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10 Selling Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making
Sales is a vital part of running a successful floral business, but let's be real: It's not the part that inspired you to become a floral designer. Discover the top 10 selling mistakes made by creative entrepreneurs—and tips to turn them into wins.
Embracing Your Clients’ Emotions During the Wedding Planning Process
Planning a wedding is an emotional experience to say the least. Learn how you as a floral pro can support your clients’ and embrace the rollercoaster of emotions that come their way in the planning process.
4 Crucial Email Management Tips for Florists
From fielding inquiries and tracking shipments to answering client questions and communicating internally, it’s easy for your emails to get out of hand. Learn 4 key tips to get a handle on your Inbox—once and for all.
Employee Retention, Customer Service, and Self Care with The Flower Guy Bron
As a master of the art of floristry, floral designer Bron Hansboro of The Flower Guy Bron provides bespoke design and styling experiences for events of all types. Hear from Bron as he shares his knowledge and wisdom on a variety of topics—including employee retention, customer service, and more!
Repurposing Flowers with Shawn Chamberlain of The Full Bloom
Shawn is sharing her heart behind repurposing flowers and what inspires her to continue to live out this passion. We are chatting about what it looks like to repurpose flowers, how to network in the industry, and how to find volunteers. Shawn is sharing a few practical tips for florists who would like to practice repurposing flowers, whether that becomes a large-scale donation or a simple one-time donation.
3 Core Attributes of an Amazingly Effective Manager
We often look to our managers and supervisors as leaders—exemplary employees that we go to as a source for ideas, answers, and sometimes opinions. For floral industry professionals who are leading teams of creatives, there is no exception. Get tips on how to care for employees and be the best manager possible in this article.
How to Manage Multiple Creative Projects at Once
If you consider yourself an artist, often you'll find yourself wanting to focus on more than one thing. Here are some tips on how to manage multiple creative projects or responsibilities at once.
Progressing as an Industry with Schaffer Designs (Part 2)
Kelly is back with Bill Schaffer of Shaffer Designs for round two! Bill is walking us through one of their largest designs from last fall. There were over 35,000 stems of flowers (and a couple of hiccups along the way)! He’s chatting about how to direct a team amongst the craze of a large event. Bill is also sharing his heart regarding the floral industry and what he believes is the key for the industry to continue to progress.
How to Lead a Team
The special guest on this episode has been a long time coming—it’s Jesse Perry, Kelly’s husband and co-founder of Team Flower! Jesse is sharing his perspective of the first wedding Kelly designed and delivered and the lessons they’ve learned together through the last five years. You’ll hear the whole story behind Philosophy Flowers and Team Flower from Jesse’s view! He’s also giving some super helpful tips for leading a team, creating a cohesive working environment, and retaining your employees/freelancers for the long haul.
Keeping Your Cool During a Stressful Event with Laura Helm
In this episode of the Team Flower Podcast, Laura Helm of Ashton Events is sharing how she decided to start her own business as well as how she began walking in alignment with her heart in advocating for her clients. In addition, we’re chatting about the necessity of making hard decisions on event day and how to combine grace for yourself and your team and gumption in navigating stressful situations. Laura is also giving a few tips for those who are considering adding floral design to their event planning business!
Helpful Advice for Working Together With Your Spouse
Team Flower Member Kathleen and Sloan own a high-volume retail floral business as well as manage a separate wedding and events brand. They’ve been thinking a lot recently about what has made this partnership and this business so successful. It’s impossible to pinpoint just one thing, but Kathleen offers a few pearls of wisdom for anyone on this journey—or for those who are contemplating the idea.
Tips on managing freelancers
How do we become a better boss to our assistants? How do we manage freelancers well? I think the answer to this question is to learn how to be an open and communicative manager and to make tools and set expectations for our assistants to feel confident and useful while working for us.