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Measure Designer Productivity To Determine Wages
Your designers are likely your most skilled (and highly compensated) workers. You need to put their time to good use. In the latest issue of Floral Management, Dan McManus, founder of the marketing and consulting firm Team Floral, shares how to set designers’ wages by...
Wedding Work: Double Down or Scale Back?
More than 2.6 million weddings are expected this year — the most since 1984 — according to The Knot, whose research anticipates similar numbers in 2023 and 2024. But that record-breaking demand doesn’t mean every florist has every weekend booked for the foreseeable...
Profit Margins Suffering? Here’s How Savvy Event Florists Stay Profitable
The past two years have seriously challenged event florists — first with mass cancellations and the (often multiple) reschedule shuffle, followed by product shortages and record-high inflation. The latter feels particularly troublesome when creating proposals for...
Ocean Freight Helps Meet Demand
According to a National Retail Federation survey, 72 percent of consumers intend to buy Mom flowers this weekend, representing approximately $2.9 billion in spending. To help fulfill that huge demand, floral importers and other professionals used ocean freight to...Why Join SAF?
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