David Cameron our Prime Minister visits Perfect Moment Flowers in St Albans a local florist in Hertfordshire. It is all about small business and David has a chat about politics and the economy with PM’s owners @ www.pmflorist.co.uk.

Check it out here :- http://www.pmflorist.co.uk/Perfect_Moments.aspx

The place to find Florists on Facebook, just starting out by the looks of it so if you’re on Facebook why not tell them about it!

www.floristbook.net

Just thought I would let you know about our competition we are running with the help of F&WB, we’ve got some great prizes up for grabs. For more information click here!!

Why not check out our great webisodes courtesy of Fitz Designs and J Schwanke, to give you some great design ideas and tricks for making Corsage Creations products even easier to use. To view all four of the webisodes click here.

Does anyone know what species or Hybridized Garden Tulip this is from?

Apparently this Tulipa species/hybrid was planted in my mother and father in laws orchard around 50 years ago, today just this single one pops up most years, I took a picture of it and showed them and they told me the story, they did say that it was so old that it was probably the last tulip strand of its kind? Can anyone shed any light on this for me please? I would love to be able to find out if this is true, hopefully not as this is the most beautiful Tulip I have ever seen and the story behind it I think makes it even more so. Does any know about this Tulip, have you seen it before? I hope so as I would love to find out this one is still going hopefully so that I can buy some bulbs, I could then repopulate the Orchard this Oct/Dec. If worse comes to worst and this is the last of its kind is there anyway it can be rescued and pollinated or at least cross pollinated and saved?

 

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I have been meaning to mention this new forum site that has just popped up for florists online called Florist Life, visit www.floristlife.co.uk.

Forum for Professional Florists - Students - Trade and public to post their views..

The site is new so why not stop by and strike up a conversation, anything from views, tips, industry news or just say hi.

If you’re a florist Searching online for new links to your online business during the final weeks before Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day you have left it too late to make any real impact! I see a pattern each year, especially this year since my network of floristry related websites has grown tenfold. In the same way that most men leave it right until the 10^th hour to send their Valentine flowers many florists leave their online businesses hanging all year round, then when the big occasions are upon them their left wondering why their website is not performing and producing sales like they had anticipated, this is why I see the amount of submissions to my national and local florist sites quadruple in the final run up to peak business periods.

Online marketing is an ongoing process that takes in many variables and takes real time, if any business could just wave a magic wand and propel themselves to the top of Google in an instant don’t you think we would have all heard about it! Like I have said online marketing is an ongoing thing, there is a set way that you need to go about it during your daily business activities to achieve results. Next time you receive a call from a company promising or guaranteeing top 10 listings on Google beware, no one can do this! Check out this post about First Point about a company calling florists selling online marketing.

A few tools I use to get my clients marketed include:

• Florist Window - e-commerce websites for florists - the way in which your website is built will direct effect how it can hope to perform on search engines
• Only Florists - UK web directory - a really useful site that attracts a lot of direct traffic from search engines but also acts as a great link partner to my clients websites
• Florist App - iPhone Mobile App networking 8,000 florists - many of us search using apps, as this market continues to grow my app taps into the mobile market and the 4.6 million registered iPhone users in the UK.
• Florist Search - the world’s only dedicated florist search engine.
• Local Florists - this site links to 954 local .co.uk and .com websites from Aberdeen to York
• Florist Reviews - a new experiment site launched just recently to test the market, early indications are good so we may complete work on the review widget soon

Don’t forget to send mum flowers on Mother’s Day, this year Mothering Sunday falls on April 3rd, click here to check out the UK Local Florist Map showing local florists throughout the UK that sell bouquets, arrangements, chocolates, wine, champagne, balloons and vases online.

It’s all going Valentines for many local florists from around the country, check out loads of Florist Window clients now promoting their Valentines Day Flowers product range in time for February 14th.

View Valentines Florist Windows, to see what other florists are doing online to promote their products or if you would like to send flowers to your Valentine why not download the free Florist App for the iPhone to find a local florist nationwide or visit Only Florists the directory or Florist Search the search engine.

Hi so this is my first honest to goodness blog. What to expect, who only knows? What I can promise is a true life blog of the day to day running of my life, work and experiences as an independent florist in Sheffield. So no boring instructional or promoted writing you just get the truth. You will have to bear with me though and remember I am a florist not an English major or computer geek like my friend Timothy (who thought this would be a good idea!!!)

So what’s happening today apart from me freezing, where has the sun gone? I am madly trying to sort out Valentine’s Day. Why?……….I know its two whole weeks away. However this florist in Sheffield has learnt over the past ** years that this will save on the grey hairs. My customers will not appear until maybe the 12th of February. But my word will I know about if I am not ready……………My valentines page Valentines Flowers Sheffield page has been up for a while now and true to word I always (as it is my own work and not library pictures) make sure you get what you see. So today is folding and pleating wrappings to within an inch of my life, counting balloons, getting aqua boxes ready and tying bows. By the way its cold this is going to cause major arthritic problems when I grow up.

Visit my website in Sheffield www.townendflorist.co.uk