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Avant Tecno joins Creating Landscapes

I'm delighted to announce that Avant Tecno Oy have joined the ever growing list of companies signing up to our Creating Landscapes trade show in October.

It's another great success, not only for Creating Landscapes and Landscape Juice but also for

Started by Phil Voice in Marketing

6 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Feb 25, 2011

Do Exhibitions and Events work?

As one of the organisers of Creating Landscapes I have to admit I am a little biased and will have to say “yes”. However, I wanted to share my recent experience of attending The Hire Show earlier in the month where I had a highly productive and busy

Started by Stephen Ingram in Marketing

6 Replies · Reply by Craig McGinty Feb 26, 2011

Wiebang WB50 Chipper / Shredder for sale

Unfortunately I no longer have a need for this machine so I am offering it for sale. I estimate it has done about 5 hours work in total. Only a few months old.

Machine is located near Winchester, Hampshire if anyone is interested.

Model is a Wiebang W

Started by Steve Edmison in Marketing

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Opinions

Much the same as everyone else I am in the process of redesigning my website. What I would love it a little feedback on the current incarnation (unchanged) to see what people think/thought of it.

Apart from the obvious lack of a gallery what else do

Started by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc in Marketing

7 Replies · Reply by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc Feb 23, 2011

Revamped Trade Website, comments please

Customer friendly?

Trade friendly?

www.somerstock.co.uk

Trade login only

Customer

2010

All comments welcome

Started by T & S Plants in Marketing

21 Replies · Reply by T & S Plants Feb 23, 2011

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iPhone friendly landing page for website?

Anyone have any experience with setting up their website to be iphone friendly (or other mobile for that matter)

What I'd like is for the website to detect that the user is looking from a mobile/iphone and send them to a different format of the websit

Started by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc in Marketing

2 Replies · Reply by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc Feb 19, 2011

advertising commercial and private.

so ive got no commercial contracts and this is starting to annoy me now, as ive worked in them for all sorts of different firms so know exactly what needs to be done... i dont have a logo or advertising on my van, i dont have a website, most of my wo

Started by Ian Parkes in Marketing

6 Replies · Reply by Ian Parkes Feb 17, 2011

Advertising in local parish mag

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Hi everyone - I am going to have a three month run of half a page in our parish magazine - I have put the attached together - any suggestions please? Advertising is not my strong point! It will be in black and white. Thanks!

Started by Sarah Russell in Marketing

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Etesia - possible open / demo day

If you are one of the 32 members of the Etesia group, you will no doubt be aware that they are trying to arrange an open / demo day.

Show your support by adding your comments at http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/group/etesiamowers/forum/topics/spe

Started by Graeme @ BGS in Marketing

98 Replies · Reply by Stephen @ SJS Mar 26, 2011

flyers

how many people spend their time dropping flyers through peoples letter box's? and how much response do you get from them? i did try this when i first started 11 years ago and dropped over 2000 flyers and got 1 call and that was a waste of time, with

Started by phil smith yewtreelandscapes.com in Marketing

13 Replies · Reply by Benjamin O'Neill Feb 17, 2012

IP Geotracking

Been working on my new website and have been looking at IP geotracking for tracking and mapping visitors. Does anyone looked at this or use it, and if so, do you find it useful? (see www.geovisite.com, for example).

Started by AndyCharles-EnborneGardeningCo in Marketing

1 Reply · Reply by Keith Barker Feb 9, 2011

anyone want some Leylandii?!

I know it's a long shot but I have a garden with 16 big bushy Leylandii, slightly gold coloured, which have to go and it seems a waste to just cut them down as they've only been in about 18 months and should have a decent chance of transplanting. The

Started by Rose Lennard in Marketing

1 Reply · Reply by Phil Voice Feb 8, 2011

Website help tool

I have found a site which may help you juicers with your websites. If you make them yourselves it can be hard to know if the way you are using META tags is correct. I have stumbled on a site called

http://www.metachecker.net/

This site gives you a rati

Started by Shadow Hall in Marketing

7 Replies · Reply by Mark Watson Feb 24, 2011

How busy is your website?

I couldn't find this on a search so thought I'd start a thread. I have never had big traffic on my site, but I have had a steady flow nonetheless.

The last 6 months on my site look like this:

www.danfrazergardening.co.uk

Started by Dan Frazer Gardening in Marketing

3 Replies · Reply by Richard Boyd Feb 7, 2011

Has anyone got a customer review page on there website?

After reading Craig Mcgibbons recent discussion about adding customer reviews.I am interested to find if anyone has a dedicated page,and how do customers put their reviews on your site.

Google are later on this year going to rank sites with reviews h

Started by Peak surfacing ltd. in Marketing

13 Replies · Reply by Ofer El-hashahar Feb 5, 2011

Creating Landscapes, Your Show.

As one of the organisers of Creating Landscapes, I fully understand the worries of developing and bringing a new event to the market. However, I have been most encouraged by the support of those that are backing the event so far. Clearly these com

Started by Stephen Ingram in Marketing

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First flyer through my door / show me yours!

Received my first gardening flyer of the year today, I believe you can tell a lot about a company by the flyer, this one is on very thin paper, size A5, black & white and was rolled up to get in the letter box.

I feel this is low quality and members o

Started by Bespoke Lawncare in Marketing

30 Replies · Reply by alan mcmillan Feb 8, 2011

Herbicide, knapsack, CDA and other related items for sale

Having packed in my business at the end of the year I have the following for sale.

Probably best suited to the commercial maintenance guys.

Knapsack, Nomix CDA sprayer and lances, Nomix Glymark, various Glyphosate, Spill kits, Mobile chem box, various

Started by Steve Edmison in Marketing

1 Reply · Reply by Matthew Amos Jan 27, 2011

website photos

Hi all,

Am finally getting around to setting up a website and I'm looking for some good stock photos for the site.

I am well aware of all the copyright issues etc and am willing to pay a small fee for good generic photographs,

ie a general pic of someo

Started by Andy Lawrence in Marketing

22 Replies · Reply by Andy Lawrence Feb 27, 2011

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Free press release submissions - making the most of the blogs on LJN

Looking around the internet at some basic press release services, it's apparent that you get exactly what you pay for. Many services will allow you to submit a press release for free but there is often a limitation to the number of words in the submi

Started by Phil Voice in Marketing

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