Great Place to Work Spotlight: SeaGreen Lawn Care And Irrigation, Inc.

Great Place to Work Seagreen Lawn Care and Irrigation, Inc.

Erich Kolb first began working in the landscaping and irrigation industry in 1985. He started his first company, Triangle Green Scene, Inc. in Raleigh, NC in 1995 with his best friend, with only $40.00! The company grew to 700K in sales by 2006. Erich shares he experienced “a lot of pain with lack of systems, incorrect decisions based on inaccurate facts, chasing the wrong work, employee issues, etc. We just didn’t know!”

Erich says “Around 2013-14 I realized my “dream” was still resembling a “nightmare”. I made OK money but if you divided my income by hours worked it would still be around minimum wage. I was working too much, doing too much, juggling too many tasks. We still had issues with team accountability. We were growing again, but the growth was not creating a more “livable” life. Vacations limited and even long weekends were often off the table.”

Determined to spend more time at the beach, Erich moved and started a new business in 2016. He narrowed his sweet spot to focus on lawn care applications and irrigation service. Erich was Pumpkin Planning before he knew what it meant!  He shares “Many did not understand. Some did not support. It wasn’t easy. It still isn’t. But I am much better aligned with what I value.”

Starting with zero customers, Erich began Seagreen Lawn Care and Irrigation, Inc. He now serves over 300 lawn care customers in and around North Myrtle Beach, SC and Brunswick County, NC.

Long-time trusted advisers turned Erich onto the Profit by Design podcast, and he has listened to every podcast episode at least once! Erich shares, “The content and the concepts really resonate with me. It's so encouraging to hear success stories from fellow entrepreneurs and contractors.” Hiring continued to be a challenge at his new location. Erich read both versions of the How to Hire the Best books and signed up for the How to Hire the Best course, which he says “really took the book to the next level. You leave with tangible materials to work with.”

Erich's advice:

“The business journey is not easy. You are going to have flat tires along the way. One of those flat tires will be on “Human Resource Blvd”. If you do not have the tools to fix the flat, you’re just stuck with no forward progress. The “How to Hire the Best” system provides the wrench, jack and spare to get your business back on the road.”

Coming Soon: Join us on the Profit by Design podcast as Erich shares his story!

 

The Tap the Potential Great Place to Work Spotlight features small businesses intentionally creating a great place to work by nurturing their company culture.

At Tap the Potential, we love helping small business owners create Great Places to Work.  We encourage our clients to share best practices to support other businesses in doing so, as well.

Thank you for sharing with us, Erich!

 

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About The Author

Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist and international best-selling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation™, is the founder of Tap the Potential and host of the Profit by Design podcast. At Tap the Potential, we work to free business owners from the constant demands of a growing business.

We believe work supports life, not the other way around. Clients in our Better Business, Better Life coaching program have more time for what matters most and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had. Next, we send them off on a 4 Week Vacation™ to celebrate their hard-earned journey to take their life back!

Dr. Sabrina and her team at Tap the Potential are on a mission to change the story of entrepreneurship from one of long hours, grinding it out, to one of sustainably profitable businesses that support and enhance life. The Tap the Potential Solution™ and our Tap the Potential Family of Business Owners are disrupting small business as usual. We are on our way to making the Tap the Potential Solution™ the mainstream model for growing business.

By 2023, 150 Tap the Potential clients will have taken 4 Week Vacations. These are the trailblazers, role modeling what’s possible for entrepreneurs. In many entrepreneurial circles, it is becoming more and more common for one entrepreneur to ask another, “Have you taken a 4 Week Vacation™?” (as opposed to asking “How many employees do you have?” or “What is your annual revenue?”). Taking a fully unplugged 4 Week Vacation is rapidly becoming the recognized symbol of entrepreneurial success.

Never one to accept the status quo or back down from a challenge, Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best series grew from her desire to solve the toughest hiring challenges interfering with her clients’ growth and profitability. What sprang from her experience working with entrepreneurs in rural areas catapulted her into becoming the world’s leading expert in attracting top talent in small businesses—no matter what hiring challenges those businesses are facing—and earned Tap the Potential’s reputation as the go-to resource for entrepreneurs committed to creating Great Places to Work with thriving coaching cultures and highly engaged team members working from strengths.

As The Business Psychologist, and with her years of driving profit in small businesses, Dr. Sabrina knows what it takes to find, keep, and motivate exceptional performance out of your biggest investment—team members.