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Obviously i dont know the full situation of your business, but if you have enough work for potenially another person why dont you employ someone on a self employed basis initially? Advertise the position on facebook or simular and you will soon fill the role. Ask for an hourly or date rate and simply factor it into your pricing and make profit on another pair of hands. I dont see the point of merging with another company as you are likely to instantly half your money. Its also highly unlikely you'll find someone in exactly the same position, for example, say you make 10k profit a year, and the chap you find makes 20k a year.... Hope this helps. Its what i did and i have NEVER looked back
Thanks. You're right if I could make that work it would be great. On the whole however I find self-employed gardeners want to do their own thing and charge about the same as myself so there is little margin to make it worthwhile. Having said that I should probably do something along those lines. Paying cash is obviously illegal and ultimately you end up paying their tax. Agency workers are a way to go but somewhat hit and miss.
Ideally I'd like to find a way of both gradually delegating more and growing the business by taking a share of a larger one.
I'd be interested to hear how other people have grown their businesses on these lines and what kind of legal and accounting hurdles one might expect