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Starting A Flower Vending Business | |
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| Starting A Flower Vending Business | |
2/5/2010 12:00 AM
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OVERVIEW
(2) Research and find a flower wholesale to get fresh flowers.
· You need to get only seasonal, beautiful flowers that are fresh and attractive
(3) Create a flower workshop to arrange and sell your flowers. It can be your garage or any other location you rent.
(4) Hire vendors after you establish your business.
(5) Put the word out there by advertising your business.
LICENSES AND PERMITS
Most locations for flower vending business need a license to operate. If you plan to set-up a flower vending stand on a city street or other roadside within city limits, you'll most likely need to get a flower vending business license.
If you plan to sell flowers in restaurants and nightclubs, it is usually not necessary to have a license. Also, if your roadside operations fall outside the city limits, you probably won't need a license because most counties don't issue them. Again, you should check with your attorney, or the proper licensing authorities in your area before you start selling flowers.
Since flowers are tangible, and you may have employees, as anew business owner and employer consider taxes. As an operator of a business you are responsible for collecting sales taxes from flowers you sell or incorporate theta rate about 8% in the price of the flowers. Income taxes are paid to both the federal and state government in most states.
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Starting a flower vending business is relatively easy because you don’t even need much experience nor any complicated and expensive equipment. You will just fresh, attractive flowers, a good location for selling, and a good attitude.
Selling flowers at the right location has is one of the recent retail that can make you some decent money. The secret lies in the fact that people buy flowers when they see flowers old on the streets because their reaction is emotional to the nature of the flowers.
Most men on their way home to see their wives or girl friends will often purchase flowers from roadside vendors for their wives without evenhaving to get out of the car. Women also buy flowers for decoration. You can begin as a home-based or an online operation with as little as $100. You can use your home, apartment or garage to store the flowers so you will not have to rent a storage space.
Here is how much potential of profitability exists because flower vending business can generate $1,000 to $100,000 per year. It is an high profit business, if you choose your flower spots locations and offer high quality beautiful flowers and bouquets.
OVERVIEW
To be successful you need to keep these in mind:
1. Be a good manager
2. Acquire some experience
3. Get some education about flowers
Steps to operating your own small flower vending business:
(1) Know your customers.
· Know where your customers are:
i. Traffic Street Locations
ii. Restaurants,
iii. Malls,
iv. Local Festivals
v. Flea Markets.
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To be successful you need to keep these in mind:
EQUIPMENT
You will need a few tools to cut flowers and make them in bouquets. The basic equipment should not cost more than $100. You can find this equipment at a wholesale florist supply house.
Here is a list of tools:
1. A Preparation Area
2. Stem Cutters
3. Cellophane Or Florist's Tissue
4. Plastic Buckets
5. Storage Containers
6. Refrigerated Coolers
7. A Table
8. An Air-Conditioner For Hot Summer Months
9. Portable Heater For The Winter Months
INVENTORY
Your inventory will be a supply of fresh and attractive flowers.
There are several wholesaler of flower in most cities.
Remember, wholesale florists will want a seller’s permit /resale certificate before they sell you flowers wholesale.
How to check if the flowers you will buy are fresh
You can check the freshness of your flowers by examining the heads of roses. The must be firm when you touch them. A purple color around the edges of the flowers may mean that it is an old flower. Also, any discoloration of the natural color of the flower may mean you are getting old flowers.
TYPES OF FLOWERS YOUSHOULD HAVE IN YOUR INVENTORY
That is probably a no brainer because you should buy what is in demand.
1. Roses
2. Carnations
3. Gardenias
4. Tulips
5. Daffodils
6. Orchids
7. Poinsettias
8. Lilies
WHEN IS THE BEST TIMETO SELL THEM?
Holidays
1. Easter
2. Christmas
licenses here online.
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LOCATIONS
Selling flowers at the right location has is one of the recent retail that can make you some decent money. The secret lies in the fact that people buy flowers when they see flowers old on the streets because their reaction is emotional to the nature of the flowers.
Most men on their way home to see their wives or girl friends will often purchase flowers from roadside vendors for their wives without evenhaving to get out of the car. Women also buy flowers for decoration. You can begin as a home-based or an online operation with as little as $100. You can use your home, apartment or garage to store the flowers so you will not have to rent a storage space.
Here is how much potential of profitability exists because flower vending business can generate $1,000 to $100,000 per year. It is an high profit business, if you choose your flower spots locations and offer high quality beautiful flowers and bouquets.
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| All these permits and more can be aqcuired online at www.businessnameusa.com Simply fill out our online questionaire, complete our business information form in full, leaving empty only those areas to which you do not have the answer, and complete our payment form and we will begin processing your order immediately. www.businessnameusa.com 310-455-6675
SUMMARY
A flower vending business is one of the small businesses that can still make money in a recession time with very little start-up costs.
You should consider where to get the inventory, what equipment to buy, and the locations you will sell as well as the type of flowers you will sell.
You can get your flower business
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| LOCATIONS
1. Restaurants
2. Roadsides
3. Street Corners
4. Intersections
SUMMARY
A flower vending business is one of the small businesses that can still make money in a recession time with very little start-up costs.
You should consider where to get the inventory, what equipment to buy, and the locations you will sell as well as the type of flowers you will sell.
You can get your flower business licenses here online.Starting a flower vending business is relatively easy because you don’t even need much experience nor any complicated and expensive equipment. You will just fresh, attractive flowers, a good location for selling, and a good attitude.
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| The cost of these permits comes to roughly $169.96 |
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