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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They are a franchise operation, so wonder if they are recruiting 'staff' for existing franchisees to handle workload and also looking to open new franchises ?
Seems a bit like the GC model ?
They are looking for Franchisees. As they are struggling to find new business contractors and they get in many gardening requests.
Its just a short email, but the disclaimer at the bottom of the email states its private and confidential. Otherwise I would just copy and paste.
They guarantee work for 35 to 40 hours per week and you have to work to their minimum quality standards, whatever they are. They will find the jobs for you. All for the minimum investment of £1,490 as per their website joinfantastic .com
Could be of interest to those who just start up I guess, with no customers. But I just have issues having a middleman cream off my physically hard work.
Not counting my van, I had less spend when I started my business.
Looking at the website the franchisee needs to have this to be able to be with them (in a tiny nutshell):
"Previous experience is not required but it’s definitely an advantage. Equipment and vehicle required (really? I thought I could just bicycle to the customers and use their equipment) , Public Liability and vehicle insurance required."
If I have all that then I won't need them. Probably a reason why they cannot find the right trades persons/Gardeners.
With regard to the post about gardening & the media, from the 'joinfantastic' website
Yet another company, I've never heard of before that has potential customers queueing up
Two things strike me