I am starting this thread to document my progress in planning and starting my business. I encourage anyone and everyone who has questions or suggestions....to ask/tell them. This is what the forum is all about! Here is more information about my business idea.
I am located within the USA (southeast region) and very close to where holiday (x-mas to some)tree's are grown by the BULK.....big time farmers! I can buy quality tree's cheaper than most anyone in the US. My first idea was to mail tree's out and market strictly online. I quickly found out after some research that it would cost too much to mail the tree's so then I decided to market to particular cities. (My plan is to just start with one city). I cannot sell locally because of how easy it is to visit the farms and cut it down(known as choose and cut) which is an experience within itself that I simply cannot replace. The city I have targeted is a few hours away that has a relative high income per household which cannot visit the farms without making a trip that would require a hotel room for the night.
So if you want a real tree, where do you buy them from? Most people buy them off of the retail lots located throughout the city. Most people make purchases soon after Thanksgiving as well. What is the problem with that? Most retail lots buy in bulk from the farmers anywhere from late August, Sept, or October. This is my first advantage. My tree's will be fresh and not over 72 hours old. For the next advantage, I will give an example. MJ wants a tree. MJ does not want a sticky tree that might drop something in his Lambo! (Hope everyone liked the example haha). My business will deliver the tree to MJ's door, even in the stand if he so preferred on whatever day he desired.
With the next entry I will bring up how I plan to advertise the business and the operations side of the business. Feedback on the general idea would be great though until then!I am located within the USA (southeast region) and very close to where holiday (x-mas to some)tree's are grown by the BULK.....big time farmers! I can buy quality tree's cheaper than most anyone in the US. My first idea was to mail tree's out and market strictly online. I quickly found out after some research that it would cost too much to mail the tree's so then I decided to market to particular cities. (My plan is to just start with one city). I cannot sell locally because of how easy it is to visit the farms and cut it down(known as choose and cut) which is an experience within itself that I simply cannot replace. The city I have targeted is a few hours away that has a relative high income per household which cannot visit the farms without making a trip that would require a hotel room for the night.
So if you want a real tree, where do you buy them from? Most people buy them off of the retail lots located throughout the city. Most people make purchases soon after Thanksgiving as well. What is the problem with that? Most retail lots buy in bulk from the farmers anywhere from late August, Sept, or October. This is my first advantage. My tree's will be fresh and not over 72 hours old. For the next advantage, I will give an example. MJ wants a tree. MJ does not want a sticky tree that might drop something in his Lambo! (Hope everyone liked the example haha). My business will deliver the tree to MJ's door, even in the stand if he so preferred on whatever day he desired.
Luke
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