all right guys today i want to share
something with y'all that i think is one
of the most important things about
backyard growing and that is how to sell
these plants there have been several
comments from you guys lately go back
and look at them they come in different
forms and different specifics but
everybody wants to know how do you sell
these plants well i shared with you guys
in the last video about my driveway sale
how we take plants from the backyard
nursery around to my front yard and kind
of have a plant sale
yard sale well
everybody's not able to do that and i
understand that whether you live
somewhere with an hoa or
if your
town or your city's ordinances don't
allow for you to do such a thing like
that whatever might cause you to need to
be a little bit more discreet
about your nursery i want to show you
today a way to sell plants without
having a plant cell and i'm going to
tell you that i guarantee you that it
will work and i sell a lot of plants
doing this so check this out
so guys when our plant cell ended the
other day at the end of my other video
you could see that but this area in my
nursery right in here was it wasn't
filled with green giants but it had a
lot more green giants than it has in it
now and we had
about
30 or so peonies left over from our
plant sale and just other miscellaneous
plants those are really the two primary
things we had left to sell so
i kept selling them though even though
our plant cell was done and now we are
down to just a few dozen plus a few over
there but we're really down to a few
dozen green giants left
and
believe it or not we have actually sold
way more plants after our plant sale
than actually during the three hour
plant cell and i want to show you how to
do that and i mean this is a way to sell
a lot of plants
now one of the keys to selling plants
the way that i'm about to show you how
to sell them is to have plants that
people will buy a lot of so for example
here are my green giants behind me you
guys probably get tired of hearing about
them but if you do so be it all i can
tell you is that they sell really well
but one of the keys is to having
varieties of plants that people buy a
lot of so nobody buys one green giant
people come by here
very routinely by 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
or more of these at a time i mean
literally nobody ever
buys one green giant so when you have
one variety of plant to sell whether
it's a green giant or whether it's a
hosta or whether it's a blackberry or
whether it's a hydrangea or whatever
your plant is you need to think about
plants that people are likely to buy
big numbers of and that's why these
screening evergreens because people are
going to buy a bunch of them to put them
in a row to go around
their yard or around a pasture around
their 15 acres that their home is on to
to to kind of give them a privacy screen
so that's one of the reasons why these
green giants sell so well and it's one
of the reasons why this selling method
is so successful so here it is i'm going
to show you to it up close and the
method that i'm talking about as far as
selling these plants go is selling them
online through facebook marketplace and
through facebook buy and sell groups
local to your area so if you're not
familiar with that process you need to
get you a facebook account you need to
sign up if you're not good with
technology don't worry about it it's
super easy and you need to find local
buy and sell groups in your town your
county your location whatever it's
called and
you're going to find that you can sell
an incredible number of these plants on
facebook marketplace and i'm going to
show you we're going to go inside the
house and get on the computer i'm going
to show you exactly how to do this
all right guys so here we are back in my
living room i'll show you exactly how to
make one of these ads in order to sell
your plants and i mean sell them really
really well this is not like well you
may sell a plant or two you're going to
be able to sell a ton of plants this way
if you've got plants that people are
going to buy a large number of so
what you're looking at here is my
facebook marketplace ad you can see my
cursor here and i want to point out just
a few things to you so in this ad i
pulled out one of the plants in
particular that you can see right there
pulled it away from the pile so they can
see what i'm talking about and i put a
specific description of that plant
into the ad and also in the picture they
can see that there's lots of plants
there it's not just that i've got three
or five or ten i have a lot of them so
my ad over here says green giant arbor
vitas
huge screening trees many available
trees are currently about 20 inches tall
and will grow fast message for address
and i put more information about that
below and i've just blocked it out for
the purposes of this video but what you
have to do is help people to understand
exactly what you have don't exaggerate
what you have don't try to put pictures
of some other plants here don't just go
grab a picture of green giant arbor
vitas off of the internet and put on
here you need to put pictures of exactly
what you have that way you know people
don't show up and say well i expected
them to be a lot bigger than this nope
you show them exactly what you have and
one plant at a time this is how you sell
them so then what's going to happen of
course people are going to respond to
this ad and
the way that they respond to this ad can
be a little bit aggravating there's a
there's an automatic reply button on
facebook on the
buyer's side of it that automatically
when they click on it it automatically
kicks you a message that says is this
item available and that is the most
aggravating button i think in all of
facebook is the is this item available
button but they're going to send you
that and you're going to say yes i have
several or yes i have plenty or whatever
you're going to tell them
and
they'll respond to you and say you know
well i would like 20 of them or
what's your address or whatever and
that's really critical
what you do with what they say
part of the problem with
selling plants or selling anything this
way
is that i don't know why people do this
but there
are people who think they're interesting
interested in buying these from you and
then they'll kind of tease like well
maybe i'll get them or i'll get them
tomorrow or i'll think about it or
whatever and you've got to say something
to these people to get them to
your address to come by your plants
without them being so wishy-washy about
it and here's the way
that i do that
i tell them i'll say here's my address
and i say let me know when you can come
and get them and then if they say
i can come by tomorrow afternoon you
need to tell them i will be home between
four and five tomorrow afternoon to give
them a specific time to come if they say
that doesn't work for me i can't come
until seven
then you need to tell them well i can
tell them say i'll be here between 7 15
and 7 30 and give them a very specific
time
so they can't hold you hostage what we
learned when we first started selling
plants this way is that if people give
you a specific time and you ask them for
a specific time that they will honor
that usually within
a few minutes if they just generically
or generally say we'll pick them up
tomorrow afternoon sometime they don't
come and then i always tell them
message me before you come to make sure
that i'm home and that keeps people from
just randomly showing up at your house
when you don't want people at your house
and by doing it this way
what you can do is keep people from
taking your time
hostage and you can get people at your
house to buy your plants when you want
them there if you work until four or
five o'clock in the evening you don't
want people trying to come at three or
four you get them there at seven o'clock
or 7 30 or whatever time works for your
schedule so you're not waiting around on
them all day wondering where they are
and people aren't wasting your time i i
do not know why people
insist on playing this game buying and
selling on facebook where there's no
shows and all of this it doesn't happen
with plant buyers they're a little bit
of a different breed of people they're
not the same people buying garbage at
yard sales these are people who are
serious buyers and if you give them a
specific time and set an appointment
with them they will come and buy your
plants and let me tell you how well this
has worked for us so we told you on the
last video that we made about seventeen
hundred dollars give or take a little
bit in our first plant sale which was
last weekend and since then that was
last saturday today is the following
saturday seven days later we've sold
almost twice that amount in addition
to our plant cell just in green giant
arbor vitas and peonies alone we've sold
10 or 15 additional peonies and i don't
know how many hundreds of green giants
we've now sold
just by doing it by appointment we do it
on our own time we do it on our own
terms doesn't interfere with work it
doesn't interfere with school we get
these people here on our terms at our
time and it's a great deal for us the
sellers and it's a great deal for the
buyers because they're getting really
nice plants at really nice prices and
people leave here with these plants
really really really happy
so if you want to take it an extra step
and get multiple plants going at once
and we actually did have these green
giants that i'm showing you now
we had this ad posted after our plant
sale with
an ad for our peonies as well so we've
got the green giant's ad going and the
peonies add going now the peonies are
not a plant that people are going to buy
a lot of but we don't have a lot of them
so that doesn't really matter they're
only going to buy a few of those or
people are going to come by one maybe
two of those i think the most we've sold
to any one person was four but we're
just trying to get rid of those at this
point where we're selling our big
numbers right now at this time of year
with what we actually have
is with the green giant so let me
encourage you to get on facebook
marketplace get you some plants figure
out what people will buy a lot of and
give this a try it will work i promise
you
so guys in having a backyard nursery
it's hard to say that there's this one
thing that's the most important thing
but really if we can't sell our plants
then we're gonna have a lot of plants to
give away
to our neighbors friends or put in our
own yards and a lot of wasted money and
we do ours through a driveway sale yard
sale style as i've shown you before but
we sell more plants than that by
appointment selling these plants that
people buy a lot of you never know what
else is in your backyard that people are
going to come and buy when they come and
buy a whole bunch of green giants it's
not unusual for them to come and buy
hydrangea to buy a hosta to buy viburnum
to buy you know who knows what but
you got to learn how to sell your plants
and i'm just kind of giving you an idea
of how to do this on facebook
marketplace and then of course from
there on your local buy and sell groups
because that's all connected together so
placing these simple ads getting people
to your house on your terms to buy your
plants is really a can't miss strategy
and guys i wanted to share this with you
today super important that you learn how
to do this guys thank y'all for watching
i appreciate all of you i love you and
i'll see you on the next one