This Valentine’s Day season, the Society of American Florists responded to 28 instances of harmful floral publicity to date. “That number could...
A tech giant, the fifth-largest beauty company in the world, and a pictorial publisher recently made disparaging remarks about flowers as Mother’s...
The country’s biggest online retailer and a floral industry startup have both agreed to change or address Mother’s Day ads that disparaged floral...
What good is having a website if your customers can’t find it? Answer: no good at all. Search engine optimization, a marketing discipline that...
Teleflora’s latest Mother’s Day campaign aims to show that while families come in all shapes and sizes, love is the universal thread of motherhood....
Florists are busy all day — designing, interacting with customers, managing supplies, costs and staff and maybe drinking a cup of coffee (or 12) —...
The National Retail Federation is forecasting a robust Mother’s Day holiday this year, with near-record spending of $23.1 billion. About 86 percent...
To get consumers thinking about Mother’s Day and how flowers make the perfect gift, Lovingly, a website and POS provider for retail florists,...
With Pinterest dreams and Martha Stewart moms, millennial customers have plenty of ideas — and florists are the pros tasked with crafting those...
This week, nearly 1,000 people in San Antonio are advertising for Spring Garden Flower Shop by sporting a colorful piece of metal. Nine years ago,...
When Sten Crissey, AAF, walked into the White House in the spring of 1990, he looked around the room and took a deep breath. Crissey, then president...
In many ways, International Women’s Day sounds like the ideal holiday for the U.S. floral industry: The March 8 event encourages people to celebrate...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution yesterday aimed at solving a problem facing Bay Area floral industry business owners,...
Your bookkeeper is already a QuickBooks expert — there’s no reason for you to know the nitty-gritty details of the accounting software, right? Think...
Easter and Passover sales were a mixed bag this year. About a third of retailer members responding to the Society of American Florists’ post-holiday...