The Business of Selling Plants

BIOLGY X 467.2

For individuals interested in selling plants, this course provides you with the knowledge and skills to help you succeed. 

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Online
Starting at $499.00
As few as 7 weeks
2.0

What you can learn.

  • Understand how to create a profit-focused plant buying strategy for a new or existing business, and how to integrate it into your overall budget
  • Visualize a personal path from amateur to professional plant seller
  • Learn direct sales and marketing communication strategies and tactics for year-round and seasonal plant sales
  • Analyze different types of plant-selling business structures and trends to identify opportunities for profit
  • Learn fundamental and contemporary principles of plant inventory sourcing, landed costs, procurement and shipping/freight
  • Understand how to confidently navigate plant-selling industry networks and resources

About this course:

Entrepreneurs, career transitioners, and green industry employees in “The Business of Selling Plants” learn to transform an amateur plant passion into a profitable plant-selling profession. To confidently navigate the plant selling industry and pipeline of today, students learn about plant-based niches and opportunities, the plant growing and selling network, legalities and licenses, managing perishable live inventory, profit-focused buying skills, plant value and pricing, job costing with plants, sales strategy, and more. This course offers an interdisciplinary approach relevant to the fields of plant shops and independent garden centers, online plant sales, garden design, landscape architecture, nursery growing, interiorscaping, and landscape install and maintenance.

Winter 2025 Schedule

Date & Time
Details
Format
 
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This section has no set meeting times.
Future Offering (Opens November 04, 2024 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Leslie F. Halleck
400546
Fee:
$499.00
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Notes
Course is a fully online asynchronous course. No set class meetings.
Optional weekly live Zoom  Q & A tba
 
Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 14, 2025
Course Requirements
No Required Textbook

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