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Comment by Arina Habich on September 23, 2009 at 8:27am

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Comment by mustafa kamal on September 11, 2009 at 11:23am

i am interested to set up online landscape design company for project in middle east and like to invite landscape architect to work online on project base.
mustafa kamal
mail@hortigroup.com.pk

Comment by Keith A French on August 21, 2009 at 5:00pm

http://www.tbg-inc.com/
http://www.environs.us/wp/482
http://www.imadesign.com/home/
Take a liik at these companies and how they are marketing LEED and Green

Comment by Tom Fitzgerald on March 18, 2009 at 8:16pm

Oona,
LEED has been growing extremely fast these couple of years, at least in California and the bay area. Clients, public and private, are becoming much more aware of LEED and are requesting that we follow the requirements whether they are or are not applying for accreditation on a project. About half of our office of 50 is now LEED certified. It’s also working out to be a very useful and positive marketing tool.

Comment by Sherwin on March 12, 2009 at 1:13pm

hi everyone, i just sign to this group. I have my own company here in UAE (Ajman) for (planning - designing - production - installation - construction) theme stages, wedding events, artificial rock work, fiberglass casting, mall decors, theme parks etc... check my profile i have lots of sample pictures of what my company has to offer. can anybody give me some advice how to better market/promote my work/business? any advises is really appreciated. thanks in advance.

Comment by Oona on March 11, 2009 at 9:43pm

Is anyone marketing "green building" or LEED more heavily these days?

Comment by Michelle Derviss on January 30, 2009 at 9:08pm

Hello Chris,
In regards to your question about marketing at a home or trade show, I have some experience in this realm.
20 years ago I designed and installed a small intimate garden exhibit at the San Francisco Garden Show. I had just recently moved to the Bay area and wanted to open my own design practice.
The show was a success for me.
After 5 days of 'show time' I had enough work to last over a year and installation budgets ranged from 25K to 475 K for an estate garden in Palo Alto.
I participated in the show for 3 more years and each year was just as successful as the first with the average residential installation in the $ 275K
Fast forward to 2008. I decided to do the garden show again. This time is was mostly for personal reasons rather than business ( surviving a life threatening disease can make you do strange things )
In terms of satisfying a personal desire the show was a success. There was even an added extra bonus in that we were given an award for our efforts.
But as far as generating a couple hundred thousand dollars in sales revenue that did not materialize.
I got several design jobs from the show but nothing in comparison to previous years.
I think it is a much greater gamble of your marketing dollars to invest in a garden/ home / trade show during this extremely difficult economic time.
In my neck of the woods people are being quite conservative in how they choose to spend their money.
A client has to be very committed to their project these days to make it fly.

Comment by Chris on January 30, 2009 at 6:16pm

Anyone out there done trade/home shows? Results? I just did one, lots of tire kickers. Could be the economy, but a lot of people looking to waste other people's time. I did get a few good leads, nothing really high end, but work is work right now. I'm interested to see if anyone has had any luck at this marketing strategy. I do design/build, so the contracting end is getting more interest these days, it's hard to convince people to spend an extra 10% or so to get something on paper.

Comment by Eric Shepley on December 18, 2008 at 2:25pm

I'm trying to develop a specific contract for my firm's LA work and am trying to find a good sample contract to model ours after.

Thanks!

Comment by nrschmid on December 6, 2008 at 6:23am

Answer two questions:

1. Where have you gone? You need to tell me where your firm has gone (projects completed, existing staff, budgets on projects, etc).
2. Where are you going? Review your firm's business plan. You need to find out what the company's mission, goals, priorities, and how you and other workers fit into this.

You need to answer these two somwhat complex questions before I can offer any marketing advice.

Hope this helps-

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