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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

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Discussion on Best Landscape Business Management Software

Hi everyone,

I'm Marc, one of the founders of CQ Business Management Software. Some of you might remember us from our earlier days as Custom Quoter. Since then, we've undergone significant changes, not just in name but in the breadth and depth of our

Started by marc mazure in Business, Groundscare, and Health and Safety

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Landscape Gardening Business Management Software

Hello everyone, I’m Marc from Custom Quoter and have been talking to Henry, Gary and the team at LJN, He mentioned that there are often threads discussing landscapers/landscaping software.
We wanted to create this discussion to have some direct conta

Started by marc mazure in Design, Accountancy, and Health and Safety

28 Replies · Reply by marc mazure Aug 11, 2022

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Advertising

Morning!

So what types of advertising do you find the best for good quality leads? I know word of mouth and recommendations are the best but what else do you finds works and is good value for money?

I have found local magazines, parish mags very good,

Started by Richard Wilkinson

10 Replies · Reply by Honey Badger Jul 31, 2021

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Landscape Showroom

Hi all,

I have recently joined LJN and thought I would put a quick post on here about my new business.

I have just opened a Landscape Showroom and Products Shop in Newmarket, Suffolk. We have 4 indoor display gardens, composite decking display, art

Started by Richard Wilkinson in Landscaping

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We're giving away £10,000 for someone to start – or grow – their business

Hi everyone, I hope it's okay for us to post this here (and apologies if we've got the wrong section).I wanted to let the members of Landscape Juice Network know about a campaign we're currently running, where we're encouraging people to #TakeTheLeap

Started by Simply Business in Info

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Have you ever had your tools/equipment stolen?

Hi everyone, over the last few years, we've seen an ongoing rise in the number of people having their tools and equipment stolen – often from their vans.

Does this ring true for you guys? We surveyed our customers and the wider trades community to s

Started by Simply Business in Stolen

20 Replies · Reply by Simply Business Oct 8, 2019

Tender websites with no subscription fee

I'm looking to start tendering for work and wondered if any of you guy's with more experience with it could recommend some sites? if there are any that are free, and secondly, any that you would strongly recommend that do require a subcription fee.

Started by Colin James McGrath in Info

5 Replies · Reply by John F Oct 12, 2018

Useful video on efficiency

Thought Id share this as I found it useful

https://youtu.be/ZkF315L4n34

Started by Susan in Business and Landscaping

3 Replies · Reply by Jay smith Aug 16, 2017

Five premium posts that could change your business forever

When we launched the LJN premium (Pro) membership there were undoubtedly many questions asked about how Pro could possibly add more value to LJNs extremely successful FREE to use tools.

Being a Pro member brings different benefits in different ways t

Started by Landscape Juice in Business

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How has Landscape Juice helped your business?

I've just been reviewing the LJN Saturday newsletter stats.

c26% of the LJN membership delves in every week. That's impressive and well above the industry average - depending how you choose to categorise LJN (source MailChimp).

Here's a sample that m

Started by Phil Voice in Social Media

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For Sale: Landscape, Design and Maintenance business based in North London

Posted on behalf of LJN member.

Based in North London, working in east, north, west and central London, mainly.

Financials:

Last financial year: £299K
Net profit last financial year: £14.7K
Current year to date: £139K
Net profit current year to da

Started by Landscape Juice in Design, Business, and Groundscare

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Business

am new to all of this so here we go I work full time in w2 as a so-called head gardener, and I am looking to start my own buiness. As I work full time my private work is mainly done at the weekend, I don't own a van so most weekends I hire a van to g

Started by Robert in Business

5 Replies · Reply by Gary RK Aug 29, 2016

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Do you use Sage software?

A data breach at large UK software company Sage may have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses, it is understood.

Police are investigating the breach and Sage is probing the "unauthorised access" of data by someone using

Started by Phil Voice in Accountancy and Business

1 Reply · Reply by Marc Ollerenshaw Aug 14, 2016

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Landscape businesses going bust

I'm a regular visitor the the London Gazette website. I keep an eye on landscaping businesses gong bust or being petitioned for winding up.

The site gives me an idea of the underlying picture of the state of the UK landscaping industry.

See the lates

Started by Phil Voice in Business

8 Replies · Reply by Daniela McGhie May 31, 2016

Anxiety and depression rife as calls to business debt hotline soar

With some small business owners owing more than £100,000, money worries have a huge personal cost. Getting expert help is crucial.

Businesses have long taken on debt in order to expand and grow. Yet what happens if things don’t go as planned? Trying

Started by Landscape Juice in Accountancy, Business, and Health and Safety

8 Replies · Reply by Graham Wright Oct 5, 2015

Investing in your business and diversification

I have reached a point where I am making a healthy profit as a sole trader with enough work and also managing to save money. However I sometimes wonder what the next step should be for someone like me who does not want to employ anyone, it's just so

Started by Peter in Business

8 Replies · Reply by Mitchel ingham Sep 12, 2015

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Never talk to real grafting gardeners, do they?

Check out this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/11776595/Life-as-a-gardener-Would-you-swap-your-desk-for-muddy-boots.html

How do you persuade school leavers that horticulture is a career worth getting out of bed for? That’s the challenge

Started by Geoffrey King in Business

8 Replies · Reply by Peter Aug 8, 2015

Premium feature: Downloadable document filing system

We've added a brand new filing system to the BOG.

Members who have upgraded to Premium can now access an array of editable documents to use in their own business.

Read more on the benefits of Premium membership: http://landscapejuicenetwork.com/pa

Started by Landscape Juice in Business

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