Flowers fall in love just as us humans do according to the writer of our new absurdist style Twitter feed. As in real life though, things never run smoothly as you will see in the beautifully sketched drawing below entitled ‘If Roses Could Talk’. TIP: If you are a flower looking for a holiday romance [...]
Filed under: Flowers, General, Matters Webby on September 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
When travelling around the web, one comes across lots of funny and bizarre things. The “flowers skeleton sculptures” below from Dutch artist Cedric Laquieze must rank amongst the more bizarre offerings we’ve seen recently though. Not a product / service we’ll be offering at Flowers HQ anytime soon… Original source. Share This Post:
Filed under: Flowers, General, Matters Webby on September 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Dating. A veritable minefield and as Valentine’s day approaches on the horizon, you may be wishing you could find someone perfect for you. Whoever you are. And whoever you are, there is probably a dating website which will suit you. We have trawled the internet for the best of the unusual dating sites out there: [...]
Filed under: General, Matters Webby, Valentine's Day on January 31st, 2011 | No 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 »
**UPDATE: We are pleased to announce that Brenda is the winner of the Arena Flowers Mum of the Year competition** Thank you for all the entries and for all who voted. Happy Mother’s Day. We have had many wonderful entries for the 2010 Arena Flowers Mum of the Year competition. We’d like to thank everyone [...]
Filed under: Customers, Matters Webby, Mega Days, Mother's Day on March 8th, 2010 | 8 Comments »
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 »
It was my pleasure to be at Small Business 2.0 this year; an even greater pleasure to take part in the SEO panel and SEO forum session. There were some interesting speakers there from BT Tradespace. Ivan Croxford had sage advice and hilarious anecdotes about managing reputation via the BT Tradespace platform and social sites [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing, Matters Webby on January 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
I was recently invited by friend of Arena, Trevor Ginn, to write a guest post for his blog eBay, eCommerce life. As well as being a blogger, Trevor runs an online baby and nursery shop, Hello Baby and an Internet consultancy, Vendlab. Naturally, being a sucker for flattery from other webby types, I was happy [...]
Filed under: General, Matters Webby on June 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A quick ‘Pop Quiz’ for you: What do Jon Bon Jovi, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Steffi Graf, Jodie Foster and Tiger Woods (pictured, right) all have in common? Apart from probably having a few bob to their names, they are all reported to be famous hay fever sufferers and/or allergic to flowers. With an estimated [...]
Filed under: Customers, Floristry, Flowers, General, Matters Webby, Operations, Weddings on May 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
I like gadgets and as such love our Arena ‘toys’. As the subject for this post is centered around our latest toy I have been charged with telling the story. Something that I think I should clarify at this juncture is the definition of a ‘toy’. We are a florist not a toy shop so [...]
Filed under: General, Matters Webby, Mega Days on April 27th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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