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PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Artificial Turf - A Hot New Product for Landscape Contractors A hot new trend for homeowners, and for landscape contractors looking to supply the demand coming from homeowners, is artificial turf, also called artificial grass or synthetic grass. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Contractor Marketing--Professional Contacts This article is part of a series on marketing for contractors. By “professional contacts” I mean other contractors of your type, general contractors, and specialty contractors. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Contractor Marketing - On the Web A website is a great, inexpensive way to create visibility for your company. There are many people (85% by a recent study) that use the internet to do their research when shopping for something. If you don’t have a website, chances are you are missing out on business. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Contractor Marketing - Business Cards & Flyers This article is one of a series on marketing for contractors, though many of these concepts can be effectively applied to other types of small businesses. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Ideas on How Contractors Can Warm up Their Cold Prospects Pop-By gifts are thoughtful, useful, and creative. They will be appreciated and leave you on the forefront of your clients mind. Have your name and phone number on the pop-by gift so they can easily find your information and send referrals to you! PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Using Referrals to Promote Your Contracting Business You are doing two things all the time when marketing a contracting business: you are picking the low hanging fruit and ripening up the green fruit. You are responding to the hot prospects and you are constantly warming up cold ones in your sales hopper, so that they will be ready to buy soon. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Marketing for Contractors - Who's in Your Hopper? Your hopper or database is a real thing, and extremely valuable. It's a simple index card in a cheap box or a computer database such as Access or Goldmine. If you were able to add five new names a day you will hit pay dirt. After a year you would have 5 times 365 days or 1825 names to contact. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Effective Marketing for Contractors Why does one contractor have work and another does not? Why does one company succeed and another does not? Why does one salesman always seem to sell more than another? PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: The Pacific Outdoor Living Certified Contractor Program The Pacific Outdoor Living Certified Contractor Program is a program whereby paving stone and pond installation contractors in the greater Los Angeles area can receive regular paving stone and/or pond jobs. The contractor is certified as meeting the quality standards for Pacific Outdoor Living. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Pondless Waterfalls Waterfalls are one of the most beautiful and spectacular sights in nature. People travel hundreds or thousands of miles to see the awesome sight of one of the world’s mighty waterfalls. But even smaller waterfalls are relaxing and give one a feeling of tranquility and connection with nature. PacificPavingstone.com: Top Ten Reasons to Choose Paving Stones We’re going to count down the top 10 reasons for choosing paving stones over other types of paving materials, for your driveway, patio, pool deck or walkway. Here we go. PacificOutdoorLivingPro.com: Building a Pond in a Day! A lot of small landscape companies work all month and after paying themselves a good wage they only have $4,000 to $5,000 in profits left over. If that was the case for you, and you then put in one pond on the last day of the month you could double your profits for the month! PacificPavingstone.com: Driveway Pavers - Mortarless Interlocking Paving Stones Paving stones come in dozens of different shapes, sizes, textures and colors. Paving stones are also commonly referred to as pavers, pave stones, and interlocking paving stones. Each paving stone project can be customized to create exactly the type of effect that you want to create. There's No Such Thing as the Real World To borrow a line from songwriter John Mayer, what if you discovered that “there’s no such thing as the real world,” and that there was something better on the other side? The other side that I’m referring to is the completely natural world of water gardening. Propondswest.com: Teaching Contractors the Profitable Water Garden Business The installation of pond equipment and the building of backyard ponds, streams and waterfalls are booming in America. Homeowners love that they can find peace, tranquility and relaxation, creating a piece of nature in their own backyards with a natural looking, easy to maintain water feature. ProPondsWest.com: Are We in a Recession? The U.S. economy is now in the sixth year of the fourth longest economic recovery of the past century. And “experts” say the decline is coming if not already well under way. PacificPavingstone.com: Choosing the Right Paving Stone Colors You have decided to pave your driveway, patio, pool deck or walkway with interlocking paving stones, and have picked out a pattern. You are now ready to choose colors for the paving stones. PacificPavingstone.com: Home Values, Curb Appeal, and Your Neighbor's Driveway It's no news that the housing market is in trouble. What is good news, and it's not something you hear about from the media, is that Southern California home prices have pretty much stabilized. They didn't crash as some doomsayers predicted and it's not as grim as the news would have you believe. How Does a Contractor Grow His Business Recently I reviewed several successful contractors. They were pond, paving stone, electrical, cabinet builders and a chimney company. I found an interesting thing. It was something common to all of them. CaliforniaWaterscapes.com: Types of Water Features, Part 2 There are several different types of water features available for building in your back yard: large, small, deep and shallow ponds, streams, waterfalls and Pondless® Waterfalls. How do you know which one is right for you? In this article we will discuss more about waterfalls and pondless waterfalls. CaliforniaWaterscapes.com: Types of Water Features, Part 1 There are several different types of water features out there: large, small, deep and shallow ponds, streams, waterfalls and Pondless® Waterfalls. But what are the primary differences? And how do you know which one is right for you? PacificPavingstone.com: The Numerous Benefits of Interlocking Concrete Pavers vs. Other Paving Solutions Interlocking concrete paving stones have a wide variety of benefits compared to other types of paving materials. PacificPavingstone.com: The Great Look of Paving Stones “Classic,” “old world,” “antique,” “classy,” “high-end,” “distinctive,” “elegant,” “sophisticated.” Whatever adjectives you use to describe them, it’s clear that paving stones give you a classic look and feel that you just can’t get from other types of paving materials such as concrete or asphalt. PacificPavingstone.com: Paving Stone Design Patterns There are a wide variety of patterns one can choose when designing a paving stone installation. There are the basic patterns, several of which we’ll discuss in this article. Plus, you can take different color stones and create a patterned area within a larger space.

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