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Sell Seeds Online, Great Business ever

February 2, 2010 at 5:23 PM | Posted in Bid or Buy, Mail Order, Online Auctions, Small Business, eBay | Leave a Comment
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Most packets of seeds, whether of flowers or vegetables, weigh very little indeed and their price/weight ratio is excellent. Packing and mailing could hardly be easier, and the risk of damage in transit is negligible. From the customer’s point of view, the mail order appeal must lie in something out of the ordinary in your offer, as packets of seeds are widely available, and keen gardeners swap seeds and cuttings among themselves without resort to the commercial seedsman.

There are various ways in which you could make your offer a special one. You could, for example, draw up plans for garden plots of different sizes, and suggest precisely how a variety of different seeds should be sown in order to obtain certain effects; in such a case, your offer would consist of the plan, full instructions, and all the packets of seeds required. Or you could simply make up bumper packs of packets of different varieties of seeds, carefully chosen for their attractiveness when grown together, and offer these at an all-in price. Or you could specialise in unusual seeds or ones that are not easy to find in local garden centres.

A well produced full-colour catalogue would be helpful, but there is no reason why you should not be able to sell direct from classified advertising, or from lists of seeds sent to enquirers.

The follow-up possibilities are not difficult to work out: satisfied customers will come back year by year for their annuals, and you could move on from packets of seeds to bushes and trees, although these are naturally much more difficult to handle. Other items of interest to gardeners, from lawnmowers to fencing, from soil-testing sets to secateurs, could also be offered. Direct mail your customer list every year in good time for the spring sowing.