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There’s nothing we like better than catching up with the business owners of an Ed’s gardening business.\u00a0 We often have a catch up when they are taking a well-earned coffee break.\u00a0 We believe that effective coaching is at the very heart of Ed’s success.<\/p>\n
Even once our Business Owners are very well established, communication is always strong and we love to hear what’s going well as well as giving ongoing support when required.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dave gives us the low down…<\/h2>\n
Earlier this week, we caught up with Dave Laing<\/a>.\u00a0 Dave runs his own successful gardening business in Andover<\/a>. He joined Ed’s in May 2017 so is now into his third year of operation as an Ed’s business owner.\u00a0 Dave took a few minutes to reflect on how he is feeling about his Ed’s journey. This is what he had to say:-<\/p>\n “Well, here I am with a great little gardening business. I’ve got forty great regular customers now, which was my target from day one. My business really is running smoothly now and I have a very strong sense of achievement.”<\/p>\n “I don’t want to sound smug but I really am in a very good place with my business now. I can see the fruits of all my focus and planning. At the start, the Ed’s team always stressed how important it was to put strong building blocks in place and I really took that on board and followed their advice to the letter. I am really pleased that I did that as I can see now how important it is in building a very strong business. My financials are looking really good and life is really very enjoyable. I still love gardening and get a real kick out of a job well done. I think my enthusiasm comes over with my customers and they are a really loyal, lovely bunch of people.”<\/p>\n “At a personal level, I can honestly say that life has never been better. My wife and I had a fabulous holiday in Namibia earlier this year and we are planning a trip to Corsica later this year and are also going to Cuba in the New Year. I feel fitter than I have in years and feel a lot younger than when I started my business with Ed’s.”<\/p>\n “When I joined Ed’s, I wanted a successful business, of course. However, I also wanted a good work\/life balance and I’ve definitely achieved that. I work four and a half days per week now as I like to get finished around lunchtime on a Friday so we can have a really good weekend and some quality down time.”<\/p>\n “Ed’s really has been the best thing I have ever done career-wise.\u00a0 My only regret is that I really wish I had started my business five years earlier, when I think about how disenchanted I was in my corporate job in that period. If I had known then what I know now, I would have jumped ship in a flash!”<\/p>\n “I can see me running my Ed’s business for many years to come.\u00a0 I’ve found my niche and I can’t ever imagine being employed by someone else ever again. I love the freedom too much. I might go down to a four day week in ten years or so though!”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dave reflects on his shipshape gardening business…and life There’s nothing we like better than catching up with the business owners of an Ed’s gardening business.\u00a0 We often have a catch up when they are taking a well-earned coffee break.\u00a0 We believe that effective coaching is at the very heart of Ed’s success. Even once our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-franchise-success-story","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The gardening business road so far…<\/h2>\n
Life in general…<\/h2>\n
…And the future for your gardening business?<\/h2>\n