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In the News: JT’s Landscaping’s on WRAL

Our clients are making news! Jimmy Tompkins of JT’s Landscaping was featured in this article on WRAL for his innovative approach to keeping his Raleigh Landscaping business going through the winter.

Although landscaping tends to be a seasonal industry, Jimmy Tompkins has found a way to not only maintain his business during the typical off-season but to grow his company and keep his employees working through the winter. Every fall, we help JT’s Landscaping transition his focus from lawn maintenance to holiday decorating by updating his website, re-optimizing for search engines and targeted pay-per click campaigns for the holiday season. Innovative clients such as Jimmy make our job easy!

JT’s Landscaping provides holiday lighting and holiday decorating services for the Triangle, including Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, and Wake Forrest. This year his team is decorating more than 160 homes in the Raleigh area.

As marketers, we admire Jimmy’s ability to recognize a void in a market and capitalize on it. This helps grow his business, develop his brand, and maintain jobs for his employees when traditional landscaping work is slow.

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