New to this forum !!!

[rosa alba]

Hello Tiger lilys

We have a website that you can't order on at the moment, it gets reasonable traffic and people seem to mainly use it for the wedding side, we have lots of photos of past weddings on it. At the peaks we put a price list up on the gifts pages and get a few phone or email orders off it. We just signed up with FloristPro today www.floristpro.co.uk, the site will take a couple of weeks to build but once it's up it will be a proper webshop, will let you know how it goes! I think having an online ordering facility is really important, I analysed our relay orders at MD and VD and over 70% were web orders and some of them were our local customers that the relay co had stolen....

[tiger_lilys]

Originally Posted by rosa alba

Hello Tiger lilys

We have a website that you can't order on at the moment, it gets reasonable traffic and people seem to mainly use it for the wedding side, we have lots of photos of past weddings on it. At the peaks we put a price list up on the gifts pages and get a few phone or email orders off it. We just signed up with FloristPro today www.floristpro.co.uk, the site will take a couple of weeks to build but once it's up it will be a proper webshop, will let you know how it goes! I think having an online ordering facility is really important, I analysed our relay orders at MD and VD and over 70% were web orders and some of them were our local customers that the relay co had stolen....

hi just looked up the website u have said looks very good .. did u have to pay out now for it .. and do thay do it all and all the pics and that ..

i do know someone who can do it all for me but has been hard to get hold of .. and can get me high up on google.

do u get a lot of work for your relay ...
coz at the mo flowergram have not been sending me anything out so looking for someone new ..

[rosa alba]

We are Interflora, I am happy with the volume of orders we get from them, there's generally something every day from them.

The FloristPro thing is a subscription service, you pay monthly for it, nothing up front, they make a template shop for you and you have to fill it with all your own lovely products so you will need a digital camera and some photo editing software too. Oh, and you need to be able to process credit cards on a card holder not present basis.

[tiger_lilys]

Originally Posted by rosa alba

We are Interflora, I am happy with the volume of orders we get from them, there's generally something every day from them.

The FloristPro thing is a subscription service, you pay monthly for it, nothing up front, they make a template shop for you and you have to fill it with all your own lovely products so you will need a digital camera and some photo editing software too. Oh, and you need to be able to process credit cards on a card holder not present basis.

i see ok thank you ...

i have not had the shop that long so looking for somthing that is going to get me more work in ... as the shop dose not have that much passing trade.

[elouise]

Originally Posted by tiger_lilys

hi,
i have had about 2 orders from them so far this month .. i have been thinking of going to tel florist do you know if thay are any good ..

i was told by flowergram that i would be getting more not less orders so im not that happy with them at all at the min ..

i used to be with teleflorist years ago and i was happy with them, but i wouldnt really say i got any more orders than i have with flowergram.

Why dont you try florist2florist. Its not that much to join, and nobody on here seems to have had any problems with them.

I used to get about 3 orders a week from flowergram headoffice, but since resigning, (i have to be with them for 3 months notice) ive had none off them.

[elouise]

where is your shop tiger lilys?

[tiger_lilys]

Originally Posted by elouise

where is your shop tiger lilys?

its in hertfordshire ... i was told about them i did not join but now and then thay will pop up and send me one .

[tiger_lilys]

any good tips to get more corporate work ?


and how to price up a job for corporate work ...

i have a few companys now i do work for and am looking to get some more but dont realy no how to go by getting more .. and what thay should be paying fore what thay get ..


am looking for cheap glass ware as well if anyone knows of anywhere and plant pots..

[elouise]

what i have done in the past is had business cards printed with discounts on.

Sent letters to various companies with the business cards in, and hey presto,

The last contract i had from that spends about 200 a month!!

If its a very regular company then i dont charge for the use of the vase, and i more or less put the actual flower value in the arrangement and dont charge make up time.

But i wouldnt go for cheap vases. Usually companies want expensive looks, and if you pay a bit for the vase it will get you something nice, and hopefully they will give you repeat business.
And at the end of the day, they do give the vase back.

[tiger_lilys]

Originally Posted by elouise

what i have done in the past is had business cards printed with discounts on.

Sent letters to various companies with the business cards in, and hey presto,

The last contract i had from that spends about 200 a month!!

If its a very regular company then i dont charge for the use of the vase, and i more or less put the actual flower value in the arrangement and dont charge make up time.

But i wouldnt go for cheap vases. Usually companies want expensive looks, and if you pay a bit for the vase it will get you something nice, and hopefully they will give you repeat business.
And at the end of the day, they do give the vase back.

thanx for the ifo i have one company now who i do flowers for , and i do the same sort of thing for them .. i just need some more like that realy but thanx again for your help ..