Valentines Day can be a little hectic. Planning out a romantic occasion, buying the perfect gifts; it's easy to become overwhelmed. Well, sending flowers to your sweetie has never been easier with Flower Shop Network. We don't usually toot our own horn, but thought this was a great reminder to share!

The mobile friendly version of our website makes it so easy for you to order flowers for your sweetie from a real local florist anywhere in the US! No apps to buy or download, just type this address into your smartphones internet browser:

fsn.mobi

Shop Smart, Shop Local

Many local florist websites are also mobile friendly, and you can shop and order right there on your smartphone!!  (We are proud to mention that any florist who's uses FSN E-Commerce websites are mobile friendly!)

The convenience and easy of mobile shopping just can't be beat, especially when it's local. Order Valentines Day flowers for your sweetie while eating lunch, pumping gas, at the dentist — anywhere! If you need help, calling your florist is just a click away!

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It's Christmas today at FSN! Everyone is dressed in their best and are beaming with holiday spirit! We had fun, played Christmas games, but most importantly ate LOTS of FOOD! There are Christmas trees around every corner and everyone seems to be in a good mood.
Check out our photos below: Continue reading "Merry Christmas From FSN!" »

Happy Thanksgiving From FSN

Today was the annual Thanksgiving celebration at FSN headquarters. If you've been following our blog long, you know we love any excuse to bring food to work and Thanksgiving is the biggest homemade lunch day of the year! Today we filled 3 tables with homemade food and a whole bookshelf of desserts! It doesn't get any better than that!

We hope you have an wonderful Thanksgiving Day too! I'm off to get another no-bake cookie…

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Yes, another party, woo! This time we are celebrating the marriage of one of our programmers, Matt to his wonderful fiance Meghan. Because they are both avid video gamers, their wedding actually had a gaming, 8-bit theme. We tried to continue this with the wedding shower decorations with 8-bit hearts and fonts.

You can see the hearts are kind of squared, this is what 8-bit means. Think of the graphics of Mario and old Nintendo games. What a neat idea for a themed party or wedding, and just perfect for Matt & Meghan.

So BIG congrats guys, from ALL of us at FSN!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GALS!

If you've been following us on the blog or Facebook for very long, you know we love any excuse to bring food to work and party! November is one of our favorite months for birthdays! It just so happens, all of our website admin's birthdays fall in the first part of November! That's right!

Jill & Brenda from Flower Shop Network, Judy from FGmarket, AND Lacey from Wedding And Party Network all have birthdays this month!

Each birthday girl got her own personalized cupcake, and there was a yummy snacks buffet with morning foods, like muffins! We have a ton of other birthdays this month, so it definitely called for a party!

So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY from everyone here in the office and our friends online!

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Halloween is one of our favorite times of year here at FSN headquarters. Our readers should know, the Flower Shop Network crew loves any excuse to celebrate! Just check out the fun, scary, beautiful and even a little spacey costume's we've come up with this year. Lots of really creative ones this year!

See All Costumes From The Flower Shop Network Crew

If you've kept up with FSN's blog much at all, you KNOW how much we love cake and parties around here! Today we are celebrating the birthday of a man who we could not live without — Jason! He is everyone's favorite handyman, a true jack-of-all-trades. If something goes wrong in the office, Jason is who we call, not ghost busters! He keeps our building looking new and in working order. (He is also really good at fixing broken cellphones, a skill we are ALL thankful for.)

You might remember Jason from last year's Halloween pictures — he was a rescued Chilean miner. As you can easily see, Jason is known for keeping us laughing and keeping it fun here at the office. I'm not sure what we'd do without him. So,

Happy Birthday Jason!

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BABY TIME!

Here at FSN headquarters, we love celebrating – especially new additions to our family. Chris Jankoviak, our office clerk is having a baby girl in *wow* less than a month, and we are all so excited!

Of course the food was delish, the cake was as cute as can be and the flowers were gorgeous, but Chris herself was the cutest part of it all. Through the whole party, her smile was from ear to ear and beyond.
Continue reading "FSN Events: Chris' Baby Shower" »

We are very excited to bring you our first set of FSN Floral Selection Calendars just for our member florists!

Impress your guests with colorful arrangements and holiday reminders. Each month has a big, beautiful arrangement featured in full-color on the 10" X 11" personalized calendar. Floral holidays are clearly marked to remind customers when it's time to send flowers from you. All of your shop's information will be shown in large print on every page.

But the best part — they're only $1 each!

That's right! Calendars ship Nov. 5th, order NOW to reserve your quantity. These calendars are not only affordable, but also the perfect way to spread the word about your flower shop to your community. Pass them out to local and neighboring businesses, clubs and churches, customers, friends and family. You could also use these as a reward for a contest or quiz (think of the Facebook contest/quiz possibilities!).  Calendars also come with individual envelopes so you can mail them to your top customers!

To pre-order call your Flower Shop Network representative today at 800-858-9925 or order your floral calendar online! Last date to order is August 25th,2011.

Ordering for 2011 is over, but you can still order calendars for 2013.

Custom floral calendars are only $1.00 each* – minimum order of 100
Plus $35.00 which includes a one-time setup fee & shipping
*sold in increments of 100
*mailing envelopes are included

We are very excited to start a new fun feature of our Facebook page. We know how much florists and flower lovers enjoy visiting our Facebook page for inspiration and ideas, and to encourage this, we are beginning a new weekly feature — Flower Arrangement of the Week!

For the new Flower Arrangement of the Week feature, we are asking our florist friends to share the favorite designs they've created during that week on our Facebook Page.

Every Monday, we will pick one of the photos to use as FSN's new profile picture! The flower shop that created the design will be credited in the picture and a link to their website will be included in the caption.

Choosing the Weekly Feature

Although it technically is a sort of contest, I just want this to be a fun little feature of our page that everyone can get involved with. We at FSN want to showcase designs from all across the country, and show our visitors who aren't florists the wide variety of designs available. Not only that, we are excited to have our wall covered in beautiful flower pictures from REAL florists and think everyone would enjoy this as well.

• Any and all flower arrangement styles are welcome: everyday, funeral, events, etc.
• We would really prefer arrangements made from the week prior, although any recently made flower arrangement pictures are fine.
• We mostly want to keep with the feel of the season. You wouldn't want to see a Thanksgiving cornucopia picture chosen in the middle of the summer. Remember, you want non-florists to see whats available to them right now, and hopefully be inspired enough to contact their local florist!

Fun For Everyone!

We want this new feature to be lots of fun for everyone, and hope the idea of seeing a new arrangements from fellow florists every week will be inspiring. We would also love your input and suggestions. How do you think we could make this even more fun? Let us know in the comments below, or email me at social@flowershopnetwork.com.

If you don't keep up with our Facebook, (and just why not?!) we are already a virtual hub of florist activity. We are constantly sharing articles either just for florists, or ones great for florists to share with their customers. We also have a weekly feature, Monday's Florist One-Liners. These are easy lines florists can use in their weekly promoting for things like, status updates, email subjects, even outdoor or window signage.