All you believe about making money in the garden center business may be ALL WRONG

Part One – This is the first in a series of posts that will address Six Mistaken Beliefs many of us have about making money in the garden center business.

I have arrived to the point of developing Six New Beliefs that may be unpopular among some of the “old-guard” establishment in the garden center business. Switching from the mistaken beliefs to the new beliefs may make the ground shake (like during an earth quake) beneath some of your own current beliefs. Some of our supplier friends may find this truth troubling to the future of their businesses. Others may embrace it and thrive.

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Fair Follow-up to Proven Winners Fair Test?

There has been quite an interesting dialogue of comments following the post here on August 28, 2009 titled, Is THIS a Fair Test? The folks at Proven Winners and StandPoint reacted with more information and their views on the research conducted at Churchill’s Gardens and Rolling Green Nursery, both located in New Hampshire. Proven Winners comments did not include additional photos of their research, however there are new pics on Garden Center Magazine’s website.

Are we to always assume reported research is different than it appears? That was the original point, so maybe it is true after all. The comment from StandPoint’s Kip Kreel said, “You cannot fairly judge the quality of the research from one photograph and a magazine article.” While this is now apparently true, it is exactly how research is judged when one photograph and an article are all you have to go on. (I have not found any other stories on this particular research on the Internet.) It seems like judging the quality of the research from the information provided would be the purpose of releasing the information for us to read.