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Business
This category explores high-level nursery operations and strategic thinking. From understanding market dynamics like the bullwhip effect to implementing quadrant-based planning, it offers tools to scale your nursery, reduce waste, and align your operations with long-term profitability and industry trends.
Spring Update: Wins, Lessons, Next Steps
It’s been four months since we launched Standard Nursery LLC in February, and I wanted to share a quick update. Spring is finishing...
Josh LaPoint
May 303 min read
How to Choose the Best Wholesale Nursery for Your Needs
Anyone who has spent time visiting nurseries in Oregon will have noticed that each wholesale nursery does things a little differently. ...
Josh LaPoint
Mar 144 min read
Why Every Nursery Needs a Broker
Are Nursery Broker’s really just cherry-picking middlemen or do they provide a necessary service? In today’s article, we examine the...
Josh LaPoint
Mar 113 min read
Great Liners & How to Buy Them
It’s so much fun to sell beautiful plants but everyone grumbles when a plant isn’t quite right. There are countless examples like...
Josh LaPoint
Mar 56 min read
Success: Focus on your Game
When I was playing tennis in high school, my partner and I tied the number one seed team in our league. We were decently skilled while...
Josh LaPoint
Feb 282 min read
Quadrant 2 Strategy for Nurseries
Have you read “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey? He has a diagram for understanding the value of activities...
Josh LaPoint
Feb 263 min read
Fewer Credits, Happier Customers
What if I said that you could increase profitability by whole percentage points without changing your growing practices or pricing...
Josh LaPoint
Feb 1910 min read
The Nursery Bullwhip Effect
Have you ever heard of Michael Burry’s “Bullwhip Effect” with regards to supply chain? It is snapping through the nursery industry and...
Josh LaPoint
Feb 146 min read
Take Three Steps Back
Do you have time to adjust to capitalize on the opportunity or are you kissing potential sales goodbye?
Josh LaPoint
Feb 82 min read
The $600 Million Dollar Problem
An odd sight began to appear as the wagon trains made their way west along the Oregon Trail. It all started near Independence, Missouri...
Josh LaPoint
Feb 42 min read
How to Start a Nursery Business
Becoming a Nursery Broker is shockingly simple. This post explores the various steps that I took to start the business.
Josh LaPoint
Dec 27, 20244 min read
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