address other fleet-related issues and expenses, but only if used in conjunction with company policies and programs that encourage or enforce better driving habits. And if not [...]

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  • Tree Pros Inc., an accredited, 17-year TCIA member company based in Chino, California, is one of several TCIA member companies taking advantage of TCIA’s Multiple Employer Aggregate 401(k) Program. Photo courtesy of Tree Pros Inc.
    September 8, 2024

    Strength in Numbers: TCIA’s 401(k) Program Benefits Tree Care Companies and Their Employees

    By Tracey Miller

    When Jeff Gillis, president of WellTree Inc. – a 23-year TCIA member company based in Brunswick, Maine – first considered offering his employees a 401(k) program, he was daunted by the potential administrative burden and cost. With a small [...]

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  • September 6, 2024

    We Are All in Sales

    By Eric Petersen

    Everyone in your organization is in sales. There, I said it. Don’t agree with me? Keep reading, and let’s see if I can change your mind. To start, I want you to reflect on a recent experience you’ve personally [...]

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