Erik & Jose Zamora/Zamora Design and Build
Zamora Design and Build specializes in transforming outdoor spaces into beautiful landscapes tailored to your unique needs. With years of experience and a dedicated team, they combine natural elements with your vision to create stunning, functional designs. Their focus on careful planning and attention to detail ensures your outdoor vision is brought to life.
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In this episode of North Fulton Business Radio, host John Ray interviews Jason Coultas, President of Huckleberry Enterprises. They discuss Huckleberry’s comprehensive landscape services, including commercial maintenance, HOA services, and residential design-build projects. Jason shares his journey, his passion for horticulture, and the importance of client satisfaction and relationship building. He explains how Huckleberry Enterprises prioritizes reducing client stress and ensuring long-term landscape sustainability. The episode also touches on common landscape maintenance mistakes and the significance of understanding environmental factors.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Jason Coultas of Huckleberry Enterprises has decades of experience in all aspects of leading people, building trust with clients, developing a team, and maximizing opportunity. He has a passion for the entire client experience, from first contact to developing long-term, trust-based partnerships. As an arborist and horticulturist, he is a passionate provider of solutions for the many challenges in creating and maintaining effective and desirable landscape experiences, and a trusted advisor to clients and team members.
His greatest passion lies in developing and maintaining collaborative relationships within his industry with clients, team members, and vendors by always pursuing win-win experiences for everyone involved. Through effective advice and transparent communication, he continues to build cultures of collaboration that break the obstacles often created by self-seeking sales and management processes. He is always looking for new and better ways to serve his community and industry, and he is excited to grow with others as part of his network.
Jason Coultas and Brandon Baxter, two established leaders in the green industry with a track record of providing service to their clients, team members, and partners, founded Huckleberry Enterprises. Through a growing network of partnerships, the organization began growing as an organic response to the desire to be part of the journey.
A love of excellence, a service culture, and a sincere passion for the business drove Brandon and Jason as they developed their vision for Huckleberry in 2022. Unified in their vision to change the green industry in these three areas, the two founders began building the framework for Huckleberry upon these areas of passion.
Today, Huckleberry Enterprises has blossomed into a full-service provider, offering a wide array of services to include:
Huckleberry Enterprises has chosen to place its highest efforts on creating excellence in everything it does. Their focus is on creating an experience for clients that directly reflects their culture of service.
They create and maintain outdoor spaces for clients by collaborating with their team both internally and externally, utilizing best industry practices, innovative ideas, and relentlessly pursuing excellence in every step.
Huckleberry Enterprises believes that all people are valuable and deserve their greatest efforts. By serving a diverse group of clients with the same tenacity and passion for service, they believe they can have the greatest impact on their community.
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome to North Fulton Business Radio
01:22 Meet Jason Coultas of Huckleberry Enterprises
01:34 Huckleberry Enterprises: Services and Approach
02:56 Jason’s Journey and Passion for Horticulture
05:22 The Importance of People in Landscaping
10:08 Challenges and Solutions in Landscaping
14:55 Client Relationships and Excellence
27:17 Conclusion and Contact Information
28:15 Sponsor Message and Closing Remarks
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions, with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management, and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
Casa Nuova is a proud family-owned and operated restaurant, serving classic, authentic and traditional Italian cuisine and top tier hospitality since 1998.
Casa Nuova is a cook-to-order kitchen, serving traditional fare including pasta, chicken, seafood, veal, vegetarian and gluten-free options, plus daily specials. They are a farm-to-table establishment, meaning that in the summertime, they cultivate their own vegetables in their garden, steps away from the restaurant, including tomatoes, corn, peppers, zucchini, sunflowers and more!
Celebrating more than 25 years, Casa Nuova has become a true staple in the Alpharetta area, serving more than three generations of families, including friends old and new, visiting near and far from all over the metro Atlanta area and beyond.
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With over 780 shows and having featured over 1,200 guests, North Fulton Business Radio is the longest-running podcast in the North Fulton area, covering business in our community like no one else. We are the undisputed “Voice of Business” in North Fulton!
The show welcomes a wide variety of business, non-profit, and community leaders to get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. There’s no discrimination based on company size, and there’s never any “pay to play.” North Fulton Business Radio supports and celebrates business by sharing positive business stories that traditional media ignore. Some media leans left. Some media leans right. We lean business.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.
The studio address is 275 South Main Street, Alpharetta, GA 30009.
John Ray also operates his own business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneurs and small professional services firms on their value, their positioning and business development, and their pricing. His clients are professionals who are selling their expertise, such as consultants, coaches, attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.
John is the national bestselling author of The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices.
Shawna Woods/Atlanta Divorce Law Group
Family law is about helping individuals and families manage the emotional struggles of facing an uncertain future. It is about their legal team being human and sensitive and empathetic to this big change that is occurring in their clients’ lives. The Atlanta Divorce Law Group has been founded on a history of helping families through the most challenging times of their lives. This is really the niche in which their Alpharetta divorce and family law attorneys and staff have become experts. And since they take such a holistic approach in how to help a family get through a transition, they have been involved with all aspects of the family’s life as they deal with a crisis. The Atlanta Divorce Law Group team and its attorneys are guided by their mission and a strong set of values to bring each client their Happily Ever After Divorce®. Every divorce is unique to each client, so they strive to let compassion and growth guide an organic process of divorce.
Billy Van Eaton/Cumberland Landscape Group
Cumberland Landscape Group was founded in 2011 and has grown to one of the largest, privately-owned landscaping companies in Atlanta with over 170 team members. They want to engage in honest conversations with their team members and customers, be transparent in those interactions, and work as a team to accomplish their goals. That goal is to be the best landscaping company in the market, and an employer of choice for industry leaders. They strive to treat others the way they want to be treated. When they make mistakes, which are inevitable, they work to make it right with a mindset of creating long-term partnerships with those around them. Cumberland is a full-service design, build, and maintenance landscaping company serving the greater metro Atlanta area.
Bryan Clayton, GreenPal (Nashville Business Radio, Episode 35)Bryan Clayton enjoyed an accomplished entrepreneurial journey in landscaping, which included a successful exit. What he learned from that experience led to his founding GreenPal, and he joined host John Ray to share the company’s beginnings, how growth has been entirely bootstrapped, the problems the app solves for both lawn care providers and customers, the company’s expansion nationally, what lies ahead, and more. Nashville Business Radio is produced virtually from the Nashville studio of Business RadioX®.
How can you save time and money on your lawn care? Why is it so far hard to find a reliable lawn care service? 
The good news is GreenPal has you covered. How does it work? GreenPal saves you time and money on your lawn maintenance and grass cutting needs by auditioning the best lawn care companies nearby so you don’t have to.
GreenPal is super easy to use to get your grass cut. Just enter a few details about where your lawn is located and what day you want your grass cut, and the app sends the word out to reviewed affordable grass cutting services and lawn maintenance companies nearby you. Then you can compare your free grass cutting quotes and yard maintenance reviews and hire a lawn care service for next-day yard mowing in a snap.
Stop wasting time calling around for free lawn maintenance estimates and use GreenPal to get your yard mowed or grass cut at an affordable lawn maintenance price. You’ll get the best lawn care service quotes near you and a great-looking yard without making a phone call. Technology is awesome!
Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.
Before starting this company, Bryan Clayton founded and built Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee. Peachtree grew to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.
Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing, and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.
Nashville Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the Nashville studio of Business RadioX®. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.
Fresh out of high school and no marketing experience to speak of, John Daw created Spiderwebs Consulting for the singular purpose to help local business attain more exposure and knowledge of their potential reach.
Seeing the rift between social trends and aging marketing strategies in his local business network, John set out to find more techniques that would explode a businesses profit margin. Over 8 years later and thousands of ad dollars spent, he now oversees 5 and 6 figure accounts for happy clients.
Teddy Russell/Russell Landscape Group
In 1987, William E. Russell, “Bill”, initiated Russell Landscape Group as a family managed commercial landscape contract business headquartered in Norcross, GA. Over the past 30 years, the firm has grown to over 350 employees in seven branches throughout the Southeast under the careful guidance of Bill Russell, CEO and Teddy Russell, President. Today, Russell Landscape Group is Georgia’s largest privately-held Georgia based commercial landscaping firm.
Our illustrious guests on Tucson Means Business Ep 2:
Jeff Murtaugh
CEO & Designated Broker
Tucson Realty Executives, Tucson Elite
520 907-3606
Jeff Murtaugh has more than 37 years in commercial, residential, investment, management, brokerage, development, entitlement, stabilization, lease up and disposition of all sectors of real estate.
Jeff is a partner of Kinetic Companies and is the President and CEO of Realty Executives Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Green Valley, and Tubac, Arizona. As one of Kinetic Companies operating assets, the Realty Executives Company includes over 1,000 agent/brokers in 16 offices generating more than $2.7 billion in annual sales.
As a “Top 25 Real Estate Company in the US” according to Real Trends rankings) Jeff manages the day to day affiliate company holdings such as title, mortgage, and many other associated asset services for the Realy Executive franchises.
His extensive brokerage career spans nearly four decades while building over 1,300 production and spec custom homes throughout the southwestern United States.
Josh Grubaugh
Owner
Poppy Yard Solutions
520-310-9891
www.poppyyards.com
Weeds are one of the biggest hassles in Arizona. The constant headache of the ever-popping weeds will become a thing of the past when you choose POPPY to spray your property.
Creating a sterile soil where weeds will not grow is the goal. We use a pre-emergent product that prevents weeds from growing. A pre-emergent application twice a year will keep your yard pristine and weed-free all year long. We also provide an application that eliminates existing weeds.
In addition to preventing and eliminating weeds, we offer a variety of landscaping services. Here are just a few:
We’ll keep your property perfectly manicured with a maintenance program designed just for you. We’ll beautify your yard monthly, quarterly, or whatever suits your needs.
POPPY pays special attention to the details of every project to ensure the complete satisfaction of each customer. Our goal is to enhance the appearance of your home or business, so you can keep your weekends.
Ron Petri
Owner
Ron P. Enterprises
520 999-1113
We’re a locally owned and operated company with over 20 years of industry experience. We value honesty and integrity in all aspects of our business. We offer a variety of home improvement services that are customizable to each individual project.
Our mission is simple: we want to become your first resource for home repairs, renovation projects and preventive maintenance to aid in the effort to protect the value of your home— likely your biggest investment asset. We offer a very personalized service that is cheaper than most of our competitors’ rates & at the same time delivering first class workmanship backed by my own personal guarantee.
In earning your lasting trust, we will repeatedly deliver our skilled workmanship using our high-quality tools and a perfectionist’s eye for detail. We will release you from the many repair and maintenance burdens of home ownership while freeing you for the greater enjoyments of life.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our work as well as our commitment to outstanding results. We look forward to building a lasting relationship with our clients and guarantee your satisfaction!
Norm Stahl/Signarama Buford
Signarama Buford is the leader for the last 14 years for business visibility, branding and marketing. Today, you must stand out to compete and grow and Signarama Buford is there to help you. Investing in solutions that will grow your business is the key. No longer can you afford to market and brand your business without a plan. Signarama Buford will help you create your vision to increase your visibility and create a consistent and powerful brand message in your marketing. Signarama Buford offers interior and exterior signs, banners, marketing materials, promotional products, trade show products, logo wearables, vehicle graphics and more. Signarama Buford is your single source for all your needs.
Steve Murray & Josh Everett/New Leaf Landscape Services
New Leaf Landscape Services was established in 1989 and they have been serving their customers for the last 25 years. They are a full service design, installation and maintenance company that serves North Georgia. They are currently running 14 maintenance crews and three installation crews. Their heart is to provide superior customer experiences as well as increase your property’s curb appeal. Their team has over 90 years of experience in the green industry.
