Our Winning Topics

Since 1984, Paul Lamarche has been a keynote speaker at top North American trade
shows, workshop facilitator and consultant for trade associations, industry
suppliers and horticultural businesses across North America. He can connect with
audiences as small as 5 people as well as audiences as large as 500+ and virtually all
participants go home with strategies that ensure survival for today's market.


We can customize our topics to your needs

  • Estimating for the contractor
  • Break-even point per hour, per employee, per crew, per equipment hour.
  • Getting return on investment
  • How much to charge per hour for equipment & have cash to purchase the next one
  • How much to charge per hour per employee
  • How do you charge for "down-time"?
  • Strategies for low-bidding
  • How to win 8 out of 10 residential sales calls
  • Presentation skills to win. How to close the sale.
  • Contracting Out
  • How institutions are looking to privatize grounds maintenance.
  • Staff Training for Productivity
  • Creating your customer policy and employee policy manuals
  • Retail and Wholesale Pricing Strategies
  • Break-even analysis, loss leaders, where you lose GPM.
  • Award-winning advertising and marketing
  • Traffic building that brings in customers.
  • Signage of the times
  • Point of purchase signs and traffic flow ideas that save labour costs.
  • "Bug -off, eh!"-- Companion planting techniques that teach retail staff and
    landscape designers how to sell more herbs and perennials by working with nature.
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Budgeting and Estimating Systems for Service Companies
Serving the horticultural community
since 1984
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