Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to sustain a profitable flower shop?

2. What is a corporation and how does it work?

3. What makes that different than running a sole-proprietorship? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

4. Knowing your product is very important, but why?

5. How do you sell the product to a customer, in other words, how do you get the customer to buy into your product or service?

6. What is more important: the product or the customer? Why?

7. What are basic business principles any business person should know about?

8. Do you have those principles and if so which are most important?

9. What are the steps you took to start your own business?

10. How much money and time did that take away from you?

11. If there was a different way to start your business what way would it be?
12. Having your business in the Los Angeles area clearly comes with heavy competition, how do you manage to stay in the competition with so many competitors?

13. How do you know how to set up your store? (product placement) 

14. What steps do you take when there is a recession?

15. When its time to cut costs, what do you cut first? Why?

16. How do you balance your expenses? Is that the most efficient way?

17. When times like recession or the competition gets heavy, what are the best ways to cope with stress?

18. When you hire employees, what do you look for?

19. What makes you a good business person?

20. Do you have a business for necessity or for pleasure? Do you like business?

Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to sustain a profitable flower shop?

2. How do you balance the profit coming in and the expenses going out?
3. When is the most profitable flower season?
4. What techniques do you use to talk to customers?
5. How do you choose your employees?
6. When tough times arrive, what costs are cut first?
7. What quality makes you a business person?
8. How did you start your own business?
9. What is the best way to cope with the stress when it gets overwhelming?
10. What would you do differently if you could start your business over?

Second Interview Questions

1. Why did you want to become a florist?
2. What was the entire process to own your own flower shop?
3. How do you go about your everyday routine?
4. What is the most challenging part of your job? How do you deal with it?
5. What is the next step to your flower business?