Website Design for Garden Centers / Garden Center Related Tools
Our approach to building websites for Garden Centers is totally different from our approach to sites for Wholesale Nurseries. Since garden centers sell to the general public, we assume their potential customers are not very knowledgeable regarding horticulture in general and will need more basic guidance to order their selections.
We gear the website to the local general public, usually within a five to ten square mile radius. There are other factors that determine our site design philosophy: Is your garden center in a rural or urban area? What is the local competition? Does your center provide landscaping in addition to garden products? Do you do a brisk business on other items such as special collector ornaments like Christopher Radko? No matter your specific circumstances, we'll build you a site that gives you the most bang for your buck.
We offer these custom tools to garden center websites:
Birthday Email
Simply sign up your customers with their birthday and they will receive a card with coupon or message of your choice on his birthday automatically. This is a great way to get your current and potential customers to give you their email.
Pages Editor
Our page editing system is an in depth, yet easy to use content management system (CMS). If you can operate Microsoft Word, you can update your site content. With a familiar interface, you can edit text, upload pictures and create links in and through your site.
Blog
Blog's are one of the most common forms of communication over the internet these days. We can incorporate an existing blog into your site or create a new blog for you to update.
Your entire inventory can be on your website in a searchable database. It presently contains over 4000 trees and shrubs with descriptions of each, and we're adding more every day. Your customers can search by flower color, hardiness zones, botanical name, common name, fall color and much more. It is our goal to have the most extensive list of plants in the industry, from rare grafted conifers to perennials. While most plant databases have a few japanese maples, we have over 60 cultivars with descriptions and pictures of each.
Emarketing
Our powerful Emarketing system will enable you to create content rich, great looking emails to send to your customers. Either use one of our templates or have us create a custom template for you. See statistics on how many emails you've sent, who has opened them, and who clicked on the links within the email. Send your emails to hundreds of customers at the click of a button, while personalizing your emails by addressing your customers by name! This is a great marketing tool and a great way to keep in touch with your customers by the hundreds.