Science Fair Proposal

1. Flower Shop Administration
2. Sole-proprietorship businesses tend to fail within the first two years due to poor planning and underestimated budget spending. "Business owners underestimate how much money is needed and they are forced to close before they even have a fair chance to succeed. They also may have unrealistic expectations of incoming revenues from sales." (Scahefer, Patricia."The Seven Pitfalls of Business Failure and How to Avoid Them."Business Know-How. A Hard Communications, Inc. 2011. Web. 10 Oct. 2012.)
3. If the budget of the flower shop is low then the flower shop is most likely a sole-proprietorship, owned by a family,
4. To start off my experiment i will locate 22 or more local flower shops in the cities of: Pomona, Claremont, Montclair, and Ontario. I then will interview the owners of each flower shop and ask them questions. They are as followed: 1. Why did you start your business? 2. What was the budget you began with? 3. When did you start to see profit? 4. How heavy is the competition? 5. Did you ever get to the point where you needed to close the flower shop? Why? I would also use my research from different sources such as entrepreneur.com, for-entrepreneurs.com, NOLO, and other statistic based websites to help me organize my data, to see if the problem stated and the hypothesis proved correct. 
5. Behavioral/ Social Science 

Problem Statement

1. Flower Shop Administration
2. This particular flower shop is small, so there is a limited amount of space to place many flower arrangements which in turn makes it difficult to make it look good for customers to be attracted. Once i fix this problem i would recommend other small businesses to expand themselves or teach them some essentials.
3. Usually customers are unsatisfied when we say that the flower of their choice is not in season, they get mad and hard headed. Once the problem is fixed i would have great speaking methods and i will have the flower shop running smoother.