1.   What is a Virtual Florist?
  2.   What are Virtual Flowers?
  3.   Who can be a Virtual Florist?
  4.   What if I'm too busy to start a new business?
  5.   What do you mean by hosting Virtual Florist shops?
  6.   What is a Domain?
  7.   Why is this such a great business opportunity?
  8.   Why would customers buy flowers on the Internet?
  9.   What if I don't know enough about the Internet?
10.   What do other companies charge for this service?
11.   What does My Virtual Florist charge?
12.   Who is My Virtual Florist?
13.   So how does it work?
14.   How much can I make
15.   Do I have to sign any contracts?
16.   How do I get paid?
17.   How will you help customers find my Virtual Florist Shop?
18.   Are there other ways for me to find customers?
19.   Pament Options?
20.   How to use my account?
21.   How to get my information?

A Virtual Florist (or online florist) is a flower shop with no street location. It resides on an Internet web server and can be visited from anywhere in the world that has Internet access. Customers enter a Virtual Florist shop via their computers. They can see a wide variety of attractive flowers and bouquets, purchase them right online, and receive them via Federal Express®, usually within 24 hours. Customers can also have the flowers shipped to anyone in the USA or Canada, along with a personalized gift card, for birthdays, Mother's Day, Valentines Day, etc.

If customers prefer, they can phone in their orders using our special toll free number. With phone orders, the operator taking the order gets a special code from your web site to make sure the sale is credited to you.

Virtual Florists do not need to maintain any actual stock. When a Virtual Florist receives an order, it is usually shipped to the customer automatically, direct from a discount grower or wholesaler. The flowers customers see in online stores are 'virtual' because they are just pictures of the 'real' flowers they will receive when they order.

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Anyone can be a Virtual Florist! You don't need to know a thing about the florist businesses, because a Virtual Florist shop virtually runs itself.

This business is perfect for retired people and students. A great source of extra income for busy working people, ambitious opportunity-seekers, salesmen who are always on the road, and also stay-at-home moms.

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If you're busy working at your job and have dreams of becoming your own boss, this is a great way to start, because it won't take any time away from your regular work. A couple of hours a month to make your bank deposits and balance your check book is about all it takes.

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You see the terms host and hosting a lot on the Internet. In simple terms, a host is the computer or network where the electronic data that makes up a web site is stored. Hosting a web site means that someone else's Internet business is stored on your network, and you do all the behind-the-scenes activity required to take care of it. This is part of what we do for you. We host your Virtual Florist online store.

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A domain or domain name is something like the Internet version of a street address, but for a web site instead of a house or store. When you open your Virtual Florist shop through My Virtual Florist, we give you your own domain name. Think of it like having a numbered address on a street. There may be several houses on that street, but each has its own number. Your specific domain address helps people to find your Virtual Florist shop, just as they might find your house among a lot of other houses on the same street.

Domain names must be registered to make sure that no two web sites ever have the same one. If you were doing this on your own, it would be a time-consuming and possibly expensive process. But My Virtual Florist does all of this for you when you sign up.

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Recent studies show that virtual florists will soon account for nearly 20% of all retail flower sales in the US. And this percentage is growing daily, thanks to the amazing acceptance of the Internet. Total US sales for fresh-cut flowers in 1999 were approximately $7,500,000,000 (that's 7.5 billion dollars), so we're talking about a Virtual Florist share of roughly 1.5 billion dollars and growing.

The Problems With Physical Florist Shops
Running a physical florist shop takes lots of know-how, long hours and a large investment to get started. To be successful, you have to find space in just the right location, pay monthly rent, utility bills and wire service charges. In addition, you have to buy display cases and other equipment, stay open on holidays, hire employees and stock a wide range of perishable flowers that will cost you money if they go bad before you can sell them.

The Advantages of Virtual Florist Shops
Virtual florists require no physical location, no floor space or display cases. There are no employees to hire and no utility bills or wire service charges to pay. All you need is a simple and inexpensive computer system. And even that is not absolutely required, though we do recommend it. Your Virtual Florist shop is open for business twenty-four hours per day, 365 days per year, even while you're on vacation. And you will never have to stock a single flower, so there's nothing to go bad.

Aside from your monthly hosting fee of $49.95, there is no overhead cost, and location is never a problem. Your customers can live anywhere in the country. For example, you may live in Texas, but in just five minutes a woman in Hawaii can turn on her computer, walk into your virtual florist shop, buy a designer bouquet and have it shipped it to her aunt in Iowa ... all without you having to lift a finger. What could be easier than that?

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Computer users are falling in love with the ease and convenience of secure online shopping from the comfort of their own homes. There are no crowds or traffic to fight, no running from store to store. Just a simple point-and-click to buy nearly anything you want, including a wide selection of farm fresh flowers delivered right to your door within 24 hours from the day they are picked.

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You don't need any technical knowledge at all. My Virtual Florist will host your Virtual Florist shop on the Internet. We will create your web site and maintain it for you, all for $49.95 per month.
  o  We create your your web site
  o  We maintain your stock
  o  We fill and ship your orders
  o  We send you a check for you profits each month.

Some virtual florists are paying $99 per month or more to have a company maintain their online shops, and onetime setup fees charged by other companies can range between $1,000 and $2,000.

On top of this, some hosting companies also bill you between $1.50 and $1.95 for each sale that occurs on your virtual florist web site, and some will not even fill and ship your orders for you. They make you go out and buy and ship the flowers yourself.

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When you open your Virtual Florist shop through My Virtual Florist, you pay only $49.95 per month and nothing more. Setup is free! The only other charge is a $1 per sale transaction fee. You do not pay this out of pocket. It is simply deducted from your profit on the sale.

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We are affiliated with a large flower grower and wholesaler in Southern California, an area that is home to some of the finest commercial greenhouses in America.

We eliminate the middleman by shipping flowers direct to the consumer, which is why we can offer the best service and prices anywhere in the country.

And because we are affiliated with a major grower, we fill your customers' orders with farm fresh flowers, shipped the day they are picked. If any customer is ever unhappy with the flowers they purchase from your Virtual Florist shop, we will refund their money with no questions asked. You will never be bothered by any complaints!

We also maintain several large web sites geared both to consumers and professional florists. So not only can we fill and ship your orders, we have the Internet experience, plus the management staff and equipment to create and maintain a beautiful shop for you.

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Our national ads help bring customers to your Virtual Florist shop. They buy one or more of the elegant arrangements they see in your displays, and we ship them the flowers direct from our grower. Then we notify you of the sale by e-mail, and you don't have to lift a finger. Tell me more.

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Of course, we can't guarantee you any specific dollar amount, since no one can guarantee that for any kind of business. But your profit on each sale is as follows:

SILVER Member Shop $49.95 per month, commission 10%
GOLD Member Shop $79.95 per month, commission 15%
PLATINUM Member Shop $99.95 per month, Keep 100% of sales
FREE Member Shop Free, commission 5%

As you can see, you'd only have to sell few orders per month to break-even on the maintenance fee for your shop.

Just one order per day could mean an extra income per month in your pocket, and it's possible to do a lot better than that, especially around holidays like Valentines and Mother's Day, when flower sales always go through the roof.

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Renewal of your Virtual Florist shop is on a month-to-to-month basis, so you can quit any time after the first month. There are absolutely no contracts or other obligations.

Your monthly site maintenance fee of $49.95 is billed to your major credit card.

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You will receive a check in the mail once each month, along with a detailed summary of all the activity on your Virtual Florist Site for your tax records. You can match your monthly summary to the e-mail notifications you receive for each sale to verify the accounting accuracy of all statements.

The time of month you receive your check will be geared to the date you opened your Virtual Florist shop.

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My Virtual Florist operates several commercial web sites under a number of different names. These web sites are geared to the general public and we advertise them extensively in a variety of national magazines and other publications. Consumers are invited to visit our attractive web sites to purchase flowers for all occasions. There are always sweepstakes and other offers to help persuade customers to visit us.

When customers arrive at our web site, there is a shopping area they can visit. There, they enter their zip codes and are whisked right to the Virtual Florist in their area. If the customer lives in your area, he or she is automatically transferred to your Virtual Florist shop. What this means is that you get a free ride on our national advertising campaigns.

If there is more than one Virtual Florist in the same zip code, customers are routed to different Virtual Florist shops on a rotating basis. For example, if there are three Virtual Florists in the 10025 Zip Code, the first customer who inquires is routed to Florist #1, the second to Florist #2, and the third to Florist #3. The fourth inquiry is then routed back to Florist #1 and the process begins all over again. Zip code areas with several Virtual Florists will usually be those with higher populations, so each store should still get approximately the same number of hits.

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Absolutely! We also register your personal URL (the Internet address of your Virtual Florist shop) in all the major search engines, such as Yahoo, Lycos, Excite and many more. So customers all over the world will be able to find you when they search for fresh cut flowers, even if they don't come to our consumer web sites first.

Free advertising and search engine registry are just two more ways in which we provide full service to our Virtual Florists, all at one low cost.

Of course, if you want to increase your business even more by doing some additional advertising, you are free to publish your shop's Internet address in classifieds and display ads. In this case, you are not limited to advertising in your own part of the country. You can advertise in national shopper publications if you wish, and draw customers from anywhere your advertisements reach. Ads like this can be very cost-effective and draw a lot of extra business to your web site.

You might also want to print business cards to hand out at social gatherings, or place flyers bulletin boards and so forth. This will bring even more people to your shop and increase your profits.

We also have a Wedding Planner service, which you can offer to friends, family, coworkers and acquaintances. If you know someone who is about to get married, tell him or her how to find your shop on the Internet. From there, they can view the Wedding Planner and purchase a full range of wedding or other special occasion arrangements at considerable savings on what they'd pay a regular florist or professional wedding service.

Landing just a single wedding could earn you enough profit to take a nice vacation, and with virtually no effort on your part. The extra profits you can earn are limited only by your ambition and imagination.

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19 Payment Options?

Floristbusiness's services and transactions only accept these Credit Cards:

1. ViSA
2. MasterCard
3. American Express

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20 How to use my account?

To be able to use your account you need to login to www.Floristbusiness.com using your username and password.
This will enable you to have the benefits of being a Floristbusiness member.

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21 How to get my information?

Upon Logged in to www.Floristbusiness.com, your information can be accessed by clicking the links just one of the links in the side menu.
called "Account Information" click here if your logged in.