Competition in rose selling

I have had competition from time to time on my route. I have had some pretty good success and have had a lot of experience having to overcome this sort of thing so can give you some good tips from time to time on this subject.
Here are some general rules you should start with:

• First of all it's nice to get exclusive deals with nightclubs, they may ask you to pay them, but it's worth it.(But there are always those places that don't anyone coming in there to sell.)
  
• Also I always make sure I have the highest quality best looking roses being sold, this almost always outweighs poor quality roses being sold at a lower price.
• Get there first!
• Oh, and did I say--get there first!

I have recently been having trouble with a new competitor going into one of my best places I sell at. She had been getting there first. So two things I did this week differently. I got there first and I stayed there a very long time. Now I wouldn't do this at a little dinky bar inhabited only by three alcoholics. But in this case while I had some other places on my route, I would have ideally gotten to sooner--this one was the best seller, so staying there was warranted and I got just as many sales or more sales by staying there anyway. I eventually moved on to my other places but then came back there again.
I did see that she went on to some of my other places instead--but overall this payed off. You also can't get too upset by any of it and be persistent in your own efforts. It seldom makes much difference if there is a little competition as long as you have the best roses and if you are the one that has been selling in the area the longest, that also helps quite a bit.

Later,
Claire