a friendly read · june 2026
for Sierra & Morgan

Sie & Mo a friendly read of the business

Not a sales pitch. A quiet look at what's already working. Where time and money are slipping out. And a few small things that could make a real difference.

subject
Sie & Mo Bouquet Co.
based
Wichita, Kansas
reading time
about 6 minutes
i.what you've built

You're not a flower shop. You're a lifestyle brand that uses flowers.

That distinction matters more than anything else here. The rest of this assumes you're not trying to be Tillie's. The hardest parts are already done.

your signature

The BYOB Bar™

A trademarked Build-Your-Own-Bouquet bar. No other Wichita florist owns this product line.

trademarked category-defining
your service mix

Weddings, pop-ups, installs

Weddings plus BYOB Bar pop-ups for corporate, bridal, baby, openings. Booked, not transactional.

event-led
where the brand lives

Instagram, mostly

Sierra runs social, Morgan runs the floral hand. The split is right for a lifestyle brand and it shows.

@siemobouquetco
real partnerships

Body Bar West & Douglas Social

Pilates & Prosecco at Body Bar West. Tulips & Tequila at Douglas Social.

co-hosted

The hardest thing to build in a floral business is taste and community. Sie & Mo already has both.

ii.who else is in the room

Where Sie & Mo sits in Wichita.

A quick scan of who's visible on Google when someone searches for flowers locally. These aren't enemies, they're reference points.

Tillie's Flower Shopdominant on search
Wichita Flower Factorystrong e-commerce
Dillons Floralgrocery convenience
Sie & Mo Bouquet Co. ← youstrong on social, invisible on search

The shops above all sell dozen-roses-on-Valentine's. You don't, and shouldn't. The real read here isn't "beat Tillie's on SEO." It's that the audience who already wants what you specifically make can't find you without already following on Instagram.

iii.your audience, by the numbers

What public data shows about reach.

Just what anyone Googling Sie & Mo can see. No assumptions about private analytics.

515
your community This is great. Most florists don't have a community that cares.
0
the gap people on a mailing list you own. Algorithm is the landlord.
6–10
hours / week triaging DMs that could be filtered before they reach a human.

The 515 number isn't the problem. Nothing in the current setup converts a follower into a customer without a one-to-one DM.

iv.the five gaps, ranked

Where time and money are slipping out.

Ordered by what's costing the most right now. None are about the work itself. All five are about the path from discovery to booking.

i

No website of your own.

Google "Sie and Mo Wichita" and Facebook ranks first. Planners and corporate buyers Google before they Instagram. That whole audience either lands on a competitor or finds nothing.

highest opportunity cost
ii

The BYOB Bar™ can't be booked.

A planner who finds it on Instagram can't see price, hold a date, or get a quote. They DM and wait. Warm leads cool fastest when first response takes hours.

biggest upside if fixed
iii

Every inquiry costs the same time.

$4,000 wedding install and $40 grab-and-go arrive on the same channel. Both get triaged by hand. 6 to 10 hours per week of unbilled triage during wedding season.

recurring weekly cost
iv

Your audience is rented, not owned.

515 followers, zero email subscribers. To reach the people who opted in, you hope Instagram shows them today's post. Email is the one channel a business owns end-to-end.

compounds over time
v

You're flying without numbers.

There's a gut sense of how last month went, but no dashboard, no booking-to-inquiry ratio, no email open rate, no traffic source. No way to tell which reels drove which weddings. No way to tell whether last month's price change helped or hurt.

blind decisions
v.what we'd build

Three pieces close the gaps. Three more grow the brand.

Each one stands alone. Together, they replace the manual DM funnel. It still feels like Sie & Mo.

piece one

A real website.

One page. Mobile-first. Feels like your Instagram grid, not a Tillie's catalog. BYOB Bar™, weddings, installs, gallery, inquiry form, newsletter signup.

closes gap i
piece two

The client quiz.

Client picks what they need: wedding, pop-up, shoot, birthday, corporate. A tailored question set appears: colors, date, season, vibe. They drop their inspiration links and it builds the mood board for you. A deposit holds their date, the consult is booked, and the no-shows stop.

closes gaps ii & iii
piece three

A chat assistant in your voice.

Answers the five questions you answer every week. Anything ambiguous gets handed to you with full context attached.

closes gaps iii & iv
and then

A monthly newsletter.

Flower of the month, pet-safety guide, bloom meanings, a printable craft. Signing up unlocks the $5 off you already give, now it grows a list you own. Something people look forward to, not a blast they delete.

turns the list into repeat business
and then

An adult coloring book.

Your real photoshoot florals, turned into grown-up coloring pages. Seasonal drops: summer florals, fall, a holiday edition. A $5 download, pure margin, on autopilot.

a product, not just a service
and then

Community partnerships.

A Botanica Gardens anchor: co-branded pop-ups, bloom-of-the-month tie-ins. Wedding venues, photographers, boutiques, wellness studios. Each one a new doorway to the same right-fit customer.

new doors, not more ads

Email capture lives on the quiz and the site, so the audience you already built becomes a list you own. A Google Business Profile cleanup puts Sie & Mo in the "Wichita wedding florist" conversation.

vi.your numbers, your impact

Plug in your real numbers.

All conservative assumptions. Adjust the inputs to your reality. The results update as you type.

your reality
your year-one impact
net new revenue, conservative
extra weddings from web traffic + BYOB corporate channel finally producing leads
hours per week back
filtered intake means consults start at "what's the vision"
email list at six months
300 – 800
captured at the end of the quiz, owned forever, sendable on demand
extra bookings per year
structured intake closes faster, BYOB becomes findable
Conservative throughout. For context, the partnership's $200/mo fee only starts after combined orders and events grow 20% over baseline and hold two months, so the fee never arrives before this kind of lift does.
vii.the model in one table

The baseline shifts, plain.

For a Wichita event florist with this brand and this system. Months one through twelve. Conservative assumptions throughout.

Weddings booked per yearmore brides find you on Google + faster intake closes more
+25 to +40%
BYOB Bar corporate inquiries per monthplanners can finally find and book it without DMing
+2 to +4
Weekly hours on manual DM triagequiz + assistant filter the low-effort questions
6–10 → 2–3
Owned email list at month sixcapture happens at the end of the quiz
300 – 800
Inquiry-to-booking conversionconsults start at "what's the vision", not "what do you do"
15–25% → 30–45%
viii.how the partnership works

Free first. You only pay if it works.

No upfront cost, no retainer, no risk. We build everything above, then prove it before money is ever discussed.

months one through six

Completely free.

Website, quiz, assistant, newsletter, coloring book, partnerships. All built and running at no charge for three to six months. During the free window, you owe nothing.

only then, and only if

$200 / month.

The fee starts only when combined orders and booked events rise 20% above your baseline. And only after that lift holds for two straight months. You review the numbers before a dollar moves.

Either side can step away with 30 days notice.
You keep all the static work: copy, graphics, coloring files, regardless of how it ends.
In the free window, all we ask is a monthly shoutout, a small site credit, and referrals when they come up naturally.

If any of this is useful, that's the point. If you'd like to talk it through, we're just an email away.

hello@ksautomate.com