On-line Zoom seminar: Saturday 16th March 2024.
Once again, I will be leading a 3-hour Zoom seminar/workshop for self-employed Gardeners, dealing with How To Take Your Self-Employed Business Further.
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 seminar 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.
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.
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. In the second session, 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 two presentations, afterwards
The talk will start at 9:30 via Zoom and with breaks will last approximately 3 hours.
To book a place, go to the WFGA website.
Later on this year, I will be repeating my one-day seminar/workshop on How to be a Self-Employed Gardener for the WFGA (Working For Gardeners Association), in Grove, Oxfordshire.
We will be based once again at Grove Village Hall, Main Street, Oxfordshire - arrive for registration at about 09.30, for a prompt 10am start: but I'll be talking from the moment you arrive! Bring along a packed lunch, refreshments will be provided, and we aim to finish by 4pm.
This is your chance to ask me any questions you like about starting up in business: having done it myself, and having quite literally written the book on this subject - How To Be A Self-Employed Gardener, to be precise - I am always happy to talk about it, and to answer questions, to encourage more people to take this step and become self-employed as Gardeners. Even if you are already self-employed, this workshop will help and encourage you to take it to the next level, to be better: and to charge a realistic rate for it!
You are welcome to email me beforehand, if you have a specific question or topic which you would like to be sure is covered on the seminar.
To book a place, contact the WFGA via their website.