From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Who Sent Flowers?

June 15, 2007

The short answer: Not Who Sent Flowers, the company.
The long answer: Read on.
We florists just know that when a customer starts a phone call with β€œAre you really located in (our town)?” the caller has previously been fooled into placing an order with an out-of-state call center.
Yesterday I heard the saga of a fellow who [...]

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800 Flowers CEO fails to impress at IRC ‘07

June 6, 2007

Reporting from the Internet Retailer Conference 2007, Greg Howlett of Marketing Pilgrim covers the address given by Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers.
Some notable quotes:
“He was either trying very hard to keep the company strategy under wraps or he does not have a company strategy. I suspect the latter.”
and:
“I figure out a better way to sell [...]

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