Retailer Workshop on March 23rd @ 2pm EST - "Strategy, Team Roles, Plant/Product Selection & Marketing"
Now that you're online and connected with our suppliers, we can help you streamline your design process too! Access a growing library of ready-made Canva templates designed specifically to support your drop-shipping marketing with images from our suppliers. These fully customizable templates make it quick and easy to promote your plants and products professionally. Simply add your logo, insert your product link, and schedule your post—all within minutes using Canva. We’ll continue adding new templates to the library every month. Click below for full member access to our supplier canva template library!
Through our upcoming quarterly workshops and webinars, we’ll bring together top-performing IGCs and experts in SEO, branding, and online strategy to share what’s working and provide some concepts to apply to your e-commerce online store. You’ll hear directly from members who are excelling in the E-Commerce Connect™ program — turning their online stores into real growth engines. Their insights will help you see what’s possible when technology and creativity meet. Our goal is simple: to give every garden center the education, tools, confidence, and connections to compete and win online.
Social Listening Report designed to give our retailers insight into what is trending across social media within the gardening and lifestyle space. The report analyzes online conversations, emerging themes, and popular content formats so members can better understand what audiences are actively engaging with. Retailers can use these insights to guide their social media strategy—helping determine what to post, what topics are gaining traction, and how to align messaging with current consumer interests. The goal is to make it easier to create relevant, engaging content that resonates with today’s digital audience.
E-Commerce Connect™ Cooperative Marketing Program, designed to help independent garden centers promote their new drop-shipping capabilities inside their stores. This initiative provides professionally printed materials — including banners, bench cards, posters, and signage — that inform shoppers their local nursery now offers an Endless Aisle, allowing customers to browse and purchase far beyond in-store inventory while still supporting the retailer they trust.In partnership with Sunrise Marketing, members can access curated E-Commerce Connect™ Kits created specifically for garden centers, making it easy to deploy polished in-store promotions without starting from scratch.
To help drive sales and keep products moving, select suppliers in the E-Commerce Connect™ program will offer weekly HOT BUYS — limited-time discounts on featured plants and products. These special offers are designed to give retailers a pricing advantage and create urgency with customers.The goal is simple: pass the savings along to your customers to incentivize faster purchasing and increase sell-through. To make promotion easy, we’ve created ready-to-use Canva marketing templates you can customize in minutes. Feel free to use our designs as-is or as inspiration — simply add your logo, product page link, pricing, and post across your channels.