As a professional arborist, I know you spend a lot of time at conferences.🌲These events can be time consuming and expensive, however, they are invaluable to your business. Read more for 7 tips to maximize your time and investment at tree care conferences👉bit.ly/36ZLEaf

Raise your hand if you dread creating an annual business plan🙋‍♂️We've all heard Benjamin Franklin's famous quote, "failing to plan is planning to fail", but actually taking the time to do an annual plan is more difficult than it seems. Read more👉bit.ly/2Nyo3G4

With any social media platform, your goal should be to create a community of followers, people who are comfortable engaging and working with each other and you! Growing this community can be tough; check out Social Media Today's article on tips for this! socialmediatoday.com/news/11-ways-t…

With all of the attention that COVID-19 is getting, many tree service owners have asked us if they can be held responsible in any way if their employees or customers were to become infected.🌳Learn if coronavirus can lead to a Work Comp claim 👉 bit.ly/33hNFgI Stay safe!

LEARN HOW TO KEEP YOUR CREW SAFE DURING CORONAVIRUS! Unfortunately, many arborists are not that concerned with contracting the virus because they work outside and do not have much exposure to other people. This can be a very dangerous attitude to take👉bit.ly/3deQzrq

Last week we looked at safety strategies to help individual team members prevent contracting the coronavirus.🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️ Today, we are sharing business management tactics that can help insulate your business during a pandemic. Read more👉bit.ly/2JeJfyb

A large exposures your field workers have to contracting a communicable disease is spending time in the same vehicle with someone. Many tree services are allowing employees to drive personal cars & trucks at work. What liabilities are associated with this? bit.ly/39yZTmW

To say there are some extraordinary distractions going on right now would be an understatement. One of the main causes for accidents is lack of attention. Here are a few tips to help your employee’s maintain focus: bit.ly/3e2Le72

This pandemic is certain to change the way we do things going forward. We’ve been talking about cyber exposures for a number of years now - misinformation, a phishing email from your businesses email, etc. Here are 5 tips on how you can limit attacks: bit.ly/34FBXNY

During the Great Depression, Kellog's Cereal's strategy propelled them to record profit increases and positioned them at the top of the pre-packaged cereal world. Here are 3 tips for marketing your business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more: bit.ly/3czcqbR

Anyone else ready to go back to life the way it was before the Coronavirus pandemic?🙋‍♂️But, as you’ve heard from other people, please be smart about reopening your business. Click here for what tree services need to consider when bringing back employees👉bit.ly/2VSFSUy

Many tree services are starting to catch up on their work backlogs & are experiencing a decrease in new business. With less workload, managing cash flow can be make or break. Learn how to improve cash flow by focusing on your worker’s comp policy: bit.ly/3foV6so

In this time of Social Distancing, you may be contemplating how to obtain your CEUs. Webinars are a great way to educate yourself and earn CEUs. Here are some rules for being courteous when attending an online meeting👉bit.ly/3buzZSk

JOIN US for a STUMP GRINDER OPERATIONS & SAFETY ZOOMINAR🌳 Presented by Streamside Green & Victorian Gardens REGISTER: conta.cc/35X9cwC DATE: Wed, 5/20/2020 TIME: 1:00pm - 4:15pm CT COST: $40/person INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Thierbach, BCMA, Utility Specialist, CTSP, RCA

Remember the story of The Grasshopper and the Ant? The moral: those who do not plan for the long term will not succeed in the long term. A key difference of businesses that have survived is the practice of building/maintaining a cash reserve. Read more👉bit.ly/2zlOV8b

A positive during this pandemic is with the record number of unemployed people, your recruiting efforts may have gotten easier. That said, times of high unemployment does not mean that hiring will be easier. Learn how to establish a hiring procedure👉bit.ly/2zsqmGV

No matter how great you are at following the 5 step process to risk management & limiting exposures, it is likely you’ll need to fall back on insurance at least once. Read on for 4 key things to look for when navigating through your policy👉 bit.ly/2ziLwqC