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Budgeting and Estimating Systems for all retail, service and wholesale trades
including arborists, landscape contractors, property maintenance, paving/stone
installation companies, interior landscaping, and swimming pool companies.
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Strategies for garden centers!

  • Starting your retail garden center
  • How much will it really cost?
  • Complete budgets to determine pricing including break even points, labour needs and costs, charges
    for services you provide.
  • Advertising and marketing programs that increase traffic flow.
  • Attracting new customers to your store.
  • Overcoming barriers to high prices.
  • Purchasing products: Who should you purchase from, what quantities should you buy, at what price?
    What about discounting and loss leaders?
  • Retail design and set up: Designing the center, placement of products, colour scheme, traffic flow,
    signage, security.
  • Management: Job descriptions, computer systems, paper flow and design
  • Training: Special programs for supervisors, staff, productivity, and add on sales techniques

Ask yourself

  • Are you maximizing the potential of your employees?
  • Are your employees productive team players?
  • Is your company plagued with absenteeism and high turnover?
  • Are you making plans for expansion and require critical objective data upon which to base future
    decisions?
  • Can you afford to ignore problems that are costing you money?

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