Floral Source

[clay]

Got a notice that Floral Source (FSI) is relocating their FSI website program from www.localflorist.com search engine to www.locateaflowershop.com .

"At any time, should you wish to go from the free website program to an upgraded, paid-for website, enabling you to receive 100% of the order, the cost is only $39.99 per month! This new website program will allow you to have control throught back office acess, enabling you to customize pricing and other areas of your site. Look for these new sites to be up by the end of April!"

 

[CHR]

Hmmmmm....... very interesting development. Thanks for the post.

 

[mlou]

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Interesting...

What happen to Sunflower Productions and the Floral Alliance?

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[Dazeal]

I have a friend here in Ashland who is partnered up with one of the guys who built the Amazon.com e-commerce engine who is working on something, that I want to introduce to the floral world that MIGHT change the way florists sell flowers online. 'Might' /shrug

e-commerce-
$0 start up
$0 per month
Free Image sharing.
Sell almost anything.
An event engine (create events, sell tickets)
And a lot more.

They take 1% (this is how they make their money)

If you take and fill the order, Money is taken and 99% is put into your bank account (no cc fees taken out - I think)

If you send the order, you make 8%, they make 1% and filler makes 91%

If you fill the order, you make 91%, they make 1% and the person sending you the order makes 8%.

Think of Amazon.com but for the small guy.

Their beta starts in may/June, so maybe winter release. They have nice financial backing and looks promising.... we'll see. Some of the above might change, nothing is set in stone... they are still in alpha testing with a few book stores and wineries. I'll let you know how it's going. Who knows, it might be crap or might be good. /shrug

 

[BOSS]

Hey Dizzy.... sign me up!

 

[Dazeal]

The cool concept I am trying to work out with him is that WE, the real florists become the order gathers and don't use a middleman to send through.

One of the neat concepts is: I sell chocolate bars at my shop.. I also ship them. Mark adds the chocolate bar to his ecommerce site and someone orders it, it goes to me, I ship and mark makes 8%. -

They also have a feature that says.. I want X and am 'carbon foot print' conscious. So marks online customer in Texas wants the bar of chocolate, but wants it found closest to their home in Texas. it happens to be a chocolate store in New Mexico and there is where it is shipped from. The problem I see with this is the shop in NM could be DBs and not ship it.

Again, it is too early to know if this will be good or a flop, but we'll see.

 

[Dazeal]

And.. as a florist.. someone comes to my sight, wants to send flowers to your town Mark, you get the order.. I make 8% and you make 91%. If there is not a florist in that town, i guess BB gets it. /shurg - I still have to look at the system.