ANLA Job Board Now Available
from ANLA
ANLA is pleased to announce the launch of the its Industry Job Board. This career resource will offer employers targeted access to quality green industry professionals, while job seeking professionals can make sure their resumes are being seen by those in the industry who matter most to them. Employers who post jobs between now and May 31 can receive 25 percent off each posting by using the discount code LAUNCH25.
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One-Day Grower and Landscape Distribution Tour: July 2010
from ANLA
In conjunction with the ANLA Annual Meeting and the OFA Short Course, ANLA has planned a fantastic one-day Grower & Landscape Distribution tour that you won't want to miss. Registration opens May 11th and you'll want to book your tour and hotel immediately to guarantee your space. For more information on ANLA's Annual Meeting, visit www.anla.org/annualmeeting. More
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MasterTag introduces two new nursery tags. Available as a folding or card style tag. Large landscape
photos and detailed inset of key attributes such as flower, leaf color or fruit. Text information is based on extensive consumer research. Available with or without bar code, price and D.O.R. Comprehensive variety listing.
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April 26, 2010: Arbor-cacy Day. A Message from Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR)
from ANLA
 This Friday, April 30, 2010 is Arbor-cacy Day: a day of grassroots lobbying and fundraising in support of H.R. 4509, which would reauthorize the National Tree
Planting Program. Under this program, from 1991-94, more than 18,000 small landscaping businesses with fewer than 100 employees were employed to install over 23 million trees. Watch this video to learn more about this effort from the lead sponsor of H.R. 4509, Representative Kurt Schrader (OR-5). More
Leadership and Management Lessons from our Favorite TV Bosses
from American Express Open Small Business Forums
Television bosses tend to be characterized as buffoons, unable to understand their workforce or
clients, or simply too greedy to care about either. But despite their shortcomings, some of TVs most famous bosses still have a few lessons to teach us about leadership and management. More
21 Twitter Tips From Socially Savvy Companies
from Fast Company
Adapted from his book Engage, Brian
Solis presents his list of suggestions to help businesses learn how to engage customers on Twitter through the examples of those companies, from Dell to Zappos, already successfully building online communities. The first tip? Special offers. More
7 Tips for Masterful
Negotiating
from Inc.
Think confidence, machismo, and stamina are the keys to winning a negotiation? Then your bargaining skills need a reboot. Over the past decade, a growing field of literature on the subject has come to the conclusion that checking your ego at the
boardroom door is a must. Compromise and kindness are the new rules of negotiation. How does this gentler approach work? Here's a short list of pointers to get you started. More
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Museum makes history by planting gardens in the parking lot
from Digital Journal
It's not every day you find an organization happily ripping up a parking lot with the idea of putting in a garden. The idea is so contrary to modern cultural behaviour, it is radical. And yet this garden is not being put in by radicals or non-conformists. This little piece of reconstructed nature is being put in by a very esteemed organization
that is thinking and behaving many years ahead of the rest of the pack. More
Commentary: Volcano's effects prove importance of managing supply chain risk
from DC Velocity
Last week, Eyjafjallajökull erupted , spewing clouds of volcanic ash that the eastward jet stream carried across the skies of northern Europe. Because the particles in that ash can knock out a jet engine, airlines grounded flights, and airports in Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and France — to name but a few — were shut down. Not
surprisingly, the cessation of air freight movements to and from Europe has disrupted the global supply chain. More
Make Yourself Get Things Done
from Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Creating accountability is challenging because it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day operations of your business. If you are not generating ideas to overcome business issues and then
implementing those solutions, long-term success can be hard to achieve. Here are some ways you can start holding yourself more accountable to improve your business success. More
Alabama's horticulture industry
hopes for resurgent spring
from The Birmingham News
Alabama's housing boom helped drive horticulture to the top of the state's cash-crop list over the past three decades, turning it into a multibillion-dollar industry that overtook cotton, peanuts and other traditional
row crops. Now, after three years of killing drought and crippling recession, growers are hoping a resurgent spring will keep their crops — sod, shrubbery, flowers, ornamentals and the plantings for your backyard garden — king of the state's agriculture landscape. More
Recession batters Tennessee's plant nurseries
from Bloomberg BusinessWeek
The recession that
slowed construction has also withered Tennessee's plant nursery industry. The economic damage is severe in a business that, for most, is also a way of life on the southern Cumberland Plateau around McMinnville. "I've heard figures of sales down from 30 percent to 75 percent," said Tony Graham, immediate past president of the Middle Tennessee Nursery Association. "There are rumors that businesses are going to close. It's had a devastating effect on us." More
Grower Introduces Consumer Recycling Program
from Greenhouse Management & Production
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Listen Carefully to Consumers
from Big Grower
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New York Bill Would Ban Chemicals
from Lawn & Landscape
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Community Gardens Recognized Nationally
from Today's Garden Center
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