I think the main thing about Top Notch that makes us better is we always answer the phone and we always respond to your e-mails. We always respond to your requests, always. You’re not going to bump into voice mails, you’re not going to call the guy that’s sitting in his truck that’s saying, “Hang on one second, let me pull over.” You’re going to bump into somebody on the phone who’s going to handle your concern right away.
You’re going to come home and you’re going to look at your place and you’re going to feel like you’re never going to have to pick anything up, that everything looks spotless, you’re going to feel good about coming home, you’ll never pick up behind us. When you contact us or when you speak to one of our technicians in the field, you’re going to ask him a question and he’s going to know the answer. He’s not going to say, “Umm, I don’t know.”
You’re going to ask him the name of a plant, he’s going to know the name of the plant. You’re going to ask him, “What’s wrong with my tree?” He’s going to tell you there. You’re going to have peace of mind knowing that you’re dealing with a guy who’s a professional that studied this stuff. You’re going to know the guy’s coming on Friday and you have a barbecue on Saturday, and you’re going to feel that assurance that your grass is going to be cut on that Friday because we told you that.
We’re going to show up on that Friday because we told you we are and we do that because we only have a certain amount of crews that do a specific service. We only give them a certain amount of jobs to ensure that they’re on time. No one’s doing this stuff. A lot of difference with us, is that the clients can go online, simply go online, or their mobile device, be it anywhere they are, if they’re at work, or if they’re not at work, and they can view their account details right online.
They can receive their invoices to know exactly when they got billed and exactly what they got billed for through their e-mail so they can check it whenever they want. Also, at any time, any photograph of any service that took place on their property, (inaudible 0:46:56) before and after of any service that took place on their property at any time they decide. If they decide they want the full season, they want a full season of photographs of every single visit that took place, because they’re away on vacation and not sure who showed up each and every time, we can provide every single visit.
The difference with us here in Toronto is I notice a lot of people don’t do this, we constantly change our mowing directions, just for the health of the grass. Lots of companies in Toronto carry one million dollar liability insurance. Because they do, we carry $2 million, just to make sure that everything is safe, that there is no risk, no worries when working with us.
We, at the beginning of the season, we will analyze your soil and we will analyze the property, and we ensure that at the end of the season, when we have that final photograph, that we actually improve your property before we started it, so your property constantly gets better-looking every year. We clean our equipment and we sharpen our blades every single day. We make sure the mowing job looks nice by doing that, and we clean them out. We actually power wash our mowers the moment they get back every single day to make sure there’s no turf to be spread.
When somebody calls us, if there’s a problem, that model that I still have since I started working years ago, we respond immediately to your concern. We use the best equipment that we can, so we try to use diesel equipment, we try to use stuff that doesn’t cost a lot to the environment. We try to work with equipment that’s less harmful to the environment. We provide additional services, a variety of additional services that are useful that people need.
When you’re at home and you’re unsure of calling somebody else to fix the sprinkler head, or if you don’t know if you need to call another company to look at your tree, you can actually ask the landscaper, and say, “You know what, I’ll ask my landscaper, he probably knows about my tree. I don’t need to look around or ask them for somebody else to come and look around.” You actually can talk to the guy who’s on your lawn.
With us, especially here, you’re noticing you’re dealing with uniformed staff. All of our guys are in uniforms. They’re friendly, and they know what they’re talking about, and if you have a concern, they’re easy to work with. You can just walk with them, talk with them, and voice your concern and they’ll handle it right there.
At the end of all of this, we donate their money to cancer research, and we have that risk we guarantee that we stand by. Even after all of that happening, that money that they paid us, a portion of that profit that would come to us is actually going to cancer research. We also have that risk-free guarantee, so there’s no risk for them at all. They’re just left with peace of mind and a beautiful property.
