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 »
This post is in fact a little overdue as our Birthday was back in July so please excuse the tardiness (what can I say, it was a big party :). Its also been a while since I last wrote a post so seeing both are overdue I thought I would pen this particular post. Somehow [...]
Filed under: General, Setting up, Start up on September 12th, 2011 | No Comments »
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 »
Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday Arena Flowers, Happy Birthday to us! Yes, believe it or not but Arena Flowers turns 3 years young today – and to celebrate, our Head Florist Andrew has created us this super-dooper birthday cake made from flowers! Consisting of our ethically sourced Grand Prix roses, [...]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, General, Operations, Setting up on July 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Fancy a Twitter with Britney? – The Sun, 10th January 2009 How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives – Daily Mail, 3rd January 2009 Twitter set for its mainstream telly moment on Jonathan Ross’s comeback show – Guardian, 7th January 2009 What started as a trickle [...]
Filed under: Customers, Distribution, Floristry, Marketing, Matters Webby, Setting up on January 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Getting hitched in the chilly months of winter doesn’t mean that you need to compromise on your winter wedding flowers. Although relatively rare compared to summer weddings, winter ceremonies can indeed benefit from all the sparkle and glamour of the party season, with family and friends close to hand for the festive period. Wedding planners [...]
Filed under: Christmas Flowers, Customers, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, Setting up, Weddings on January 9th, 2009 | 15 Comments »
We were surprised this week to receive mail from one of the leading academic publishers, Pearson Education’s Higher and Professional Education Division seeking our permission to reproduce a copy of our website image for a new edition of Chaffey et al’s book, Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice. We assume that the book shows our [...]
Filed under: Marketing, Matters Webby, Setting up on September 9th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Our latest guest editor is Alicia, from MOO.com. MOO is one of the darlings of the “web 2.0″ world. Why? Because it tries not only to do the big things right, but all the little things too. MOO helps personalise things through print, and it’s a pretty unique business. At Arena Flowers we love personalisation [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, General, Guest Posts, Setting up on July 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
We often get asked by friends and former colleagues who are thinking about setting up their own business for our top tips on fund-raising for start ups. We’re no experts so, rather than give exhaustive detail of what we’ve learnt here, we thought we’d share three avenues of government funding that we’ve found interesting and [...]
Filed under: Finance & Investment, Setting up, Start up on June 16th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here at Arena Flowers we get a lot of special orders both large and small – sometimes for a particular birthday where the number of flowers is important or sometimes for the re-creation of a wedding bouquet for an anniversary. We also receive requests for flower stems to be distributed at special events, such as [...]
Filed under: Customers, Distribution, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Operations, Setting up on June 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
