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Buy my bushes, please!
Don’t let suppliers drive your business. Today’s ‘discount’ inventory costs more than you think.
It’s that time of year when landscape companies get calls from clients anxious to be the first ones on the production schedule of the 2009 season. For many, it’s also the start of a new season of crisis control, responding to pressures put upon us by others.

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What You Don’t Know Can Help You
A true professional keeps learning new things and proactively shares ideas with clients before he asks, “What’s your budget?”
The older we get, the more we realize how much we don’t know. Do you remember being a teenager and thinking your parents were not very smart? Then one day, they became geniuses. That was an epiphany, wasn’t it? It’s actually good to realize that there is plenty you don’t know. We believe it’s taking a major step towards wisdom.

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Meet a Design/Build Revolutionary: Paul St. Pierre
Profile: Owner, Landscape Effects Group, Belle River, Ontario, Canada (near Windsor)

Years in Landscape Business:Since 1987

Focus: Primary focus is Landscape Design/Build. Also provides landscape maintenance, irrigation, and commercial snow management services. Landscape Effects also owns a nursery of five acres and does specialty plant storage for palm trees.

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What's New at the Kinman Institute
Despite the Columbus snow storm of 2009 shutting down airports, cancelling flights, and closing highways with black ice, these determined Landscape Design registrants made their way to the Kinman Conference of February 2009 to learn the Kinman “Process” before the season starts.

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Seminar Schedule

February 19 & 20, 2009

March 26 & 27, 2009

Seminars are held in Columbus, Ohio, at the Kinman Institute Conference Facility.

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The Kinman Institute

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