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

    Suggestion for inspiration: This is a huge shop, but they do the cafe/plants concept insanely well and it’s just a wonderful place to visit as a destination: https://www.shopterrain.com/pages/westport-restaurant

    I’d love to visit your shop, it sounds darling! Idk the rules of this sub, but if it’s comfortable, please feel free to dm me the name and where to find it!

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      10 months ago

      We LOVE Terrain and want to expand one day to a private lot to include a venue like they have. Our business model follows theirs very closely.

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      10 months ago

      We LOVE Terrain and want to expand one day to a private lot to include a venue like they have. Our business model follows theirs very closely.