Open House

We held our first Open House last weekend and it was fantastic!



There was an event being held on the Square in Carrollton (Christmas on the Square) which is a big kid driven event. We set up a booth/table on the square and in preparation I bought a bunch of inexpensive toy/novelty items hoping that the kids would drive the parents to us.



All in all we had great traffic, John's sister manned the booth for most of the day and the rest of us rotated in and out of the shop. We had a drawing for several items that people had to go to our shop to sign up for. So essentially we baited the kids with toys, bribed the parents with the free drawing and got lots of people into our shop.



Of the traffic we had we had a remarkable amount of people make comments like "when did you open?" "I never knew there was a flower shop here!", "You have some really cute things" and so on. Of the comments, the most shocking is the "When did you guys open up?".... the shop has been here in this building for 10 years and across the street for 4 before that! It was unbelieveable!



We knew the shop needed a sign (which it didnt have when we bought it) so this was great validation that it was money well spent... OBVIOUSLY.



We made a few dollars (as much as you can selling $1 items to kids) but the feedback and the traffic was well worth all of our effort AND the GIANT fight that John and I got into on Friday night. (Sorry to air the dirty laundry dear but this is a blog and remember how cute I am so you can forgive me.)



We had reached our personal limits over the past few weeks, with the pressure reaching epic proportions on Friday night. Each of us involved with the shop have worked our butts off doing prep work and marketing, etc. to the point of exhaustion. In the end we hope it really paid off.



The highlight of the day was when we were approached by a photographer for the local section of the Dallas Morning News (Neigbors Go) to take a photo of our booth and all of us in it. Keep your fingers crossed, if it gets published this Friday it could mean great publicity for our shop!!!



Thats all for now...



Power to the Flower



Nicole