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Flower Delivery Vancouver: Marketing to the millennials - Augusta Free Press

In the meantime, houseplants seem to be what millennials are preferring. As a flower delivery Vancouver florist, it could be the right time to reconsider changing what you produce to meet the needs of the future generation.The virtual spaces that we live now transform the general landscape of living, necessitating businesses of all types to change to adopt their products and strategies used to market them. If you have not embraced this fundamental change, this is the right time to start formulating ways that will enable you to reach the millennials.1. Increase Your Online Presence.The playground for millennials nowadays is the internet, enabling them to be connected across the world. This earns the internet the first place in communication and specifically, in our case, marketing. As a florist, you should understand how to fully use the internet for marketing your brand. This is an excellent way of making you known to your potential target clients.2. Involve Social Media.One of the tools or websites with high traffic is social media sites. Therefore, as a flower delivery Vancouver florist, y... https://augustafreepress.com/flower-delivery-vancouver-marketing-to-the-millennials/

Garside Florist speaks the language of family, flowers - Vancouver Business Journal

Garside Florist currently has 12 employees and is the oldest family owned florist in Vancouver. Courtesy of Garside Florist Garside Florist has been a longstanding Clark County business, operating for more than seven decades. Wally Garside opened Garside Florist in 1940. Del and Sharon Swanson bought the shop in 1965 from Ernie Rancore. Del and Sharon operated Garside Florist for 40 years until their daughter and son-in-law (Brenda and Kurt Snyder) bought the flower shop in 2005. Kurt and Brenda continue to run the shop today.The full-service retail flower shop specializes in providing creative floral designs for everyday enjoyment as well as corporate events and special occasions like weddings or funerals. The company also carries a large selection of blooming and green plants, balloons, plush animals, chocolates and a line of lotions. Garside Florist is connected to other florists through the FTD network, which allows them to send and receive orders to and from other flower shops around the country. The shop initially began in a 2,000-square-foot spa... https://www.vbjusa.com/special-editions/family-owned-business/garside-florist-speaks-the-language-of-family-flowers/

Longtime Vancouver business Luepke Flowers and Finds to close - The Columbian

Luepke Flowers and Finds in downtown Vancouver is set to close today.The business announced the news Monday in a post on its Facebook page but did not give a reason for the decision. An employee confirmed the closure date but referred further questions to the owner, Bruno Amicci, who could not be reached for comment.“We appreciate your business, friendship and support over the last four years and from the first Luepke Flower shop in 1909,” the company wrote in the post. “We have delivered happiness, love, cheers and farewells. We have greeted new lives, helped plan new beginnings and celebrated lives past. We truly loved creating expressions of beauty and love for all of you!”An identical notice was posted in the store window this week, along with a sign advertising 50 percent off all merchandise.On the Facebook post, one commenter asked if anyone had expressed interest in purchasing and continuing the business. The store page replied “not at this time.” 110-year historyThe store &mdash... https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/feb/27/luepke-flowers-and-finds-to-close/

Owner explains Luepke closure, plans for downtown Vancouver building - The Columbian

Downtown Vancouver mainstay Luepke Flowers and Finds closed its doors Thursday after 110 years in operation. An initial set of notices posted in the store’s window earlier this week did not offer a reason for the closure, but the store’s owner, Bruno Amicci, spoke to The Columbian on Thursday to shed some light on the circumstances that led to the decision and his plans for the future of the store’s building, which he also owns.The biggest factor was competition, he said. The widespread availability of flowers online and in grocery stores made it increasingly difficult for the florist shop to sustain the level of customer traffic it once enjoyed. Too many shoppers were opting for the convenience of ordering online or visiting the floral department at their supermarket, he said, and those sellers also were able to undercut Luepke Flowers on pricing.“It was a very sad decision,” Amicci said.The competition problem has dogged Luepke in recent years. The store —... https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/feb/28/owner-explains-luepke-closure-plans-for-downtown-vancouver-building/

Vancouver woman's blooms brighten the room - The Columbian

Kelley Bishop’s cart rumbles toward her white SUV parked outside the Ray Hickey Hospice House in Vancouver.Bishop, a 57-year-old Vancouver resident, loads buckets of flowers onto a cart before rolling them inside. Almost every Wednesday morning for about the last two years, Bishop makes an hour round-trip drive to Portland to get flowers, and then drop flowers off for hospice patients as part of The Bloom Project, based in Portland.“It brings me great joy,” Bishop said of the volunteer work. “You can’t wheel in buckets of flowers and not be happy. It just fills me with happiness, and I know it makes these people happy.”The Bloom Project donates fresh flower bouquets to hospice and palliative care patients across the Portland area each week. The flowers at the Hickey House are arranged by volunteers after Bishop drops them off. Once arranged in vases, the flowers are then placed in all 20 hospice rooms.“It gives the place a personal touch. It brightens up the room,” said Leilani Agustin, a registered nurse with Hickey House. “For some... https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/feb/25/vancouver-womans-blooms-brighten-the-room/

This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000. - The Washington Post

Jennifer HeffnerFor The Washington PostTeddy Oh walks past Chadwick & Son Orchids in Richmond after purchasing his first orchid. Art Chadwick opened the Museum District shop 15 years ago. The business is known for boarding customers’ orchids between bloom cycles. Even within Richmond’s redbrick historic neighborhood known as the Museum District, Art Chadwick’s florist’s shop seems like a quaint throwback to an earlier time. A bell chimes as you open the door, and fans swirl below a pressed-tin ceiling. Cymbidiums, cattleyas and other flowering orchids are presented in decorative pots on round tables. Along one wall, a green pleated sofa invites patrons to linger and chat.I am here on a mild Friday afternoon in winter, and a small but steady stream of customers arrive, chatting in relaxed fashion with the proprietor. Chadwick, 56, is dressed casually in a brown cable-knit sweater, and he seems to be a guy comfortable in his own skin, smooth and urbane — in sum, exactly what you might expect in the gentee... https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/this-florist-started-babysitting-ailing-orchids-on-the-side-hes-now-boarding-13000/2019/04/03/e5bc550e-3ba1-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html

Effort to end florist licensing in Louisiana nipped in the bud with Senate panel's rejection - The Advocate

Louisiana was part of a broader push to review occupational licenses in the state, after a report last fall from the Institute for Justice released found Louisiana and Washington license more lower-income occupations it analyzed than any other state — 77 of 102 jobs.The effort was supported by a broad group that aligned Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards with more conservative interest groups with which he's often at odds, including the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and Americans for Prosperity.Rep. Julie Emerson, a Carencro Republican who sponsored the bill said her intent was to review the state's onerous licensing requirements that can be barriers to work, and was not intended as a slight to professional florists."We're looking at occupational licensing and we bring up things like this to have these discussions," she said. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_4058ed8e-4d59-11e8-aced-a3f61ef63b1c.html

Five Couples Escape the Familiar for Destination Weddings - Louisville.com

And maybe we should’ve shared the surprise with more of our close family and friends prior to the big day/announcement.”Taiesha N. Washington & Ke’Onda L. JarmonWed on June 23, 2018Henderson Beach State Park, Destin, FloridaPhotographer: Michael HammerAttire: Gilded Gown, Knoxville, TennesseeHair: Woodrow Trumbo; A’bril Elon, celebrity hair stylist, AtlantaMakeup: Nadiyyah Shabazz“Visit the destination at least twice before the wedding day,” says Ke’Onda, who with Taiesha traveled to Destin to seek out and confirm vendors. “Do your homework on hotels, flights and restaurants that are cost-efficient for everyone invited. A destination was always a dream of mine. The ocean is therapeutic, and that is how I envision a strong marriage. We know how aggravating it could be trying to invite everyone and to greet everyone who attended. Once we announced that we were having a destination wedding, the majority of our family and friends were no longer disappointed they didn’t get an invite. But we didn’t get to invest much in our local small businesses of Louisville. Although several were used, we wanted to support more.”Brooke Wethington & Scott MorrisonWed on June 7, 2018?Lowndes Grove Plantation, Charleston, South CarolinaPhotographer: Firm AnchorFlowers: Out of the Garden, CharlestonHair and makeup: Meg Workman, CharlestonAttire: Dress from Robert Bullock. Suit from JoS. A. Bank.“The lifesaver to planning my wedding was Instagram,” Brooke says. “I would search hashtags of Charleston weddings. When you plan a destination wedding, you can cut costs by getting married on a weekday — venues are almost half the cost on a Thursday! I was under the impression that planning a destination wedding can be a way to cut costs — less people? — and that is false. I went significantly over my budget due to traveling and adding small details to make my guests more comfortable. And I came home with too many personalized koozies and ChapSticks, so that’s a detail I may have left out. It was the best time having all of my favorite people on the beach just relaxing for days before and after. I strongly suggest having a large area for p... https://www.louisville.com/content/five-couples-escape-familiar-destination-weddings

Florist has found a niche in nursing ailing orchids back from the brink - SFGate

Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Jennifer Heffner Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Jennifer Heffner Image 1 of / 13 Caption Close Image 1 of 13 Lindsey Dortch and her 18 month-old daughter, Aria, leave Chadwick & Son Orchids in Richmond, Va., with a box of colorful phalaenopsis hybrids. Lindsey Dortch and her 18 month-old daughter, Aria, leave Chadwick & Son Orchids in Richmond, Va., with a box of colorful phalaenopsis hybrids. Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Jennifer... http://www.sfgate.com/lifestyle/article/Florist-has-found-a-niche-in-nursing-ailing-13756333.php