Willian A, we appreciate your consistent hard work and dedication to this wonderful industry. ( Alex Pena @ Best Miami Growers )

Thank you for the amazing video and your visit. May the memories last forever! Texas Flowers 🤘🏿

Great video Willie!! Thank you!

Great interview 👍🏻

Very Good Interview! I do hope you have a follow up with him after the election as you both mentioned.

Great video! Looks like a fab show 😎

Repeat of yesterday 😮

Thanks for an other great video Willie!

I would love to go to school for this

Thank you for sharing video. Kevin from Seoul, South Korea.

So special to have you with us! Amazing photos and amazing vibes!!!! Next gen - what a force to be reckoned with!!!

What a great video ❤! Thanks for sharing!!!

My wife and I just finished watching your video from the SAF Nex Gen 2024 seminar. Our memories flash backed to the mid 80’s when we attended our first FTD Young owner manager event. It was an exciting learning experience meeting fellow florists from around the country sharing ideas , swapping stories, and enjoying the fellowship of the florists. Fast. Forwarding to today, two of our children now run our 50 year journey at Jacques, after the original Jacques family ( father and daughter ) had a 64 year run. We sent our three older granddaughters to San Diego to experience the flower business through a different set of eyes , enough of Nanny and Grampy, mom and uncle. On their first day of return, they posted a picture in Facebook of our shop in spring of 2023 , fillled with annuals, perennials, rose bushes etc , the next few pictures were of buckets of California field flowers ( from the farms they visited) and invitation to come visit our shop in the coming weeks for a wonderful display of California flowers delivered every week fresh to our shop . My wife and I were thrilled to hear of their plan, but more importantly, they were stepping up to keep our shop the go to florist for fresh flowers ! Thank you for taking the time to visit the seminar and tell a story !!

Beautiful video! Thank you

A long 27 minutes for Elena

Interesting!

Who cares what color someone is

your number 1 subscriber!

These 4 3rd party companies will not lost longer cuz they make way more money then florist no flower shop is happy with them they charge florist 30% plus mamber and cities they keep customers delivery money for them at the end they be making over 70% from every order florist buy flower vase n got delivered and only making 25% thts a big scam

Now that is amazing thinking. Always enjoy your interviews William.

What a great way of time and money saving!

One photo shows top of bunches at the very end of box. Could be a problem?

Love it! A long time ago, we shipped roses in plastic sleeves only by bus, plane and truck with no damage.

Mi estimado amigo 🎉bendiciones!!! tu trabajo es excelente ✨✨✨✨

love!!

This is so amazing ! As a flower person and a daughter of a Veteran buried at Fort Rose Crans . This is so heartfelt .

Appreciated

hello william, nice video,this ia gavin, peony grower from China, Nice met you at miami,

I got rid of all these wire services a few ago. The best thing I ever did.these call centers want a beautiful art for no money. I got tired of doing all the work for fed and other wire services and never getting a check.

I believe there is more than 15% of the FTD network that is unhappy. Here's the problem. I have had orders come in from From You Flowers, they are underpriced, and not by just a bit. If I fulfill that order, then I am sending out an order that is underpriced and then I'm giving up 27% of that underfilled order to them, and also paying the monthly fee to be a member of the network. If there is a problem with the order- our shop is the one on the hook for it. In the circle of florists that I know, we are tired of doing business with companies that have an e-commerce site only and do not participate in the actual floral business. They make a profit and the florist does the work. As an industry, what I see is florists creating their own unique sites and by-passing the send-only companies. These companies aren't working for us-- they are taking the profit out of our business. They over promise and undersell. It's not a sustainable business model for a retail flower shop.

Jo Bird and the David Austin Wedding Roses staff continue to do a great job producing & Marketing roses for the floral industry.

As always......fantastic, informative conversation! I have shared it with quite a few special event floral designer friends 😊

Great video, Willie! Very nice meeting you... Thank you to you and the Armellini family, our MDFF family, and all the volunteers!!!

You did a good job with the roses, making them last 10 + days! Muchos saludos para ti

Chris nailed on the statement, organize your business so you can scale. Processes and procedures out rule everything. Preproduction of arrangements definitely helps you scale.

Thanks Williee for the California & American Grown flower Love, with a great start to 2023 interviewing Lane Devries. Happy New Year! 🎉🎉💕💗🌸

Rosaprima grows very high and consistent quality roses with excellent varieties! CPF is honored and proud to carry your fine products! Looking forward to seeing your new products too. Great interview. Thank you.

Outstanding farm and high quality people as well! Willie, thanks for sharing.

Living legend, awesome

Great job as usual Williee

Great interview!

I have been buying from Castle Hayne for almost 30 years. Art Hommes was my sales person in the beginning. They are great people and the product is always wonderful.

Great interview!!!

It's great to watch Rene ...he has so many attributes, but his passion and love for the industry always stands out and has such inspirational ideas to share with others! He is one of my florist heroes!

Amigo WIlliee: Since I could not attend, this was a really nice tour and as always, you do it well and entertaining. Thank you!

Hermosas flores que se producen y se exportan desde el Ecuador Sande ahora se llama Utopia

Hi Willie, I want to thank you for the work you are doing. Very inspirational.

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This interview was most enlighting about EQUIFLOR...I join you in applauding Victor and his great achievements!