Maine State Florists Association Needs Help!

[Rhonda]

After our education program's venue burned to the ground with a wholesale florist in Bangor ME, we have tried to inventory what our class's housed at the wholesalers. We have lost much but one of the most well used items were old AFS videos. It was a set of 10 but the most widely used (lended out to students and used in the class) were:
Living with Color, Customer Satisfaction, and Hand Tied Bouquets.
If anyone has these and is willing to sell or donate to MSFGA or knows of anyone who may have them and willing to sell or donate, PLEASE contact me.... 800-734-9016.
Needless to say, our losses are adding up but classes are getting organized again and instructors are ready for the new term. And you can bet that we'll be insured for these items in the future....

 

[Erlene]

Rhonda, I found the AFS tapes I have, they are Paul Goodman's tapes: Controlling Cost of Goods Sold for Arrangements, Increasing Sales and Profits, Minimizing Payroll and Increasing Productivity, Wire Order Accounting.

Were these tapes something MSFGA had and lost in the fire? I am happy to donate these if so.

I also have an AFS Education book The Fundamentals of Profitable Visual Presentation and four of the Encycloflora series, Selling and Designing Wedding Flowers, Retail Flower Shop Operation, Selling and Designing Sympathy Flowers, Purchasing and Handling Fresh Flowers and Foliage.

If these are something you'd like for the library I can donate those as well. Just let me know and I'll bring them to the fall show.

 

[Rhonda]

I believe Carmen mentioned 11 tapes that were lost. And they were the AFS series, so those could be them. All of our "Library" was lost also, so any donations would be wonderful. Thanks so much!

 

[Erlene]

Great! I'll bring them along and also see what else I have that would be suitable.