It is important to take this time to prepare your pond department and customers for the spring. Follow these four steps this winter to ensure a successful spring. Remember you are the pond expert; read, learn and plan now forMore…
Checklist to Prepare your Pond for Fall and Winter
Guidelines to follow to better understand the process of transitioning from season to season for your customers water garden. Remember, you are the expert and your advice is the most important customer’s will receive. Includes a Fall/Winter Pond Checklist.
Keeping Fish Ponds Beautiful in the Summer
Summer Pond Care – Curt dives into summer pond care, offering up tips on how-to advise your clients on managing algae growth, plant growth and maintenance, fish spawns and feeding.
Seasonal Pond and Water Garden Health Tips
This is a good time to remind your customers of various factors that can affect the health of their pond. While most consider filtration to be the number one way to clean water, there are several other aspects to aMore…
Inspiration for Life-long Customers
Do your water gardening and pond department displays, inspire your customers? Retailers and Contractors should understand that unlike other landscaping projects, pondkeeping reaches beyond the products on the shelf – it’s really a lifestyle. There are a number of greatMore…
Consider Your Strengths When Building Your Pond Business
How you organize your pond department, publicize your business and educate your customers is as important as what you sell. Have a successful pond department by following the five steps explained in this article.
The “Greener” Side of Ponds
There are environmental benefits to maintaining a pond or water garden. Replacing some or all of a homeowner’s lawn with a pond, to conserve energy, save money, support the environment and reduce personal stress.
Building Customers for Life
With spring in full bloom in most of the country, your pondkeeper customers are dreaming of new possibilities and options for their ponds. Perhaps you have a few first time pondkeepers inquiring about the ins and outs of water gardening.More…
Creating a Welcome Environment
As you are preparing your retail space for the upcoming pond season, your customers are busy planning the space for their ponds and its inhabitants. This is the perfect time of year to talk about what the pond will lookMore…
Four Steps to Winter Pond Department Planning
As a pond retailer, it is important that you don’t hibernate for the winter. Now is the perfect time to start planning your 2008 pond department. Whether it is an aisle or a large portion of your retail space, yourMore…