In Business with Bees - by Kim Flottum (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Ready to take your beekeeping skills to the next level? <i>In Business with Bees</i> provides the answers you need.</b> <p/> This book takes serious beekeepers past the beginning stages and learning curves and offers practical, useful advice to move your passion into a part-time or full-time career with measurable results. This <b>beekeeping business how-to guide</b> offers all of the in-depth advice you need, in one place.<ul><li>Writing a business plan</li><li>Finding the best sources for funding</li><li>Determining what your facilities will be and how to acquire them</li><li>Getting and installing the right equipment</li><li>Cooperating with other local businesses</li><li>Stocking inventory and managing warehouse space</li><li>Finding customers</li><li>Raising and selling queens, packages, and nucs</li><li>Expanding pollination, including contracts to protect you</li><li>Making and selling peripheral products from wax, propolis, and honey</li><li>Organizing teaching, speaking, and planning events</li><li>Hiring and managing your growing team</li><li>Promoting your business</li><li>Measuring your success</li></ul>This book provides solutions for all your beekeeping business questions, from start to finish. With this knowledge, you can become as knowledgeable, confident, and successful in running a business as you are in beekeeping.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"How many times has someone, fairly new to honey bees and beekeeping, thought about opening a 'bee business' selling honey, offering pollination services, making endless creative candles and plunged ahead without guidance? And how many times has that dream...turned into disaster? This book will show those dreamers the possibilities and realities of creating a successful business, either small or large."--<i><b>Ann Harman, international beekeeping author and editor</b></i><br><br>"This is a great outline for those interested in making their passion into a business. Here you will find thought-provoking questions and answers to many of the pitfalls that bring businesses to their knees."--<i><b>Kimberly and Ben Carpenter, EAS Master Beekeepers and the owners of Hungry Bear Farms, Ross Rounds, </b></i><br><br>"Where was this book when we started? I know that we could have skipped many of the growing pains if we would have had a book like this to learn from and refer to."--<i><b>Paige and Tom Bennett, cofounders of Bennett Apiaries, Inc. (Red Bluff, CA)</b></i><br><br>ENDORSEMENTS FOR BETTER BEEKEEPING: <br> "Better Beekeeping is the most lucid call to action ever written about land-based beekeeping." <br> --Tammy Horn, author of <i>Bees in America </i>and <i>Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market</i> <p/> "There are numerous beekeeping books on the shelves that instruct on 'how to, ' but Better Beekeeping is a book that explores 'why to, ' which is essential for this ever-changing world of beekeeping today." <br> --Jennifer Berry, research coordinator at the University of Georgia's Honey Bee Research Lab, commercial queen and nuc producer, and columnist for <i>Bee Culture</i> magazine <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Kim Flottum</b> brings a rich background of plant science, honey bee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of <i>Bee Culture</i> magazine, where his main occupation has been finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, travels extensively to educate and lecture, and contributes to a variety of other publications on the basics of honey bees and beekeeping biology, the business of bees and pollination, producing and using varietal honeys, and a host of other subjects. He is the author of <i>The Backyard Beekeeper</i>, <i>First Time Beekeeping</i>, <i>In Business with Bees</i>, and <i>Common Sense Natural Beekeeping</i>. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. He is beekeeping's leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including insuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides.</p></p>
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