Nicole Johnsey BurkeFounder of Gardenary

I hope I'm not the only one🤣 If you own a small business you know what it's like! #garden #business

22 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Short conversational YouTube clip (Nicole Johnsey Burke with another speaker) describing the unpredictable financial and social-media ups and downs of running a small gardening business: sudden high-value sales, tax surprises, seasonal lulls, appointments/consults, client disputes (deer damage), viral social media attention with mixed comments, and unpaid celebrity requests.

Questions this video answers

40%

$10,000

1,000,000

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Hey, hundreds of people want to pay you to teach them to garden. You can make more doing this than your job. Really?
Okay, I just quit my job.
You're gonna owe 40% of it in taxes back to the government.
40%? That's a lot.
Cha Ching, you just sold a ten thousand dollar garden. Ten thousand dollars?
Okay, I can do that.
But then it was winter and no one has called you for months. Okay, well, I think I need to start looking for another job. Cha Ching, you just booked seven consults.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, then the garden you set up was destroyed by deer, and your client wants all her money back. Looks like I need to get on LinkedIn. Wait, you posted a reel about the deer and it got 1 million views on Instagram? 1 million. That could change my life. But half the comments are really mean.
Oh, Cha.
Ching, the most famous celebrity in your town wants you to build her garden.
Oh my gosh.
She wants you to do it for free. Well.

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