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HOW MOBILE-FIRST TECHNOLOGIES REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY I DO BUSINESS


• Drones – autonomous camera for dramatic aerial footage


• Dropbox – cloud-based shared file storage and its new Showcase feature


• Evernote – note-taking app that is easily searchable and always at your fingertips; also allows for great drawing capability and ability to add pictures


• GoiLawn – GPS property measurement and mapping software


• GoToMeeting – video conferencing platform for all of our branch and company meetings and recording important information that we can store and use later; GTM records our internal training videos, which we store on Dropbox to use for onboarding new hires


• HubSpot – software for marketing, sales, CRM


• iPhones/iPads for crew leaders/ irrigation techs – time entry, central information/file access, photos/videos, phone/text


• Tapigo – software that streamlines delivery for irrigation system mapping, reporting, and estimating and drastically reduced the amount of administrative time needed to create inspection reports and get them to the clients


• Workflow solutions – Super Lawn Truck systems; Gantt charts and motion maps are new initiatives for 2018


WHO INSPIRES YOU?


My wing-mates are my CEO colleagues in the green industry peer group to which I belong, along with tech-specific professional networking groups. I participate in The AlternativeBoard, which puts me in contact with people from all walks of life who might do things differently but who are innovative in their own right. These groups offer me a master class in all things business.


ANY FINAL ADVICE? NLD is all in on tech; we know the challenges out there. We don’t try to do everything or know everything. We allow our company to scale up by enlisting the help of others and eliminating distractions: subbing out what we don’t have, investing in making what we do have better, and remaining laser-focused on growth.


NALP and TNLA member Ben Collinsworth is founder and CEO of Native Land Design, a $14 million commercial landscape services company based in Austin, Texas. Contact Ben at bcollinsworth@nativelanddesign.com


NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONALS


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