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Flowerona Tips: Personalise your Twitter account with your actual name & a headshot

July 18, 2014 By Rona Leave a Comment

This week’s Flowerona Tip is ‘short & sweet’, but VERY important. Social media is all about relationships and connecting with people. So, if you’re a sole trader and use Twitter, please personalise your account:

– Put your actual name in the Name field (not your company name). – Upload a professional headshot.

Don’t be afraid. Humanise your account and you never know what the positive outcome might be! Make it easy for people to get to know you…the real person behind the Twitter account.… Read more

Flowerona Tips: Invest in a professional headshot & why it’s important

June 27, 2014 By Rona Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, I was at the Great British Flowers Seminar in Stoneleigh. I knew that there were going to be several people at the event who I’d had conversations with online, but never met. And by them having a headshot on their social media accounts and website, it was so easy to spot them amongst the milling crowd and say ‘Hello’ in person.

There are a multitude of benefits of meeting your online contacts and afterwards, your relationship can really blossom.… Read more

Flowerona Tips: Use Feedly to read your favourite blogs

June 20, 2014 By Rona Leave a Comment

My Florist Friday blog post will be following on later today, as I’m waiting for a few more images to arrive. In the meantime, I’m going to share with you details of one of my biggest time-saving tools.

I love reading blogs…both to keep up-to-date with floristry trends and to be inspired by other bloggers’ posts. And Feedly is the tool which I use. It’s a website that enables you to organise, read and share the content of your favourite sites.… Read more

Flowerona Tips: Optimising the photos on your Twitter profile

June 13, 2014 By Rona Leave a Comment

Last Friday, I started a new weekly blog post series called Flowerona Tips and today, we’re going to take a look at making the most of the photos on your Twitter profile.

Header Photo

First impressions are so important and since Twitter recently was revamped, you may have noticed that your Header Photo looks a little bit fuzzy? This is because it’s being stretched to fit the full width of the screen. So, the solution is to make sure you use a photo with Twitter’s recommended dimensions of 1500 pixels × 500 pixels.… Read more

Flowerona Tips: New Creative Tools in Instagram announced this week

June 6, 2014 By Rona 1 Comment

Today, I’m starting a brand new weekly blog post series called Flowerona Tips. I’ll be sharing hints and tips, primarily for florists, that I hope you’ll find useful.

First off, some exciting news about the Instagram app, which was announced this week. They’ve launched a new range of creative tools, which enable you to enhance a photo before posting it. For example, not only have they given you a way to brighten up your images, but also increase saturation, warmth and contrast, etc.… Read more