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Regards Drew.
While not being in N I, my advice to you would be to charge what you need to charge. If you have no work, then you need to be VERY competitive to get your foot on the ladder. Having plenty of work gives you scope to be more selective. It's no good bleating about the £5 - £10 per hour guys.............they have always been there and always will. Some are clueless and some know more about gardening than most 'professionals' .............they just like getting out and about earning a bit of extra money.
Re advertising, not sure about local papers, but local newsagents' windows and parish magazines are cheap and give a good return. Facebook can also open a few doors. Good luck.
Lawn Mowing is a dying trade as people these days want their whole garden maintained by qualified gardeners.
The way to price up you work is to find out how long it takes to do one hundred square meters, multiply that time by your direct costs, then multiply that by 2.5 to get your profit margin.
Adrian has always been an advocate for charging very very highly and not neccesarily being clear how/why.
And I for one do not find lawn mowing a dying trade.