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Starting A Successful Permaculture Based Business
Key Takeaways:
- Instead of looking at business as the enemy, look at green business. Use business to support yourself, fix the planet and create community.
- There is so much opportunity out there – “Find the intersection between your passions and your strengths and problems that need solving.”
- Permaculture is unique. It gives you a way to stand alone amongst peers.
- When marketing clarify your communication. ‘A confused mind says no.’
- Selling shouldn’t be hard. You aren’t pitching or hard selling. Is what I have to offer a fit? If it is them people will buy it.
- The value of mentors and coaches in huge. They can open your eyes to things that aren’t even on your radar, saving you time and money down the road.
- Conferences are an amazing place to gather intelligence. Use those opportunities to gather business models and share ideas. Think – What is being done outside your region that you could do?
3 Keys to Starting A Successful Permaculture Based Business:
- Gathering Intelligence. What’s the right business – are you solving a problem?
- Designing your business. Setting the business up in a way to increase the odds of success.
- Communicating it. Marketing. Are you clearly communicating what you do?
7 Things to Pay Attention to When Starting a Permaculture Business:
- Find a business with a low capital cost start-up.
- Is the business scalable?
- Is the risk of that business asymmetrical? The upfront risk is low, but the downside opportunity is high.
- Is your business anti-fragile? Does it do well in good times and bad?
- Can you stack in other businesses or services onto the central business down the road?
- Can your market afford you, your product and your services?
- Manage your risks. Do you have enough money set aside so you can get through the start-up stages?
8 Comments on "Starting A Successful Permaculture Based Business"
Rodster on Tue, 10th Feb 2015 6:18 am
Just reading this article (vague, generalizations) makes you more confused as to what permaculture really is all about.
I’m always of the belief that if you can’t explain what you do in a few words, it’s an uphill battle convincing someone they actually need your services.
Davy on Tue, 10th Feb 2015 7:11 am
Any interest in permaculture is good regardless if it is BAU orientated or BAUless. There are some that can jump off the train. These train jumpers usually get hurt but some survive to prosper. It takes a complete lifestyle and attitude change to jump off the train. For the most of us who see the writing on the wall with doom and prep will manage to use BAU to transition out of BAU as best we can.
Time is short and the stakes are high. Embrace these and other ideas for a 1000 lifeboat strategies from a diverse global of locals. We can be united in the understanding our common wellbeing is dependent on our cooperative solidarity. Going local means I can’t interact with someone in China except through BAU. That BAU interaction needs to be with a common voice of localism and a return to the values and wisdom found in Nature.
Let us hope enough of us coalesce into monasteries of good and wholesome knowledge and simple technologies to mitigate our fall into an ancient traditional human life pre industrialization. This traditional life will be in synch with the renewables of nature and have nothing to do with BAU. Eventually a spiritual understanding of how evil BAU was will be our common creation story of a new man. A generation from now if bottleneck man escapes extinction our verbal myths will be of a people that were the people of death and destruction.
Makati1 on Tue, 10th Feb 2015 9:38 pm
Main US cautions missed…
1. Do you have a permit to collect sales taxes?
2. Do you have a permit to have a permaculture business?
3. Do you have government inspections arranged?
4. Do you have liability insurance.
5. What is the zoning where you plan to have your permaculture?
6. Do your neighbors approve?
7. Do you understand how to do taxes returns for a business? (Local, state and federal?)
I’m sure I missed a few. Any suggestions?
Not a problem to start a business here, but in the US is is discouraged by corporate sponsored laws.
GregT on Tue, 10th Feb 2015 11:43 pm
Not only in the US Makati,
The same bureaucratic nightmare exists in Canada as well.
Makati1 on Wed, 11th Feb 2015 2:50 am
GregT, I have been watching the colonization of Canada by the US for some time. Too close to the action, too many resources, too few people. The North American Union is still being formed, but under the MSM radar. Ditto for annexing Mexico, before Russia or China moves in and builds military bases there, like we do in their part of the world.
Davy on Wed, 11th Feb 2015 6:01 am
OH, Mak, more sci-fi fantasy. You mentioned a few requirements of business that are normal around the world. In fact there is nothing corrupt about the list. Much depends on where you are at in the US. I have little problem starting a business around here. I have had several personal business and part of a large family business. I doubt you ever ran a business. If you did it went broke because you are broke now except for a social security check.
In your country and much of Asia you need to include pay-offs. At least I don’t have to pay off a corrupt organization. I will admit the system is distorting towards the rich and large corporations and this is part of the overall BAU influence of globalism. Nothing new the world over. There is not a place on this earth that has not been negatively affected by BAU.
Your fantasy about Canada being colonized by the US is pure fantasy. If anything the crafty Canadians are buying up places in the US. We call them snow birds. Their businessmen are highly competent. Your Chinese are leaving Asia by the droves to Canada and the US. That is not Mak talk this is actual putting your money where your mouth is and something you can’t rebut. Actions are far more telling than agendist talk. You remind me of Bagdad Bob. Goggle him Mak so you can look in the mirror.
Perk Earl on Wed, 11th Feb 2015 5:18 pm
“Starting A Successful Permaculture Based Business”
How can a business start out successful? Doesn’t success if it happens occur later?
Davy on Wed, 11th Feb 2015 5:25 pm
Perk, if daddy provides you with the connections and the check book I imagine it will be successful.