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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    1 year ago

    https://www.doutor.co.jp/en/

    Study this company. They are at every corner in Tokyo, the Starbucks of Tokyo.

    I could eat and drink there 3x per day.

    Everything is delicious and the drink offerings are exceptional. Visit yourself if you can. Nothing like this States side or rare. Cheese or Tuna-melt in a soft bun, I mean pillow soft.

    I’d copy even their decor and seat partitioning.

    GL. I love plants, and your concept is great. Local orchid club, local succulent club, rose club, let them know you exist. Those are passionate people.