{"id":372,"date":"2016-05-10T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-04-08T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:50:22","slug":"ed-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/10\/ed-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed had a great day on Friday, escaping from the Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office and travelling up to Norfolk to meet Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Operators John Marshall, Stuart Thackery and Ian Waters, who all run their Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s businesses in that lovely corner of England.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ed loves days out like these and says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 It is always great to get out on the road and meet our guys on their own turf (excuse the pun!) I find it really rewarding to go to see them to catch up face to face on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on in their lives. The guys get lots of opportunity to get together with the whole Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team but they have a real hub established in Norfolk and it makes a lot of sense to get together with them to focus on their specific region. Although there is always lots to do in the office, I make a point of freeing my diary and having days out such as these in different locations as they are really worth the effort.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p>\n

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\n (Left to right) Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Norfolk Operators Ian Waters, Stuart Thackeray and John Marshall with Ed Mauleverer<\/em><\/p>\n

John Marshall says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is real value in getting together like this and chatting through local matters. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great to be part of the whole Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team but at the same time have a really supportive local Operator network. One of the great things with Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is that the protected areas are so clearly structured, you are never in direct competition with another Operator \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you work alongside each other and help each other out when you can. In Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s there is a great buddying system where established Operators are paired up with fledgling ones to give them practical and moral support. I am an experienced Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Operator but last year moved from the South East to Norfolk. It has been great to tap into local area Operator knowledge.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the fact that Ed has grass roots (another pun, sorry!) experience of running his own gardening business like us as well as excellent business skills is hugely helpful and makes you feel like every angle is covered. You get great support from the Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office generally and it always feels very personal rather than Corporate. Being a gardener can be quite a lonely job but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not like that at Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. You get the best of all worlds really \u00e2\u20ac\u201c lots of freedom and great support from all sides. In my region, the Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Operators know each other really well now and it is great to meet up socially. What better way to spend a sunny Friday afternoon!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed had a great day on Friday, escaping from the Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office and travelling up to Norfolk to meet Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Operators John Marshall, Stuart Thackery and Ian Waters, who all run their Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s businesses in that lovely corner of England. Ed loves days out like these and says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 It is always great to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-success-story","category-franchise-support","category-franchise-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}