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Floristry Business
Pricing, buying, hiring and running a profitable studio.
Pricing, buying, hiring and running a profitable studio.
- Event Floristry — the working business guide
- Florist Business Plan — a working template
- Florist Cash Flow — the survival mechanics
- Florist Instagram Growth — beyond 10K followers
- Florist Marketing — the working strategy guide
- Florist Portfolio — how to build one that books work
- Florist Pricing — how to price flowers profitably
- Florist Shop Layout — designing a working retail space
- Florist Software — the practical 2026 guide
- Florist Website — what it must have to convert
- Flower Shop Inventory Management — cutting waste, boosting profit
- Flower Shop Promotion — 15 tactics for owners running lean
- Hiring Florists — how to find them, evaluate them, and keep them
- How Much Do Florists Make — the honest 2026 salary guide
- How to Become a Florist — the working paths
- How to Open a Flower Shop — the working 2026 guide
- Instagram for Florists — how to grow the account without an SMM specialist
- Wedding Florist Contract — clauses that actually matter
- Wedding Florist Marketing — the specific playbook
- Wholesale Flowers: How Florists Actually Buy — Markets, Importers, Terms
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How Much Do Florists Make — the honest 2026 salary guide
Florist salaries by role, market, and experience. From apprentice weekly-shop wages to luxury wedding studio owners. Real numbers by country and specialty.
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Florist Pricing — how to price flowers profitably
The three pricing methods every studio uses, wholesale-to-retail multipliers, labour cost inclusion, and the pricing mistakes that kill new studios.
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How to Become a Florist — the working paths
The four realistic career paths into professional floristry — apprenticeship, self-teaching, courses, and shop work — with timelines, income expectations, and where each one leads.
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How to Open a Flower Shop — the working 2026 guide
The actual sequence of decisions and expenses to open a florist studio in 2026 — from concept to first delivery, with the honest numbers from someone who has done it three times.
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Florist Business Plan — a working template
The real components of a florist business plan — market, model, pricing, margins, cashflow, and the sections every plan needs. Built from what our own studio actually uses, not a generic template.
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Florist Cash Flow — the survival mechanics
Cash flow management for florist studios. Seasonality, deposits, wholesale terms, and the practical mechanics that keep studios alive between wedding seasons.
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Florist Marketing — the working strategy guide
Marketing that actually books work for a florist studio. Local SEO, referral programs, wedding-blog partnerships, and the channels that don't work.
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Florist Instagram Growth — beyond 10K followers
Growing a florist Instagram account past the 10K plateau. Content strategy, posting cadence, engagement mechanics, and what actually converts followers to booked work.
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Florist Portfolio — how to build one that books work
What a portfolio needs to book luxury weddings and corporate contracts. Photography, curation, presentation formats, and the pieces you actually need.
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Florist Shop Layout — designing a working retail space
How to design a retail florist shop for both efficient production and profitable customer flow. Walk-in cooler placement, workbench zones, retail display.
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Florist Software — the practical 2026 guide
Which software florist studios actually need — POS, inventory, wedding management, delivery routing, and accounting. Real tools and honest tradeoffs.
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Florist Website — what it must have to convert
The essential pages, structure, and conversion mechanics of a florist website that books inquiries. From homepage to inquiry form.
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Flower Shop Inventory Management — cutting waste, boosting profit
How to run inventory in a working florist studio — demand forecasting, wholesaler relationships, waste reduction, and the tools that scale.
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Flower Shop Promotion — 15 tactics for owners running lean
Fifteen concrete promotional moves for florists — from referral programmes to entrance decoration to influencer collaboration — with the numbers we've seen work in our own studio.
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Hiring Florists — how to find them, evaluate them, and keep them
The full-cycle hiring guide for florist studios — where to source candidates, what to test at trial, how to structure compensation, and why the third year is when studios lose people.
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Instagram for Florists — how to grow the account without an SMM specialist
The realistic playbook for small florists who can't yet hire a dedicated social media manager — train a florist to run the account, and here's exactly what to teach them.
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Wedding Florist Contract — clauses that actually matter
What a wedding florist contract must cover to protect both parties — deposits, cancellation, weather clauses, delivery windows, substitution policy, and force majeure. From 12 years of contract iteration.
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Wedding Florist Marketing — the specific playbook
Marketing tailored to wedding florists — vendor relationships, wedding directories, Pinterest strategy, and the mistakes that waste budget.
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Event Floristry — the working business guide
What event florists actually do — corporate arrangements, hotel/hospitality contracts, gala florals, retail displays. Pricing, workflow, and how the business differs from wedding floristry.
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Flower Subscriptions: How They Work, What They Cost, and How Studios Run Them
Flower subscription explained from both sides of the counter — weekly vs biweekly tiers, honest pricing, what good studios deliver, and the unit economics for florists.
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Wholesale Flowers: How Florists Actually Buy — Markets, Importers, Terms
Where florists buy wholesale flowers — local markets, importers, farm-direct and online platforms — with real margin math, minimums, and the mistakes that eat profit.