Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
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I stick to the Pistonheads forum specific to my car, but even that is a pretty nasty place to be sometimes. Pistonheads is steadily going downhill, and not from a particularly high starting point!
To be fair, most of the rates quoted (I only read the first page as it was enough for me) aren't unreasonable when they are talking about unskilled, uninsured, cash-in-hand workers, or for cheap areas of the country. My Mum still pays £10 per hour in Cornwall, and the guy does a perfectly good job, so they aren't all cowboys at the lower end of the pricing market.
I think you need to take the comments on that thread with a pinch of salt.
PH is good example of potentially great forum populated by a large number of 'idiots' waving their genitals in the air, saying look at me, look what I do/say/drive when a lot are wanna-be 17yr old Corsa drivers.
Like Paul, I suspect, I rarely now participate. It's just not worth the cr*p that flies around
Comments re: Gardeners just reflect the mentality of a large % of the members and gives an indication of the 'real' people behind the posts.
Example - who would go a forum and state they have £50k - £75k to spend on a car and want to know what to choose from a bunch of people they do not know? Why on earth would you do that other than to try and get 'some on-line street cred' ! Most on there can't even drive I suspect !
A lot of the good members have moved on to specific, dedicated/private forums where sensible discussions can be held without silly behaviour.
If you want to see good (bad ?) examples of how nasty or bullying a forum can be go there and look.
With any similar type of forum, there is no 'validation' / no real membership. You can be who or what you want to be depending on how much you can bluff it. I guess that's true generally of the webby thingy - that's why I like to see to whom I am conversing or sharing information with on LJN (ie a validated, business related 'member' etc )
A couple of other threads:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2702769
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/gardening/64408-how-much-do-gardeners-c...
Where as the ill informed 'Martin money matters' and 'mums net' comes in before that with the majority of the posts saying £10 an hour is average!! where as in reality the price is nearer £20 per hr. This does cause our industry and many others huge problems.
LJ has been at the top for a long time now. There will be geographical variations too.
The bottom line is, if someone is looking for a gardener based on price only then they aren't the customers we want.
If someone looking for a gardening is basing their research purely on the views of the Mumsnet, Money Saving Expert and Piston Heads then they are, quite frankly, stupid ;-0)
Martin Worswick said:
That article on money saving expert is the biggest pile of crap i have ever read, they all seem to think £10 per hour is the going rate.
Phil, what can we do to ensure LJN stays at no1 on google?
"Phil, what can we do to ensure LJN stays at no1 on google?"
If everyone linked to one of the following pages on Landscape Juice from their website it will strengthen their respective positions on Google.
What does a gardener charge (see page views to get a guage of how many times it's visited).
What does a gardener charge?
What should I pay a gardener per hour?
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