Graduations During COVID 19 Have Really Changed Things For Flower Shops

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COVID 19 Has Altered The Graduation Experience For Our Kids

We support flower shops all over the United States. Traditionally, May and June are busy months for our shop owners, as they prepare for Memorial Day, Fathers Day and Graduations. Flowerama Columbus has been a client of ours for many years. They employ a very talented floral design team who is busy preparing to help Columbus Ohio area graduates celebrate their special day. They are a second generation, family owned and operated floral design firm. Flowerama has been voted “Best Florist” in Columbus Ohio for 10 years in a row. For the past 30 days, all of their 4 retail flower shops have been closed to the public. They have been operating out of their base facility, providing local same day flower delivery for orders taken by phone or online.

Crazy to think that just a month ago, they were operating four floral design center locations.  Those flower shops are located in Columbus, Reynoldsburg, Westerville and Whitehall Ohio. Normally by this time in May, graduates and their parents would be coming in looking for corsages, boutonnieres and graduation themed flowers and plants. In just the past few days, the Governor of Ohio authorized the re-opening of our flower shop locations. Over the past few days, we have seen little more than a trickle of foot traffic coming in. Still, Flowerama has been receiving calls and online orders from people seeking to celebrate graduations.

Graduations are occurring all across the United States. It really tugs at your heart to know that kids who have worked so hard will not be able to march down the aisle in their caps and gowns, to receive their diplomas. So much history, so much tradition. Hard to see these kids prevented from that day filled with celebrations, smiles and that great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. All of our flower shop clients are working through these challenges with the families who are still wanting to celebrate their graduates.

Some of our other flower shop clients include Steve’s Flowers in Indianapolis Indiana, Allen’s Flowers in San Diego California, Pugh’s Flowers in Memphis Tennessee, Veldkamp’s Flowers in Denver Colorado, Rockcastle Florist in Rochester New York, Mayfield Florist in Tucson Arizona and many more. Some of these flower shops have recently been able to re-open their retail establishments in a controlled manner, others are still not able to open.  In San Diego, Allen’s Flowers is still not able to reopen. The families celebrating graduations are having to order by phone or online. These families are supposed to continue social distancing, which is preventing large family gatherings to celebrate their deserving graduates.

Join Us In Celebrating Graduates All Across America

 

 

Flyline Search Marketing® has a proven track record of delivering eye popping performance results. The floral customers we serve are growing much faster than the industry average. Our team is absolutely relentless in our mission to deliver success for those we serve. We served Carithers Flowers for more than 10 years. Click this link to read more about how we changed the lives of the Carithers family. The photo above that reads “Time to Learn” is really appropriate. Our firm is one of the most trusted brands in the floral marketing arena. Delivering results is our primary mission, but, we also spend a ton of time and energy teaching and educating the customers that we serve. We like to refer to our flower shop owners as being “Enlightened Florists”. Our advanced group of florists tend to dominate the markets that they compete in. A quick review of their analytics data would provide positive confirmation of that fact.

The comprehensive marketing program that we deliver for flower shops includes a lead generation component, tools to increase brand awareness, effective email marketing, tactics that help to defend brand reputation, platforms to manage social media marketing and every program we deploy comes with considerable consulting and education elements. We build a blog for each floral client we serve. Our team provides all the content for that blog. Our staff also creates a wedding website for each client. We work with the florists to gather the photos and base content for those sites. Our team is responsible for adding the content and maintaining the sites. For flower shops that want to expand their event flower business, we also build an events site for them. Some of our flower shops are heavily focused on generating more sympathy flower business. For those clients, we build a fully responsive sympathy website. If you are paying for our comprehensive marketing program, these micro-sites are built as part of that program. No website design fee to you, just a nominal monthly hosting fee.

 

 

 

New Website Designs For Pete’s Plumbing and R.A. Lippitt & Sons Plumbing

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Created Two New Websites For The Lippitt Family

Our flyline design and operations teams worked overtime during the Mother’s Day holiday period. The operations team helped every flower shop that we support to break all-time online sales and revenue records for May. As if that wasn’t enough, our web design staff built a number of websites during that same time frame. One of the sites we created was a new site for our very first customer, Pete’s Plumbing of Atlanta. We first opened our doors for business on September 16, 2008. The very next day, we took in our first client for Flyline. It was Julie Lippitt, owner of Pete’s Plumbing Incorporated. Eleven years later, Julie and Pete’s Plumbing are still customers of our firm. The new site is gorgeous. It is built on a fully responsive framework and is state of the art. If you would like to view Julie’s new website, you can view it by clicking this link: https://petesplumbing.com.

At the same time we were building the new site for Pete’s Plumbing, the Lippitt family also asked for a website for their sister company, R. A. Lippitt and Sons. It isn’t everyday that you meet a family who owns two separate plumbing firms. The folks at Pete’s Plumbing are focused on residential plumbing services. They also handle small commercial projects as well. The team at R. A. Lippitt & Sons is focused on large commercial projects. For example, just a few years ago they handled all of the plumbing and fixture installation for a remodel project of a main student dormatory being renovated at Truett McConnell College in North Georgia. The folks at R. A. Lippitt handle all types of plumbing system buildouts for new apartments, condominiums, hotels, motels and schools. They also handle many large plumbing projects for professional office buildings and plumbing buildouts for shopping centers and new retail establishments. You can view the new R.A. Lippitt website by clicking this link: https://ralippittplumbing.com.

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Veldkamp’s Flowers Strategically Partners With Flyline Search Marketing

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Flyline Search Marketing was originally hired by Veldkamp’s Flowers back in November of 2013. Over the last seven years, we have successfully partnered with John Veldkamp and his team to build their online program and to help them achieve a dominate position in the Denver, Colorado market. Yesterday, John signed a new four year contract renewal with our firm. We are so proud and thankful to stand shoulder to shoulder with John and his family. Our lives continue to be so richly blessed to be a part of the Veldkamp’s family. Working together we will continue to raise the bar for floral design firms operating in the Denver area.

Veldkamp’s Flowers offers the best selection of gorgeous, farm fresh flowers and plants in the state of Colorado. They operate an 80,000 square foot floral design center in the Denver area. That design center if shown in the featured photo above. This floral design center facility is arguably one of the very best anywhere in the United States. The shop includes a beautiful customer showroom, filled with a wonderful selection of occasion themed gifts. The showroom also has a huge walk-in cooler that is always filled with stunning flower arrangements, themed for all occasions. Veldkamp’s is one of only a small handful of florists who also operate a retail garden center. The garden center is co-located with the flower shop and is open to the public for in-store shopping.

Gorgeous Wedding Flowers by Veldkamp’s

 

 

 

The owners of Veldkamp’s Flowers, Ben & Martha Veldkamp, along with son John, brought flyline in to design and deploy a comprehensive marketing program for Veldkamp’s. They had recently purchased a new eCommerce platform and were ready to ramp up their advertising program and to increase the power of their digital footprint in the Denver market. The Veldkamp’s talked about bringing in our firm for more than a year. After much deliberation, they listened to shop owners like Charles Carithers and went forward with hiring us. We feel like that decision was a mutually beneficial move. We gained a wonderful new client, lead by an incredible family, and they secured the services of the most tenacious and relentless floral marketing firm in the country.

Veldkamp’s Exclusive Floral Designs

 

 

 

In our first year of supporting Veldkamp’s, we increased online revenues by more than 86%. We also set new standards for online sales by driving those up by more than 78%. Year two of our contract delivered even more growth. We grew revenues in year two by more than 42.75% and grew online sales transactions by 37.69%. In year three with Veldkamp’s, results continued to rise at rates far exceeding current industry growth rates. In fact, after completing a series of three one year service agreements, Veldkamp’s recently requested and received, a four year service agreement. This strategic partnership will allow for an even higher level of information sharing, education and increased time in Denver with the Veldkamp’s staff.

The Veldkamp family are wonderful folks to work with. They approached our firm approximately six months ago and requested a four year service agreement. We agreed and are now operating as a strategic partner of the Veldkamp’s organization. We work closely with John Veldkamp. He is an incredible person and has always been more than willing to allow us to stay aggressive in our marketing approach. He expects excellence and applauds when we deliver it. You can’t ask for a better strategic partner than that.

 

 

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