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Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.

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Minimum wage up to £5.80 an hour

The UK minimum wage will rise by 7p to £5.80 an hour from October.The rate for 18 to 21-year-olds will increase by 6p to £4.83.Perhaps our MP's still think £6 per hour is a good rate for a gardener!

Started by Graeme @ BGS in Business

3 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Nov 10, 2009

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Cashflow management in your business.

6a00d8345192c169e2011570747cd0970b-150wi It will be too late for some of you to act (hopefully we can get the transcript later) but for those of you who are around at midday today, the British Chamber of Commerce are holding a live chat targeted at cash flow management.

Started by Phil Voice in Business

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Advertising - a possible alternative?

A couple of years ago I took over the running of our newsletter, which at the time was a single a4 piece of paper, formatted using tables giving practically the same information each time. Predictably it was hardly read and often went from the door t

Started by dgeorgea in Business

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Staff and Mobile Phones

Hi allI have a couple of members of staff and they use their own mobile phones to speak to me regarding jobs when I am on one site and they are on another. At the moment my staff use their own handsets but I do not know how to reimbuse them for their

Started by Nick @ NM Garden Services Ltd in Business

6 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Apr 24, 2009

A couple of leads

I have posted two requests in the Landscaping, gardening and design leads group.1st for a landscaper designer for a redesign of the rear garden - mainly planting and water feature rather than hard landscaping. Location Lightwater, Surrey.2nd for a on

Started by Graeme @ BGS in Business

3 Replies · Reply by Graeme @ BGS Apr 24, 2009

Liability insurance and how glad you have been to have some

As there has often been reference for the need of liability insurance, particularly directed at persons starting of in the trade. I wondered if there are any members who would like to share their stories of being unlucky enough to have had a claim ag

Started by GORDON in Business

24 Replies · Reply by Kieran Ray Nov 3, 2009

work in new area/Advertising?

Hi all,I know this is going over a few other topics again but I am hitting a bit of a brick wall at the moment.I am looking to try and get work in a new area nearby but am not sure how to go about advertising in the area.I am thinking about walking t

Started by Big Dig Groundworks in Business

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What are you paying for red diesel?

I bought 40.10 Litres of red diesel this afternoon and I was pleasantly surprised that the cost has dropped since the heady heights of last summer. I paid 0.564 a litre which included TAX of 19.60% - This cost equates to about .60 pence per litre. Ho

Started by Phil Voice in Business

9 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Mar 20, 2009

Two opportunities

The University of Warwick has two tenders out at the moment, one for a soft/hard landscaping job and another for a Landscape Architect. Ten days left to request information.https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick/These were found via http://www

Started by dgeorgea in Business

2 Replies · Reply by dgeorgea Mar 17, 2009

Searching for solid Tines for my "BIG WILLY"

I`ve got a Pedestrian Aerator, "Big Willy" and i`m searching for some new solid tines for it, they are 3 1/2 inch round solid tines and I will need 50 to replace my old ones.I`ve been quoted £8 per tine!!! That equates to over £400 with delivery, I o

Started by James Hall in Business

2 Replies · Reply by steve loftus Mar 13, 2009

35 tips to managing a downturn.

Common sense basic advice, but can be useful to review.35 tips to managing a downturn

Started by dgeorgea in Business

1 Reply · Reply by dgeorgea Feb 28, 2009

Policies and Procedures - an idea for LJN

Hopefully one of the things that LJN will do is improve the industry in various ways, especially raising awareness and standards on different issues as people read, join in and learn.As I've mentioned in another thread, there is little point in peopl

Started by dgeorgea in Business

2 Replies · Reply by dgeorgea Feb 28, 2009

Profit or pot luck?

Profit margins are being squeezed due to many factors but I ask the question does anyone actually factor in “profit” when quoting for jobs?There have been a number of posts on the forum where I suspect that a daily labour rate has been quoted plus ma

Started by Graeme @ BGS in Business

22 Replies · Reply by PGM Sep 8, 2019

gaining new residential contracts, how to go about getting them.

ive noticed a town not to far from me has loads and loads of old peoples homes and commercial properties etc, some looked very tidy others not so, i wondered how i could go about putting in a quote to take over the contract for the care of garden mai

Started by ian in Business

6 Replies · Reply by Graeme @ BGS Feb 12, 2009

Wet Days

What does everyone in this business do on continous wet days when they can't get outside for work.What about the winter months.I have often thought of being like a ski instructor and having two jobs-one for summer and one for winter.Anyone want me to

Started by claudia de yong in Business

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Snowed under? Merchant bankers?

It looks like we are entering our second week gripped firmly in the icy hands of the big freeze. As I write, we still have at least four inches of lying snow and still more to come, I believe. A vision of crisp, winter loveliness.Certainly in the sum

Started by The Perfumed Garden in Business

8 Replies · Reply by Cat Fereday Feb 9, 2009

Scheduling work: What methods do you use?

If like me you are handling quite a few different numbers of clients and requirements (at one point I had 400 regulars but now trimmed this way down) then scheduling is a very important part of running the business.Whilst I currently use a mix of Exc

Started by Graeme @ BGS in Business

19 Replies · Reply by Jen@A&J Owenwindows&gardens Nov 13, 2011

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Yell earnings review

I know quite a few people either use Yellow Pages and Yell.com, or at least get constant calls from their sales reps! So I though you might be interested in a write up of its recent earnings review: Earnings: Yell.com Grows Online, But Over Tenth Of

Started by Craig McGinty in Business

7 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Feb 6, 2009

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Real help for businesses

I follow quite a number of news feeds and recently crossed this one about Business Link: Press release, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform: Businesses are being urged to take advantage of a range of business support packages on o

Started by Craig McGinty in Business

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Small firms urged to sign up for government contracts

Small firms across the UK are being urged to sign up to the government’s Supply2.gov.uk website and to take advantage of the thousands of government contracts available. More than 123,000 companies have already signed up to the website, which provide

Started by Phil Voice in Business

4 Replies · Reply by Graeme @ BGS Feb 12, 2009

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