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Thanks for the tips guys. I've had a young guy doing his Hort certificate come and do work experience with me. As a result of this I am thinking I will offer him a casual position for a few months to make sure I do indeed have enough ongoing work (and that he continues to be enthusiastic!) and then offer a full time job after that.
As NeedCoffee suggested, I am indeed turning down small jobs regularly as people just are not happy to wait 6-8 weeks for a 1 or 2 day job to be done. As a result of this the only bookings I take tend to be for jobs of one week or longer, which though great, just exacerbates the problem for people with smaller jobs.
I guess job scheduling is another consideration.
Any of you who are mainly landscape installers - Once you started getting bigger jobs do you tend to just stick with them and book everything up months in advance? Or do you create time (or take time away from big jobs) to squeeze the smaller jobs in as well? How do you find that has affected your business?
Thanks again for your responses.
Tony Green
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