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What are your Unique Selling Points

Most businesses have something that they do better or differently to others to make them special in the market place.

 

Ours,

 

We grow plants to a very exacting standard

We only use peat-free compost

We visit Landscapers & Designers on site, and offer pla

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Private pensions to become compulsory for workers

"The coalition government is to press ahead with a Labour scheme to force all UK firms, regardless of size, to automatically enrol their staff into a pension scheme from 2012. "Companies will be told pay in a minimum of 1% of every worker's salary in

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Tricky Late payment

Bit of a tricky one this.

 

I was approched by a fellow landscape gardener that I know to do some lawncare work on a large property that he was working on during summer for a well known person.

A few emails got bounced back and forward until the outline

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Cannabis Plants Needed for 2 Days Filming

Need ORI of 100+ plants 3-4ft tall. Probably hit a dead end with actually sourcing the above.However, suggestions for the closest looking plants would be useful and perhaps a bit of Friday fun! :)

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Accounts paper records archives (how long to retain) ?

I'd always understood that the legal requirement was to keep paper records for six years but I read somewhere recently that perhaps it's only three.  Can someone enlighten me please ?

Thanks

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landscape site measuring software

Ok, forget the over the top american presentation and take a look at the type of integrated landscape related software they have access to....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OC3PnKxNc&feature=related

 

Could you use a UK version of this ? 

 

If s

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How will the government cuts affect commercial horticulture?

The world stock markets have been in euphoric mood for the last eighteen months since their lows of March 2008 but I feel it's now extremely overdone and fundamentally, the United Kingdom cannot maintain its current valuation.

There is nervousness

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Grave Tending

Does anyone do a grave & memorial tending service as it is something I have thought about starting and building up to run along side other work I do.

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Should the clocks be changed forward ?

There's been a few moves over recent years to change BST by 1 or 2 hours. See this : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/mar/26/british-summertime-change I can't decide if it's a good thing or not - dark mornings and brighter evening

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How to survive and thrive in a downturn by Richard Branson

Richard Branson is one of my business heroes and his biography is one of only three I've ever read (on holiday in France). I've written to him twice and he's (or his office) courteously replied on both occasions. I've just followed him on Twitter (no

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Business Branding

Belonging to a business and marketing newsletter/group, I regularly get tips etc and received this today... It's 5 simple tips to help brand your business. All the tips are reasonably small and acheivable and thought I'd post them for all those who a

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landline vs mobile numbers in business

I grew up in business believing that bona fide business always had landlines and not to deal with businesses that only advertised via a mobile number ? Now, with non-geographic numbers (NGNs) such as 0800,0845, 0844 etc, simple call routing technolog

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Do landscape machinery dealers perform in the online world ?

I'm trying to buy a substaintial piece of equipment, so I made initial contact with a few dealers via email on Monday morning stating what we were looking for and our timeframe (ie immediate). They all promote 'contact us now' style invations on thei

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Child benefit cut

Child benefit is being cut in 2013 for high earners of £44.000 For members with families large or small like myself, how much of an impact would this have on your business decisions. 

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SMEs risk employment tribunals due to lack of HR procedures

Millions of small businesses in the UK are breaking the law and risking costly employment tribunals with lax HR policies, according to research by business insurance comparator SimplyBusiness.co.uk. - More than a fifth of small firms have no employme

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materials, prices, offers . for sale, swaps, jobs, help , advice etc

Can we use this to discuss the above ?offers on at landscapes direct for strimmer wire , (we were talking about yesterday)

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The positive approach...

After a period of negativity, its good to see really positive threads appearing. Everyone is looking to see how the current and future situations will effect them and their businesses. It's clear it will have an effect, but how much really depends on

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Increase in the agricultural minimum wage

The minimum wage for agricultural workers in England and Wales changes from today, 1st October 2010 and business must apply the new rates. The agricultural minimum wage applies to nearly all workers in the farming sector and sets hourly rates below w

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Business Rates - who has a business property & pays them ?

It's not often you get a letter from the local council offering you money back, but that's just happened to me this morning. To support small businesses, the Small Business Rate (SBR) relief has been extended from 50% reduction to 100% reduction ffor

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Public liability insurance

Quick question, public liability insurance is up for renewal, just wondered who other people use.

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