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Mark Bradley
As a consultant, Mark shares the strategy, software and systems that drive the success of his own landscape contracting business.
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Episode 1
5 Steps to Hiring Good People Who Stay

It's tempting to hire quickly. However, the cost of a bad hire - from your investment in training and paperwork, to poorly executed work onsite - gets expensive fast. Mark lays out a thorough process that has taken his company's turnover on new hires from 90% down to 40%.

Episode 2
What’s Your Job? From Owner to Crew

Profitable and successful companies are built on effective systems. Everyone from the owner to your field crews have a well defined responsibility to ensure that good systems get created and executed each and every day. Are you spending your time doing the right job?

Episode 3
Getting Your Employees to Think Like Owners

Tying compensation to performance makes employees think like owners. Mark lays out a specific and proven bonus system that involves your supervisors into performance from participating in writing a budget to being responsible for their own rework.
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Meet The Specialist

Mark Bradley

Mark Bradley is President of two companies in Ontario: The Beach Gardener, a ten-year-old landscape company that has grown into one of Canada’s largest and most prestigious firms in the industry, and Landscape Management Network, a landscape training and consulting firm.

With his mentoring services sought out all across Ontario, it was only natural for Mark to give the industry a special “insider’s look” at the strategy behind his success. The Landscape Management Network – an online collection of software, tools, systems and training for landscape contractors - was the result of his dedicated efforts to take the systems he used to grow his own company and make them available to the entire industry.

Since his successful launch of the Landscape Management Network, Mark has been traveling across North America, offering business owners and industry experts a candid look at the values, systems and numbers that have propelled the Beach Gardener to the top of the industry. Landscape Management Network enjoys a close working relationship with Caterpillar, who partnered with ANLA to bring LMN to Clinic
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