Protecting Your Bottom Line in ‘09 Kickoff Event
This full-day class will feature Jeff Carowitz of Strategic Force Marketing (former VP of Marketing for Hunter Industries) as our keynote speaker addressing the changing economic climate and what contractors can do to protect their profits in a struggling economy.
This seminar is designed for business owners and will offer considerable information... including Anita Strauss, Health Policy Program Director of the Indiana Department of Insurance, sharing useful information throughout the afternoon for small business owners on health insurance-related topics.
Business Cents Owner Training
This full-day class will be a continuation of some of the afternoon sessions from the Protect your Bottom Line in '09 kickoff event. Possible topics to be covered range from reading a financial statement, negotiating loans with the bank, collections, marketing, billing, and whatever else business owners are looking for more information about. We want input from you on what concerns and topics are on your mind!
Green Concepts
This full-day class will be aimed at helping contractors to diversify their offerings in green technologies.
Basic Irrigation Design Theory
This full-day class will explore and explain basic landscape irrigation design, including hydraulics, sprinkler specification and layout, water, soil, and plant relationships, and determination of water supply requirements. Please bring a sharpened pencil and a calculator!
Basic Irrigation Design Practice
During this full-day class students will draw a complete irrigation design. Participants should bring an engineering scale, drafting compass, pencils, a calculator, and should have taken Basic Irrigation Design Theory within the past two years.
Electricity
This full-day experience will be a potentially shocking class about what we take for granted… electricity. We will focus on a general theory of electricity geared toward use in irrigation, landscape lighting, holiday lighting, and pump applications.
The Business of Drainage Contracting
This full-day class will introduce the participant to the concepts of drainage system application, design, and installation. The seminar will also cover concepts in bidding and estimating for the contractor that can be applied to drainage, or any other trade offered.
EZ Profits with Water Features
This half-day seminar demonstrates how easy and profitable water feature installation can be and how it can be a valuable addition to your existing business. Water features are the fastest growing trend in landscaping. Class will provide proven sales and installation techniques that can help you tap into this highly profitable market.
Basic Landscape Lighting
This half-day class covers basic fundamental design principles of a landscape lighting project. Design topics include various landscape lighting techniques and how to achieve them as well as using imaging design software. Also covered is a breakdown of the components of a landscape lighting project. This class will guide the contractor to a successful start in the landscape lighting business!
Advanced Landscape Lighting
This full-day class focuses on learning different styles of lighting design, effective use of lamps, and how to integrate colored lenses into the lighting project. It will help the contractor improve his techniques to offer a higher value line of services.
Irrigation Service
This full-day class covers service of controllers, valves, sprinklers, pumps, and pipe. Common issues of servicing irrigation systems will be demonstrated and discussed. Bring your favorite service equipment!
Español De Riego (Irrigation Spanish)
This full-day class on irrigation-specific Spanish vocabulary for English speakers provides an: excelente oportunidad para ampliar su vocabulario de Inglés, así como español. Brush up on your irrigation knowledge and your Spanish in the same class! Class is presented in an open forum with significant question and answer time.
Pumps
This half-day class covers irrigation pump specification, pump control products, and basic pump troubleshooting. The class will feature an update on our new line of pumps.
Tucor
This half-day class teaches the irrigation contractor basic installation and troubleshooting techniques for the two-wire irrigation control system.
Aquascape Rain Xchange
Aquascape introduces their new Rainwater Harvesting system. Learn from top to bottom how to make a profit on this new green technology.
Irrigation Installation
This three-day class is for the field employee that has one to two years’ experience in the irrigation industry and is ready to make the jump to being the crew foreman. It will cover basic design and hydraulics to lay out and install a residential system from beginning to end. It will also cover some time management principals that will increase their efficiency and profitability. The three-day class will also offer a potential field experience if weather permits.
