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The bit that pays you all year round, every month, year after year?
Customer service. :-)
The two hours spent printing invoices off each week :)
Few clients of mine pay cash - then again cash only works for small amounts and domestics.
In honest answer to your question - all work is profitable if you price it correctly for your own business set up and overheads - specalise and kit out for hedge work and you will be quick at it and theirfore more profitable than your competition, likewise kit and train for proper plant work and you may get your hand bitten off as so few gardeners are actually knowledgeable regarding plants, plant care and how to structure a garden.
Perhaps people could answer your questions better if you gave a summary of your business? IE set up - target market, experience you have etc... Asking such general questions will only get broad, generalized answers.
What qualifications do you have? Spraying tickets for example, will open up very lucrative comcercial work to you (Rates typicaly £30-60Ph)... you could also then consider lawn care and treatments with those tickets.
Experience? Are you a fresh start up with no experience, or a seasoned worker going it alone in a new business?
Another point the area you cover, urban or rural - fuel use can swing from £30-£130 a week between the two,
And finally - What do you want to do? If you just chase the bottom line you will likely bore of the work and also not be able to deliver - One thing about gardning is, the 80/20 rule does seem to run the industry - 80% of the work for 20% of the money, the 20% giving the 80% is the skilled part.
If we all knew this we would be millionaires!!!
Firstly clients who actually pay you! I have had a few bad ones (the type that are moving want the garden tidied prior to moving and you never ever meet then they disappear, even took a forwarding address which was fake!)
Secondly when the expenses actually workout less than you quoted for!