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Sid brings 30 years of industry experience to his consulting work in operations and profitability.
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Episode 1
Could You Double Sales with the Same Customer?

With the garden retail and landscape market maturing, and baby boomers giving way to a much smaller Generation X, what would it mean to your business to double sales per customer? Sid explores the bottom line power behind increasing your average sale and helps you figure out how to get there.

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Marketing Today for Tomorrow's Customers

It's been said that you marketed for today's customers ten years ago and marketing today for your customers ten years from now. While the industry expresses concerns about whether Gen X and Gen Y will start gardening, Sid asks, what does the industry need to do to create the next generations of passionate gardeners? Here's a plan you can put into action.
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Meet The Specialist

Sid Raisch

Sid Raisch, President of Horticultural Advantage, a green industry consulting firm, has taken nearly 30 years experience assisting a wide range of green industry companies and used it to formulate a systematic program designed to help independently owned garden centers and their suppliers make decisions that drive sales, improve operations, and focus on profit. Like the name of his company implies, there’s a definite Horticultural Advantage when you combine Sid’s experience in retail garden center, nursery operations, landscape contracting and managing national sales teams that sell to horticultural related companies and years of designing successful marketing programs for garden centers.

Sid has created strategies and systems for improving every aspect of garden center operations, and helps industry suppliers improve their service to garden centers. Visit www.horticulturaladvantage.com for more.
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Dr. Charlie Hall

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How do you measure a fair return on the investment in your business and are you earning enough for your hard work?
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Consumer dollars have shifted away from our industry. How do we reclaim that spending and target a new generation of customers?
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Where are your profit dollars slipping away and how can you plug the leaks?

Sid Raisch

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Watch a free preview of Sid Raisch's videos.
6:40
With lower customer counts, increasing sales per customer could transform your future. Sid looks at how to get there.
7:08
Is the industry effectively investing today in creating the future generations of passionate gardens that will support our businesses for years to come? Here's a plan you can put into action.

Jim Paluch

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Success starts with setting the right goals the right way.
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What gets measured gets sold.
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In our industry nobody wins until someone goes outdoors.

Jean Ann Van Krevelen

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It's not just a numbers game, but lots of fans is a great place to start.
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Joe Judge

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Free up the time you spend solving problems by fixing broken systems.

Mike Lysecki

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Reduce your dependence on labor and reward the top performers you rely on for success.
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Profits don't happen by accident. How are you planning to get there?
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You can get your employees to work and think like you, but not without a system to make it happen.

Faith Savage

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Avoid buyer's regret by helping your customers take home colors that match the mood they want to create?
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Set yourself apart from the competition with large containers, complementary combinations and

Marcus vandeVliet

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This process will shape budgets, strategy and profitability. Marcus gets you started.
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Which numbers really matter and which numbers may be hiding real problems in your business?
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As your business grows how do you stay in touch with what is working, and what's not, on the front lines?

John Kennedy

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Simple secrets that transform order takers into effective sales people.
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Managing the time you can't afford to waste.

Jeffrey Bruce

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Without water you're out of business? As cities shut of the faucet, where will landscape water come from?
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It's not just digging holes thirty feet up in the air. Learn what it takes to enter this emerging market.
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Pretty is not enough. The new landscape is being put to work.

Jeff Korhan

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Facebook sees more information each day than Google. What does this mean to customers who are looking for you?
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What if your customers could scan a "barcode" with their phone and find more information on a website? They can.
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If Facebook is working a cocktail party, blogging is taking your best customers out to dinner. What are you waiting for?

Mark Bradley

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Bad hires cost you money. Improve retention and avoid expensive mistakes.
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Systems - from design to execution - define your success. What's your role in the process?
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A good bonus plan rewards you and your employees. Mark lays out a detailed plan to make this happen.

Ruth Bachman

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Life's biggest challenges present our greatest opportunities for growth - if we can find the strength and focus.

Bob Coulter

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Does your team go glassy eyed when you call a meeting? Learn how to have meetings that drive action and success.
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Going from star performer to great manager isn't magic. It's a process you can put to work for your business and your career.
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