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How much do you charge for designs?

This is something that has just been touched in on in the 'Clients Budgets' post. But do people charge for their designs and how much?I recently designed and priced quite a complex garden and it took me the best part of a day to complete this, not in

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Sow the new Amvista Winter grass seed in temperatures down to 5C

A new innovation for establishing winter lawns and sports pitches has arrived.  New AMVISTA Winter grass seed is a ryegrass seed mix bred specifically to germinate at much lower temperatures than normal seed; and is the only cultivar of its type in

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Facebook unveils Facebook At Work, lets businesses create their own social networks

The product puts Facebook head-to-head with the likes of Microsoft’s Yammer, Slack, Convo, Socialcast, and a huge number of others who are trying to tackle the “enterprise social network” space. Even LinkedIn conveniently let drop last night that it

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Garden design software

Best suggestions for garden design software as sketch up pro is £350+ ?

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Self assesment query. 'Yes its that most wonderful time of the year'

I had a non paying customer for a job that was carried out and invoiced for in january 2014 ( So last tax year)

The customer had some difficulties at the time and i pretty much wrote it off after some fretting. To my surprise and relief they have now

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Builders trailer what sides to have

I've got a 12x6 builder dropside indespension trailer at the moment I pile and sheat. Was thinking of making mesh sides but there heavy then I though just dropping some boards in?Basically reason i have dropside is because when I tip at the waste sit

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Invoicing software

Hi everyone, 

I'm increasingly spending more time doing paperwork and sending invoices. i currently have a word document for each invoice, change the dates and invoices numbers, save and print. Always looking for ways to be more efficent . Has anyone

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Very Annoyed Now

i am now feeling very annoyed after a brief conversation with phil voice  regarding the pro s and con s of being a pro member just airing afew questions i had which phil answered for me 

i have been out to the shop and come back to find my pro members

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ride on mowers

Thinking about getting my first one, any ideas ? I have been looking at the John Deere x155.

  Regards,

  Rob

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Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution

THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice. Economic progress an

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How to fire an employee

Firing someone can be a harrowing process and with the ever-present distraction of costly tribunal action it’s imperative a business is both firm and fair.

It is the hardest conversation an employer can have with an employee, but contrary to a common

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Sketch-Up for Garden Design

Hi all

I usually design with graph paper and tracing paper but I've just started to experiment using Sketch-Up, just the free version at the moment, not the pro.
I was wondering if anyone uses it and what they think of it?
There's some good things it

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Treating your travel as a cost of landscape sales

Imagine quoting for two separate jobs? One job is located just 2 miles from your operating base and the other job is located 30 miles away.

For the sake of this exercise, let's say that both landscaping projects are exactly the same specification.

H

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Beachbot creating sand drawings - what other applications can you think of?

I've just been reading this article on TechCrunch about this computer guided automated robot. Disney have used it to demonstrate how sketches can be made on the beach.

"It doesn't require much thinking to come up with practical uses for this, even

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Dennis & SISIS to Host Informative Cricket Groundsman’s Seminar

Dennis & SISIS have announced that they will be holding their popular cricket seminar on February 17th, where groundsmen in the sport will be able to refresh their education on a variety of topics.

The two powerhouses in turfcare machinery, along with

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IOG SALTEX - New Venue, New Date - New Team

The Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) has enhanced the team working behind the scenes on NEW SALTEX, scheduled at the NEC for 2015 with Matthew Knight and Caroline Barbour joining in roles to coordinate and direct the organisation, marketing and prom

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Anyone coming from Cleveland to the Midlands soon?

I've just bought a mower and it might save me a drive and earn you some ££'s

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Explaining the LJN v3.0 Redesign

Hi all,

As the person responsible for implementing Phil's vision for LJN 3.0, I thought I'd chime in with a reply to some of the comments on the new site, most of which seem to be positive, but some of which are negative.

Phil has already mentioned

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Landscape juice Regional areas

Anyone think it would be a good idea to share local info stuff thats happening 

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IOG Award Winner Says Sherriff Amenity Was Key to Success

One Leisure, a multi sports complex based in St Ives, deservedly picked up the 2014 IOG Grassroots Sports Grounds Team of the Year. It is a remarkable achievement for head groundsman Rob Bradshaw and his small team who look after the 52 acre site. Th

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