Brothers form consulting partnership to help smaller landscape firms
20 Jun, 2011 By: Ron Hall Landscape ManagementSTRONGSVILLE, OH — Landscape company owners and brothers Steve and Jeff Rak say it’s time for them to give back to the industry. They’re partnering in Rak Consulting LLC, a service to help owners of smaller landscape companies achieve greater efficiency, increase sales and realize higher profits.
Steve says one of the new venture's main goals will be to help growing landscape companies implement processes and systems. This will allow owners to work “on” their businesses rather than being tasked with every small detail of their firms’ operations.
“One of our goals is to show owners how get back their time so they can focus their energies in building their businesses,” says Steve.
The brothers, who run separate non-competing landscape businesses in northeast Ohio, are offering a “tag-team” approach. They will be sharing their experiences and knowledge, Steve in landscape management and Jeff with design/build services.
Steve operates Southwest Landscape Management, which specializes in landscape management. Jeff is president of Land Creations Landscaping, an award-winning design/build firm. While the companies are owned and operated independently, they share the same modern headquarters just southwest of Cleveland.
“Our primary focus is working with companies doing less than $1 million a year,” Steve tells Landscape Management. “We’ve been in the landscape business for 20 years each. We’ve learned a lot as we built our businesses to that level. We want to share our experiences and knowledge so we can help the owners of smaller companies reach their goals and have more fun doing it.”
Contact Jeff at jeff@landcreationslandscaping.com and Steve at steve@sw-landscape.com or call 440/748-6000.
(Above, Jeff Rak, Land Creations Landscaping; below, Steve Rak of Southwest Landscape Management)
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