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Recommended bluetooth keyboard for iPad?

Has anyone got or could recommend a reasonable priced bluetooth keyboard for an iPad?

Started by Phil Voice in Marketing

3 Replies · Reply by Neil Rawlins Mar 16, 2017

tree surgeon Edinburgh based website images

Hi and thanks for reading.

I've recently updated our website page for tree surgeons using "stock images" i.e. using images from "thinkstock" and "adobe"

The tree surgeon images can be found at

Started by andy shaw in Marketing

5 Replies · Reply by andy shaw Mar 14, 2017

Glossy Resin Bound Brochures

Hi All,

Hope you're all well!

Just to let you know if you want to have a look at our new brochures, just inbox us and we will get you them sent straight out in the post.

Best regards,

The Resin Mill

Started by The Resin Mill in Landscaping and Marketing

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Customer Report Forms

Hi folks I'm on the lookout for a template I can copy that I could complete as a Lawn Condition form wjhen I visit a new customer. Does anyone know where I could get something like this?

Thanks

Started by Ian Kenyon in Marketing

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Has anyone had any dealings with get a gardener .co.uk

Hi all i have recently been pestered to death by this company does anyone have any experience with them also has anyone had any experience with tendersandcontracts.org they have also been hammering me to sign up saying they have nations of work that

Started by Adam Pike in Marketing

3 Replies · Reply by Gary RK Feb 15, 2017

Highlighting roads on an online map??

Hi folks.

As part of my advertising strategy i wish to highlight multiple roads in different parts of my town without it all joining together as a single route. I have tried Google My Map but it restricts the amount of times that i can do this. Anyone

Started by PAUL in Business and Marketing

1 Reply · Reply by Richard Gadsby Feb 10, 2017

Leaflet Distribution

Morning! I'm in the process of organising some leaflets, for the first time.

I'm trying to get a grass cutting round going, with some basic lawn care and hedge cutting too, this will be my second year trading.

Anybody used Dor-2-Dor leaflet distribute

Started by jonathan slapp in Marketing

27 Replies · Reply by John F Feb 12, 2017

Whats in a name?

Getting calls in is the bain of my life. Cant quote for jobs with no calls!!

For many years now I have been playing around with different advertising (mainly with not much luck). In an attempt to drum up more business I was wondering if something as s

Started by Neil Holder in Marketing

4 Replies · Reply by Richard Love Jan 24, 2017

Customer Benefits

If you are finding it hard to raise prices to a reasonable level to give yourself a reasonable income, then this may be of some help to you in planing future advertising campaigns.

Before any customer will hire your services there must be some sort of

Started by 1st Garden Maintenance in Marketing

33 Replies · Reply by Andrew Watts Jan 26, 2017

How many residential customers do you have??

One for the lawn cutters amongst us.

How many customers do you have that you cut there lawn either weekly or fortnightly??

How many members of staff service them??.

At how many customers did you decide to employ help??

Started by PAUL in Business, Landscaping, and Marketing

54 Replies · Reply by Dan Frazer Gardening Mar 25, 2017

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Does your brand have a story?

When I was watching the Apprentice this year there seemed to have been a big focus on creating a story behind the new brands they were creating.

After reading Phil's post about groupon - the article he has linked says

Guaranteeing an excellent custome

Started by Robbie in Marketing

4 Replies · Reply by Derek Tucker Jan 21, 2017

Upgraded Website - Feedback Please ?

Hi folks

All this downtime has given me chance to revamp my website and I would really welcome your feedback and suggestions as to how I may improve it further. It seems daft not to tap into all the knowledge and experience within the group and I know

Started by Ray Littlewood in Marketing

16 Replies · Reply by Geoffrey King Dec 26, 2016

Signwriting design

Morning all,

Following my (not so) recent post, I've got a design back from the signwriters for the new van and just wanted some opinions on it. Is completely different from the original I bodged up, but I like it. There's a couple of contact detail

Started by Tom Beevor in Business, Marketing, and Suppliers

16 Replies · Reply by Geoffrey King Dec 30, 2016

New Website from Tracmaster

Hello all! Some of you may be aware that we have had a number of issues with our website. Issues such as our site being taken offline with no warning because we were slowing our host's servers too much.

As a result, we decided that it was as good a ti

Started by Tracmaster Ltd in Machinery, Marketing, and Social Media

10 Replies · Reply by Tracmaster Ltd Dec 23, 2016

Amusing company names

I passed a van with 'Fencing & Hedges' signwriting the other day - in the style of the Benson & Hedges logo. Made me smile.

Anyone else seen anything similar? I think there's lots of Portaloo companies that have some fun with it.

Started by Ross Cooper in Marketing

15 Replies · Reply by AndyCharles-EnborneGardeningCo Jan 4, 2017

Company Christmas Cards.

For many years, we have sent a company Christmas card to all of our current maintenance and previous long standing landscaping customers. Having recently ordered ours for this year, I was wondering who else carries on with this tradition.

Started by Colin Hunt in Business, Landscaping, and Marketing

21 Replies · Reply by Adam Woods Dec 17, 2019

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Landscape Contracts manager - Somerset

Hi everyone

I’m assisting a long-standing client of mine. They are a landscape construction company looking for a contracts manager for a prestige project in Somerset. The work entails supervising a Hard/ soft build on a large private residence.

The wo

Started by Sam Hassall in Marketing

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Landscape Insight Magazine

Has any other supplier/business/company been in contact with this new magazine?

Bit rude, very expensive, not cool.

Thoughts?

Started by Country Supplies in Landscaping, Machinery, and Marketing

8 Replies · Reply by Seth Burgess Jan 3, 2017

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Pro Membership - SEO and notifications

Evening all,I'm a newbie to this so please bear with me. Have had a standard account but just upgraded to pro Membership.I'd just like to know a couple of things if anyone is able to help:1. I've heard LJN is great for SEO, how exactly does it work a

Started by Paul Jackson in Business, Marketing, and Social Media

12 Replies · Reply by Paul Jackson Nov 29, 2016

Survey for start-up business

Hi guys, I recently enrolled into college and I'm currently doing an assignment where the scenario is I have to develop a business idea, plan and proposal for a marketing business.

For all of those who are currently running their own gardening busine

Started by Andrew Hill in Design, Accountancy, and Business

50 Replies · Reply by Gary RK Nov 12, 2016

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