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Frustrated With Your Systems
May 2017 -- The landscape season is in full boom mode all over North America. You've planned for this. You spent the latter part of last year and the early part of this year getting ready for it. What you have planned for is here upon you and your team, working the...
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15 Surefire Ways to Boost Productivity
This 3-part webinar series is going to dive deep into some real ways that you can save time through the course of creating a landscape plan for presentation, quickly and easily creating a plant picture catalog, generating takeoffs, having an internal communication...
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Ultimate Webinar Series for the Serious Landscape Designer
The team at DynaSCAPE Software has partnered with Patrick DuChene of DuChene Design Solutions to bring you a webinar series to help you maximize the Ultimate Landscape Design Software Solutions! In this webinar series, you’ll see how easy it is to transition from...
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The APLD Conference Experience
I thought I would share my experience of travelling to Santa Fe, NM for the Association of Professional Landscape Designers' annual conference. I've been going to the APLD conference for four years now with each experience being better than the last, making great...
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Stick to your core values
Sticking to your core values is what makes you great, regardless of what your competition is doing. Far too often we worry about what others are doing and it causes us to veer away from our original plan. Sure, we need to be keenly aware of our surroundings and what...
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Skills Ontario Technological Competition 2016
Landscape horticulture students from all over Ontario showed off their tremendous talents at the Skills Ontario Technological Competition this week in Waterloo, Ontario Canada. Several teams from high schools and colleges in Ontario competed in landscape design and...
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NLAE Conference Comes to Toronto
Every year all of the Executive Directors of many of the state and provincial landscape industry trade associations meet and discuss common issues. This year, the group is meeting in Toronto, Ontario Canada and started their first day by hearing from the leading edge...
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Technology is replacing the pencil
Written by Patrick DuChene, DuChene Design Solutions This project was a revolutionary breakthrough in the DuChene Design Solutions workflow. Workflow is such a crucial aspect of the design, estimating and presentation process and I am always looking at new ways to...
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10 Traits of a Great Sales Person
In Grant Cardone’s book, Sell or Be Sold he talks about 10 Traits of a Great Sales Person. 1. Is willing to be told no. “Can’t make the shot you never take,” said Wayne Gretzky. To be a great salesperson you have to be willing to be told no and then allow people to...
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Benefits of Landscape Design Software
Design software can save you time, give you more flexibility and increase your sales. So why aren't you using it? No one likes change, but, like death and taxes, it’s one thing you can count on in life. You can’t stop it, so why fight it, right? But fear of...
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Choosing the right software solution
With so many solutions available to you, it's tough to determine where to start when considering your options. How do you narrow the field make the best decision possible? This webinar will focus completely on your process and walk you through how to choose the right...
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Case Study – Earth Turf Wood – Accuracy
Case Study: How Earth, Turf, & Wood estimated and managed a 6-month-long backyard paradise project, accurately and profitably Company President, Jarod Hynson, says that DynaSCAPE Manage360 was the tool they needed to handle such an ambitious project and keep it in...
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Bright Future for Landscape Industry
National Collegiate Landscape Competition at Mississippi State University sees over 750 students from 62 schools! If there ever was any indication on what the future professionals look like this is it. The National Collegiate Landscape Competition took place March...
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Protected: Webinar Series: The Ultimate Landscape Design Build Sales Process
Webinar 1: Managing the Initial Meeting Held - February 10, 2016 - 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST If you don't have a well defined process for your initial consultation, you're already working at a disadvantage. The sole purpose of this meeting is to sell the design fee....
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Webinar: Designing for Profitability
In this webinar, Designing for Profitability, Patrick DuChene of DuChene Design Solutions (www.duchenedesignsolutions.com), covered: Optimal design studios to maximize comfortability The best computer specifications, reviewing time tracking tools, demonstrating studio...
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