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About: Floral Image is a global company delivering sustainable, life-like flower arrangements to businesses across the U.S., U.K., and Australia.
The Challenge: Field reps were finishing 7 to 14 stops a day then sitting in their trucks, firing up a laptop, waiting for a hotspot to connect, and manually typing notes into Salesforce. Key details were getting lost and leadership had almost no visibility into what was happening on the ground.
The Fix: Leadbeam replaced the fragmented tech stack. One AI-powered platform on every rep's phone. No manual entry, no app switching, no hotspots.
The ROI:
Floral Image runs a brilliant, simple business model. Drop off a free trial of their premium flower arrangements and let the product sell itself. If the client loves it, they subscribe. Field reps deliver fresh arrangements monthly, manage accounts, and hunt for upsells.
But as the business scaled to over 80 global franchise locations, their tools fell behind.
Reps would finish their route, sit in their trucks, and try to remember who they talked to. Key details were routinely lost. Reps were burning up to two hours a day on data entry alone. Service reps were on a completely separate app for refresh routes with no efficient way to cluster deliveries or log feedback. For hybrid reps wearing both hats, the friction was constant. Regional managers were flying blind.
We replaced the whole stack with Leadbeam on every rep's phone. From the U.S. to the U.K. to Australia, every franchise now runs the exact same playbook.
For Sales Reps: Reps open Leadbeam and get an optimized route factoring in lead density, traffic, and territory priorities. They can pull in Salesforce leads or tap into our database of over 20 million business prospects. After a meeting, they scan a business card or leave a 15 second voice note. Leadbeam translates that into structured CRM data and syncs it straight to Salesforce. No typing, no hotspots.
For Service Reps: Leadbeam clusters nearby accounts into the most efficient driving order. At each stop, reps pull up the account, snap a photo of the bouquet, add notes, and mark it complete. Image verification confirms placement and creates a historical record going back years.
For Hybrid Reps: Many reps wear both hats. If a service visit turns into a sales conversation, they capture both the refresh data and the new opportunity in a single flow. No app switching.
For Managers: Franchise operators now have a central dashboard to see exactly what's happening across territories. Meetings completed, follow-ups done, and territory heatmaps showing coverage gaps in real time.
Within weeks of launch, reps were prospecting thousands of leads directly from our database, building routes around them, and turning them into real pipeline. Hundreds of routes created. 3,000+ Leadbeam locations added. The field team finally had a map of their territory.
Floral Image now runs on a single global platform. They can scale their footprint without proportionately scaling their admin overhead.
"Leadbeam turned our data entry bottleneck into more face-to-face time with prospects. Our reps love it, training is simple, and rollout was seamless." — Patrick Guillory, CEO, Floral Image US
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