2018 Irrigation Show

Managing a Landscape Irrigation Service Company: Technicians, Pricing and Marketing (Room 201B)

05 Dec 18
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: IA University Class: Landscape

Speaker(s): Chris Pine, President, Irritech Training Inc.; Don Davis, Assistant Training Manager, SiteOne Landscape Supply

Retaining well-trained service technicians is one of the largest challenges facing the irrigation service business. This class will explore the difficulties contractors encounter and present strategies for finding, hiring, training and keeping service technicians. This class will present some hands-on models for pricing, including understanding costs and models for technicians and service contract rates. Lastly, different marketing topics, including service contracts and promotion will be discussed.