Google Map of Wedding Flowers and Special Event Decor

A few months ago, Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM.com blogged about the creative use of Google Maps' user-created content feature by Pennsylvania lawn care company WiseGrass. (Great name, BTW.)  WiseGrass designed a real-life portfolio of showcase lawns so potential customers can visit the residences and see their work for themselves.

Since fresh flowers have a shorter life than a lawn, keeping up a 'live portfolio' would be nearly impossible - so we did what we believe is the next best thing and built our own map of popular delivery locations for wedding flowers, special event floral decor and hotel gift delivery. At each location, we loaded photos of some of the bouquets, centerpieces, buffet arrangements and other floral items we've delivered there, so customers can see a small sampling of venue-specific flowers. 

The map also includes a few items delivered outside the So Cal area, like a photo of the contemporary purple design we made, crated and had shipped for a customer to Harpo Studios for Oprah's birthday. There's also a shot of a unique fresh flower purse bouquet we overnighted to the Today Show as part of a wedding flowers segment they aired a few years ago. (We don't ship finished designs very often, but will gladly do so with enough notice to ensure the flowers can arrive in great shape.)

It took a bit of time to create this Map-folio, but the process made us aware of other opportunities to use this helpful tool to tie locations in with local florist delivered flowers.  Hope other florists and small businesses see the potential, too.

And, we especially hope this map showcases the floral possibilities in our Orange County and Southern California delivery areas.

Thanks go to Matt for blogging about this and to Google Maps for providing the tool. :)

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