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5 Last Minute Christmas Marketing Ideas for your Floristry Business

If your Christmas floristry sales are not quite where you want them to be, then here’s 5 quick marketing ideas you might want to try to boost business.

FloristryHelen BurtonDecember 6, 2023Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters

5 Marketing Trends to Help Your Floristry Business Bloom in 2024

We’ve pulled together 5 marketing trends to help your floristry business bloom in 2024.

FloristryHelen BurtonDecember 5, 2023Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters

Review and Reset: How to Keep your Business Moving Forward

Reflecting on what you did well over the course of the previous month can ensure you are carrying these learnings forward into future months to continue reaping the benefits…

Helen BurtonNovember 3, 2022Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters

The Bees fly to FleurEx

We’re so excited to be running a business drop-in session at the much-anticipated trade show event for florists, FleurEx. We’ll be explaining to florists the pitfalls of putting all your eggs in your social media basket, outlining our top three alternative marketing channels PLUS attempting to wade through all the marketing jargon with an open Q&A.

Helen BurtonOctober 5, 2022marketing, marketing support, Queen Bee, small business owner, Florist, Floristry, FleurEx

5 Ways to Bring a Little Kindness to your Marketing

How small acts can make a huge difference to brand perception

Helen BurtonFebruary 15, 2022Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters

28 Days of Marketing Content Ideas

We’ve put our heads together and come up with long list of great content ideas, almost enough for every single day of the month! We hope, that with our help, businesses need never be stuck for something to say again!

Helen BurtonFebruary 25, 2021Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics, dream big, skills

5 Ways to Make Social Media Engagement Easy

Investing time in social media engagement is where it really matters. This is the bit that resonates with real people, makes connections feel real and helps build trust, which you’ll need in order for them to buy your product or service; or indeed, recommend you.

Helen BurtonJanuary 21, 2021Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics, dream big, skills

6 Tips to Inspire Your Next Big Business Idea

In the last of our Dream Big series of blogs for 2020, we’re circling right back to the beginning…sharing how we find the inspiration for our ideas.

Helen BurtonDecember 14, 2020Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics, dream big, skills

Building a Support Network to Help You Dream Big

If you’re a solopreneur or a business owner, it can be especially lonely at the top. In this blog, we share some of the ways we’ve built a support network around us that really works.

Helen BurtonDecember 11, 2020Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics, dream big, skills

Tapping Into the Skills Needed to Help You Dream Big

As we plan the exciting next chapter for Queen Bee, and begin to embark on our Dream Big plans for growing our business and unlocking some of the potential we know we have inside us…we wanted to touch upon the importance of skills in helping you realised your big dream.

Helen BurtonDecember 6, 2020Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics, dream big, skills

4 Ways Time Can Help You Dream Big

Without time to think, time to plan, and time to action – a dream will never become a reality. So, in this blog, we’re sharing some of the methods we use to carve out time…we hope you find them useful 😊

Helen BurtonNovember 30, 2020Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics

4 Tools to Help You Dream Big in 2021

As we come to the close of 2020 (the strangest year in history!), we’re planning on shaking off the negativity and anxiety we’ve experienced this year and starting 2021 like we mean it. Dreaming big for our business, working on ways to unlock some of our potential as well as implementing a meaningful growth strategy.

Helen BurtonNovember 18, 2020Queen Bee, We are Queen Bee, social media, social media tips, social media followers, social media engagement, engaging customers, liking, sharing, Facebook competition, marketing, content, content writing, outsourcing content, tone of voice, marketing copy, successful marketing, brand, brand awareness, brand strategy, outsourcing, content creation, We Are Queen Bee, business, marketing strategy, summer holidays, small business owner, SME, relaxation, stress, PA, Instagram, social media content, hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, social media strategy, Christmas campaign, organisation, You Tube, social media influencers, social media analytics, social media reporting, user generated content, video, stories, social media trends 2020, social media trends, working from home, lockdown, work/life balance, home schooling, online business, website, e-newsletter, social media planning, social media evaluation, mental health awareness week, kindness matters, images, graphics

Super Quick Social Graphics

Images are vitally important to pretty much all types of online content. As readers we tend to rapid scroll - stopping, clicking and then reading once a beautiful image has captured our imagination.