You may have always thought that "it would be nice to own a flower shop," Well at some point in time would successfully. Once you get behind the initial cost of opening your retail florist you could have a guaranteed success, provided that your customers directly, sent a wonderful product and are generally open-minded your business.
Over the last decade or so, but that has changed everything. I'm not 100% sure about your town but I know (for me the onePopulation of 450,000, and is very close to some other cities with similar populations), the number of bricks and mortar retail florist has received at least half of large firms who have ceased their rapid expansion some time ago.
There is a new day and age, florist by many things. No more people to visit their local florists for fresh flowers, you can take a beautiful bouquet of flowers for the same wholesale price that is charged in their local Wal-Mart orGrocery store. I wonder at the cost and quality of flowers. But to understand how the stores can do is simple. The purchasing power / volume and will, of course, their main suppliers of products for shipment, they would never be a possibility with this account should be!
Another reason is of course the Internet. If you do a search for a local florist (which I did recently and was surprised) You may think you are ordering from a florist that another Mom & Pop store inthe city that you want to send flowers, but most of the time the web pages you actually pull up the creation of a collector "order" This is basically set up a company Web sites that mimic the local florists. The only shop do so effectively, is to collect your order and then forward it to the florist "real" The florist is maintained only real if it is a member of one of the major news agencies, some are beginning to see are the Light and outthanks.
What does this mean? The person who answers the phone to Aunt Betty's Flowers will hold 20% of the money for the organization and usually gives a discount of $ 4.00 per wire service they use. The service has a thread 7% of your money. What does the flower shop that your order is received, fill? They pay 75 to get your order over the wire-service system, you will pay 35% to fill your order and pay anywhere from $ 300 to $ 800 per month to bea member of this service line.
If you do the math, it's just terrible. The person who has the goal will only make $ 60.00 $ 16.00 to answer the phone. The florist who will not do the actual work of $ 21.45 for the job. So they have to fill at least 15 of these contracts, only for the cost of membership to create the service wire.
So what can be done if the idea of making money with the flowers and interesting for you. First, do not follow the majority of companiesBooks on the subject. I have not seen a new book not yet written, which is relevant to today's market. Secondly, and this is a term more often now that I see "find a niche."
In the past a flower shop florist wanted a "full service", but my colleagues who have left full-Arena for the service is usually at weddings and other specialized niches left and are pretty good, without all the headaches and the stress that goes with the bricks and mortar full-service location. InIn fact it is a beautiful woman that I know for me to work for my funeral would be complete if I had to leave the shop (my regular workers could do from day to day, but no work funeral) from the flower shop he was working when the property first change over 7 years and was at a wedding florist.
I visited her in November (not a typical busy time of years) for weddings, and was booked every weekend. At first they were about the stigma of working from home. But if you look todayWorkforce, working at home it's time for something more and more people, and if not is probably because they are not the best way to find the money you want to do.
Profits from work from home are also great. I spend up to $ 8000 per month, before applying any make a profit, and I have not even little. (This was previously one of the higher costs for most companies, but the Internet is as good as gone with the yellow pages ads, etc.) managed
Lookthis example, say you decide to get flowers every day from home, with orders from your website, word of mouth, etc. $ 60 bouquet, we used the example is already $ 39 or more in your pocket, and no must do 15 for free just pay for cable service. After 15 of the Agreement, you must have $ 585 in his pocket, instead of $ 0. Thats a big difference in your face and you have to pay you all your time and effort. Do not you agree?