Dahliapreneur.com
Your website is your fulltime salesman
You're already great at growing dahlias, and you've got lots of tubers. Let me set up a site that sells them for you!
With a well designed dahlia ecommerce site you can:
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Reach a national market and sell dahlias while you sleep
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Build an email list and reduce or eliminate your reliance on social media
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Reduce the complexity of taking and tracking orders
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Make fulfillment easier and shipping cheaper
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Reduce your customer service load from messages and calls
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Set yourself up to scale your business
Get started with a business platform
Start with a website and grow your business
A lot of dahlia sellers use Wix for their tuber sales, but it's much more than an ecommerce site - it's a business platform.
Your website is your full time salesman. But the Wix platform is an inventory management system; an order tracking system; and a customer service hub.
Features most dahlia sellers will take advantage of:
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Build and edit a beautiful ecommerce website with no coding skill.
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Collect subscriber email addresses and send marketing campaigns
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Communicate directly with customers via messaging
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Accept, edit, and fulfill orders
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Track your dahlia tuber inventory in real time
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Connect commercial shipping software to full orders and track shipments, with discounted postage.
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Save records of past orders for use in future customer service operations
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Download financial reports.
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View web traffic analytics to understand where your customers are coming from.
As your business grows, Wix will grow with you. You can expand to blogging (content marketing), selling event tickets, and even online courses with Wix.
Web designer & Dahlia Farmer
DAN GRINTHAL | SUNSET VIEW FARM DAHLIAS
Hire a designer who understands our industry
Dan Grinthal
Owner/operator, Sunset View Farm Dahlias
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You'll seldom (if ever!) encounter a great web designer who also actually understands how to run a dahlia business.
My degree in Industrial Design (RIT, 2018) helped me build and maintain our family's farm site on Wix when we began selling tubers. We now sell event tickets, workshops, online courses, bouquet subscriptions and more through our website, which has converted over $600K in sales since 2022.
Together with my family, I built our dahlia business from the ground up, making changes to our ecommerce system as we went along, specifically geared toward the needs of our industry.
I understand our industry, but I also know that your farm is unique to you. You tell me your story, and together we'll set up your platform in a way that serves you and your customers best.
A beautiful, working website.
Comprehensive e-commerce training.
$500.
What you'll receive
Fully functional e-commerce site
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Customized with your images and your story
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Linked to your custom domain
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Ready to take payments
Full training from a successful dahlia farmer on managing ecommerce with Wix, including
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Creating and editing product catalogs
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Cancelling, refunding, and editing orders
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Tracking inventory
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Linking Wix with fulfillment apps
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Order fulfillment with Wix
What's not included
Ongoing web management
At the moment I am not providing web management services. I'll set up your site and teach you how to use it, so you won't need a manager.
Exhaustive Wix training
You will be fully equipped to run the ecommerce portion of your business with Wix, but the purpose of our arrangement is not to provide you with an exhaustive tutorial of all of Wix's features.
Wix has excellent training material and a huge user base, so there are lots of Youtube tutorials for questions that will inevitably come up as you run your business over the coming years.
Wix plan payments
You're responsible for purchasing a Wix plan. I recommend you don't purchase a full yearly plan. Try a monthly plan first. A monthly premium plan for April-May will cost about $60. A domain will cost about $30 for the year.
Your total initial cost would be about $600 for the experiment, which is less than 50 average tubers.
What you will need
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An official business formation letter and a business bank account and/or a business paypal account**
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A domain name chosen (doesn't need to be purchased yet, but it's ok if you've already got it)
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A catalog of dahlia tubers with marketable photos
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A tuber sale date set for this spring
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Shipping policies, the basic story of your farm, and your contact info
**I neither need nor want to see these things but you'll need them for the site to work for you
Only $500?
What's the catch?
If you've looked into this at all, you know by now that web design is expensive, much more expensive than $500 for anything worth having.
However. Let me tell you why we're starting this way.
My wife and I run Sunset View Farm Dahlias together with my parents. It's an awesome business, but Emma is currently going to medical school and we're always looking for new things to that dahlia people would love, and which could earn some extra money for tuition.
We're considering starting a side business that helps budding dahliapreneurs (pun intended) set up profitable businesses. You would be helping us gauge interest, learn how best to help customers, and create our system.
This spring, I have time to build at least one website with Wix that can be 100% ready for the owner's tuber sale by April 1st. That could be you!
Tell me about your project
If you're interested in working together, please fill out the form below!
If your business is a good fit, I'll give you a call ASAP to get started. If not, I'll reach out to discuss how else we can help you.