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Epic’s newest partner: Remarkety
Traditional email marketing is a thing of the past - with Remarkety’s service, you have the power to resell to your existing customers by sending messages to their inbox they actually want to read! We’ve teamed up with Remarkety to provide Epic’s latest service,...
Epic UI/UX Competition at Zeal
The goal of the meet-up was to create a new User Interface for one of our latest website innovations, Pop Cards. We designed the competition, presented the rules, and offered cash prizes to the winning team. A big thanks to the people at Zeal and Rogue Tech Hub for...
Search Engine Marketing Success
What's Your Search Engine Marketing Strategy?Our goal at Epic is to create the best floral websites in the world! We also want to be a one-stop shop for those in the floral industry regarding all things marketing. So we partnered with Marketing 360, one of the top,...
Your site’s status and health
In order for us to make it easy for our epicFlorists to see how their sites are performing (if it's down/slow, and what measures are being taken to fix the problem), we made it easy for you to check right here on the Epic site. Click 'Clients' up top and then 'Check...
The future of buying flowers online, will your business be ready?
The future of the retail floral industry. Will your online business be ready? Google I/O is an event that features highly technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android,...
We’re pleased to announce the newest epicFlorist, Concord Flower Shop!
Concord Flower Shop 135 Commonwealth Ave Concord, Massachusetts 01742 United States (978) 369-2404 Established in 1898, the Concord Flower Shop is celebrating it’s 32nd year under the current owner, Helen Dearborn Halloran. Helen, along with her dedicated staff, truly...
NEW PARTNERSHIP, NEW SERVICE AND FREE TO ALL EPICFLORISTS
Coming April 1st, we're not fooling. ... world's leading plugin library that make tools for better websites. Add stunning wedding image galleries, forms, media galleries, and much more to your website. Fully customize and style your plugins without leaving...
Funeral Home and Florist Webinar
Webinar Details: What: Explaining how Funeral Home Florist Co-op websites work and how they make you money. When: Monday, March 21th, 3pm EST Where: http://join.me/epicflowers More Info: Click here for more information.
What’s Your Customer Lifetime Value and Reward Program Strategy?
If you've ever heard me speak about the most basic three principles of a successful commerce business, then this first part will sound familiar. If you haven't, here they are: How do you get customers to you, how do you get them to buy and how do you get them to come...
The epicFlowers 2016 Valentine’s Guide
T h e e p i c F L o w e r s 2 0 1 6 Valentine's Guide. Stay sane online with our help. Frequently Asked Questions: How do I change my cut off time, block a day from delivery and turn my website completely off?Click here for the video answer. How do you quickly...
epicFlowers Future 2016
The Future of eCommerce Main Video New Back Office Communicating With Max About a New Funeral Site epicBloom the Future of Online Marketing
Field of Flowers New Chic Redesign
We're pleased to announce a new website layout for Field of Flowers! Field of Flowers, your local florist, delivers flowers across South Florida. 1.800.963.7374 (800.96.FRESH) Field of Flowers was founded in 1990 by Donn Flipse, a third...
In-store Search Analytics – Another Awesome epic Feature
Did you know with an epicFlowers site you can see what people are searching for within your website, and then use that to your advantage to improve conversion rates? Knowing what your customers want - and better yet, what their behaviors are - is critical to your...
epicFlowers fails again, but that’s a good thing!
Without risk, there is no reward. And when we fail, we learn and make it better. We at Epic strive to optimize our florists' websites to have the best conversion rates. Following conversion rate best practices, scientific research on our part, and...
epicTool Box Webinar
Visit the epicToolbox HERE Webinar Details: What: Discussing how to use the epicToolbox and why it's so awesome. When: Thursday, January 15th, 1pm PST Where: http://join.me/epicflowers
Rewards Camp’s – Online Customer Loyalty Webinar
Visit Reward Camp HEREWebinar Details: What: Discussing how to increase a customer's lifetime value through Reward Camp's, an online software that rewards florists' customers when they buy online When: Wednesday, January 7th, 8am PST Where:...
Free SEO Tools for Florists
MOZ helps the world with search engine optimization and offers free tools to help florists rank better within search engines. Below are Moz's free tools to help you out. If you need help deciphering any information below contact Strider SEO for more help. Open Site...
Customer reviews can increase sales up to 76%
The 4 ways epicFlowers and Yotpo reviews will increase your sales Yotpo.com enables flower shops to generate more reviews for their products in a simple and effective way. Mail After Purchase Yopto will automatically email your shoppers, at a set time after...
Rine’s Florist since 1915
Rine's Florist Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania Florist 317 East Bough St. (570) 374-1953 www.rinesflorist.com We are pleased to provide a new site for the classic Flower shop Rine's Florist & Greenhouses, family owned and operated serving Selinsgrove and the Greater...
epicFlowers and Blooming Garden’s Barbara Wilson Team Up to Fight Breast Cancer
One of our awesome epicFlorists, Barbara Wilson of BloomingGardens.net is walking for the cure to breast cancer. The team at epicFlowers wants to support worthwhile causes and have placed a pink ribbon at the top of our site where you may click, donate, and sponsor...
epicFlowers Doesn’t Just Build Websites
How do we make epic websites perform better? That's the question that keeps the epicFlowers team up at night. We at epicFlowers are dedicated to you, our customers. We are constantly researching and testing innovative ways to make your eCommerce website better and...
A Basic Guide to Maximizing Conversion Rate Optimization
You are a conversion rate optimizing champ; you just might not know it! In your shop, what do you do to make sure certain retail items sell? If you're selling plants in your shop, you know by using best practices, grouping your plants will sell more plants. You put...
Make the customer want to come back – Sustain the CLV (customer’s lifetime value)
A visitor to your website has converted into a purchasing customer. Congratulations! That is, of course, a critical first step. What do you have in place on your website that is designed to make them want to come back? What strategies can you use to make...
Local SEO Checklist with Tips and Education
The DIY SEO Cheat Sheet Follow the advice below; it's imperative to your local SEO success SEO Checklist: Step 1. Sign up and verify with: Google Analytics Google Webmaster Tools Bing Webmaster Center Step 2. Local search is likely to drive the...
epicFlowers Recommended Website Apps for Florists
Another thing that makes epicFlowers better than any competitor is we have A LOT of apps already built into your site. We have gone through all the website apps that epicFlorists can choose from on BigCommerce's website and created a page of recommendations. Besides...
GoTime Tool Box …coming soon!
The goTime Tool Box is a set of tools that integrates with BigCommerce stores. It helps stores convert higher, add to their customer lifetime value and offers consumers a better buying experience. Alert Bar! - Instantly add any type of communication to your site in...
Welke’s House of Roses-Milwaukee Funeral Flowers
Welke's House of Roses-Milwaukee Funeral Flowers Milwaukee's Funeral Florist 2 Locations: 1020 Legion Drive, Elm Grove, WI 5528 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI (877) 211-7673 www.milwaukeefuneralflowers.com This unique site focuses solely on sympathy arrangements for the...
Parkside Flowers & Gifts
Parkside Flowers & Gifts Roseburg Oregon Florist 405 SE Oak Ave Roseburg, OR 97470 (541) 672-0228 | (800) 972-9534 www.roseburgoregonflowers.com New epicFlowers Website
Mother’s Day Conversion Champion
Of our epicFlorists who converted the most visitors into buyers the week leading up to and including Mother's Day? Was it a medium to large shop, or someone even larger? Nope. It was little 'ol Enchanted Florist converting an amazing 24%! While many variables...
The Grand Bouquet Florist
Arroyo Grande Florist 2 Locations 1139 E. Grand Ave. (805) 489-4891 & 150 W. Branch St. (805) 489-2834 Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 arroyograndeflorist.com New epicFlowers Website
York Flowers
York Flowers 2 Locations: 5023 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 20016 (206) 363-1150 50 State Cir Annapolis, MD 21401 (410) 268-3341 yorkflowers.com New epicFlowers Website
Coupon Popout Recovery Tool
This handy FREE addition to your epicSite displays a coupon (you set the terms) whenever a visitor is about to "bounce" or leave your site. As the mouse creeps toward the address bar or the back button, POP! out comes the coupon suggesting they stick around a little...
Urgency Clock Banner – Another Solid Conversion Tool
We at epicFlowers are always pushing for more ways for more florists to convert more sales and make more money. Our latest useful and FREE code to add to your header of your site is the Urgency Clock Banner. This notification tool clearly allows visitors to your site...
Rathbone’s Flair Flowers Redesign!
Take a look at Rathbone's Flair Flowers new look! This family owned florist located in Jenks Oklahoma is a pleasure to work with. Matt Rathbone wanted a fresh functional look and chose one of our popular new layouts, the Cluizel. There is ample space for a grab your...
Know More About your Customers with Built-In Florist Ecommerce Tracking and Analytics
Knowing your customer base is the focus of online marketing. By knowing your customers, you can more easily engage with them and provide the products and services they want, creating a lost-lasting and loyal relationship. You already understand your customers pretty...
Elizabeth’s Garden Floral Studio
Elizabeth's Garden Floral Studio Santa Barbara Online Florist Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (805) 683-2479 santabarbaraflowershop.net New epicFlowers Website
Bussey’s Flowers, Gifts & Decor
Bussey's Flowers, Gifts & Decor 2 Locations: 250 Broad Street Rome, GA 301601 (706) 234-1040 302 N. Main St. Cedartown, GA 30125 (770) 748-4055 busseysflorist.com New epicFlowers Website
What You Didn’t Know About Facebook – It’s cheating on You.
We all use Facebook - to keep in touch with friends and family, share a laugh, promote our products and services and gain followers. But your relationship with Facebook is not entirely honest. Facebook is keeping things from you. The family, friends and fans...
Epic Sites Just Keep Getting Better!
While our competition is still trying to figure out how to integrate Pinterest to their client's websites, we're playing in the big leagues. For example, on the marketing side, epicFlorists have access to a Traffic Engine, which is a step-by-step marketing wizard...
Prom LIVE! Interactive Prom Floral Webinar!
Join Us for Free: Prom Webinar Tuesday March 11, 2014 Register Today!! www.pioneerwholesaleco.com/events or call: 888-234-5400 Join Vonda LaFever AIFD, PFCI and Daniel Fisher PFCI for this exciting, LIVE and INTERACTIVE prom floral session.This session includes both...
Using Testimonials Effectively Increases Credibility and Conversions
Before making a purchase online, what do you normally do? Go to Amazon.com to compare prices and reviews? Look up YouTube videos about the product? Ask friends and family what they recommend? We've all done it. In fact, according to Google the average shopper in 2011...
Valentine’s Day Tips & Tricks from epicFlowers
Choose a Vday FAQ you might have below & Click It I'm done taking orders, how do I turn my site off? How do I check my orders via an Android App? TIP #1 Front page product display Showcase a product on your front page: Login and under the Products Tab, click View...
Easy Checkout Process Keeps Customers Coming Back
There's nothing more frustrating than a horrible online checkout experience. After finding the perfect product at a decent price, only to be forced into creating user accounts, newsletter signups you weren't asked about and no payment options - it's more than enough...
Recovering Abandoned Carts Can Help Your Business Grow and Retain Valuable Customers
You have a beautiful website with great products that you've spent tons of time perfecting. You have an SEO and Marketing strategy and everything is looking good. Customers are browsing your eCommerce website, adding products to their cart - and leaving!? Shopping...
McShan Florist
McShan Florist 10311 Garland Road Dallas, TX 75218 214-324-2481 / 800-627-4267 mcshanflorist.com The team at McShan Florist has been a dream to work with! From creative design work to adding and managing products, they are optimistic and hard-working. It's no wonder...
Just Roses Plus
Just Roses Plus 2 Locations Serving: 913 E Sharp, Spokane, WA 99202 509-326-7673 Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake 1119 N. Pines Rd. Spokane Valley, WA 99206 509-921-7673 justrosesplus.com New epicFlowers Website
Pinterest can help raise awareness, increase traffic and make loyal fans of your business!
Pinterest is a visually compelling social media network. It is a great way to share and discover new interests and ideas, but it is also an effective marketing tool for businesses, especially online florist websites. At first glance it may seem like an unusual...
epic Blog Websites Help Engage Customers
So, you have a great eCommerce website, but you want a place to showcase your designs and creativity online while engaging your customers...? An epic Blog Website is what you need! An epic blog Website is the perfect sidekick to your eCommerce website. eCommerce...
epic Mobi Makes the Mobile Experience more Profitable
Whether you're looking into making your website mobile friendly or you want to update your current mobile website, epic Mobi is what you need. Every epic website is mobile friendly by default, but with epic Mobi your website is mobile's BFF! Seriously! epic Mobi is...
epic Updates Makes Managing Your Website Easier
Running a business is time consuming, especially during the holidays. Now you have a second business model, your eCommerce website. There's no time to change banners, edit products, update coupons and categories. epic Updates does this for you! Think of it as your own...
epicFlowers Featured in SAF Floral Management
epicFlowers was recently featured in SAF's Floral Management. Brandon Kirkland, founder of epicFlowers, co wrote the article titled "The Deadly Sins of Website Design", an article about common mistakes made when designing floral ecommerce websites. The article touches...
epicFlowers is now a BigCommerce Premium Partner
We are now a Premium Partner with Bigcommerce, the leading e-commerce software platform for growing businesses, and boy are we excited! epicFlowers was hand selected by Bigcommerce for our extensive knowledge and experience, our commitment to our clients and our...
Cluizel Layout
Cluizel is our new floral eCommerce website layout! This website layout is very modern and elegant; perfect for showcasing beautiful florals! This new softer look focuses on the products by using a combination of white space and subtle details. With the Cluizel theme...
Enchanted Florist
Enchanted Florist 2205 Ashland St Ashland, OR 97520 Local: (541) 488-9173 chicfloral.com See Our Newest Floral Website Design Layout!
George’s Flowers
George's Flowers 1953 Franklin Road Roanoke, VA 24014 540-981-0900 georgesflowers.com New epicFlowers Website
Soderberg’s Floral and Gift
Soderberg's Floral and Gift 3305 East Lake Street Minneapolis , MN 55406 Local: (612) 724-3606 Soderberg's Floral and Gift New epicFlowers Website
Ray Hunter Florist and Garden
16153 Eureka Road Southgate, MI 48195 Local: 734-284-2500 rayhunter.com New epicFlowers Website
The Dancing Dandelion Flower Shop
8520 W. Warm Springs Rd. #102 Las Vegas, NV 89113 702-260-4809 thedancingdandelion.com New epicFlowers Website
Salt Lake City Florist Company
4760 S Highalnd Dr Ste 123 Salt Lake City, UT 84117 Local: (801) 983-9200 slcflorist.com New epicFlowers Website
Escondido Flower Shop
1906 E Valley Parkway Escondido, Ca 92027 (800) 662 7673 escondidoflowershop.com New epicFlowers Website
Bonnat Layout
The Bonnat layout is a very elegant and simplistic floral website design layout. The front page focuses on the banner and products. From the get-go online shoppers can get a taste of the beautiful arrangements offered by your online e-commerce florist. There are no...
Amedei Layout
The Amedei website layout is a great eCommerce layout for florists. It's not too flashy and gets straight to the point - driving sales and making money! The combination of our epic horizontal navigational menu and quick link buttons, online shoppers can easily find...
epicFlowers will March for Babies
The epicFlowers staff of Real Time Flowers has teamed up for the March of Dimes, March for Babies walk! Every day, thousands of babies are born too soon, too small and often very sick. Our team is walking in March for Babies to do something about this. Our goal is to...
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New Amano Layout
Introducing our new 'Amano' Layout. This is a more modern layout featuring a large eye-catching banner, great for sales, promos, anything you want the online floral shopper to see. Large, easy to see buttons appear next to the banner for quick links to the most...
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Sher Tannozinni Owner of Flowers From the Rainflorist (954) 741-8900 "After changing my website over to epicFlowers I have seen a growth in sales, my conversion rate is up over 80% and my customer base has increased by approximately 10%. This is in less than 35 days....
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Why epicFlowers is the best!
Access to 1,000s of apps - everything from email marketing, accounting, rewards programs - the apps are endless! Not to mention all our fantastic features - don't get us started on that!
Our Mission
epicFlowers' mission is to provide the absolute best service and internet software/technology for florists and other gift and specialty eCommerce retailers. We also strive to tirelessly research for productive change, never allowing ourselves to become complacent. We...
Allen’s Flower Market
18500 Sherman Way Reseda, California 91335 Local: (818) 996-2603 New EpicFlowers Website Old Website
Marvel’s Florist
720 N 10th Street Killeen, TX 76541 Local: (254) 634-0579 Toll Free: (800) 242-3385 New EpicFlowers Website Old Website
Dragonfly Flowers New Design Layout
Dragonfly Flowers of Winnipeg received a new design layout! We updated the website template for better conversion rates and an easier user experience. Now online flower shoppers can navigate the website and find fresh flowers and beautiful arrangements more...
Second Street Seasonals
300 W. Second Street Winnemucca, NV 89445 Local: (775) 623-3456Toll Free: (866) 623-3232 New Epic Site
Welke’s House of Roses
1020 Legion Drive Elm Grove, WI 53122--------------------------5528 W North Ave Milwaukee, WI 53208 Local: 414-442-8640 Toll Free: (877) 211-7673 www.welkes.com New Epic Site
MC James Floral Company
1 West Kings Highway Bellmawr, NJ 08031 (856) 219-3821 mcjamesfloralco.com New Epic Site
Blooming Gardens
Blooming Gardens 20462 Old Cutler Road Cutler Bay, FL 33189 (305) 256-2772 www.bloominggardens.net New Epic Site Old Site
Flowers to the Max
1273 Union Ave 718-576-6311 New Epic Site
Bloomwoods Flowers
5592 Whitesville Road Suite J Columbus, GA 31904 706-507-5859 New Epic Site
EpicEmails
epicEmails is a fantastic email marketing service that allows you to keep in touch with your customers. Whether you're sending a newsletter email to a few loyal clients or a marketing promotion to a thousand, epicFlowers makes it easy! We customize an email layout for...
Up and coming Wedding App – Appy Couple
Your wedding day is supposed to be the biggest day of your life — but it’s also the hardest. Planning a wedding can be one of the most stressful processes known to man, especially known to woman, so it only makes sense that someone would build an app for that. Brides...
Flowers From The Rainflorist
3801 N University Dr Ste 202Lauderdale & Sunrise, FlLocal: 954-741-8900 | Free: 1-800-725-9714 New Epic Site
One more feature that makes us the #1 in floral eCommerce technology
More speed, more sales — your epicWebsite is now powered by the Bigcommerce CDN *this entry was taken from our partner's blog bigcommerce.com About the Author: Soren Harner is the Vice President of Engineering here at BigCommerce. He works with our engineers,...
epicReminders
epicReminders allows your customers to easily and quickly sign up for birthday and anniversary reminders. Once signed up, they will be emailed a reminder the following year and years after. This way, a customer can no longer forget the birthday or other important date...
Dream Occasions Etc
1077 NE 44th Street, Oakland Park, FL 33334 Phone: (888) 255-0888 After - New Epic Site Before
Epic Arrangements
4715 Broadway, West Palm Beach, Florida 33407 561-232-EPIC (3742) http://www.epicarrangements.com/ New Epic Site
Email Trigger Marketing
The function is in the name. This service sends emails that are triggered by consumer behavior, sending emails automatically based on when and what people purchase. This means that when a customer buys a product from the "Birthday" or "Anniversary" category, you can...
Epic Updates
During busy holidays there is no time to change products, create new banners, and make seasonal coupons. Epic Updates makes maintaining your website a breeze! For just $159/month we do the work for you. It is your personal website concierge service. If you have a...
Parie Designs
2630 Wolfin Ave Amarillo, TX 79109 (806) 373 6613 http://www.secretgardenfineflowers.com/ New Epic Site
Fortino’s Flowers
220 S Telegraph Rd. Pontiac, MI 48341 Local: 888-637-7444 | Free: 248-683-4446 http://www.fortinosflowers.com/ After Before
Hatcher Florist
Hatcher Florist 808 York Mills Rd Unite 20, North York, ON M3B 1X9 Local: 416-221-5557 | Free: 888-308-5808 www.hatcherflorist.com
Garrett’s Flower Shop
Garrett's Flower Shop 201 S. Greensboro St. Liberty, NC 27298 Local: 336-622-4556 | Free: 800-223-6360 www.garrettsflowershop.com
Epic Arrangements
Epic Arrangments 4715 Broadway, West Palm Beach, Florida 33407 Local: 561-232-3742 www.epicarrangements.com
The Flower Lady
The Flower Lady www.theflowerlady.ca 939 Portage Ave. Winnipeg, MP R3G 0P9 Local: 204-786-1666
Adding Value with Local SEO for Images
In a recent post, I discussed basic Search Engine Optimization for Product Pages and wanted to follow up with SEO for images. As discussed in the previous blog on Product Page SEO, image descriptions are one of the most important factors when dealing with SEO in the...
Product Page SEO for Florist Websites with Big Commerce
One of the questions I get asked the most during new Epic Flowers web store launches is “How do I set up the SEO for our product pages?” What I’ll focus on here is a few of the key factors for properly setting up your product pages for SEO using the Big Commerce...
New Epic Office / Florist Backroom
So we outgrew our 350 square foot upstairs florist office at the shop and moved into our florist's side storage room. Epic is growing fast and every morning when I wake up I'm excited to see what's new and how we can push the limits when it comes to the the norm....
Pioneer Wholesale Co. – Helping Florists Help Their Communities – Guest Blogger
Our guest blogger is Sarah at Pioneer Wholesale Co. - 500 West Bagley Road in Berea, OH 44017. Pioneer Wholesale Co. announces The Princess and the Posy Charity Prom Dress Drive Held at Florist Shops NationwideHelping Florists Help Their Communities Florists:...
EXTREME WEBSITE MAKEOVER CONTEST!
One lucky person will be picked to receive a free website and services up to $2900! Even if you have a website, you can enter to win only at epicFlowers.com! The contest will run Jan1 - Jan 15th. sign ups are now closed
Funny Big Commerce SEO Video
I just found out that one of our favorite new people at Big Commerce, Laura Hinson, wrote and stared in her own youtube video about SEO and the Big Commerce platform. Enjoy and great job Laura! You need a raise. *nudge nudge Mitch* 🙂 ...
