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Many stay-at-home moms love spending time in their garden. Watching plants sprout and grow can be so rewarding. But many people do don’t realize you can make a great income growing plants, averaging as much as $ 20 to $ 30 an hour. Yes, you really can. It’s all possible by growing plants for profit. It’s simply a perfect business for anyone who wants to work at home. Here’s why:

Many stay-at home moms love what they do, but would still like to make some extra cash. The big question is, how to do that when you have so many responsibilities at home? You need freedom to pick up the kids from school, to run errands and so on. So what business could give you that, plus make you good money? That’s easy, growing profitable plants. Growing plants does doesn’t require a full-time commitment. You can work plant care into your daily schedule, doing it whenever you’re able.

First, you pick the plants you want to grow. Visit local nurseries to see what plants are popular.. Do you have favorites – succulents or ground covers, for example? See if the nurseries are stocking lots of your favorites, as that’s a good clue about their popularity. Talk to local landscapers to find out what their favorite varieties are. Next, get planting! Make sure you have a suitable potting soil mix, plant labels so you can tell which plant is which, slow-release fertilizer (also known as time-release fertilizer) to give your plants healthy nutrients on a slow basis, and a good number of the right size containers to put your plants in. Thrifty growers can often get free containers from local landscapers, who would rather recycle them than haul them to the dump.

When you’re ready to sell your plants, you have lots of ways to market your plants. Here are some popular choices:

Farmers’ markets continue to be popular events drawing big crowds eager to buy high quality plants from local growers.

Fundraisers are a way to bring positive attention to your business. Donate some of your profits to a good cause or charity, and it can benefit the charity or cause and still give you a tidy profit. People are usually more willing to spend money on good products if they know some of the profits are going towards a good cause.

Selling directly to landscapers is a way to make big profits and have steady repeat business. If you can supply landscapers with what they’re looking for at reasonable prices, they’ll be calling you a lot.

These are just three of several ways to make good money growing for market. And get this, it’s the perfect activity to do with your kids and other family members. For one, it can keep your kids involved and close to you. Instead of playing video games, your kids can learn the process of growing plants and how to take care of a living thing. It’s an on-going education in life for everyone.

If you’re a stay-at-home mom that wants to start a rewarding business that you can do on your time, then you should consider starting a backyard plant nursery. Soon you can be growing plants for profit. To learn more, read How to Start a Profitable Backyard Plant Nursery, available at profitableplants.com. There, you can also sign up for a free mini-course, 8 Most Profitable Plants to Grow.

Business journals come in many forms. You can get a GSTF Business Review that is specific to your type of business or industry, or you can get a general business journal that will provide you with tips and tools to build any business. For every type of business journal out there, there are at least one or two benefits for your business.

1.Business journals help you keep up to date on trends and news that could affect your business. Breakthroughs in technology, computing or your industry can greatly affect your business success rate. You need to stay up to date on all of this information in order to make wise decisions regarding your business and the management of your business.

2.Business journals give you information, tips and tools for managing your business effectively. You may have systems in place that are flawed. Whether you see those flaws immediately or not, a business journal can help you see the flaws in your systems, management, or processes, and give you ideas on how to perfect them. This is great for management of your business, computing, and technology.

3.A journal on computing can give you new ideas on how to use computer technology in your business. How your business handles computing tasks can make a big difference in how much time employee’s take to complete tasks. It can also make a big difference in how much money you spend on computer technology. Sometimes getting the newest technology is an investment to begin with, but will save you money in the long run. These business journals keep you up to date and help you make sure your company isn’t left behind.

4.A business review journal can give you great ideas on what to do or avoid in your own business. The reviews of businesses are detailed so that you can easily see what is good and bad about a company. It can also give you ideas on which companies to use as vendors or suppliers and which ones to avoid.

5.A journal of business law keeps you up to date on the laws that affect your business on a daily basis. Laws are often made or changed, and if you do not stay up to date on these legal changes your business could face some serious consequences. These business journals are a must have for any serious business owner or manager.

Planning is an essential function in the success of any business. Planning does not refer simply to pulling out a calendar and recording things to do on random dates. Planning is all about actively plotting a course to meeting goals. Goals are really the start of any discussion about planning in a business.

We all are familiar with the concept of a goal. It’s something we write down that we hope to achieve. However, we could greatly increase the effectiveness of our goals by adhering to a few simple principles.

The first principle is setting a specific goal. For example, the goal, ‘do well in the first quarter’ does not rank as a specific goal. If we changed that goal to read, ‘sell children’s books in the first quarter’ then we are on the right path.

However, a necessary caveat to specific goals is making sure the goal is measurable. So, using the same example again, ‘sell children’s books’ becomes ‘sell $24,000 of children’s books in the first quarter.’ By now we have a goal that is specific enough that we can then break it down into even smaller measurements and know whether or not we are actually getting somewhere with it.

A second principle of goal setting is maintaining a vision. If the company we work for is an internet marketing company, than selling $24,000 worth of children’s books is not a very effective or even applicable goal for our company. While this is an extreme comparison, the principle of vision can help ensure that all goals aim for the same destination. Let’s say that instead of internet marketing we’re in the grocery business and based in Utah.

We’ve conquered local markets in Utah and we want to expand further west into Las Vegas and Southern California in order to take advantage of more lucrative markets. If the vision entails aggressive westward expansion, then all the goals we’re setting will need to help us get there. A vision is actually a long term milestone-type goal, and to accomplish a vision we need to establish benchmarks along the way.

So in the grocery case some appropriate benchmarks might be to establish a store in St. George as the first major benchmark. The next might be to establish a store in Vegas; the third to flood Vegas with stores; and then the fourth and beyond to hit California. A vision is meant to be grand, and can be as grand as the senior directors have imagination.

The final principle of planning is accountability. It doesn’t do much good to establish specific goals within a defined vision when no one holds themselves accountable to the goals and makes efforts to make the vision reality. In order to facilitate accountability (which has to occur at all levels, though headed by the senior directors of a company) certain companies are hiring out managed services.

Managed services allow the directors of companies to focus on their goals and visions and give the grunt work to contracted workers. However accountability happens, through companies’ own workers or through contracted ones, it is a critical step to achieve a well-laid plan.