Valentine's Day Marketing for Florists 2025 Edition!
Without a doubt, Valentine's Day is one of most important sales events for your florist. So it's extremely important to make sure that your website is set up correctly in the lead up to this day.
In this guide I outline some of the more important ideas for managing your florist website in the lead up to Valentine's Day including:
- Creating Profitable Products.
- Create Products for as many budgets as you can
- Create Product Bundles
- Set targets based on delivery numbers and stock availability
- Block a date for deliveries but still allow in-store pickup
- Publish Specific Delivery Information for Valentine's Day
- SMS Customer Notifications
- Add all orders to your dashboard
- Consider turning off Review Requests for a few days before and after Valentines Day
- Website Basics 101 for Valentine's Day 101!
Every florist is different in how they like to set up their Valentines Day orders. Some will concentrate on pre-orders only and close off same day orders for Valentines Day, whilst others will keep their website open the entire period.
This comes down to the specifics of your business, stock availability, staffing, availability of drivers etc.
No matter what your specific business needs are you can configure your site to suit your business needs.
From our experience the vast majority of Valentine Day sales for a weekday will occur the day before the 14th, the 14th and then the 15th as well for those customers who cannot order on the day.
You should be setting your specific business rules out NOW way in advance of the date!
With all the brand new features in the dashboard over the last year it’s useful to revisit your website settings and decide how you want to set up your website.
Creating Profitable Products.
Roses are always more expensive in the lead up to Valentine's Day, as is the cost of deliveries as the demand for drivers is at a peak. You should make sure that your Valentine's Day products are priced correctly and think about restrcting orders to only the products in your Valentine's Day Range.
In the lead up to the 14th of Febuary you can also have "dynamic pricing" IE offer specials and discounts for customers who pre-order, then slowly increase the prices for those people who leave it later.
Create Products for as many budgets as you can
It's always great to sell higher value products, but it's also useful to have some products at a lower entry point for customers. The obvious choice is the single red rose, but you can have other lower cost products as well.
Iit's not though just the budget products either, make sure you have a seriously "wow" product for that customer who really wants to make an impact. These extravagent products are only rarely sold, but having a product of say 100 Red Roses in your mix is certainly interesting!
Create Product Bundles
Consider creating product bundles of things like:
- Roses
- Chocolate
- Teddy Bear
This is epspcially useful if you choose to restrict orders to a specific category and don't want to allow addons to be ordered.
Set targets based on delivery numbers and stock availability
If you have issues with stock availabillity, staffing and drivers there is a limit to the number of orders that you can physcially make and or dellivery for the date. Work out what this is in advance and keep a close eye on this.
Calculating the total number of deliveries available
For example if you have 4 delivery drivers and each delivery driver can do 15 deliveries in a four hour shift (that's a lot):
4 x Delivery Drivers
2 x Shifts per day
15 x deliveries per shift
Total deliveries for the day is 90 deliveries for the day.
One of the key takeaways is if you cannot physcially deliver any more orders for a day, stop accepting orders!
Block a date for deliveries but still allow in-store pickup
One of the brand new features released this year is the ability to block a date for deliveries but still allow
Publish Specific Delivery Information for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day always has specific issues about deliveries, and these should be clearly communicated to your customers, whether you add extra delivery information on your Valentine's Day range or update your delivery policy. You need to make sure your customers are kept well informed.
SMS Customer Notifications
From an end customer's perspective, clear consistent communication about their order is paramount, especially for a day like Valentines Day.
We highly recommend using the inbuilt SMS Notifications and setting the SMS's for:
- Thanks for your order
- Order will be delivered today
- Order will be available for pickup today
- Order is on Route
- Order has been delivered
This will reduce the number of phone calls from customers asking where their specific order is or when it will be delivered etc. This keeps the phone line open for people who want to order over the telephone.
Add all orders to your dashboard
The best way of managing your orders is to enter them all in the dashboard so you can track them all. Either through creating a manual order or Quick Order!
you can then use the simple or adavnaced workflow with allt he bells and whistles for your business.
Consider turning off Review Requests for a few days before and after Valentines Day
This is a controversial suggestion, but consider turning off your automated Google Review requests for a few days before and after the 14th. Deliveries will go wrong, recipients will not be available, mistakes get made in the heat of the day.
Website Basics 101 for Valentine's Day 101!
This is a quick guide to setting your florist up for the Valentine's Day period regarding marketing and general business tasks.
Valentine's Day Landing Page & Products
The first and most important task is creating and adding your Valentine's Day products to your website. Almos all Flower Store in a Box websites will already have the category and for many existing florist you will already have products, you will just need to edit then with updated pricing.
You don't need a vast range for Valentine's Day. Just somewhere between 6 - 12 products is ideal.
Valentine's Day Navigation
If you haven’t already, you should add the Valentine's Day Flowers link to your website's main navigation. After Valentine's Day, we recommend you keep your Valentine's Day range linked for next year but link it from the website's footer. This will ensure that your SEO rankings for this page will not be lost.
Valentine's Day products on your homepage
Your homepage is often the most critical landing page for your website, so you should make sure that you have a curated selection of your Valentine's Day products on your homepage. We recommend that you replace only some of your Homepage products with one category, as this can reduce the sales conversion rate for non-Valentine's Day Sales.
Valentine's Day Banners & Valentine's Day Marketing Message
Add a Valentine's Day banner to your website, but be mindful that most people who visit your website will not be looking for Valentine's Day Flowers! Only show the banner in the two weeks leading up to the Valentine's Day Holiday. And of course, don’t forget it has to come down immediately after Valentine's Day!
Inventory Management
If you have limited stock available then you should set inventory levels and set each product in your range to go out of stock once the inventiory levels have been depleted.
Limit your delivery area for Valentine's Day
You may want to deliver to a limited area for Valentine's Day , you can make some suburbs “invisible” so people cannot choose these suburbs. for the period leading up the date. You can also block specific suburbs from being available for the Valentine's Day Period!
Limit the products available
If you want a limited range available over Valentine's Day, create a restricted category and add these products. This is useful if you are not getting fresh flowers regularly or anticipate other supply issues.
Add a surcharge for specific dates.
It's generally anticapted that delivery charegs will be more
Pop Up notices
If you are going to be closed, why not use a POP-UP to tell people you will be closed? It’s much better to warn people that you aren’t answering your phone or accepting orders for specific dates rather than them calling and calling with no answer.
