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Scaling Through Partnership and People Justin Martin & Derek Stutts
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Work Less, Profit More Scott Hutcheon
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Marketing Systems That Convert Doug Sirkoch
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Sales Leadership That Scales Neal Glatt
Shape your vision, strategize, and build a strong team for increased valuation and growth
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Justin Martin is the CEO of Granite Hills Group, a rapidly growing commercial landscape platform serving the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Since joining Granite Hills in 2020, he has helped lead […]
Scott Hutcheon is a landscape architect, entrepreneur, and technology innovator with more than 25 years in design/build construction, green infrastructure, and landscape systems engineering. After founding one of Southern California’s […]
How to improve your brand and improve your company awareness.
Doug Sirkoch is the Marketing Manager at UpRoute, a marketing agency focused on helping green industry businesses grow through paid advertising. At UpRoute, the team goes beyond advertising by using […]
Brothers Kurt and Matt Bland grew up in an entrepreneurial household as the children of Tom and Nancy Bland in Apex, North Carolina. As founders of Bland Landscaping Company (ca. 1976), at an early age Tom and Nancy exposed Kurt and Matt to the successes and the challenges of running a family business. As young men, the boys worked in every aspect of the homegrown business from field work to estimating and financial planning. Through the late 1980’s, 1990’s and early 2000’s industry icons like Frank Ross, Kevin Kehoe, and Bruce Wilson were regular consultants for the Bland family. Exposure to these industry influencers afforded both Kurt and Matt the opportunity to explore new and forward-thinking ideas about the landscaping industry, at a time when industry maturity and consolidation was still spoken about in a future tense.
