This month florists across the world have sent out thousands of bouquets filled with roses and carnation and orchids and lilies for honoring a special day for their Mums’… Mother’s day. It has slowly overtaken Valentine’s Day in terms of volumes of flowers in newer markets around the world.
Yet, there are many florists who will suffer losses while adding to their turnover because of the impact of the “Online Florist” a term, which is very deceptive. It is deceptive to both, the end consumer, who pays for the bouquet as well as the receiver who does not quite know what is the value of what she or he is receiving.
As I write this, many neighborhood florist shops are well on their way to closing business, shops they have sometimes run for over a couple of generations.
A recent market report from IBIS World put it bluntly:
“The florist’s industry has entered the declining stage of its life cycle.”
Yet the ones who are online will survive.
Recessions may be a reason, alternative gifts may be another reason and high rentals in high streets may be the final coffin on the neighborhood florist? Perhaps, but the real reason is, as most florists say their biggest challenge is a behind-the-scenes margin fight that plays out every time a buyer goes online to arrange a flower delivery.
So what or who is a real “Online Florist” and how should a buyer, browsing for a good bunch of fresh flowers to send to loved ones understand how to pick the best online florist?
Order Flowers Online (Tips)Here are many tips:
Do not use common search terms like “bouquet to XYZ city” or send flowers, or flower delivery. Search for the local area that you want to send to and especially Google Local Business searches. This will help you to locate a proper florist who will deliver fresh flowers directly from his flower shop and not an e-commerce portal who is simply an aggregator and not really a florist. An aggregator simply takes your order and passes on the order to any florist, mostly the cheap ones without reputations since there is no branding that they have to worry about. Most of the money is kept with the aggregator; the flowers are barely ¼ of the real price and sometimes even less. Always check out the “contact us” page of the florist website you want to order from. If there is just a telephone number without a location, a physical address, it is best to avoid this website. Mostly this will be a fly by night operator who has simply put up a website, with bouquets and gifts and using black hat SEO techniques has risen to the top page ranking. Google will soon extinguish such a florist, but this kind of website manages to cheat and fool many consumers. Beware; your flowers might not reach at all. If you have followed my tips above you will reach a good local florist website that is closer to your recipient’s delivery area. This is a sure fire way of ensuring that delivery is quickly taken care of especially if it is the same day or next day delivery. Another good tip while ordering flowers through local online florists is to give a florist a couple of days so that the flowers you select can be ordered and made as per design presented. The more time you give a florist to prep an order, the more it will look like the picture presented. I am sure many of you face this dilemma while placing online bouquet orders. What you ordered for and what is received is quite different. When you have the same day delivery or just a next day delivery, check on the local florist website if there is any special choice for easy same day delivery. This means the florist keeps in stock, these particular flowers and colors daily. This will ensure that your recipient will get sent the same flowers, color and type as what you order. One last tip is to leave the design to a reputed florist website, as a “customized design” there is a better chance of getting more bang for your buck. The floral designer will then have the chance to use combinations of colors and flowers which are nice and fresh and in abundance in her or his shop and finish beautiful designs with a flourish. Do believe me on this tip because I am a florist with an online presence and I thoroughly enjoy it when my customer tells me, just do what you do best! A Few Flower DesignsHere are some of my designs which are easy to order and always available online for delivery.
Pink CloudA beautiful topiary style yet a desktop size, easy to deliver and easy on the budget. The pink floating petals are what add to the stunning effect of this floral design.
Pic Courtesy Laxmi Lobo
Rose Sparklers
An unusual way of presenting the fabulous and eternal red rose. Using a gold theme with red roses, I have added gold diamante to the vase below and balanced it with palm leaf fronds sprayed gold holding a bunch of red roses together.
Pic Courtesy Laxmi Lobo
Tropical Delight
This can be a perfect Holiday Season’s Greeting with red, green and white colors. Red anthuriums are long lasting tropical flowers and combining them with white orchids and swirls of gold make it a stunning gift for a celebration.
Pic Courtesy Laxmi Lobo
Today the world is a global marketplace and gifts like flowers are most needed as families and corporations are spread across the globe.
What better way than to send flowers through an online florist.
Just follow some basic tips as mentioned above and you will always have a happy person receiving those flowers from you.
Author Bio –Laxmi Lobo is a Singapore trained floral designer. She is now a retail florist in Mumbai and specializes in flower delivery in Mumbai. Her online bouquet delivery in Mumbai has won accolades from the press and has interviewed on TV for CNBC & ET NOW. Visit Spring Blossoms to know more about Flower Delivery In Mumbai.
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Budget king has just arrived with a sleek offering in the budget smartphone category at the moment with decent features to go with. The Tecno Pouvoir 2 is an affordable smartphone that comes with some of the perks of high-end smartphones like reduced bezels, Face ID, 4G connectivity to mention a few. Following in the recent trend of smartphone design, the Tecno Pouvoir 2 looks elegant with impressive screen real estate. Does this smartphone offer enough for the price tag on the device? Let’s find out.
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Basically, the Tecno Pouvoir 2 has a stunning look for a budget smartphone with nice curved edges and a simple rear finish. While this is not a premium looking smartphone, it is has solid ergonomics with durable polycarbonate material. You’d find a single camera at the rear with the fingerprint just below and at the front there’s a soft selfie flash and camera.with on screen buttons.
As for what the screen carries, the smartphone offers just about an HD+ resolution to offer and a fairly large display too. Partly due to the minimal bezels, the smartphone is easy to handle even with one hand. Sized at 6.0-inch, the display has 1440 X 720 pixels resolution with 2.5D curved glass.
Battery and CameraThere is enough inside the Tecno Pouvoir 2 to last you well beyond the conventional a day of usage most smartphones offer. Backed up by a large 5, 000mAh Li-Po battery, the smartphone is not afraid of intensive usage. However, premium fast charge or wireless charging is not available on this one you would have to check more expensive smartphones for that.
For photography, the Tecno Pouvoir2 packs a suitable 13MP camera on the rear side with flash and the front has an 8MP camera also having a flash. While this is nothing spectacular, it is ideal enough for a smartphone of this calibre. That said, the camera can take pretty nice pictures in enough light.
Hardware and SoftwareWith an affordable price tag such as this, there is nothing much the smartphone can offer but does good with a decent quad-core chipset. It has a MediaTek MT6737 processor in charge with a Mail-T720 MP1 GPU which is fair enough for basic usage.
Furthermore, the smartphone has a 2GB RAM while the built-in storage space is a meagre 16GB which can be extended to a robust 128GB using a memory card. It also offers the latest Android 8.1 Oreo booting with the HIOS modification.
Pricing and AvailabilityThe smartphone is available in various online stores and smartphone retail outlets for about 46, 000 naira depending on your location and the deal.
Here are a few specs of the Tecno Pouvoir 2:
General Features Platform: Android 8.1 Oreo Processor: Quad-core MediaTek MT6737 GPU: Mali-T720 MP1 Memory: 2GB Colours: Black, Green, Blue, Champagne Dimension: 159.8 mm x 76.8 mm x 8.5 mm/li> Weight: – SIM Type: Nano sim SIM Count: Dual sim Display Display: 6.0-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 1440 X 720 pixels Screen Protection: – Camera Rear Camera: 13MP camera, 720p Video@30fps Rear Camera Features: Phase detection autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR Front Camera: 8MP camera, 480p Video@30fps Storage Built-in Storage: 16GB Memory Card Support: Yes, up to 128GB Bundled Cloud Storage: – Network Support 2G GSM: Yes 2G CDMA 1X: – 3G WCDMA: Yes 3G CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yea Internet & Connectivity GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes 3G/WCDMA/HSPA: Yes HSPA+: 42.2/5.76Mbps CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yes WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Hotspot: Yes Bluetooth: Yes, v4.2 with A2DP, LE NFC: – Infrared Blaster: – USB Port: microUSB 2.0 Messaging SMS/MMS: Yes Instant Messaging: Yes Push Emails: Yes Email Protocol: – Entertainment Music Player: MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player Video Player: MP4/WMV/H.265 player FM Radio: Yes Loudspeaker: Yes 3.5mm Jack: Yes Navigation Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS Maps: Yes Sensors & Control Digital Compass: – Accelerometer: Yes Proximity Sensor: Yes Light Sensor: Yes Barometer: – SpO2: – Pedometer: – Heart Rate Monitor: – Gyroscope: Yes Fingerprint Scanner: Yes, (rear) Iris Scanner: – Face Unlock: Yes Intelligent Digital Assistant: – Motion Sensing / Gesture Control: – Voice Control: – Other Features Video Streaming: Yes Active Noise Cancellation: Yes Wireless Charging: – Built-in Mobile Payment: – Water Resistant: – Dust Resistant: – Image Editor: Yes Video Editor: Yes Document Viewer: Yes Document Editor: Yes Battery Battery: 5, 000mAh non removable Li-Po battery Talktime: – Standby Time: – Fast Charging: –The post Tecno Pouvoir 2 Specs and Price appeared first on Nigeria Technology Guide.
With the Tecno Pouvoir 2 comes the lesser and more affordable model, the Tecno Pouvoir 1. This smartphone has a more modest spec sheet than the former and also looks a bit different from the aforementioned smartphone. It is definitely smaller in size and a bit different in terms of design but has a similar overall build. The Tecno Pouvoir 1 is cheaper for those who are on a restricting budget or wants something recent and very simple.
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Normally, for a smartphone this cheap, design is not really something that attracts attention. Nonetheless, the Tecno Pouvoir 1 impresses with an exquisite plain design and the traditional 16:9 aspect ratio but with average bezels of course. In comparison to the more premium Pouvoir 2, it had a different rear camera placement at the top left corner. It is also a bit more thicker and his available in a number of colours which includes black, blue champagne and green.
As for the display, the smartphone comes with just an HD resolution to get by which is standard and better than 480p screens of some other low budget smartphones. Diagonally the screen measures 5.5-inches, with 1280 X 730 pixels land thus, a pixel density of 267 ppi.
Battery and CameraThe Chinese OEM, Tecno has decided to stick with the same battery capacity here, same as in the larger variant. This leaves the Tecno Pouvoir 1 with a similar long usage time of up to 2 days on normal minimal usage. There is a 5, 000mAh battery, which is on a high side and charges through a MicroUSB 2.0 port.
Optics of low budget smartphones are not meant to blow your mind but comes with just enough to capture fairly decent images. That exactly is what the Tecno Pouvoir 1 offers, with an 8MP camera on the rear side along with a 5MP camera for taking selfies.
Hardware and SoftwareThere’s a bit of a downgrade on the Tecno Pouvoir 1 with a less powerful but still quad-core SoC. This is a MediaTek MT6580 processor clocking at 1.3GHz as well as a Mali-400 GPU in charge of graphics which is a conventional budget arrangement.
Also, there is 1GB internal memory on the smartphone alongside a 16GB built-in storage space with an option to extend up to 32GB with a memory card. However, the smartphone only runs on Android 7.0 Nougat with Tecno’s own UI to compliment.
Pricing and AvailabilityThe Tecno Pouvoir 1 is available for sale in smartphone shopping centres as well as online stores for about 36, 000 naira depending on the deal and your location.
Here are a few specs of the Tecno Pouvoir 1:
General Features Platform: Android 7.0 Nougat Processor: Quad-core MediaTek Mt6580 GPU: Mali-400 MP1 Memory: 1GB Colours: Black, Green, Blue, Champagne Dimension: 154.5 x 77.2 x 8.8 mm Weight: – SIM Type: Nano sim SIM Count: Dual sim Display Display: 5.5-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 1280 X 720 pixels (267 ppi) Screen Protection: – Camera Rear Camera: 8MP camera, 720p Video@30fps Rear Camera Features: Phase detection autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR Front Camera: 5MP camera, 480p Video@30fps Storage Built-in Storage: 16GB Memory Card Support: Yes, up to 32GB Bundled Cloud Storage: – Network Support 2G GSM: Yes 2G CDMA 1X: – 3G WCDMA: Yes 3G CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yea Internet & Connectivity GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes 3G/WCDMA/HSPA: Yes HSPA+: 42.2/5.76Mbps CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yes WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Hotspot: Yes Bluetooth: Yes, v4.2 with A2DP, LE NFC: – Infrared Blaster: – USB Port: microUSB 2.0 Messaging SMS/MMS: Yes Instant Messaging: Yes Push Emails: Yes Email Protocol: – Entertainment Music Player: MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+/FLAC player Video Player: MP4/WMV/H.265 player FM Radio: Yes Loudspeaker: Yes 3.5mm Jack: Yes Navigation Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS Maps: Yes Sensors & Control Digital Compass: – Accelerometer: Yes Proximity Sensor: Yes Light Sensor: Yes Barometer: – SpO2: – Pedometer: – Heart Rate Monitor: – Gyroscope: – Fingerprint Scanner: – Iris Scanner: – Face Unlock: – Intelligent Digital Assistant: – Motion Sensing / Gesture Control: – Voice Control: – Other Features Video Streaming: Yes Active Noise Cancellation: Yes Wireless Charging: – Built-in Mobile Payment: – Water Resistant: – Dust Resistant: – Image Editor: Yes Video Editor: Yes Document Viewer: Yes Document Editor: Yes Battery Battery: 5, 000mAh non removable Li-Po battery Talktime: – Standby Time: – Fast Charging: –The post Tecno Pouvoir 1 Specs and Price appeared first on Nigeria Technology Guide.
Technology keeps on getting better and more powerful each year. More and more technological products are creating great impacts on our livelihoods. The challenge is that we have so many products on the market and you could be wondering which ones should you really own. Here are seven tech products you should be using in 2018.
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1. A Smartphone of Your Choice
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Currently, Smartphones are the most powerful and personal devices in the market. These are just like portable computers that fit in your pocket. There are so many mobile phones in the market and even choosing between Android or iOS can be a challenge before you narrow down to the individual brand and specific model.
Apple Smartphones have fast updates with the best security features. Others users love the openness of Android as it gives you control on the working of your Mobile phone. Android mobile phones have a broad range of designs.
Choose the operating system and then go to a specific model depending on the features you are looking for in a mobile phone. You can go through the Smartphone buying guide to get an idea of choosing the best Smartphone in the market.
2. Sony’s PlayStation 4
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This is the most popular video game console in the whole world. This is because the device goes beyond just playing games. The play station can play both DVDs and CDs and other media files that are stores in your external drives.
The Sony PlayStation 4 can also stream videos from several Apps including HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Sony Live TV, and Vue. The PlayStation 4 also allows you to stream from Spotify as you play your game if you wish to provide your personal soundtrack. Its library has a long list of several high-end games like the ‘Spider Man’ and ‘God of War.’
3. Google Home Smart Speaker or an Amazon Echo
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Amazon offers an excellent product that marries smart-home devices with a smart voice assistant. The Google Assistant powered smart assistant has come very close to this. Therefore, you can get top notch smart speakers from Google or Amazon.
Choose a brand that you think you are more comfortable with. Amazon seems to be the best as it is easy to use, beautiful, simple and extremely useful. It has omnidirectional microphones that can hear your echo across several rooms and respond naturally and quickly. How do you even think of leading your life without this great device?
4. The Nintendo Switch
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This product has been in the market for about one year now but it already has an incredible beginning. It is the fastest selling video-gaming console in the history of the United states. This switch offers a simple yet compelling propositions.
It allows you to play games on your television or while on the go. The ability to play your console-quality games from anywhere around the world takes video gaming to the next level. It changes the expectations of what a video game console can do.
Read also: Nintendo Wii U Game Consoles Specs & Price
5. DSLR Camera
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How do you lead your life without some profound memories of your life? Don’t rely on your Smartphone to undertake some of these images. The mobile phone has several functions and mixing it with your photos may not serve you well.
In fact, you cannot compare the image quality of mobile phones with what DSLR cameras will give you. Choose one of the Best DSLR Cameras and you will make your life easier.
6. Apple’s Air Pods
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This gadget may appear to be little goofy when you wear them but that does not matter. These is the best set of wireless earbuds that you can purchase now. In fact, it is one of the most effective headphones in the market.
They are exclusively easy to use and come with a gorgeous white carrying case. It has a simple set up and you can use them right from the box. It pairs with other Apple devices like the Apple TV and MacBook.
7. Dell XPS 13
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Dell XPS 13 is one the best laptops on the market that will give you the value of your money. It has a very fast speed, long-lasting battery, no windows Hello, and still poor webcam position.
It’s the best ultra-book with a marvelous design and infinitely edge display. It is a slim and light-weight machine that will not let you down in any way.
ConclusionThere are some tech products that you cannot just afford to miss in the modern day. This article presents to you the top seven tech products that you need to be using in 2018. You will discover that your life will turn around when you begin to use some of these products.
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Transferring files between your iPhone and PC can be a tough task. If you are using iPhone or iPad, you may know that slow synchronization is one of the major problems when using iTunes backing up device. In able to transferring and backing up photos, music, videos, podcasts and ebooks easily and quickly, IOTransfer is launched as the best alternative management tool to iTunes.
About IOTransferIOTransfer is an easy-to-use iPhone transfer software, which features intuitive user interface. It provides the service of managing and transferring iOS content of your iPhone, iPad and iPod on Windows PC. IOTransfer allows you to access iOS devices in a traditional method of file management. You can freely import, export or delete any music, video, photo files as you wish.
What are the benefits of using IOTransfer? 1-Click backing upIt offers you a one-click option to transferring and backing up photos, videos, music and contacts to PC efficiently.
With the help of the iPhone transfer software, you can transfer single file, or batch transferring the videos, music and photos from iPhone/iPad/iPod to pc, vice versa. You don’t have to worry about break in data transmission compared with using iTunes.
Highly effective cleaning tool for iOS devicesThe unwanted music, videos and even contacts can be deleted in a secure manner. The built-in iOS cleaner will help clear up junk files, caches, cookies, crash logs on your iOS device to save more valuable space.
Installing and using the software is not a big task for new users as it has a simple and friendly user interface. Even if you are not quite tech savvy you won’t have to spend a lot of time to master it.
Efficient contact managerThe latest version comes with a built-in contact manager that makes it incredibly simple to manage your contacts. Importing contacts from your old iPhone can be very helpful when switching a new device. Exporting contacts also works perfectly in preventing data loss. Adding new contacts becomes easy when using IOTransfer.
Another great thing about IOTransfer is the built-in online video downloader tool. It supports the downloading any videos from more than 100 sites like Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo etc. And it supports a various video formats including .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .mkv etc. Also after downloading videos to PC, you can directly sync videos/movies to iPhone/iPad/iPod without the help of iTunes or iCloud. You can enjoy free videos on your iDevice wherever you go.
IOTransfer is simply an incredible software. It is available now from their website with a free trial. A one year license is currently on sale for $24.99, and a lifetime license can be purchased for 50% off right now at only $29.95. The software is compatible with iPhone, iPod, and iPad.
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After every few months, new trends emerge in software development. You can never predict that the trends of today will remain relevant tomorrow. These changing trends are quite a challenge for software development companies and the software developers as well, both the senior and the junior ones.
If the positive side is considered, then this challenge is an opportunity. Definitely, it is an opportunity for the software developers and the companies to learn new things as the trends change so abruptly. With time, they adapt to these changes and start switching to new technology quickly.
How to become a successful software developer in 2018?Now, if you are a frontend software developer or maybe you have software Development Company, a good knowledge about one important thing is very imperative for you to learn. It will help you to have a successful business in the current year, 2018.
Visit this page to learn how a successful software developing company works.
Learn the Important TechnologyTo be a professional frontend developer, a range of technology is needed to be learned. In the very start of your entry into the software development armlet, you must have enough knowledge about this technology and their practical experience is also very important. Among these technologies, the major ones include JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
HTMLHTML shapes the whole internet page. IN the absence of HTML, probably the computer screen would look a page with some text on it. There would be no arrangement and graphics. It tells the browser, whatever you are using, about how content must be arranged on the page of a website. This means that the right, left, head and foot of the page are defined by HTML.
CSSSS is also linked to the website pages on the internet, but the focus is more on the presentation aspect. It is actually there to help HTML, as it tells the system how HTML should be presented on the website. For instance, we can define that the HTML content must be presented in columns. Even the number of columns can be decided by the CSS.
JavaScriptJavaScript is the first language that a developer starts to learn in order to enter into this field. So, it must include all the basics of technology that is needed for software development. Everywhere in the world, this technology is evolving day by day. Also, its use is increased to a great extent. It is used in manipulating things on a website from the back. It supports the HTML through DOM. Also, there are certain things on the website that are controlled by the JavaScript, such as, a particular button, etc.
These technologies, as everyone knows are important for software development. But, their proper use and understandings is the key that can help the developers to get the success they want from their professional life and their business.
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