Tuesday, 21 September 2010

PRINTED BALLOONS

This printed balloon design program is a bit addictive. Just created a red star foil balloon for a 9th Birthday.

Twitter exploit hijacks tens of thousands of accounts


Don't use twitter @ the moment ...

Twitter exploit hijacks tens of thousands of accounts

Sunday, 19 September 2010

Balloon website versions

Made possible by google's website optimiser service, as visitors log on to our website, they'll be presented with one of 8 different versions of our website. Here are the 8 different screen shots.



         














The differences are very small (i.e. some have press buttons, some have headlines, some have a minicart on the top left, the last one has the search button removed, some have an introduction text etc etc). Over the next few weeks we'll start to see which webpage produces the most sales. Just after we started we got a sale and the current winner shown from our leader boartd is ...










No headline, no text and no buttons.


Obviously not conclusive yet... but over time we'll get an outright winner.


Friday, 17 September 2010

Printed Balloons



Just thought I would use our online balloon designer program to design a balloon to let everyone know our online printed balloons designer program is working and functioning. This software is a really addictive feature to add to our live online shop. We are sure it will persuade people to buy balloons from us. We are currently reviewing the software and tweaking all the sections before making it a live feature. This really is the best online balloon designer software I've seen in the world at the moment.


Most Popular Fonts

Below is the list of the most frequently selected fonts from our custom balloon printing and custom ribbon printing shop items. The most popular selected font is Straight Impact which is four times more popular than it's next nearest RoundhandBT. This information was taken from orders over the last 18 months. We needed to gather this information so we could put the most popular selected fonts onto our new "design your balloon online" and "design you custom ribbon" websites.




Font - Font 36 straight Impact







Font - Font 81 hand writing RounhandBT







Font - Font 2 straight Stamford
Font - Font 60 hand writing Zapf Chancery
Font - Font 64 hand writing BrushScriptBT
Font - Font 87 rounded DeVinneOrn
Font - Font 18 straight BlacklightD
Font - Font 23 straight CenturyOldStyDCDReg
Font - Font 25 straight comic sans
Font - Font 29 straight CooperBlaDCon
Font - Font 76 hand writing NevisonCasD
Font - Font 24 straight CenturySch
Font - Font 39 straight News701BT
Font - Font 59 hand writing one_stroke_script
Font - Font 67 hand writing CommercialScrD
Font - Font 7 straight Amasis
Font - Font 70 hand writing KaufmannBT
Font - Font 74 hand writing Apple_boy
Font - Font 88 rounded HoboBT
Font - Font 90 rounded URWKelvinD
Font - Font 1 straight Aachen
Font - Font 10 straight AnzeigenGroD
Font - Font 105 styled EwieD
Font - Font 120 styled URWPrinzD
Font - Font 14 straight Kitchener
Font - Font 22 straight CastleT
Font - Font 26 straight ChurchwardBruDReg
Font - Font 28 straight ClearfaceGotBol
Font - Font 56 straight =URWRandonDExtBol
Font - Font 30 straight Courier
Font - Font 31 straight EgyptienneDBolCon
Font - Font 32 straight Goudita
Font - Font 33 straight GungSeo
Font - Font 4 straight AlgerianBasD
Font - Font 42 straight Backtalk serif
Font - Font 50 straight TrebuchetMS
Font - Font 61 hand writing BinnerD
Font - Font 63 hand writing Blizzard
Font - Font 69 hand writing HandwritingDakota
Font - Font 72 hand writing LegerSCD
Font - Font 77 hand writing OkayD
Font - Font 82 hand writing Slogan
Font - Font 85 hand writing VladimirCsr
Font - Font 97 styled BalloonDExtBol
Font - Font 99 styled CabaretD
Font 9 straight AntiqueOliDCDMed
Font 16 straight BaskervilleOldFacD
Font 27 straight ClarendonTBolExp
Font 68 hand writing EnglischeSchJoiT
Font 155 Pagoda
Font 139 styled Digital
Font 120 styled URWPrinz

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Keeping up with the technology

We've made big changes to the party and balloons website over the last few weeks. In order to stay popular with customers we need to display our company to users of new technology such as smartphones and ipads. Before christamas they'll be an invasion of tablets on the market akin to the ipad. We've updated out technology and now have access to iphones, blackberrys and Android portable software. To gain an understanding of all this new technology we've been incorporating all these devices to update our website. This also helps keep us ranked high within search engines. In fact we have climbed up the rankings significantly with the phrase "printed balloons" in the last few days.

As a business it's important to move with inovation. I've seen many businesses that are late in updating websites, not getting onto facebook because they didn't understand it and haven't yet got a google buzz account. This people won't see the huge benefits to their business as they only start to do anything about their IT until their business is struggling. I believe you only win if you stay ahead of the game and that's why we're geared up for the next 12 months in the direction of our IT business.

Now we have access to new technology we gain an understanding of customers needs and can present our ecommerce shop to a user by being the user. Our website is set to have a number of plugins and alterations in then next 2 weeks. How exciting!
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Printed Balloons - double sided

Our printed balloons now come with the option to print on both sides of the balloon. Double sided printing gives twice the awareness. Here's the video footage of our latest double sided balloon print.