Good food & drink, great company with fellow florists, come away with a stack of ideas on how to increase Mother's Day sales and many other great pointers to boost your business!
Barnstaple Tue 7th March (This Tues!!) and Truro Wed 8th March (This Wed!!) we also have a selection of garden roses to take a look at and smell!!
Give your opinion on them and you might go home with a few too!
Bring your whole team! Businesses that have, are really pleased they did!
Its well known that WorldSkills UK Competitions have proved to accelerate a young persons career, developing their employability skills. But that's just the tip of the iceberg!
REGISTRATION CLOSES ON APRIL 7TH!
After registration closes heats will be held throughout the UK with the 8 successful competitors going on to the UK Worldskill competition at the Skills Show in Birmingham NEC in November!
To find more information about the competition click on the link below, please help us spread the word about this great opportunity that competitors shouldn't miss!
The possibilities and opportunities are endless for young people that get involved with worldskills, you only have to look back at previous Worldskills international competitors – Joe Massie, Victoria Richards, Chloe Woolf, Louisa Cooper and our current International competitor Danielle Scandone to understand how fantastic this journey is, how it has helped them to achieve their dreams and how it can do the same for you!
VISION FLORIST BUSINESS CONFERENCE
Speakers line up is incredible!!
BFA Vision conference on Sunday 9th April is a day of speakers, debate and business inspiration and is open to all the industry, but especially florists of all shapes and sizes (BFA members or not!)
Your Sunday Conference Speakers:
- Tim Huckabee - Florist Training Guru (from USA) 'Managing & Motavating Staff'
- Sophie Lee - Geo-fleur 'Social Media in 2017'
- Gerben Ravensbergen - Lillies of life 'A growers viewpoint post Brexit'
- Jonathan Mosley - 'Great British Cut Flowers -Flower buying closer to home'
- John Young - Bank of England 'Money Matters - off the record speech!'
- Helen Goodwin - Made you look & Vice chairman of the British Display Society
- Brian Wills-Pope & Tracy Tomlinson - BFA 'The British florist fightback' We're confident that We have an varied and interesting selection of talks that will enthral you, there is plenty of time for your questions to each of the speakers too!
Part two of the programme is here! follow it today!
Flower Council of Holland are currently running training to a group of florists to improve their online presence - Now whilst you can't be part of the competition you can be part of the 8 month programme, join in and get ahead.
So ask yourself do you want to improve your online pressence with info created by experts especially for florists? YES!! Well lets face it, It's FREE you'd be crazy not to!
These are available for you to download/alter/use as you wish in your business.
This week is a fasinating topic and document that we hope you'll find very helpful - possibly enlighting!! THE TRUE COST OF RUNNING YOUR DELIVERY VEHICLE
These documents - that we'll be adding to each week, are available in the members area of the website. If you are currently not a member click on the link below, it's currently half price and money well spent!
Floristry hits primetime TV like never before!!!
We're bursting to tell you all about the tv show that will be aired later this month that will put FLORISTRY on primetime TV but we can't spill the beans entirely yet......
OK so what can we tell you without getting in trouble!!
It had hands-on Floristry in it
It will appeal to viewers of all ages
It will be really entertaining!
It will feature both everyday shop work & competition designs!
We were delighted to be involved!
Watch this space we'll tell you more very soon.
We're very excited about BFA Vison '17 but this would not be possible without our fantastic sponsors.
CHRYSAL is known to us all... Click on the link & view their short video & see if you use all the products they feature!!
Our next issue of the new look BFA magazine is well underway, it has loads of great articles including a full article about the TV show we're hinting about - behind the scenes gossip, along with an interview with the main stars! This will be out the first week in April - the only way you're sure of getting your copy is to be a member!
The Flower and Plant Agenda - Boost Your Sales
Last week we brought you info on the the Flower Council of Holland's Flower of the month for March.
Now we're bringing you their Plant of the month, and what a plant it is! Bromeliads!
There is loads of information about these brilliant vibrant beauties as well as lots of images and a poster too!
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