Business Consulting -
Sid Raisch, Horticultural Advantage

Sid Raisch has taken his 28 years experience assisting a wide range of green industry companies and formulated it into a systematic program designed to help garden centers make the kind of decisions that drive sales, improve operations, and focus on profit. Like the name of his company implies, there's a definite Horticultural Advantage when Sid's experience in growing product for garden centers, managing national sales teams that sell to garden centers and years of designing successful marketing programs for garden centers is put in place. Sid has created strategies and systems for improving every aspect of garden center operations, and helps industry suppliers improve their service to garden centers.

Horticultural Advantage provides the following resources available to all clients of The Garden Center Group:

- Business Development Consulting, a step-by-step process to help company owners take command of the operational and marketing aspects of their business and plan for growth and profits. This is a service provided on a fee basis. Please inquire for details.

The following services are provided as a part of your retainer to The Group at no additional charge:

- Strategies, a monthly one-page article of business insights, sent via email.

- GroupShareLIVE! Conference Calls featuring QuickClass educational sessions with special topics and guest speakers.

- gardencentergroupE's, an email list-serve that allows clients to exchange information and get answers to questions from all registered clients by email.

See www.horticulturaladvantage.com for information on exactly how Horticultural Advantage and Sid Raisch can help your business.