Martha Stewart for 1800flowers.com

Martha Stewart is a big name in the Fashion and Lifestyle industry and can be considered one of the eminent personalities in the US. Wikipedia acknowledges Martha Stewart as an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate.
She is an icon. One way that this can be concluded is the no of times people search for her by name on Google. The stats reveal it is 3051 searches that are made on 'Martha Stewart' on Google per day. Martha Stewart Recipes are searched in the range of 350 - 400 which is more than any other Martha Stewart's services.
This is amusing considering the fact that 1800flowers which offers Martha Stewarts floral designs and tips is searched for just 661 times per day on Google. Now consider the traffic that Martha's personal website must be receiving per day.
1800flowers have been smart enough to grab her as an opportunity before any other online florist could do. And I am pretty sure that many of the guys who come to 1800flowers must be glad to find Martha Stewart there.

So here are some Martha Stewarts Favorites that I filtered for you. Also, before actually clicking or buying on these images read this article to end as I have Discount codes down there. Thats one way I try people to read my blog to the full (Ha! intelligent me!)
Martha Stewart Spring Blossom Bouquet



or check out at a nominal price of US$ 60, the Martha Stewart Oriental Lily & Berry Bouquet



Any of the above two piece of flower bouquets are definitely going to delight your Mom.
Or check out the Martha Stewart Classic Rose & Weber Tulip Bouquet at just US $ 64.95.



or if you are looking for the same day delivery bouquet, please take a look at this:
Martha Stewart Blush Peony Bouquet which comes at US $99.95


Now if that still does not satisfy your insatiable greed of more Martha Stewart collections, here is a list of what she has to offer to you at 1800flowers.com

* The numbers in the brackets are the no of items in the corresponding category
Mother`s Day flowers(34)
Spring flowers(3)
Anniversary flowers(31)
Birthday flowers(34)
Congratulations flowers(27)
Get Well flowers(20)
I`m Sorry flowers(28)
Just Because flowers(30)
Love & Romance flowers(23)
New Baby flowers(29)
Thank You flowers(25)

Flowers (59)
Plants (14)

Best Sellers Bouquets(12)
Carnations (3)
Daisies (6)
Hydrangea (2)
Lilies (7)
Mixed Bouquets (21)
Orchids (2)
Ranunculus (1)
Roses (21)
Tulips (12)

Bulbs (3)
Flowering Plants (11)
Green Plants (3)
House Plants (7)
Hydrangea (2)
Orchid Plants (4)
Rose Plants (1)
Tulip Plants (1)
Violets (1)

Out of the total collection the price discrimination is as below:
flowers for $40 and under (1)
flowers for $40 to $75 (49)
flowers for $75 and up (25)

So there seem to be a lot of choice for buying flowers from $40 to $75 range.
One thing that I really dont like at 1800flowers is that the flowers and the bouquets are repeated in different categories.

To visit the Martha Stewart Store, all you have to do is just browse the Martha Stewart Store

1800flowers also claims to give you a seven day freshness guarantee in the flowers. Thats something nobody could claim I should say. Another of the innumerous add-ons on 1800flowers.

Here are your 1800 discount coupon codes for Mother's day. Enter these discount coupon codes once you reach the payment page for the website.

MARTHA10: For Products above USD$ 59.95 - Saves you $10
MARTHA25: For Products above USD$ 119.95 - Saves you $25
But this comes with simple conditions attached like discount not applicable on taxes and shipping charges and depending upon the availability of a particular product.
Guess if Martha Stewart is an icon or 1800flowers is!

Searching "Online Flower Delivery" at Google

Let me talk of Sites like iflowers.com. What is it that they achieve. for those who do not know about iflowers, let me briefly explain.When we google "Online Flower Delivery", the first website that comes up on the organic SERP is iflowers.com. Now what exactly is this site doing?

Before that let me ask you a question: When you type in such a key phrase in Google, what could possibly be your aim? Well, I am sure your interest is to send flowers by ordering them online to your friends or family and actually you want to look for some oprtions that are available on the internet to send flowers to someone. And you look forward to send original & natural flowers (thats something understood).Now as you type in the search term "Online Flower Delivery" and hit the enter key in Google, there is iflowers.com at the Top position. Going inside, we find a bad looking interface which is pretty repelling with no imgaes whatsoever. The color combination is murky and dis-interesting that you will immediately lose interest. Further to your disappointment, the site dont even sell real flowers, it sells everything virtually i.e. e-cardsd, e-flowers, e-gifts and all es.

Well, this is pretty amusing. Now this website has no doubt done a lot of work on the optimisation using same keywords, keyphrases and content as is needed for a real florist but then what does it achieve.The way such websites earn is still a mystery to me but for one thing I am sure that they are in this way able to collect a lot of traffic. Since these are content based websites, they can be optimised easily. However, a real florists website is more of images based and not text based so an optimisation is actually not possible that early.But inspite of the traffic that this virtual florist must be receiving, I doubt if people are going to spend much time on this site. A person looking for real flowers is sure to close the browser window rather than send virtual flowers instead! So the average time spent per person on this website shall be very low. However, this would not matter because what I really think is that such websites are not here to promote their e-gifts, e-cards or e-flowers but to push-thrust their master (which is a real florists website) further on the search engines by linking to them.

Yes, iflowers is linked to 1800florals.So that at least 10% of the traffic who are about to close the browser window would definitely cross check if a link for real flowers is given or not and they shall find it.

So thats another way of looking at it. Unless someone among you make me understand how do websites like iflowers.com earn, I think this is their prime goal.

Celebrate Mom! Send Mother's Day flowers from 1-800-FLOWERS.COM!

An Online Florist with Worldwide Flower Delivery Services - A Take

Flora 2000 offers flowers in 156 countries. Thats more than any other online florist that I have come across. Moreover they have a very neat interface that makes you comfortable while choosing flowers of your choice. Basically, meaning that they do not stuff up their web pages with unnecessary promotions of all sorts. They have certain very clear cut objectives and deliverables that are mentioned on their site.

However, one thing that I would suggest to anyone who is buying flowers online or purchasing anything online for that matter is that when you are at the Payment Page, do take some time to review the Terms n Conditions attached to the Payment process. Sometimes these terms and conditions may change with the product selected by you. So now,if you go till the payment page of flora2000, and you want that the flowers you are sending reach the destination on 11th May i.e. Mother’s day, simply because you really want the special gift and flowes reach your Mom on that very day, then Flora2000 is not your choice. They have clearly mentioned at the payment page that all flowers scheduled for 11th May shall be sent either on 9th May or the 10th. I spoke to a Flora2000 executive and she confirmed this saying that their floral outlets would remain close on Sunday.

Now I am really doubtful, if they would make money here which they would have made otherwise. Well but this has two sided implications as I see it – a positive and a negative.
About the Negative, many people might leave the site just because they wanted their flowers to reach on the 11th May only and not later or sooner. Also, many of them might not turn back again to this Online Florist. The other negative aspect would be when some of the buyers would not actually see the terms and conditions and book their flowers ignoring the message they have displayed and expecting their flowers to be delivered on the 11th only just to find out later that they were delivered a day before! This would further lead to confusions and people trying to sue the innocent florist.

The positive aspect of it is that we now know that flora2000 is very clear in its commitments and that closing the shop on Sunday of 11th May means that they believe in delivering only fresh flowers. Well this is a feather in the cap.

Btw, the thing is that if you are still looking forward to send flowers through flora2000 – I shall suggest you some real cool bouquet. Check out here for Mother’s day:


Mixed Roses at $ 49.99!

This adorable basket of spray roses and daisy poms accented with ivy comes at just $49.99. A perfect gift for any occasion.

More gifts and flowers available to send online here.

Online Florist, US - A comparison on rates

Let me talk about the ongoing promotions at all flower delivery online stores today. This shall help you choose an Online florist of your choice rather than checking out each website to do it for yourself.
Let me keep myself restricted to the price being offered rather than going into the detail of the flower arrangements simply because at every online florists all flower arrangements are beautiful. There is no arrangement that you can really call bad.
Ongoing promotions at 1800
1. Organica and Natural Gifts Baskets, $99.99
2. Birthday Blooms starting at $19.99
3. Casablanca Jardinier at $49.99 for Administrative professionals week
4. Martha's Spring Bouquet $74.59 Spring Flower Bouquet
5. Designer flowers collection on Mother's day @ $ 75.00 by Julie Mulligan
6. Mother's day. Order early and save upto 40%. Mothers embrace @ $ 79.99

FTD.com

1. Admin Prof Week by Todd Oldham @ $62.99
2. Mother's day: $ 49.99
3. Birthday: $ 39.99 The FTD Natural Wonders Bouquet.
4. Roses:$ 29.99 Gentle Memories Mother’s day roses.
Banner Promotions at FTD
spring garden bouquet: $ 39.99
laura ashley bouquet: $ 59.99
thank you bouquet: $ 36.99
Textual Promotion at FTD
Order early and asave upto 40%



Proflowers:
1. Mother's day - no mention on Home Page Tulips for Mom at $24.99. Going deeper – Mom’s delight at $29.99
2. Birthday bouquet - $ 29.99 comprise 20 Blue Iris.
3. Administrative professional week - no mention. Digging deeper gives a 100 blooms of Peruvian Lilies at $19.99
A side banner, however, keep coming up with the various designs for flowers - with all kinds flower arrangements like 3 dozen purple carnations at $ 39.99.
Unlike other florists, proflowers does not seem to offer 40% discounts.

Teleflora:
America's favourite Mom - Hot promotion category.
Secretaries week, enchanted promotion, mother's day with flower bouquet sliding in a flash programme in a striped window just below their hot promotional banner on the home page that eats up almost the whole space.
For Secratries Week, we have make a wish bouquet – cute with glass vase and beautiful colourful assortment of sunshine flowers. $ 29.99
The enchanted offer gives you $5 back on the purchase of a Bouquet + DVD.
On Mother’s day, you can buy Teleflora’s Victorian Teacup Bouquet @ $39.95! This one is really great with multicoloured roses matched with the color of the vase.

flower.com
A very simple site offering simple banner romotions. You may not like the look and feel of the website. They have made it all green which does not even look great.
But they are offering very nice discounts on their products with $10.00 on every product above $50.
Special Flowers start at just $ 29.99
A very simple interface, however, which does not confuse you to anything.
I noticed that Birthday flowers are being promoted by almost each online florist! This is due to the reason that there are around 819362 Birthdays per day all across the US.
Well as per my personal opinion, FTD has some cool designs that would really take you of the floor.
However, if you are looking for a pretty flower bouquet and do not want much hassles during buying check out flower.com

1800 flowers.com seem to cash in more on their gifts category and quality exclusive flower bouquet for that matter.
They have actually selected and dedicated one designer florist to each of their categories and attaching a brand tag makes it look elegant. Best for the Brand conscious people.

However, for the brand conscious, that's not it, they have FTD.com too that has pretty nice designs to offer. Their arrangements are simple and yet graceful.
Laura Ashley Bouquet is superb and they seem to have concentrated on making all bouquet deliverable on almost all occasions with no hassles of segmenting it into categories.
Teleflora is more involved in its hot promotion for America's Favorite Mom, a contest that they are ready to shell around $250,000 for the winner. They are even playing a videa for the same.
The flowers are beutiful but do not clearly mention the price on the Home page.

Proflowers also have kept their homepage very simple and not actuall crowding it with too many promotions or product images. They are also running all the promotions and their price are really really competitive.

The best buy, however, would be FTD pink Lily Bouquet at $39.99. Look svery peaceful nice and beautiful. Best suited for Mother's day.Or the Laura Ashley Bouquet @ $59.99 best suited for an elegant Mom.

Flowers & Flowers

I have some special news about the ongoing administrative Professional Week. It has been revealed or lets say realised that flowers make great desk gifts. Pam Cyboron, the owner of Corum’s flowers and Greenhouse on 639 Fifth Ave assures to bring a lot of blooming plants this season. She believes that people like them since they last longer.
On similar notes, the owner of Bloom Works, 138 W. Broadway, Alisa Roth promises to bring of some annual flowers in little Gerber pots if a desk size item is being looked for!
Fresh flowers in decorative eyes would just make a perfect gift for you. Read more about this at Zwire

Now here is something of interest for Hampshire and the surrounds. Though the cold persists, the flowers sing a different story. Well the singing flowers are those of May. Blooming in early April, these flowers have kept everyone amazed by their early arrivals. The Hawthorn and Bluebells that are the flowers from May are seen pretty earlier this year!
Says Dr Kate Lewthwaite, manager of the woodland Trust’s Nature’s Calendar project that a significant advancement has been noticed of teh spring flower species like Hawthorn in line with annual temperatures. Read at Dailymail UK

Now, is this a matter to rejoice or a matter of concern?. Well global warming has it effects on every thing that you cn possibly think of. While flowers are good to arrive early but the glabal warming is definitely not. The arrival of early summers is definitely not a reason to be happy. Lets join hands to check this global warming. Lets plant more trees and love more flowers.