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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Are you going to use it to connect with gardeners all over the world, and find out what they are doing?
Are you going to use it to find others doing the same job as you, or who have similar niches?
Are you going to use it to find people locally to you, - these could be other local businesses, or those that could be potential clients?
My husband (not a gardener) - lurks on twitter and follows sportspeople and presenters of his favourite programs, this means that he has a better understanding of the backgrounds of those he's watching (and is more loyal about watching them)
I use it to find out information about gardening people and events that I wouldn't otherwise have access too, I have a far wider knowledge of what's going on than ever before, which I translate to giving my customers better service by having more information for them.
If you are new to twitter, I would suggest you follow @markshaw - he's got great tips.
I made the mistake of thinking 'the more the merrier' and started to get too much 'information'
I think those that twitter and provide 'value content' are good.
Those that twitter to make themselves feel 'bigger/boast etc' I find a complete turn-off!
I think time spent on Twitter, a blog, on a forum can be useful or wasted and it all depends on how and when it is used - one can waste time and focus by putting an advert in the wrong place in the wrong magazine at the wrong time.
Like our previously traditional forms of media and advertising, the consumer cannot always immediately define when or where or what they saw that triggered the 'buy' or start to a relationship.
Many of our network members have come through Twitter.
...oh!, and it's a very powerful search engine too.
Point taken, it is all down to how it gets used. I was struggling to see the useful communications mixed in with all the 'rubbish' out there.
I guess, using your analogy, my advert could be surrounded by totally irrelevant adverts or if I were looking then I need to home in on what I want to 'find'.
BUT, if you look at the overall Twitter environment, a large % of the content is total and utter rubbish.
Hidden in there are the "Gems"......It's finding them that's key...
Explain your last sentence ?
The business account is used as a means of keeping in touch with fellow gardeners, gardening journalists, local businesses and networking organisations, suppliers, clients, potential clients and other interested parties. It is a useful channel for publicising our blog and other website updates.
That is where it is at its most useful for us - as another communication channel (alongside ads, the website, picking up the phone, email, Facebook, networking, LJN etc). It isn't the Next Big Thing - it's just another channel.
There aren't enough hours in the day as it is let alone using twitter. If I get short of work, then maybe......
I'm a very analogue type bloke, sent an iphone back after 4 days as it was too gimmicky for me.
Vinyl LPs and hardback books here.
I spend more time on Landscape juice than twitter -
I check twitter when I get home from School run, when i'm having a tea break/lunch in a garden & when i'm checking emails at the end of the day. - other times tend to be when i'm bored cos hubby's watching football (like now!) - usually 15 mins a day. - as a free marketing tool, I think it is well worth it.
Richard said:
I make time for LJN as an excellent reference tool, sound advice and helps me to do my job better.
Claire Brown said:
but you are right, if you are contributing to this site, then you are not going backwards, and Phil is doing the tweeting for promotion anyway.
Richard said:
Technology makes my brain hurt, it took me ages to do the clait courses to use my computer something like properly.
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