Cathy, thanks for that link. They carry Mariebelle chocolate, nice. 
I didn't mean to make it sound like and either or. In reality, the art people, if they have any business sense make more profit and have less headaches. It is so much nicer to make 5 arrangements in a day at $100 when it comes to profit, overhead, employees, hours works, delivery, gas... than it is to make 50 arrangements at $10. To me, it's not rocket Science. Plus to brand your name, your greatest form of advertising, your product, which will pull people to your shop more, the $100 design or the $10?
My point, and I know I have a hard time communicating, was it seems like the two polarized philosophies here on this forum are artist and, maybe I should of used another word than money, something like commodity driven or something like that. I am not trying to paint one better than the other. For the right, it works great for them and their customers. Someone far left on the art side goes out of business just as fast as these wholesalers in Miami do on the far right.
JB and I are opposites when it comes to how we do business. Both are successful and I would like to see him do more unique stuff, but that is not what makes him successful.
I see a symbiotic relationship, I need JB to keep doing the FTD style, so people will come to me for something different and he needs me to keep taking risks by putting fruit in my designs to send people to him who like something they can count on to look like something they are comfortable with and safe.
So to all the FTD florists I have bashed, keep up the great work and ty for putting my kids through college!
p.s. - Did anyone catch the subtlety of me putting JB on the right?
I didn't mean to make it sound like and either or. In reality, the art people, if they have any business sense make more profit and have less headaches. It is so much nicer to make 5 arrangements in a day at $100 when it comes to profit, overhead, employees, hours works, delivery, gas... than it is to make 50 arrangements at $10. To me, it's not rocket Science. Plus to brand your name, your greatest form of advertising, your product, which will pull people to your shop more, the $100 design or the $10?
My point, and I know I have a hard time communicating, was it seems like the two polarized philosophies here on this forum are artist and, maybe I should of used another word than money, something like commodity driven or something like that. I am not trying to paint one better than the other. For the right, it works great for them and their customers.
Someone far left on the art side goes out of business just as fast as these wholesalers in Miami do on the far right.JB and I are opposites when it comes to how we do business. Both are successful and I would like to see him do more unique stuff, but that is not what makes him successful.
I see a symbiotic relationship, I need JB to keep doing the FTD style, so people will come to me for something different and he needs me to keep taking risks by putting fruit in my designs to send people to him who like something they can count on to look like something they are comfortable with and safe.
So to all the FTD florists I have bashed, keep up the great work and ty for putting my kids through college!
p.s. - Did anyone catch the subtlety of me putting JB on the right?
