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More Dealers Needed
One of the main detractors of using biocontrols is the high cost of freight. Overnight shipping — required for most packages moving outside of New England — is ridiculously expensive. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be. Freight costs can be drastically reduced if growers or gardeners embrace a sense of community or club, and work together, combining their orders into single, composite shipments.
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Pack Mentality: Biocontrols Buying Groups
Want to save some money? Of course you do. That was a silly question. How’s this for a solution? Don’t go it alone when making purchases. That’s what this entry is all about: Teaming up with others so as to consolidate shipments and save money. Form a buying group. It’s a good thing, but it’s not without its pitfalls. This article can help your pack rule.
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What’s Your Policy?
Policies or lip service? Sometimes we wonder, and after this past holiday season we wonder all the more. Companies have policies, that much is clear, but have they read them in a while? Do they adhere to them? Do they have any meaning whatsoever? The past few years have given us reason for concern. Based on this year’s experiences, we really have to wonder what retailers are thinking, if at all, that is.
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Seven Tips for Surviving a Depressed Economy
As of this writing we’re in our sixteenth year of business. We’ve been profitable for the past thirteen of those years we’re happy to report. We’re survivors, if you will. We’re not having an easy time of it, though. Things are rough out there; we hear it daily from our customers, and we feel it daily as well. Of course we have taken steps such as being more frugal in the day-to-day, and we’ve done things to better our chances of continuing. After all, running a business is not a passive affair. Sometimes one has to work at it. But this is common sense and you already know this, don’t you?
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The Green Marketing Era
Green, green, everywhere it’s green. That seems to be a big focus in 2008, green power, green cars, green computing. It amuses us in a way — since we’ve been green since 1992 as a company and gardened green our entire lives — that the marketplace has suddenly turned so green, but it’s all good. We know it’s nothing new, but to those who have previously never embraced the concepts of environmental responsibility, sustainability, and other green goodness, this is a dawning moment and we’re happy to see it. It seems a good share of the world has decided to trade in their Hummers for hybrids in 2008 and that’s good, since we sure do need it.
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Did Someone Say Recession?
Word has it that a new trend is afoot. It’s called a recession by the press, and it’s a state of being that begins as simple pessimism. Individuals and business have a reason to be pessimistic, but they learn it from the press — whom the general public, apparently, regards as the pundits of pessimism. Let’s face it, bad news and unrest sells.
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