Yesterday was a busy day for anti-fraud newsflow plus some good old fashioned web fear mongering. Don’t get me wrong – web fraud happens and needs to be combated but there is often something shrill and hysterical about the reporting of online fraud, especially in the UK. “Everyone PANIC!” would seem to summarise the editorial [...]
Filed under: Big Mistakes, Ethics & Environment, Fraud, General, Marketing, Matters Webby on November 18th, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Dr. Dave Chaffey, is the Director and lead consultant for Marketing Insights Limited, an independent marketing consultancy. He is also the best selling author of Internet Marketing books used by digital marketing professionals and on many University and College Courses globally. His latest book, Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, which features Arena Flowers’ case [...]
Filed under: General, Matters Webby on November 14th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Those of you subscribed to our free flowery newsletters will have seen this morning that Arena is supporting the annual Poppy Appeal. We’re donating 10% of the order value for all orders which include Braveheart, The One or 20 Luxury Red Roses between now and Friday to the Appeal.
We believe this is a very good [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, General, Good Causes & Charities on November 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We always have such fun organising wedding flowers – what could give anyone more pleasure than organising beautiful flowers to make a bride’s day even more perfect? Well that is what I thought until it came to organising flowers for my own daughter’s wedding in July!
To be fair to her, she wasn’t really being difficult [...]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, General, Weddings on November 6th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Unless you’ve been living in a cave on a remote island, in the outer regions of civilisation with nothing more than smoke signals to communicate to your neighbouring hermits, you’ll be fully aware that today is indeed polling day over the other side of the pond, with two political heavyweights slogging it out for the [...]
Filed under: Flowers, General, Matters Webby on November 4th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
