Senske Lawn & Tree Care acquired the assets of LawnTech, a lawn and tree care and pest control provider based in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Senske ranks No. 71 on the 2018 LM150 list, with $27.88 million in 2017 annual revenue. LawnTech is a specialist for tree care, lawn care, pest control, pruning and landscaping. Services will continue uninterrupted by the current... read more
Senske Lawn & Tree Care acquired the assets of Turf’s Up!, a lawn and tree care provider based in Lake Stevens, Wash. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Senske’s reputation precedes itself as an outstanding company that prides itself in professionalism and the work that it does,” said Turf Up! Manager and Owner Dave Zimmerman.“Both companies share a ‘customer first’... read more
Senske Lawn & Tree Care was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on April 22 as part of the “headlines” sketch where viewers submit newspaper headlines, signs and printed materials with spelling errors or other mistakes or sentence structures that make them funny. Senske Lawn & Tree Care’s now-famous pruning promo piece. The punchline in the Senske... read more
In August, our TV died. Initially, we looked for a replacement. We went to Sears and picked out a new Sony that was on sale. But the store manager gave us a hard time about their sale applying to that particular television, so we walked away. Instead, we took our itty bitty 19-inch, 20-year-old RCA from the basement and put... read more
Loving the industry used to be enough. Now more than ever, ‘you have to have business sense, too.’ Where does the landscape marketplace fall short most today? “Bidding, billing and paperwork,” explains the president of Chicago’s Christy Webber Landscapes. “We’re not savvy businesspeople.” The numbers don’t lie. Only 56% of landscape business owners prepared a 2010 budget (which is... read more
Landscapers avoid frivolous spending and focus on efficiency and vendor relations. When it came to keeping crews outfitted with the right equipment to get the job done in 2010, landscapers on average maintained last year’s spending. The National Federation of Independent Business calls it being in “maintenance mode,” replacing vehicles or equipment only as needed. To carry this out,... read more
