This is an ever growing collection of toolkits and tutorials so you can build your business building habits across the year.

Knowing what flowers and foliage make business sense means constantly assessing your crops. You need to know:

Complete a quick crop assessment this week and answer all these questions for yourself. Figure our what crops are best for you and your business.

Having a plan in business is only useful if you take the time to review how your plan turned out.  

At the end of the business year is a good time to take stock of your plan. This toolkit and tutorial will help you conduct a quick review of your last business year.

It's your customers, not your flowers, that make a business. No customers means not business, even if you have beautiful flowers to sell. 

But knowing what are the best sales channels for you and your business can be hard, especially if you are starting out or struggling to sell your flowers. 

This includes knowing:

This toolkit and webinar will help you to assess what are the right channels for you. You'll explore the five key channels to market:

We all want to be successful right?

People's relationship is unique and often complicated. Even when you're excellent at setting goals and making plans, success can be elusive.

It's easy to turn failure into a fear of success.

This week take the time to set yourself up for success by consolidating all the learning from your recent reviews into a definitive plan for the coming year. This planner will guide you through defining success on your terms and creating plans that you'll stick to.

If you want to set aside 90-minutes to complete this work join the FBA Planning Workshops. You can get all the details here.

You've made it through the first 4 weeks of the Floral Business Activator. Congratulations! 

It's time to take a breather to reflect and rethink. This week we're pressing pause in the FBA programme so that you can catch-up or just catch your breath.

In the last 4 week's we've been looking back and planning forward. Here's what we've covered:

Week 1: Quick Crop Assessment

Week 2: Quick Annual Review

Week 3: Quick Sales Assessment

Week 4: Setting yourself up for Success

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Now it's time to think about your business generally and your priorities specifically. How much progress have you made towards your goals and achieved your priorities.  

Download the Rethink Workbook - this is your self-coaching guide and will help you reflect and replan so that you set yourself up for success in the coming month.

If you don't want to leave the success of your business to chance, it pays to have a plan. A blueprint that summarises your ideas and intentions for your business in a structured way.

This week you can use a one-page template to create your own business blueprint. In 60-minutes or less you can map out:
- who is your ideal customer
- how your business serves that customer
- who are the people who will support your business building
- how you'll make money in your business.

This week's planner will guide you step-by-step through the key questions you need to answer to put your business on a firm foundation. When you've completed the workbook you can write your blueprint using the one-page canvas or google spreadsheet.

Growing is an all-year round operation. There's always something to be thinking about and taking action on.

It's easy to get lost in the to-do list and forget your true priorities. To remember something you've forgotten to do, only to find that it's too late.

That's why it's important to have a system for staying on top of all those growing jobs. This week we're creating a calendar of important dates so you don't have to remember but just follow your plan and let your growing calendar be your guide.

Mastering the art and science of succession planting underpins your productivity and profitability as a floral business. 

Planning what you're going to grow and when will take a lot of stress out of the growing season because you'll have made most of the decisions ahead of time.  

This week's focus is planning your crops to meet your customers wants and needs and supply flowers in a timely way.

You've made it through week 9 of the Floral Business Activator. Congratulations!

It's time to take a breather to reflect and rethink. This week we're pressing pause in the FBA programme so that you can catch-up or just catch your breath.

In the last 4 week's we've been looking back and planning forward. Here's what we've covered:

Week 6: Simple Business Blueprint
Week 7: Planning for your growing year
Week 8: Crop Planning for Profitability
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Now it's time to think about your business generally and your priorities specifically. How much progress have you made towards your goals and achieved your priorities.  

Download the Rethink Workbook - this is your self-coaching guide and will help you reflect and replan so that you set yourself up for success in the coming month.

We've considered leaning your business in the FBA previously but this week we're diving deeper into lean production so you can assess what needs to change in your business to maximise value to your customers and minimise waste in your business.

We're diving deep into one aspect of how you can apply lean principles to growing. This week the planner includes a case study of bed preparation at Nourish Gardens

We're diving deep into one aspect of how you can apply lean principles to growing. This week the planner focuses on weed prevention (hurrah!).

You've made it through the first 12 weeks of the Floral Business Activator for 2021. Congratulations!

It's time to take a breather to reflect and rethink. This week we're pressing pause in the FBA programme so that you can catch-up or just catch your breath.

Here's what we've covered so far.

But, remember you can't get behind in the FBA. Pick and mix the topics that you most need for your business. If you want to follow week-by-week that's great too.

Week 1: Quick Crop Assessment

Week 2: Quick Annual Review

Week 3: Quick Sales Assessment

Week 4: Setting yourself up for Success

Week 5: Time to Rethink

Week 6: Simple Business Blue Print

Week 7: Planning your Growing Year

Week 8: Crop Planning for Profitability

Week 9: Time to Rethink

Week 10: Lean Principles - a deep dive

Week 11: Applying Lean to Growing - bed preparation

Week 12: Applying Lean to Growing - weed prevention

When it comes to marketing there are so many things you can do. Yet you can minimise your marketing effort by focusing your efforts towards specific groups of customers. This planner will help you identify the ideal customers for your business and create a way of talking to them that connects who you are and what you do with what matters most to them. 

The planner also identifies the minimal marketing activities you should have for your floral business.

This week is all about aligning your marketing and sales activities to achieve your business goals.

Get ahead with your marketing and sales for the season by planning what marketing and sales promotions you need to meet your business goals.

The most learning happens when you have time to stop and think. To reflect. To allow all that you are learning, researching and pondering sink in.  

This is the week to stop and reflect on what you've been working on for marketing your floral business.  Come share your reflections over in the Slack channel.

This week it's all about leading yourself so you can lead your business with clarity and commitment to what you value most.

The most learning happens when you have time to stop and think. To reflect. To allow all that you are learning, researching and pondering sink in.  

This is the week to stop and reflect on what you've been working on for marketing your floral business.  Come share your reflections over in the Slack channel.

This month in the Floral Business Activator we are taking a deep dive into working with others. This is the chance for you to think about people who can help you scale and grow your business by working in collaboration.  Pick and choose the people and organisations that will help you most.  

The most learning happens when you have time to stop and think. To reflect. To allow all that you are learning, researching and pondering sink in.  

This is the week to stop and reflect on what you've been working on for your floral business.  Come share your reflections over in the Slack channel #weekbyweek

Over November we're going to get creative with your floral business. Thinking of ways to bring new ways to inspire you and your customers. This includes thinking about creating:

The options for creating in your business are limited only by your imagination. Take the time to maximise the possibilities for your business for the coming season.

The most learning happens when you have time to stop and think. To reflect. To allow all that you are learning, researching and pondering sink in.  

This is the week to stop and reflect on what you've been working on for your floral business.  Come share your reflections over in the Slack channel #weekbyweek

Over December we're going to focus on celebrating. Not just the festivities of Christmas and summer but all that deserves acknowledgement and recognition in your business all the time. This includes thinking about:

We're taking a break, we hope you will too. 

And, when you're rested and ready to refresh your thinking you can use the Rethinking Self-Coaching tool and the Handy Year Planners for 2022.

In January we're thinking about how do you work well in your business. Is how you work sustainable for you personally and professionally. Are you drawing on all your resources and resourcefulness to learn and lead your business well? Download this month's workbook and come join the conversation about working well.

In February 2022 we're starting to look to the future. Sketching out how you and your floral business can be stronger.   This month it's all about thinking at a high level. To find freedom in the potential of what's possible in the future.  

Congratulations, you've made it through another FBA module.  

It's time to take a breather to reflect and rethink. This week we're pressing pause in the FBA programme so that you can catch-up or just catch your breath.

This month we've been thinking about new horizons. How to make the most of what's left of this season and taking note of what we might create next. 
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Now it's time to think about your business generally and your priorities specifically. How much progress have you made towards your goals and achieved your priorities.  

Download the Rethink Workbook - this is your self-coaching guide and will help you reflect and replan so that you set yourself up for success in the coming month.