Marketing, targeting and building relationships with Millennials will help your garden business to thrive in the present and grow in the future.

The question that needs to be answered first before your garden company can begin targeting this powerful demographic is:

Who are the Millennials and what do they value?

To fully connect and effectively market gardening to this powerful generation, your garden business needs to understand Millennials' demographics and psychographics. 

Continue reading to get to know this prominent generation a bit better in order to craft marketing messages that truly resonate.

“What’s trending now" has always been a hot news topic.

Now, however, news segments are getting trends directly from social media sites.

Even the Today Show and Good Morning America, the two biggest morning news shows, both feature special segments on what’s trending, frequently driven by social content.

As audiences show they're continually interested in trend stories, it’s time for your garden businesses to help get the word out, too.

Discover how your gardening business can use social media trends to craft timely pitches and branded content below.  

With every trend, there's an anti-trend, also known as an antipode.

Especially in the realm of garden design and outdoor living decor, there's always a multitude of trending styles.

As such, while simple elegance's crisp lines and black/white flower combinations make a subtle statement, the trend's antipode "Frac'd Up" is breaking all the rules.

Frac'd Up garden design and decor rejects neat and tidy. Instead, this garden trend embraces geometric shapes, exemplified by fractions and dimensions with explosions of colors and textures.

Read on to see 3 ways your garden business can leverage the Frac'd Up garden trend to stay on the cutting edge in 2014.

A brand new app launched last week that will provide your garden business with a way to streamline content for followers.

Pippit, brainchild of bloggers from Oh! Joy and Love Taza, allows users to add “pips,” or dots, to blog posts, photos and videos that lead to even more curated content.

Integrating blogs with social media has never been easier.

Learn what Pippit is and how this new social app can be powerful for your garden business blog.

Looking to build brand recognition for your garden business and attract new customers at the same time?

Tapping the first stage of the buying cycle, the awareness stage, with stellar digital content may be your solution.

By creating digital content, your gardening business can help gardeners become inspired or learn how to tackle a new DIY project. Armed with knowledge you’ve shared, customers feel confident in solving a problem, and best of all, you’ve earned their trust by sharing your expertise.

Read on to discover 4 ways to attract new garden consumers to your gardening business by enhancing your digital content.

What's the next step after your business has established a presence on social platforms?

From Instagram to Facebook, each social platform comes with its own list of do's and don'ts for green businesses. Don't auto-post. Do post relevant content on a regular basis.

Pinterest, the image-driven scrapbook-esque social site, may not be getting enough of your attention this spring. Did you know Pinterest has more than 70 million users? Or that Pinterest will generate you FOUR times more money per click than Twitter?

Read on to discover the 3 'do's' to maximize Pinterest to boost sales for your garden business.

For the garden industry, this is a busy, busy time of year! From new plants emerging in garden centers to gardening makeovers, there's a lot of garden-centric competition this time of year.

So how do you make your gardening brand stand out from the crowd?

Well, it all starts with an air-tight brand personality--and stellar products, of course.

From there, part of the fun is piggybacking on eco-events (like Earth Day, Arbor Day, and International Composting) and making your own company-specific events, too.

Below, we're detailing tips for eco-events based on successful Earth Day campaigns--and dishing on how to use these tricks to your company's advantage.

Getting likes on your garden business's Facebook posts may seem like throwing spaghetti against the wall. You know some sticks and performs really well while others just flop. As far as the why, it's a mystery.

Thanks to a new study compiled by researchers at the Graduate School of Stanford University and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, part of the mystery has been cracked.

Trust us, using these scientifically supported tips and tricks will help you get more bang for the same amount of time spent.

Learn the top 4 data-proven tricks to help your posts on your garden business's Facebook page get more likes, comments, and impressions below.

With each passing day, more and more businesses are jumping onto Twitter.  As more businesses begin using this social media platform, more of the same mistakes are being made.

Twitter is a great place to connect with your consumers and further your garden company's brand.  But, be wary, if you fall into these traps Twitter can harm more than help.

Keep reading to find out if you’re making one of the top 5 Twitter mistakes of 2014; then, we'll help you fix it too.

In 2012, customers spent $1.7 billion on Cyber Monday, and the forecast for this year predicts a whopping $2.27 billion. Next to Black Friday, it’s the biggest shopping day of the year. Many customers prefer shopping Cyber Monday deals because they get to enjoy the same bargains, but avoid the lines, the crowded parking lots, and the massive amounts of people.

Did your garden e-commerce business take a piece of that 1.7 billion dollar pie last year?

If not, it is important to get on the ball this year to make sure your marketing strategy has a Cyber Monday plan. Don’t miss this huge sales opportunity.

Here are seven tips to keep in mind for any garden e-commerce business planning their Cyber Monday strategy.