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Hello everybody,

my name is Alex and i'm a florist from Romania ( a small country in Europe, near Ukraina, Bulgaria and Hungary). A found this blog for florist and i'm glad because in my country in this industry everything is a secret and you cant share with somone else your oppinion or share other informations.

It's a big competition and the flower market is checked by gipsies. They to unquality things, but this is another story.

I want to announce you my blog about flowers www.flowersgrowing.com.

I start posting 1 month ago i i have a lot of work with this blog. All i want from you is some feedback to improve my blog.

Thanks
 
flowersgrowing said:
Yes, I post alot on digg and netscape. But unfortunately a category for florist or something related do not exist.

My flowershop name is "FIORE" and the website is under construction. www.florariafiore.ro But after 2-3 months it will be an online flower shop. ( I hope i will succed )
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Perhaps I mis-understand?? but you plan on being an 'online flower shop" not a brick and mortar shop that actually does the flower designing..and you want us to help you???
I mean if all you are going to do is order gather and then send the order to real florists to do all the work?? why would you expect us to help you hurt us??
 
Carol,

Alex is like most florists - has a flower shop, needs a website. The site is under development, but he does have a blog.

Ryan
 
I have a flowershop since june this year so i'm new in this business.

A blog is very simple to do ( wordpress rules) but a online flower shop is hard to do ( I design de layout - I'm also a grafic designer :D)but the programmer and the SEO boy are busy. In Romania for a site like this i pay around 1500$ for programming and 2500 for SEO. Working for a long time with web designers i will do it for free, but I'll have to wait a little because the money have priority for the programmer.

So that's i have a blog, a flower shop but my web site is under construction. Besaides I like blogging.
 
Thank you for the pictures.. your shop looks great..I love walking into a real flower shop where the beautiful flowers are displayed so you can touch & smell them. And a smiling person ready to help you... nice shop
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Hi Alex,

Welcome! Wow! How very cool to have a florist at FlowerChat from Romania! I hope you will continue to post and tell us about your experiences in selling flowers in Romania. I am truly fascinated. Your shop is very pretty and I just love that you display your flowers on the selling floor...not in the cooler! I adore your shop sign FIORE "the best little flower shop!" Tell us more about the gypsies if you can...sounds like an interesting story. I will read your blog when I have more time...is Christmastime busy for you in Romania? My Grandmother was from Romania. Please tell us about your life in Romania. I always find it so interesting to hear about life in other countries so far away from the USA!
 
:)) Is not a very happy experience beeing florist in Romania. My flower shop is pretty but is very small. About the gipsies; they are rich people and they have monopol on flowers industry. You have to buy from them and when your order sometimes happends to be Fu**ed up. Sometimes i wait for flowers 6-7 hours.
Is not a plesant way to make business and the flowers quality is not so good.

But I'm trying to do my best and joiful my clients ( and they realy are ). The most sell flower here is the red rose ( grand prix and f-red). After the rose is carnation, gerbera and anthurium.

About the Christmas. We fell a high volume of sales but being a new florist in my town the sales aren't so big.

About the traditions you can read my blog ( Christmas Time category - about Christmas tradition in Romania - related with flowers) and if you wanna now everything else please ask me.
 
Welcome to FlowerChat, Alex! This is a great place to learn lots of things!
 
I would love to have a beer with you, my friend (or perhaps a schnaps or two?)

My Mother was born & raised in Constanta, my father in Timisoara. Mom's family fought with the Germans, my Dad with the Romanians during the war.

They met after the war when Mom's family was walking back to Romania from Czechoslovakia, and were lined up against their wagon ready to be shot by a Russian soldier (they had no papers). Dad "took over" from the Russian soldier as he "would deal with them"...and effectively rescued them.

Dad escorted Mom's family back to Constanta, only to find the family farm to be decimated. They then walked to Dad's homestead in Timisoara, only to find his family had been re-located to Austria as the German troops began pulling back (yes, his own family was with the Germans, and he was fighting with the Russians...).

Your stories of the difficulties living in Romania bring back memories...even after 60 years many things have not changed, apparently not even the gypsies (although they now sound more like the Mafia!)

Ah well...enough for now. Good luck...& keep on posting!
 
TY for your hard work, I'll check your blog daily now and have it set up to open in my FireFox tab when I open it.

Perhaps I mis-understand?? but you plan on being an 'online flower shop" not a brick and mortar shop that actually does the flower designing..and you want us to help you???
I mean if all you are going to do is order gather and then send the order to real florists to do all the work?? why would you expect us to help you hurt us??
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You have to forgive Carrol, she doesn't like supporting OGs, unless it's the biggest OG out there, FTD, then it is ok. ( http://www.ftdfloristsonline.com/nhflowers/ ) TY Ryan for your post, I was that huh? where did that anger come from.

Hypocrites on this forum really bore me. *yawns*
 
Thanks for support,

now i want to gather interesting link about flower shops and put them into my blog. If some of you now a link about flowers, a forum, a blog or something else please make a list. My list is open to 20 links or more. I'm not asking for a link exchange....
 
Dazeal said:
TY for your hard work, I'll check your blog daily now and have it set up to open in my FireFox tab when I open it.



You have to forgive Carrol, she doesn't like supporting OGs, unless it's the biggest OG out there, FTD, then it is ok. ( http://www.ftdfloristsonline.com/nhflowers/ ) TY Ryan for your post, I was that huh? where did that anger come from.

Hypocrites on this forum really bore me. *yawns*
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Not following ... but it is early on Saturday morning, so I'm at half speed.

Are you angry at me, Daz? If so, I missed it. Why?

Ryan
 
Infinite said:
Not following ... but it is early on Saturday morning, so I'm at half speed.

Are you angry at me, Daz? If so, I missed it. Why?

Ryan
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I think Brandon was referring to Carol's perceived hostility.

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