Flowers & Company Hires Flyline Search Marketing

Flowers & Company of Houston, Texas, has hired Flyline Search Marketing to design and deliver a comprehensive marketing program for their firm. The Flowers and Company firm is owned by the Aaron family. Bryan Aaron is the President and day to day manager of the flower shop. The Flowers and Company design center is physically located in Pasadena.

Flowers & Company employs a team of professional delivery drivers. Each driver is specifically trained in the art of hauling and delivering floral products. The folks at Flowers and Company offer nationwide same day delivery. If you live in the Houston area, you can also take advantage of their express local delivery service. They provide same day express delivery in: Atascocita, Baytown, Bellaire, Channelview, Conroe, Crosby, Deer Park, Friendswood, Galena Park, Houston, Humble, Katy, Kemah, La Porte, League City, Manvel, Missouri City, Pasadena, Pearland, Seabrook, South Houston, Spring, Stafford, Webster and The Woodlands.

The floral design professionals at Flowers and Company are true artisans. They design some of the most stunning flower arrangements found anywhere in the state of Texas. Flowers and Company has actually been designing and hand delivering flowers in the Houston area since 1986. The Aaron family has always taken great pride in the flower arrangements they delivery. They stand behind every arrangement they create. When you purchase flowers from Flowers and Company, you can take comfort in the fact that all products come with Bryan Aaron’s personal 100% customer satisfaction guarantee! If you don’t like what Bryan’s team has created for you, just contact the Flowers and Company office at (281) 487-1896. They will replace that floral arrangement with one of equal or greater value, at absolutely no charge to you.

Flowers and Company hired Flyline Search Marketing in February of 2015. Bryan Aaron advised that he was impressed by the results we are generating for two other flower shops, who participate in the floral group that he is a member of. Our team is already well underway in deploying our comprehensive Internet marketing program for them. In just our first month of serving Flowers and Company, they experienced an increase in online sales transactions of 109.4%. In March, online sales grew by approximately 193%. Historically, clients we serve routinely experience monthly online sales increases ranging from 30%, up to 65%.

Flower shops that we support include some of the most prominent and successful florists in the country. We handle marketing services for companies like Carithers Flowers in Atlanta, Veldkamp’s Flowers in Denver and Allen’s Flowers in San Diego. All three of these shops are extremely well known throughout the floral industry. Our program is designed to deliver industry leading online sales growth. We don’t stop there. Using our strategic marketing approach, we can also deliver eye popping additional financial benefits, such as; increases in call-in and walk-in sales, as well as improvements in overall credit card sales as well.

Our marketing approach has proven successful in market after market. We have delivered marketing services for flower shops in major markets such as; Albuquerque, Atlanta, Columbus, Denver, Houston, Long Beach, Reseda and San Diego. The results produced have been equally stunning, regardless of the website platform that we have been asked to work with. Deploying our marketing strategies with different e-commerce platforms has allowed us to refine and customize our program, based on the type of website our client is using.

Our staff is now very familiar with the flower industries most popular floral website platforms. For example, we have a great working knowledge of the Gravity Free website and support a number of flower shops who utilize that platform. We enjoy a great working relationship with Scott Heaps and his super talented team. We also have a great working relationship with the Ozment family. They created a new, fully customized floral website of their own. They own Flowerama of Columbus and also own and operate 3 other Flowerama branded flower shops in Reynoldsburg, Westerville and Whitehall. We working with Steve, Kara, Andrea and Bob Ozment. They are just outstanding folks and have created a pretty incredible floral website. They have given us permission to discuss their site with prospective clients we encounter.

We routinely meet flower shop owners who utilize Teleflora or FTD template sites. We encourage those shop owners to consider our floral platform. Flyline Search Marketing offers an extremely affordable and highly effective e-commerce website, specifically designed for flower shops. The framework is fully responsive, making the site mobile friendly. It comes with a ton of great features, such as the ability to sell on Facebook and Ebay, the ability to generate your own Google Product Feeds, email integration with either an internal email system, Constant Contact or MailChimp, a user focused product review module and bulk product import and export capabilities, just to name a few. Our floral platform delivers excellent results, especially when paired with our comprehensive marketing program.

In the case of Flowers and Company, our client Bryan Aaron, will be licensing use of the new custom website designed by the Ozment family. That is exciting for all involved. We get another opportunity to demonstrate our ability to work our magic on a third party website. The Ozments get the chance to show the industry that their platform can be equally productive, when deployed outside of the state of Ohio. The folks at Flowers and Company are the biggest winners. They will be the beneficiaries of all the sales and revenue that comes as a result of deploying one of the best websites in the floral industry, coupled with arguably one of the floral industries most productive marketing agencies.

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By admin|2015-04-03T19:41:11+00:00April 3rd, 2015|Categories: Flowers and Company, Flyline Search Marketing, Website Design|Tags: Allen's Flower Market, Allen's Flowers, Carithers Flowers, Flowerama Columbus, Marketing For Florists, Veldkamp's Flowers, Websites For Flower Shops|Comments Off

Marketing For Florists

Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2015

The Flyline Search Marketing team is totally immersed in Valentine’s Day marketing activities for the flower shop owners we support. Our staff is literally working round the clock to ensure every florist in our floral group achieves their financial goals this Valentine’s Day.

4 Days Left Until Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day Online Sales (February 1 – February 10)

Online Sales Generated = 2,837

Online Revenue Generated = $313,582

There are four days remaining in the Valentine’s flower season. If you haven’t purchased Valentine’s flowers for your special someone, you are running out of time. Most small to medium sized flower shops are running out of flowers and delivery capacity. The smallest have likely already taken all of the order volume that they can handle. The larger independent flower shops, like the ones we support, are still able to take and fill orders due to their ability to order direct from the flower growers. The last four days of the Valentine’s season are historically the strongest sales days of the year for the larger shops. The numbers shown above should increase dramatically over the next few days.

The Flyline Search Marketing team has a ton of experience in marketing flower shops. In fact, this year represents the sixth year that we have planned and managed Valentine’s Day advertising for Carithers Flowers. We received our baptism of fire back in February of 2009 with them. What an experience that turned out to be. People who have never experienced life in a flower shop during Valentine’s will never fully grasp the magnitude of the endeavor. Valentine’s is the single busiest day of the entire year for virtually every flower shop in the country. The second busiest day is Mother’s Day.

In addition to Carithers Flowers, we also handle marketing responsibilities for other regionally and nationally known flower shops, including such notables as; Allen’s Flowers in San Diego, Allen’s Flower Market in Long Beach, Flowerama in Columbus, Flowers and Company in Pasadena and Veldkamp’s Flowers in Denver. Many of the flower shops in our floral group have opted into log term strategic relationships with us. Quite frankly, that makes great sense for the flower shop owners and for our firm. The level of success that we have achieved for the shop owners we support has set the bar pretty high for other competing advertising agencies. Part of the reason that our floral clients are doing so well is the fact that we integrate into their businesses as a strategic partner. We are not just a vendor selling services.

Each flower shop in our group benefits from the knowledge we have gleaned from years of specializing in marketing for florists. They also benefit from the highly refined and incredibly effective tactics and platforms we bring to the table. One example is our Google Adwords program. The success of our floral group is all the proof you need that our Adwords program provides a huge tactical advantage for those we serve. That program was originally created in January of 2009 and has been enhanced and fine tuned over the past 6 years. It literally has morphed into a tactical weapon, that drives stunning results in every city that we have deployed it in.

On to the subject of Valentine’s Day marketing. We utilize a strategic mix of tools for market each shop during Valentine’s. Platforms we use include; Google Adwords, Bing Search, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+, Blogging, Press Releases, Email Blasts and a few more. We strategically utilize each platform to maximize exposure for our clients and to position them to effectively compete with all of the national order gatherers who always advertise heavy during floral holidays like Valentine’s. The key to the whole strategy lies not in just the tactics and strategies we use during Valentine’s, but, in the way we strategically market each client year round. The PPC landscape is a crowded ad space during all major holidays. If you haven’t laid the necessary ground work during the year, you aren’t likely going to see huge profits by just advertising during the holidays.

To achieve best in class results, you need a comprehensive marketing program. If you are wise, you will hire a firm like Flyline Search Marketing, who brings a dedicated team of professionals to the table. A talented team like ours can actively manage your program and all the related platforms, to achieve optimal results. Lets face it, flower shop owners have their hands full just trying to run the shop. This is especially true during holidays like Valentine’s. If anyone works as many hours as we do, it’s the flower shop owners we support. These dedicated folks handle everything from ordering product, to order capture and entry, to designing and delivering arrangements. Oh and did I mention, they are have to find time to handle HR issues, such as staffing, training, monitoring work flow and quality control of designs headed out the door and bound for the excited recipients.

By admin|2015-02-10T17:03:10+00:00February 10th, 2015|Categories: Marketing For Florists, Valentine's Day Advertising Strategies, Valentine's Day Marketing|Tags: Allen's Flower Market, Allen's Flowers, Carithers Flowers, Flowerama Columbus, Flowers and Company, Veldkamp's Flowers|Comments Off

Flower Shop Growth Rates Off The Charts

Data from The Society of American Florists indicates that the number of locally owned and operated flower shops in the United States continues to decline at an alarming rate. This downward trend has been going on for years. Industry leaders and flower shop owners have all shared opinions and feelings about what they feel are the root causes. In our estimation, there are likely many factors that are truly to blame. One red flag that stands out to us is, we see far too many local flower shops who don’t know how to effectively generate sales leads for their organizations. Relying too heavily on wire-in order volume could potentially be a formula for disaster, if you haven’t laid the proper ground work to win with that business model. Our advice. Learn how to generate your own sales leads.

While the floral industry continues it’s shake out, flower shops supported by Flyline Search Marketing continue to grow at astonishing rates! We routinely hear back from our flower shop owners that their growth rates far exceed those of other flower shop owners in the industry floral groups they participate in. Why are they doing so well you ask? The secret lies in the great vision and leadership of folks like Charles Carithers, Brad Levy and John Veldkamp.

These florists didn’t just hire a marketing vendor to do some work. Instead, they chose to treat us with great respect and to add us to their team as a strategic partner. They placed their unwavering belief in us that we could successfully drive positive change for their businesses. Then they gave us the latitude to do our job to the best of our ability. Some think we are far too quick in taking on the heavy burden of helping a flower shop to turn their fortunes around. Heck, where we come from, we call that opportunity! Who wouldn’t want the chance to partner with some of the greatest families in the flower business. It’s a once in a lifetime chance to help these families thrive, while at the same time giving us the chance to deliver stunning results and prove that we are the best marketing team in the floral industry.

The florists we serve are truly some of the brightest and most innovative minds in the floral industry. Most of them prefer to leave the industry spotlight to others. The vast majority of them actually seem to favor maintaining an effective degree of anonymity. These folks are simply brilliant, tactically gifted, forward thinkers who are the some of the most successful people in their industry. Oh the truth be told, not everyone we have served falls into this category, although the vast majority have truly embraced the value of a strategic partnership with our firm. At the end of the day, we can honestly say that we put every ounce of energy we have into our service. To those who continue to put their faith in us, we are honored, thankful and truly blessed for the chance to serve you and your family. Thank you for allowing us to contribute to your success.

What Flyline Search Marketing ultimately brings to the table is an incredibly well thought out strategy, a comprehensive marketing approach, industry leading PPC platform designs, relentless drive, a competitive spirit and and dogged determination to drive success for those we serve. It’s not money that motivates us. It is the chance to be a part of something special. We relish the challenge of helping a flower shop owner go from good to great! We will always place a higher value on our clients success than we will ever place on our own. Those who place their faith and trust in us are rewarded. We are fiercely loyal and never rest until the families we serve have achieved their goals. For those that say they don’t understand, it is not your money we desire. Instead, we seek to earn your lasting friendship, trust and respect. That is just how we are wired!

The Flyline Search Marketing team out works and out performs those we compete with. If you want to beat us, you had better plan to spend a ton of sleepless nights because while you are sleeping, we plan to be up kicking your backside. You can ask the florists we serve, our team will work whatever hours are necessary to ensure we deliver on the promise! Our program has been deployed in some of the largest and most competitive cities in the United States. It has delivered results in all of them. We are talking cities such as; Atlanta, Albuquerque, Columbus, Denver, San Diego, Long Beach and more. As new clients have partnered with us, our knowledge and ability to identify local and regional demographic differences has steadily gotten stronger. In addition, the new marketing opportunities have allowed us to continually refine our approach and platform designs. Our advertising program was capable of delivering a seven digit annual revenue result five years ago. Today it has morphed into a strategic weapon, designed to deliver astonishing results for florists who partner with us. The truth is in the sales results. Flower shop owners we support have significantly grown their brand strength and now hold commanding, dominant positions in the markets they choose to operate in.

Couple visionary leadership with the best marketing program in the industry, sounds like a formula for a very successful, long term business partnership. Are you interested in working with us?

By admin|2014-11-18T00:41:17+00:00November 18th, 2014|Categories: Advertising For Florists, Flower Shop Marketing, Internet Marketing For Florists, Local Florists, Local Flower Shops|Tags: Allen's Flowers, Ben Veldkamp, Brad Levy, Carithers Flowers, Charles Carithers, Flowerama Columbus, Harry Goldman, John Veldkamp, Local Flower Shop Marketing, Paul Goldman, Peoples Flowers, Steve Ozment, Veldkamp's Flowers, Wayne Pollack|Comments Off

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