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Maintenance Gardener required

If you you can weed, mow, and hoe with a smile on your face in all weathers, - we'd love you to join our team.

NM Garden Services Limited has a full Full time Maintenance Gardener Position available immediately due to company expansion.

Candidate must

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How to avoid time wasters .... Advice needed .

Hello every body can I please hear how people avoid getting there time wasted by people that just want your ideas or will not give a budget ??

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How do you Organise your working week ?

It's a Monday morning and a busy week ahead looms.

Just how do you organise you day(s) and workloads ?

Any tips, processes/procedures you find useful ?

Any software you use to help organise your admin and 'real' work ?

Given most of us are in a 'Serv

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Time management for small business professionals (webinar)

Nobody has more to do in a single day than a small business professional – marketing, finance, sales, logistics – the list goes on and on.
Time management, especially for small businesses, is a skill often talked about but rarely mastered.

In this on

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How would a change in daylight saving time impact the horticulture industry?

The UK government has agreed to back a bill to assess the impact of longer daylight hours and I wonder how you'd all feel about the proposed change?

A report in the Telegraph this morning says:

Ministers have agreed to support the measure drawn up b

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Clear electronic invoicing

Clear is an online invoicing and time tracking service that enables business professional to quickly and easily create, send, track and manage invoices. With no finance or technical skills needed, Clear will free up your time to earn more money, enab

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VAT / 2011 charges

what increase are you charging this year?

 

i increased just 10% to many existing clients and surmise similar this year with all cost to me increasing plus the 2.5% vat increase and all living costs...

 

i will need sick pay /holiday /bad weather and hea

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Average time to dig fence post holes

I have been asked to look at 100m of 6' fence panels contouring around a hill. Holes will be dug by hand and some test holes will be made as I suspect it may be rocky. Sadly I cannot remember my exact rate of progress from previous jobs, but about 1/

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Should the clocks be changed forward ?

There's been a few moves over recent years to change BST by 1 or 2 hours. See this : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/mar/26/british-summertime-change I can't decide if it's a good thing or not - dark mornings and brighter evening

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How long is an estimate valid for?

How long do people keep there estimates valid for ??

With material prices changes several times throughout the year and the governments tax and fuel cost increases to name but a few, how long realsitically can you honour your estimate for? would be

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What are you doing to watch the England match ?

I've succumbed and allowed everyone to finish early tomorrow to allow them to watch the match - what are you doing ?? I want to as well, but stupidly have a meeting in the afternoon that I need to get out off/cut short. For what it costs, I more than

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2nd Jobs or part/time jobs !

This maybe something you may or may not want to disclose.But there is a reason for me bringing this up.Do you have another job or income besides gardening/landscaping ?The reason i pointing this out is directly that it is a Physically demanding job,

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