To open a flower shop
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I just read the other day that the best way to pack plants for a move is to soak peat moss for a while, and then wrap the peat moss around the plant.  This is to keep the plants moist during transportation.  \n\nYou then wrap that with a burlap sack. \n\nHope this helps.
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flowers, food, points
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Any local stores in the area. Go to the local merchants that may offer nice wedding gifts and request to set up registery. Most stores are more than happy to get the business.
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you start by drawing up a professional business plan.
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flower acution;  all bring either live flowers or a plant and donate it  ;then arrange on tables with a sheet of paper in front of each and people sign their names and give a written bid. after an hour the sheets and the money are collected and the winner takes the flower home
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A Bakery. If you eat the products regularly you can start off small and grow bigger overtime.
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You can bring me flowers, esp. since you would be all the sweets Id need!
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Get a lawnmower, knock on the door, negotiate a price, and start cutting.\n\nIf you do a great job, she will tell her neighbor. \n\nKeep a record of your a. new customers\n                      b. expenses\n                      c. income\n                        \n\nStart out simple and work your way up. You will know what to do as you go along.
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A wedding dress shop and wedding planning services are perfectly complementary businesses -- but it would be a lot of work. Both will put a huge demand on your time, so make sure that you have other people to help you.\n\nI suggest you first prepare a business plan to help you think through of this business. I have not seen a business plan that combines both, but you can look at business plans for these two separate businesses:\n\nWedding Consultant Business Plan (free) http://www.bplan.com/spv/3274/index.cfm\nBridal Salon Business Plan (free) http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/business-plans/Business-Plans-Volume-06/Bridal-Salon-Business-Plan.html\n\nExpect your start up costs to be anywhere from $75K-$150K depending on where you are located. Getting your space ready and your startup inventory will be the bulk of your startup expenses. Key components of your startup expenses will include\n\n- Rent/Lease\n- Leasehold improvements\n- Utilities (electricity, water)\n- Furniture including clothes racks and displays and fitting room furniture)\n- Legal (from legal structure to permits and licenses)\n- Insurance\n- Equipment including credit card terminals to alarms systems\n- Startup inventory\n- Supplies\n- Cash on hand\n\nAs for the marketing, I suggest you prepare a promotional calendar for the whole year, tying up the two businesses together. These may include:\n\n- Very interesting window and store front displays\n- Local newspaper ads \n- If you have a big event (such as opening), get radio ad spots\n- Local wedding publications -- get your press release announcing the opening of your store in there or get a writer talk about your new shop\n- Advertise online such as TheKnot.com, which has a state-by-state listings of vendors in the bridal industry\n- Be listed in local search engine directories \n- Yellow page advertising\n\nSo You Want to Own the Store : Secrets to Running a Successful Retail Operation by Mort Brown, Thomas Tilling http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809232367/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid \nStart and Run a Profitable Retail Business (Self-Counsel Business Series) by Jim Dion, Ted Topping (Contributor) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1551801000/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\nStart Your Own Clothing Store (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) (Paperback) by Entrepreneur Press http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891984314/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\n\nYou also need to start scouting for a location. If you are going to find a location at the mall, here are some tips to consider http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol41/mall.htm \n\nWrite a business plan to help you plan out your business. Here are some resources that can help you write your business plan:\n\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n\nIf you need help in terms of guidance, you can find free advice and mentors from the following organizations:\n\nGovernment Mentoring Programs such as SBDCs, which works with community colleges and local business development councils to offer mentoring programs http://www.sba.gov/sbdc/sbdcnear.html ; or the Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/wnet_roundtables.html \nVolunteer programs such as SCORE http://www.score.org  which is composed of mostly retired executives and entrepreneurs \nFormal mentoring programs such as Athena Foundation http://www.athenafoundation.org/programs/globallinks.html  , Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program http://www.helzbergmentoring.org/HEMP/  , or The Aspen Institute MicroMentor Program http://www.micromentor.org \nProfessional
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Well first of all i really appreciate your idea of opening business at this age. There are hundreds of thousands of business you can start even with a $ but it all need some planning to start a right thing  at right time. So what the best you can do is make a list of following things\n\n- What are your areas of interest?\n- What do you think are the products which will be easily avalaible to you and you can make some profits with them?\n- Is there any service you can outsouce to some other country, because outsourcing does not need any investment all it needs is your smart work. I would like to tell you in detail about this point. BPO (Business processing outsourcing) is a booming business these days in US, you can find a process and outsource it to some telemarketing  company in India and you will start generating the revenue from the very first two weeks. I personally own a small telemarketing company in india working for US so if you can find any process who wants to outsource to india, we can have a good business out there, for details on this point you can write me at mohitmadaan@gmail.com\n- You can think of starting a delivery service like flower delivery, gift delievery etc. this needs a very few investements.\n- Opening a small restaurant can also be a positive plan, but for this you need a lot of planning and of couse a good location in a busy area.\n\nThis is all i can think at this time, small business really need a courage and a lot of hardwork but ofcourse, courage won't pay your bills of. So be a good planner, research about the business you are going to start and just start at a right time, because its well said "Well begun is half done"\n\nI am 19 and i recently started my small business in India and doing pretty good, even i didn't have much investements but still i am doing good.\n\nFeel free to write me at mohitmadaan@gmail.com for any ideas or discussion.\n\nI wish you a good luck
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Hi, I have no experience with this but I've found two sites that may help in starting up your business.\n\nGood luck!
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Well, you could send them flowers.
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You could open a shop but that could be high cost.\n\nHave you thought about offering the service TO other shops. Contact your gift shop, art shop, florists, choc shop etc and see if they would like to offer that service - you can collect and deliver. Minimal outlay until you get the clientale to justify a shop. As an artist you can create some nice looking poster or mock-ups and use these as displays for these outlets.
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Send her some flowers.
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Yes, buy flowers for her, you sounds like a so nice guy. I wish I was the girl ... (lol)\n\nLanie has nice idea, if it's ok for you to do so.
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take a leaf to a nursery and ask them.
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What are asking for? Your question doesn't make sense. Do you want to know how to start a business? Or how to store something?