How many designers, sales staff, delivery people did you fire when you went wire service free?
How many people did you fire?
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Eric S
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Care to explain?
when a florist drops a WS that means a loss in sales.
hiring someone based on that premise is interesting.
OR
was the new hire based on some other business activity?
when a florist drops a WS that means a loss in sales.
hiring someone based on that premise is interesting.
OR
was the new hire based on some other business activity?
Eric S
Demoted Webmaster
Its the hydroponics.
Jusk kidding. Well unfortunitly many many shops have closed around us. So an increase in sales beginning in September brought it on.
I didn't do anything to deserve it I just happened to stay open longer.
Jusk kidding. Well unfortunitly many many shops have closed around us. So an increase in sales beginning in September brought it on.
I didn't do anything to deserve it I just happened to stay open longer.
So it is because other shops closed rather than you dropping the WS business?
joe
joe
Connie
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I did the same thing, but it was because we moved into our new building on a very busy highway and near an interstate highway....a prime location for robberies. I require that no one works alone in the shop.
BOSS
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Joe, this is a great question. I can see all kinds of scenarios going in lots of different directions with this one.
I am very curious to see all the feedback on this.
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Chezbloom
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I hired three more designers after dropping TF. Two are really only freelance for weddings and such. One was moved to almost full time and the one I started with when I bought the shop cut her hours by about 5 hours per week as she is going back to school. I hired them over the course of 1.3 years after quitting TF. I'm a small shop and never sent out many Wire outs and never made any money off the crap old swaybrook kept sending us. Plus all the spelling errors and bad addresses just made it so much less work to deal with anything WS related. Even though business is reallly slow and bad this week, I would never go back to WS unless it was B Brooks but they don't seem to want us!
Is it just me or does it seem like people are dodging the question,
or rather the obvious answer?
I got a good follow up question but I'll wait for a bit more silence first.....
or rather the obvious answer?
I got a good follow up question but I'll wait for a bit more silence first.....
BOSS
FlowerChat Administrator
Fair enuf... but to further the derailment...
If dropping a wire service, which we assume will drop the GROSS, actually increases the NET (more money for less work[overhead]) is it not good?
It depends on your costs.
I only used not the words "not necessarily" because I am sure some will say their net profits actually increased and there are some good valid reasons for that to actually happen
For Example a small shop not receiving enough incoming business.
joe
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WELL, we did not go W/S free, BUT....when we dropped 800, we did not re-hire two designers, and a driver. All, ironically enough, left via their own means: one had a baby, one left the industry, and the driver retired.
It all worked out.
The first designer left 3 months before we gave 800 the boot. But, 800's volume had dropped to nearly nil. The other designer was actually the Design Room manager - she left the industry, and with here went her high salary! But, she could DESIGN! Very fast, and good work. Hustled ALL the time. She just got burnt out...
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Chezbloom
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Its just you cuz your on the other side of the world and possibly you are tilting your keyboard upsidedown on your hammock or somthing.
Peace,
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Eric S
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