Description
About The Tutor:
Rachel the Gardener is a Professional Gardener, Plantsmith, Field Botanist, Consultant Forensic Horticulturalist, gardening Journalist, and Author, having published over two dozen Botany and Gardening books, including How To Be A Successful Self-Employed Gardener which was written specifically for people just setting out as Gardeners.
About This Workshop:
Once you’ve been a self-employed Gardener for a couple of years or more, it’s easy to get swept up in the seasons, and to lose sight of your initial goals.
This Workshop aims to help you take a fresh look at your business, to deal with any problems or issues that might have arisen, and to encourage you to look beyond your current situation.
With a style that has been variously described as “chatty and informal” and “appropriately bossy”, Rachel will take you through the commonest problems and pitfalls: wasting time; un-necessary paperwork; increasing your income; targets and how to use them; dissatisfaction with your Clients and how to deal with them. After a short break, Rachel covers specialising; how to increase and stabilise your hourly rate, and why you should do so; how to deal with late payers and low payers; when and how to ‘sack’ unsatisfactory Clients, and how to replace them with better ones; then some pointers on Expanding and Looking Forwards; with questions being asked all along the way.
All delegates can submit questions by email beforehand: and all delegates will receive a pdf version of the presentation, with some additional handouts. There will be time for questions and discussion at the end of the Zoom session.
Timings:
Start: 9:30am via Zoom (with breaks)
End: 12.30pm approx.
Costs:
Members : £40 | Non-Members £60
Important Booking Information:
- You will need a suitable PC/Laptop/Mac with a camera, and will need to download the free Zoom App from their website.
- This online talk will not be recorded.
- If you do not receive your emailed ticket with Zoom Meeting details and link within 5 days of booking and paying for your ticket, in the first instance please check your junk folder prior to contacting us at [email protected]. Your ticket will be emailed to the email address that you supply at the time of booking.
- Use the ‘Add to Calendar’ option in your email ticket so that you don’t miss a booked event.
- Standard Cancellation Policy (copy available here): A 50% refund is applicable for event ticket cancellations up to and including 15 days before an event. If you cancel your attendance on an event within 14 days, no refund will be given.
