This family-owned company makes $1 million annually selling Christmas trees in New York City — here’s how. (via CNBCMakeIt)
For Uptown Christmas Trees, it's the most lucrative time of the year.
For her part, Nash, 43, says she relies on the tool for real-time updates on tree popularity in different areas of the city. "I have a customer who comes every year and says she needs a 12-foot, skinny tree with strong branches to hold candles by the next day," Perry says. "I'll hit up Slack, see which location has that tree, and I'll have in brought in overnight.
Nash estimates that she could have sold another 1,000 trees last year, if she had the inventory. The demand was unexpected, and it's hard to quickly harvest more trees, she says: Christmas trees take at least seven years to reach maturity.
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