In addition to what your smoothie shop carries, in terms of healthy smoothies and healthy additives, the location of your smoothie shop is also important to making a decent income.  There are many smoothie shops located in mall food courts or strip malls, however placing a smoothie shop inside a gym or near a YMCA where people work out is a great idea for making money by selling delicious, nutritious smoothies.

Another way to add income to your smoothie shop would be to start a Tampa catering company for smoothies.  Customers can add smoothies to whatever else they are serving at a graduation party, birthday party, baby or wedding shower, bowling party, slumber party or countless other gatherings in which smoothies would go great either by themselves or with other prepared foods.  Not many smoothie shops perform catering and this would put your smoothie shop ahead of the competition by offering something unique and different.

By offering your customers smoothie mixes online with an online Internet store, your smoothie shop can increase its income by nearly double depending on the amount of traffic you can drive to your online smoothies shop.  In order to get more customers to the online store, one would have to advertise through various marketing techniques such as site promotions, search engine optimization or SEO, article and link exchanges, hyperlinks and blogging.

Writing articles is the first step for any successful website.  Within these articles, keywords should be strategically placed for the three major search engines – Yahoo!, Google and MSN – to pick up and rank your smoothie website high on the search engine so that more people will see it and in turn visit it.  This is known as search engine optimization or SEO. 

Once you have these articles written, you can do an article exchange with other websites that have something similar or relevant to what your product is, such as vitamins or minerals that go in the smoothies or fresh fruit farms that deliver fresh fruit to people via an Internet store.  A link exchange is similar to an article exchange; instead of exchanging an entire article with another website you are only exchanging the link to your webpage.  Additionally, a hyperlink is placed within an article so that visitors to your website can click on the link and be taken directly to another webpage within your website or to someone else’s websites that have something to offer that is similar or relevant to what you are selling.  Each of these marketing techniques will help bring in more targeted customers to both your online store and your real-world store.

Even in these economic hard times, making money with a smoothie business can be easy if you offer a variety of healthy, nutritious and handmade smoothies that everyone will enjoy as an alternative snack after walking the mall or as a treat after a long day of shopping.

If you are lucky enough to find real estate near a gym where people work out or even make arrangements to set up your smoothie shop inside at the gym where people can just smoothies after their workout, you will have touched on a gold mine because after a workout people usually crave something sweet, and a delicious nutritious smoothie would hit the spot.

Another way to make money with the planet smoothie franchise is to have an online presence with a website that not only announces the smoothie shops location, hours of operation and telephone number; but you could sell smoothie mixes in powder form or even buckets of smoothie mixes and all the delicious additives, especially the healthy vitamins and minerals people crave when watching their calories.

By having both an online Internet store and a real-world store, you double your chances of receiving more business and therefore making more money from a smoothie business.