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.

Why Not Add Tree Services, Too?

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.

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