Spanish Section on Website......a good idea?

[sloan]

I was just checking out a new website one of my competitors just launched (by Flower Shop Network) and see there is a tab for Spanish. Never would have thought about it. Comments?

 

[anytimeflowers]

Just pray that they don't have to call you, unless you speak it.

 

[sloan]

no habla espanol

 

[Seasonals]

Ditto!

My spanish is very limited. There are some business terms I did learn in spanish but flowers are not one of them. Did you know that the spanish word or Calla Lilys is Alcatraz? According to the cake decorated that I do flowers for it is anyway

 

[anytimeflowers]

I know un rosa roja, la leche, and bien.

Oh, and hola and gracias. I think I'll just leave english on mine!

 

[BOSS]

Personal commentary:

I'm an American, I live in America, I speak American~!

If you live in America, speak the dang language.

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

Personal commentary:

I'm an American, I live in America, I speak American~!

If you live in America, speak the dang language.

"spoke" to an American yesterday...didn't sound like english to me....

 

[mikec]

Mikey, actually "American" takes on many forms and accents. My wife is Russian and has only been here for 8 years. I took pains to enunciate clearly so as to ease her pain of learning not only English, but American.

One time after just opening our shop in Asheville, an older local guy walked in and a conversation took place between Marina and this guy. It went on for 15-20 minutes. Lots of laughing and gesturing. After he left, I asked her what they talking about for so long. She said, "I have no idea". It still makes me laugh.

 

[OB1]

It makes sense to me to serve your customers in any language you can. So if you've got alot of Spanish clients, you bet I'd serve them in Spanish, if I could. It's not unlike here, where we have lots of French speaking people. I've had lots of staff who were bi and trilingual, so there's always lots of different languages being spoken, but I wouldn't put it on my website, unless I knew for sure that someone who was fluent in the language was always in the shop.
Hey Boss, you know how they say America is the "melting pot"? In Canada, we think of ourselves more like a "stew"!
JP

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

It makes sense to me to serve your customers in any language you can. So if you've got alot of Spanish clients, you bet I'd serve them in Spanish, if I could. It's not unlike here, where we have lots of French speaking people. I've had lots of staff who were bi and trilingual, so there's always lots of different languages being spoken, but I wouldn't put it on my website, unless I knew for sure that someone who was fluent in the language was always in the shop.
Hey Boss, you know how they say America is the "melting pot"? In Canada, we think of ourselves more like a "stew"!
JP

...na zdorovlya

 

[OB1]

OK, Mikey, I give... probably Russian, although I'm not sure...hopefully something pleasant like "you're just one heck of a nice Canadian girl that I'd like to meet, and share some vodka with one day", or something like that.....

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

OK, Mikey, I give... probably Russian, although I'm not sure...hopefully something pleasant like "you're just one heck of a nice Canadian girl that I'd like to meet, and share some vodka with one day", or something like that.....

"to your health".....bring the Vodka!!

 

[Toddxxx]

"spoke" to an American yesterday...didn't sound like english to me....

I know what you mean, a lot of Australians, particularly those who like to complain about "them foreigners what come here and don't even speak the lingo" are barely literate and are so ignorant they don't even realise. Some can't even pronounce "Australia" correctly! Don't get me wrong, I know some of it is just that awful Steve Irwin style Aussie accent, but I don't care how much of an accent you have - you can still pronounce the whole word, not just the syllables that are easy. I know a few people that always say "Satdy" instead of Saturday. Makes me cringe.

We too are a "stew" (casserole?) so I couldn't really pick a second language that would help with business. Although, given most of the local immigrants come from the UK, if I could just learn to understand the Scots accent, that would be a great help!

 

[BOSS]

"spoke" to an American yesterday...didn't sound like english to me....

It's not "English".... it's American....

Ya know what I mean man?

 

[David]

When I had my FTD site I did one in Spanish and french. The amount of business and traffic did not make it worth having.