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Halloween Flowers That Scare!

October 28th, 2009 No comments

Halloween Flowers are a great way to celebrate this spooky time of year. From scary costumes, decorated homes with spooky effects, horror movie marathons and the hordes of trick-or-treaters knocking on your door, even flowers can play a roll in this festive holiday.

If you are having a Halloween party or celebrating a Halloween birthdays, or you just need to add some extra pizazz to your indoor Halloween decorations check out this spooky floral selection.

If you scare easily then maybe these aren’t for you. But if you love the Halloween season these are definitely fun and frightful.

 

 

  

 

 

If these aren’t the best Halloween Flowers around post a link and share it here. These arrangments are from online florist fromyouflowers.com.

 

Teleflora’s Sweepstakes Gives Away $50000 in Prizes

October 25th, 2009 No comments

gather-round-popupThe Thanksgiving holdiay is just around the corner. With Teleflora you can add a touch of elegance to your dinner table with a world famous Lenox bone china accented with 24k gold, along with Lenox flatware and crystal stemware by entering in the Teleflora’s Gather Round the Table Sweepstakes.

There will be 10 grand-prize winners that will be chosen to receive Lenox Fruitiffero China including a 4-piece place setting for twelve, Stemware for twelve and Flatware for twelve. Each grand prize is worth a whopping $3,000.  Lenox Sauce Server Bouquet by Teleflora

In addition, 100 first-prize winners will receive a Thanksgiving Platter worth $200. The best part is that there is no purchase necessary to enter the contest.

If your Thanksgiving diner table  in the past has been a little less than extraordinary give your self a chance to dine in style. If the turkey diner doen’t leave the best impression at least the china set will.

Teleflora also has a Thanksgiving centerpiece to boot that comes with a ceramic sauce boat keepsake, that is a sculpted leaf design, FDA-approved for food.

To enter the Gather Round the Table Sweepstakes you need to be a resident of the US and Canada aged 18 and above. Enter the sweepstakes once before December 11, 2009.

1-800-flowers.com Gets a Makeover

October 8th, 2009 No comments
1-800-flowers.com

Have you noticed! 1-800-flowers.com has revamped it’s website and logo. The new 1-800-flowers features not only a new brand image and redesign but the introduction of the newly intergrated brand of 1-800-baskets.com to complement the floral offerrings.

Martha Stewart was the most recent adjustment to 1-800-flowers.com about a year ago when they – 1-800-flowers and Martha Stewart floral – merged to create a co branded label for Ms. Stewarts designer floral arrangments.

ms_pmday_topbanner As you can see here 1-800-flowers love to develop and connect consumers with a brand. In this case two recognizable brands.

Most online florist don’t rebrand their line of gift baskets from the floral bouquets but 1-800-flowers has taken the opportunity to actually distinguish its gift basket offerings to complement it’s ubiquitous brand name.  It’s perhaps an ingenious idea to get cutomers to start thinking gift baskets as a seperate entity.

Gifts and gifts baskets is a large consumer market and what better way to establish yourself in the market but by getting consumers to connect with a brand name for that market.  Walmart may sell toys but Toys R’ Us specializes in toys.

The redesign breaks down as many pieces of the total of what 1-800-flowers has to offer consumers. You still get the basic line up of floral bouquets with their steady price point. 

Check it out for yourself and tell me what you think?