As part of the beta launch of our new website www.amazebox.co.uk, we whipped up a quick competition. All you had to do was send in a picture of yourself conveying how much you wanted a FREE AmazeBox. With all the entries compiled, counted and compared, we managed to whittle down the participants to our favourite [...]
Filed under: AmazeBox, Competition, Marketing on April 16th, 2013 | 2 Comments »
A world without funny TwitPics would be like a world without bacon. Good job it’s not true. Mmmmm delicious bacon. Here for you to enjoy are the 10 most viewed @ArenaFlowers TwitPics ever. Please note that to heighten the excitement, we’ve posted these in reverse order of popularity. Please try to contain yourself. 10. Baby’s [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing, Matters Webby on April 8th, 2013 | No Comments »
Win a FREE AmazeBox worth up to £19.99 As part of the launch of our new website www.amazebox.co.uk, we have whipped up a fantastic competition. All you have to do is send in a picture of yourself conveying how much you want a FREE AmazeBox, along with your name and email address. We’re not judging [...]
Filed under: AmazeBox, General, Marketing on March 27th, 2013 | No Comments »
Hello. A quick post to say I’m delighted to announce our new website (http://www.amazebox.co.uk) which has been in public beta for a few weeks now. We’ve been thinking about this for some time but haven’t had the time to build it or release it. Well, now we have. We hope you like it. More info below [...]
Filed under: AmazeBox, General, Marketing, Matters Webby, Setting up, Start up on March 14th, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Competition time! We’re a flower shop (the best!) so obviously for our competition we’re giving away free tickets to, erm, a Zombie Experience. It makes perfect sense! Okay, it doesn’t but zombies are awesome and fun (also: quite deadly, especially the recent spate of fast-running ones) so we’re going to do the competition anyway, courtesy of [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing on October 10th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Will has been busy as a regular contributor to econsultancy’s blog as well as others, so we thought we’d share some of his posts here too. Having a growing online business can be filled with thousands of individual decisions, each of which in sum can lead to the shape of your business. We thought we’d [...]
Filed under: Big Mistakes, General, International Flowers, Marketing, Setting up, Start up on July 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
If you think your partner may be worried about getting you something you actually want for Valentine’s day, we’ve created a handy little tool on our Valentine’s Wishes page to help you give them a little bit of a nudge in the right direction. We’ve taken our favourite Valentine’s flowers and put them onto one [...]
Filed under: Customers, Flowers, Marketing, Valentine's Day on January 25th, 2011 | No Comments »
A few weeks back, around the time of the World Cup, we (Flower HQ’s three marketing execs) thought we would have a shot at creating a fun short video, in the hope that it might get a few views on YouTube and drive some brand awareness. That was the idea anyway. We also knew there [...]
Filed under: Big Mistakes, Flowers, General, Marketing on August 5th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Hello all, my name is Freddie (a.k.a Flower Funster on the blog). I joined Arena around the February Valentine’s period and as you can imagine it was a VERY busy first few days. I came to Arena off the back of studying Environmental Business at Leeds, and was looking forward to trying something new and [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing, Matters Webby on July 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s a week since Valentine’s Day – a busy time for florists around the globe – and things have remained as exciting as ever at Arena Flowers. Particularly exciting as we launched our new tool: Flowers & Fun. This is a completely free (and fun!) messaging service allowing you to send messages with a virtual [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing, Matters Webby on February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »