Your Booming Economy Plan: Boost Profits with Upgrades
Take advantage of a booming economy. Capture additional revenue with upgrades and add-ons. 
 
Selling add-ons is labor-smart. Your crew is already mobilized. You have your equipment on the site. It's pretty easy to drop in some wire for landscape lights in the trench or hang an upgraded WiFi controller instead of a standard model.
 
Customers expect all the “bells and whistles” – give them what they want! Offer enhancements that make their landscape more enjoyable – and easier to maintain. Develop your menu of upgrades and offer them consistently on every project. You’ll be surprised how often they say “yes”.
 
Need advice on selecting or selling enhancements to win additional work? Just ask our experts!

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Our Newest Store in Glendale is OPEN
Aqua-Flo is now even closer to more of your projects!

Our new Glendale store is ready for you at 5310 San Fernando Rd, with convenient access to the 5 and the 134. Click for map.

We open early at 6am and stay open until 5pm, Monday-Friday.
Plus enjoy Saturday hours of 8am to Noon.

Call us to have your order ready when you arrive, or to schedule a delivery: 818-858-0128.

Call us now and save the number in your phone - you'll need it soon!
Legendary Performance: NDS Catch Basins and Grates
Designed for years of trouble-free service, NDS offers a complete line of catch basins and grates and channel drain for residential and commercial stormwater management solutions.

NDS catch basins have sump areas that collect debris and prevent clogging of the pipeline, and grates are available in a variety of patterns and colors to blend in with surrounding surfaces.

We offer round, square or atrium grates to fit with catch basins.  Order catch basins in popular 9", 12", and 18" square models depending on the stormwater volume you are seeking to manage.  
 
Need help planning drainage for your next project? Ask our in-house drainage experts for advice on the right products to use.
New at Aqua-Flo: Carta by Plott Digital Measuring Wheel and App
Carta is the first measurement wheel to digitally map a space and create an interactive map of your project.

Carta saves the user time, money, and headaches by eliminating the painstaking calculations that come with gathering on-site measurements.

Draw paths in real time and add notes, images and videos to a project to create a command center within the app and share it to complete projects easily. Ask to see it on your next visit.
5 Inexpensive Ways to Boost Hiring Results
1) Better job ads. Engage applicants with better writing. Showcase your company's advantages. Appeal to the candidate's emotions and desires. Free PDF guide.

2) Be honest. Companies that make everything seem perfect arouse suspicions. Be transparent about good and bad. Example: the job will require hard work, but it is satisfying and rewarding. Be sure to post the pay too. No need to generate inquiries only to have them vanish instantly. 

3) Stop looking for unicorns. Candidates who check all of the boxes don't exist in this environment. Looking for a good leader who is also a technician and who has industry experience? Not available. And will be expensive to steal from a competitor. Looking for unicorns costs money and slows your process.

4) Move fast. If you meet a good candidate, don't delay the offer.

5) Communicate well. Treat the candidate like a customer during the process.
3 Ways to Make Design/Build Residential Landscaping More Profitable
Customers live customized landscape environments. They can be a profitable and satisfying business opportunity for the design/build landscape firm. The challenge is the sheer amount of extra effort that a business must put into creating highly-specific designs to meet individual customer requirements, without making costly mistakes.

How do you make residential/design build less stressful, more profitable - and still equally appealing to picky clients? Three ideas:

1. Mass customization. Turn specific elements of your designs into modules that can be repeated on multiple projects. The repeatability means less room for error in estimating, faster construction, etc. For example, "fountainscape" kits allow you to create easy water features that look custom.

2. Design for easy construction. Develop underlying repeatable production methods across all elements of your designs. Standardize materials and finishes, and then tailor them to the specific site.

3. Hand-off successful installations to ongoing maintenance. It's a win-win to maintain the customer's high level of satisfaction with the finished product by transitioning them to a maintenance account. And maintenance accounts generate profits year-after-year. Plus: you can design for easy maintenance!
Get Ahead of the Drought. Start Selling Water-Efficient Upgrades
SoCal irrigation systems need to become more efficient and effective to comply with new water restrictions. 

Start marketing water-smart upgrades to your customers. Every system can benefit from upgrading to new technology in sprinklers, nozzles, sensors and controllers. 

1) Connect with customers. Let them know what improvements they can make to their landscapes to be more water efficient. Leave door hangers with water-saving messages. Send postcards or emails to current customers promoting upgrades like rain sensors, upgraded nozzles and smart controllers. Include tip sheets with your monthly invoices. 

2) Perform water efficiency audits. Develop a simple "landscape water audit checklist" to help you systematically review needed upgrades on every property. Then review your findings with your client.

3) Educate on the benefits. Customers will buy upgrades when the benefits are clearly explained. Upgraded systems save time, water and money and provide property owners with greater control and peace-of-mind. Plus new upgrades get the system into top condition, avoiding the potential for future service hassles.  

Take control of your destiny during a record drought. Count on Aqua-Flo to have the products and resources to guide your success.