Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Monster Tree Service Featured in Turf Magazine

Monster Tree Service was recently featured in Turf Magazine in an article titled,“Why Not Add Tree Services, Too?.” The article discusses how landscaper Josh Skolnick stumbled into the tree maintenance industry, founding a multi-millionaire dollar company, Monster Tree Service. Josh discusses franchise opportunities, and why someone with a landscaping company would benefit from integrating Monster Tree Service into their current business. Click here to read the entire article.

By Ron Hall

In June 2008, a client asked landscape professional Josh Skolnick to take down a 70-foot-tall elm tree. Skolnick, 25 at the time, had never taken down a tree before. But, since he constantly told clients "we're a full-service company," he hired an experienced tree contractor to remove the elm.

That's when he discovered an opportunity. Leaving the arborist to dismantle the tree, he literally went door to door offering tree removals and related services in the suburban Philadelphia neighborhood where his Skolnick Landscaping had been providing landscape services. In just four hours he sold $20,000 in tree work.

Suddenly, Skolnick was in the tree business.


Thursday, June 21, 2012

Monster Tree featured on the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal website

Monster Tree Service was recently featured on the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal website in an article titled,“Tree service franchise looks to expand into Central Pa.” The article discussed how Monster Tree Service came to be, the aggressive expansion plans within Pennsylvania, as well as throughout the East Coast, and business opportunities for entrepreneurs wanting to own their own business as well as people already involved in the tree care industry. Click here to read the entire article.

Tree service franchise looks to expand into Central Pa.  
Monster Tree Service - PABy: Jason Scott  

A Montgomery County tree-management company that recently made the move to franchising has set its sights on growing up and down the East Coast, including in Central Pennsylvania.

Four years ago, repeated customer inquiries about tree services prompted landscaper Josh Skolnick to make the move into the tree maintenance business.

Without ever felling a tree himself, Skolnick launched Monster Tree Service, an executive-style model that gives budding business owners an opportunity to hire experts in the trade. It also gives local professionals the option of marketing their services under a brand.

“You don’t have to know how to cut trees or climb trees,” Skolnick said. “You have to be willing to learn and manage a business.”

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Monster Tree Service at IFE


Monster Tree Service will be exhibiting for the first time at the International Franchise Expo this weekend. The expo will be held from June 15-17, 2012 at The Javits Center in New York City. Stop by Booth 552, where you can meet Josh Skolnick, Founder of Monster Tree Service, and his team to learn about opportunities to franchise with MTS. ”This is the first time Monster Tree Service is exhibiting at IFE since we just entered franchising, so I’m excited to get in front of potential franchisees and show them what my business model has to offer them,” said Skolnick.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Monster Tree featured in Buffalo Business First

Monster Tree Service was recently featured in Buffalo Business First in an article titled,“Pa. tree service would like cut of Buffalo market.” The article discussed how Monster Tree Service is aggressively expanding into the Buffalo market, with potential to sell three to five franchisees in the area. Josh Skolnick discussed why the Buffalo market is a desirable landscape for his tree maintenance business and details about the business for prospective franchisees. Click here to read the entire article.

Pa. tree service would like cut of Buffalo market
By: James Fink

Monster Tree Service, a Pennsylvania-based lawn and tree care service, has identified the Buffalo Niagara market as one of the places where the company would like to expand.

Josh Skolnick, who founded Monster Tree Service four years ago, said the Buffalo area is perfect for his company’s expansion plan.

“There appears to be a lot of activity there,” Skolnick said.