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Record keeping for the self-employed

Started by Landscape Juice in Business

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Understanding your self-employed tax bill

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Started by Phil Voice in Business

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Should we all be a bit psychopathic at work?

Most of us will probably think of psychopaths as dangerous knife-wielding maniacs who are better off behind bars.

But we've got it wrong, and contrary to our expectations, we could actually learn from psychopaths, argues Oxford University experimenta

Started by Phil Voice in Business

3 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk May 18, 2013

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Inflation rises to 11.1% for small business contractors

Contractors are facing double the rate of inflation costs

Small business contractors are facing cost increases of 11.1%, double the general rate of inflation.

These figures have been released by insurance company More Than Business in its newly launc

Started by Gary RK in Business

2 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk May 18, 2013

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Simpler Income Tax: cash basis

Cash basis is a way of working out your income and expenses for your Self Assessment tax return.

You can use cash basis if you:

are a small self-employed businesses (sole traders and partnerships)
have an income of £79,000 or less a year (this is th

Started by Phil Voice in Business

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How to profit from machinery

To get the job done we often have to invest in various tools and equipment. We shouldn't, however, provide this equipment at our own expense and let clients benefit without compensating us for our costs.

Although many clients will want to keep their

Started by Landscape Juice in Business

1 Reply · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Nov 16, 2013

Business or personal phone?

Having a separate business phone seems essential, as getting personal and business contacts mixed up is unprofessional. But how many people actually setup a business account and which network did you choose?

My personal one is with talkmobile, mainly

Started by Christopher Ray in Business

10 Replies · Reply by Christopher Ray Jun 2, 2013

Customers' cutbacks

I seem to be getting a few existing clients cutting back on the cost of there garden maintenance i.e. went to one on Tuesday to find the grass had bean cut but not edged another wants it doing every 3 weeks instead of fortnightly but only wants to pa

Started by David Benson in Business

28 Replies · Reply by Geoffrey King May 16, 2013

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Do you use key performance indicators?

Whether we do it consciously through a spreadsheet, via reports generated through our account packages or just by churning numbers over in our head, most of us will use some kind of key performance indicator.

Analysing business can become all-consumi

Started by Phil Voice in Business

1 Reply · Reply by Christopher Ray May 9, 2013

Boundary disputes and threatening neighbours?

Had a job yesterday with the significant reduction of some hawthorns which were growing in a dead space between a newly erected fence which was my clients and a hedge and fence boundary of 2 properties behind it.

The houses behind are a row of semis a

Started by Simon Smith in Business

6 Replies · Reply by Colin Hunt May 5, 2013

Lets try that again....

Hello there,

I ran a landscaping business for a few years, and over the past year, due to myself and my business partner not seeing eye-to-eye, It eventually collapsed. I've been working now for the local council to make ends meet. I'm looking to try

Started by Mark Jolley in Business

3 Replies · Reply by Mark Jolley May 2, 2013

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Lawn Care Market Survey Shows Optimism Among Lawn Care Providers

An interesting US based report paralleling many of the same concerns and issues seen in the UK.

Surprisingly (and good) is the apparent optimism in an otherwise difficult economy, ie:

- Over 58% of respondents indicate a healthy marketplace

- Over 57

Started by Gary RK in Business

2 Replies · Reply by Bespoke Lawncare Apr 29, 2013

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Why 7.4m of us are too ashamed to use our gardens......

....Overgrown weeds and unkempt plants leave homeowners too embarrassed to enjoy the space .. http://t.co/1jdOy3pgm4 So reports the Daily Mail following a survey by Ikea. Well, that's good - plenty of untapped work then :-) Interesting insight ... I'

Started by Gary RK in Business

2 Replies · Reply by Colin Hunt Apr 29, 2013

Van Insurance....possible problems

Having insured and paid for the van insurance last September with one of the largest companies never gave it a thought until I tried to add a mature(over 30)named driver and was quoted £240.After quite a few phone calls later the reason for this ridi

Started by paul mcdermott in Business

6 Replies · Reply by Thermo Apr 28, 2013

Working abroad

Hi
I was just wondering if anyone had experience of freelancing abroad. I've got the possibility of doing some garden design work with a (local) friend in Bangalore, India, but just don't know how much of a nightmare the paperwork would be. So I just

Started by Anna McArthur in Business

4 Replies · Reply by Anna McArthur Apr 26, 2013

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Bankruptcy - would you deal with that "person/business" ?

What would your stance be if you had heard a potential client/business had previously been declared Bankrupt, but was now discharged?

How is this seen/perceived by people now?

It seems more common place to find such situations (..because of the law,

Started by Gary RK in Business

9 Replies · Reply by MWJONES Apr 27, 2013

How to avoid bad payers

We've all had them, - the customer who's never in when you go to collect the money,- but here are the steps i've been taught to make sure we get paid for ALL the work that we do.

there are 3 reasons for not paying -can't pay, won't pay and don't know

Started by Claire Brown in Business

27 Replies · Reply by 1st Garden Maintenance Feb 9, 2017

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30% of buyers state the garden is the most important feature when looking at moving houses

...so says Phil Spencer of 'Secret Agent' fame on C4.

They had two landscape gardeners attack an overgrown garden to improve the house's image.

I believe the cost quoted on TV was 2 man days @ £400 - based on an 8 hr day ...makes an interesting state

Started by Gary RK in Business

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Planning for Winter 2013/2014

Ok, I suspect some are saying "WHAT ?".

True, this year has been slow to kick off due to the weather, but cast your mind back to some of the posts late last year with members struggling to find work.

The next few months generally goes ballistic wit

Started by Gary RK in Business

13 Replies · Reply by Graeme @ BGS Aug 25, 2013

When did you decide saturation point was?

Last year, we lost several jobs because I did not realise when the work saturation point was. If I would have employed someone last year earlier we would not have lost any few jobs. This was my fault due to a major failure in my judgement.I think too

Started by Steve Sonic Grounds Maintenance in Business

23 Replies · Reply by Darren Walters Apr 28, 2013

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