I own a Houseplant Café, where you can sip coffee while you shop for houseplants and small handmade items, think jewelry, pottery, candles etc. We’ve been open six months and things are going not as well as we’d hoped. Demographic: millennial women, brunch crowd (I can break this down further) Area: 12k cars pass us a day, we do have road signage and a flag Returning customers: 17% of our clients visit more than once a month Offerings: locally roasted coffee, lattes, smoothies, sandwiches, fresh pastries

I have a marketing background, but I’ve been out of the game a bit and so I feel like I’m not living up to the needs of the business. We do post daily on social media. Have a following of over 5k between insta and FB, starting on Tiktok next week. We need to nearly double our daily numbers to get to the profits we estimated before we opened. We do theme days that are very popular but then the rest of the week is under $500 days. I have a small marketing budget of about $1000 a month which I’m not sure where to utilize. Help? I’m getting desperate for my space to succeed.

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    10 months ago

    how successful is the cafe assuming folks just want food beverages?

    if the pottery, candles, and houseplants not selling – then are they displayed well in the cafe? or just swap it out for wine (yes you will need a license etc )

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    if small footprint - if customer brought a house plant in month 1 – probably will not buy another for a while

    while ads are important - you mentioned that Theme days does well…so just create more theme days? not sure what that is – is it wine Tuesday? taco wednesday?