Now that Thanksgiving is over, the Christmas holiday selling season has started in earnest.
Tyler’s Trees, an online New York company that allows customers to buy a tree of their choice with four clicks of a mouse, is predicting another record season.
The company, launched by two entrepreneurs in their 20s, started this year’s deliveries the Monday before Thanksgiving.
Co-founders Tyler Kupper and Brian Millman said the company has grown at least 200 percent each year since it launched in 2008, and it now hires a seasonal work force of 10.
Last week they were getting 150 to 200 calls a day, and the same number of emails, and in spite of a shorter selling period (since Thanksgiving came a week later this year). Last year, gross sales were in the low six figures.
About 80 percent of their business is in Manhattan, followed by Brooklyn and Queens.
Their Fraser fir trees are from North Carolina, supplied by a third-generation Christmas tree family. Trees start at $139 for a 5-foot tree, including delivery, installation, a stand and a skirt, to the “Rockefeller,” a 9-foot giant for $359. For an extra fee of $50, the owners say, the tree can be removed and recycled in an eco-friendly way.