The SIMA Symposium (the annual trade show and conference for the Snow and Ice Management Association) is two weeks away. With the stormy winter most snow removal contractors experienced, we think this will be one of the best symposium’s yet. This will be our fourth time exhibiting at SIMA and it never disappoints. We enjoy seeing […]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UPDATE: Due to the 2017/2018 re-write of our Go iLawn & Go iPave software, we are no longer supporting the historical “Proposal Builder” add-on from “Classic” Go iLawn & Go iPave, as referenced in this 2014 blog post. This post now offers advice for proposal writing and a proposal template into which you can […]
Our head developer CJ is at it again! He created another new feature to help Go iLawn and Go iPave users streamline their online property measuring efforts even more. It’s called the Auto Save and it’s designed to help you retrieve the last workspace you measured prior to logging out. When you log in to […]
In my January-February Snow Business column I shared four Key Performance Indicators that snow and ice management companies should review to gauge how the season went. I thought I would bring them up again not only for our snow and ice management readers, but also for landscapers, pavement maintenance contractors, and our readers from other industries that […]
A few months ago, CJ Wood joined our staff as our new head developer. Since then he’s been investigating all of the moving parts that make Go iLawn and Go iPave perform, all the while making a lot of changes for us internally to improve our systems and processes. He’s also been listening to our […]
A few weeks ago we shared the results of a survey we conducted among our Go iLawn customers. We wanted to know everything about preparing landscape estimates- the highlights, the pitfalls and everything in between. Well, we did the same thing with our Go iPave customers to learn as much as we could about preparing […]
Over the years we’ve spent a lot of time refining and developing the Go iLawn and Go iPave address database. Along with improving our sites’ searching capabilities, we try to stay on top of when properties change hands, parcel boundaries change and addresses change. It’s an ongoing effort, but we want landscape, pavement maintenance and […]
I’m sure by now most of you have heard that April is National Lawncare Month. Did you know it’s also National Pest Management Month and National Landscape Architecture month? Are you seeing a theme here? It’s prime time for landscape, lawncare, pest control, and pavement maintenance service providers to kick off the season. It’s also […]
Since we launched Go iLawn in 2009, one question that new prospects and customers have always asked us is “How is this different from Google earth?“. Sometimes people also just assume that we’re using Google earth: “This is Google, right?”. We love Google for this reason. They’ve brought maps and property photos to the mainstream […]