An honest look at where the business is, where it could go, and a small set of changes that would make a real, measurable difference.
Before we talk about anything missing, this part matters. You've already done the work that money can't shortcut. People love the feel of Sie & Mo. That's the moat. Everything below is about removing friction so more of those people can actually become customers.
You're not competing with Tillie's or Wichita Flower Factory. They sell dozen-roses-on-Valentine's. You sell an experience. That's a much better business if it can scale.
The honest readNone of these are about the work itself. They're about the path between someone discovering you and someone actually booking. Right now that path runs through a DM, and DMs leak.
Search "Sie & Mo Wichita" and Facebook ranks first, Instagram second. There's no siemobouquet.com to send a corporate client, a wedding planner, or a journalist. Anyone past 35 looking for an event florist Googles before they Instagram, and right now that search either lands them on a competitor or in a DM queue.
Highest impactA bride asking about a $4,500 install and a friend asking about a $40 grab-and-go arrangement enter through the same DM. You manually triage every one. During wedding season that's hours per week that don't bill, and the slowest replies are the bookings you lose.
Recurring weekly cost515 Facebook followers and an active IG community. Zero email list. When Mother's Day, Valentine's, or a pop-up date comes up, the only way to reach those people is to hope the algorithm shows them your post. Email is yours, social is rented.
Compounds over timeIt's your signature offering, your trademarked phrase, and the thing that differentiates you. But a corporate event planner who finds it can't get a price range, pick a date, or hold a tentative slot without DMing. Friction kills warm-warm leads first.
Biggest upside if fixedYou probably know your gut answer to "how was last month?" but there's no dashboard, no email open rate, no booking conversion number. That makes it hard to know which posts drove which weddings, or whether a price change actually hurt or helped.
Blind decisionsThree pieces. They work together. None of them replace your taste or your relationships, they protect both.
Lives at siemobouquet.com (or whatever you'd like). Mobile-first. Shows the BYOB Bar™, weddings, events, recent installs, and a single contact path. Designed to feel like your Instagram grid, not a Tillie's catalog. Built in under 48 hours.
Your idea, made real. A visitor picks their vibe (moody romantic / garden party / minimalist white / loud and colorful), their palette, their occasion, and their budget range. Within seconds they see three to five styled examples from your real portfolio that match. They book a consult, you get a structured intake instead of a "hi! looking for flowers for my wedding 🌸" DM.
A small chat bubble on the site. It answers "do you do baby showers?", "what's your minimum for weddings?", "are you booked for June 14?" instantly, in Sie & Mo's actual tone. For anything it can't answer with confidence, it collects the details and pings you. The goal is not to replace you. It's to let you stop typing the same five answers all week.
Bonus, included: email capture on the quiz so the audience you've already earned actually becomes a list you own. Google Business Profile cleaned up so when someone searches "Wichita wedding florist" you're in the conversation, not absent from it.
We're going to lowball this on purpose. To get to real numbers we'd need your last twelve months of bookings, but here's a directional model based on what a Wichita-market event florist with your reach and the system above tends to see in the first six to twelve months.
Caveats, said plainly: nobody knows your exact numbers but you, and a website does not replace good work. The conservative case assumes weddings stay flat in volume but inquiry-to-booking conversion improves because intake gets faster and richer. The upside case assumes the BYOB Bar™ corporate channel actually starts producing because, for the first time, planners can find it.
Sie & Mo would be one of the first Wichita businesses to anchor this service. In exchange for letting us use the build as a case study and for sharing the result honestly (good or bad), the cost is steep-discounted from list.
I've spent the last ten years producing video for professional speakers, including reels you've probably seen on stages, sales pages, and YouTube. Over the last year I've been quietly building a small AI tooling practice on the side, mostly for friends and clients who didn't realize they could have nice things.
Tash mentioned you over the weekend. I built theabundantspeaker.com for Larry Long Jr. and Taylor Lunin in 48 hours, then thought it'd be a shame not to do the same for the florist who did Tash's bouquet.
If anything here lands, the next step is a 30-minute coffee or Zoom to walk through your real numbers and lock the plan. If it doesn't, no hard feelings, and you still have a free strategic read of your business that hopefully gave you a few ideas regardless.
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