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Long Weekend Rest and Relaxation

2011-08-31T14:29:00.000-07:00

Long weekend's are a perfect time to get away and relax for the weekend. With so much going on in our everyday lives with work, school, family, etc., sometimes we just need a weekend to get away or relax. Long weekend's, like Labor Day, can be a good time to rest and relax whether it's at home, at a park, at the beach, at a lake, or out of town on vacation.

If you are having a gathering in your backyard, at a park, lake, or at the beach, it's usually a good idea to rent some games and activities to keep you busy and entertained. Renting inflatables and interactive games like water slides or water games can be a lot of fun. Adding some fun concessions like an Ice Shaver machine can cool you down during the hot weather. If there are some sporting games on that you want to watch with the family then a Popcorn Machine rental would definitely be a good option. Margarita Machine rentals are also a great option for parties with adults. Food Catering for long weekends is usually not needed since most gatherings are small scale and less than 20 people.

One of the things you want to remember for Long Weekend events is that renting your supplies and necessities, or ordering the food, is usually better if it falls within your budget because the main thing is to rest and relax. The more preparations you have to do means the more you will be working, and that's the last thing anyone wants during their Long Weekend. So go ahead, look for your local party rental company and see what games and activities they have to offer to make your long weekend fun and exciting, while getting some R&R in the process.

Summertime Parties

2011-07-22T14:47:00.001-07:00

As usual, you can always count on July to introduce the heat into summer. Now that we've had a proper welcome to the most lively season of all, let's start planning a party to thoroughly enjoy the time we have in the sun.

Summertime parties are some of the best parties you can have. The weather is almost always perfect if not just right, people feel alive and a special sense of fun fills the atmosphere. Maybe it's the clear skies, maybe it's the warmth on your skin or maybe it's the bright sunny days that puts everyone in a cheerful mood. Whatever it is, we're happy to finally have summer back!

Now is the time to gather your favorite friends and family for a backyard barbecue, a pool party, or a midsummer night's cocktail party. Plan your party like you're dressing for summer: lightly. This will ensure an easy-going atmosphere and chill time, which is what summer is all about.

For food options, consider having a snack table with an assortment of chilled fruits and veggies with some light ranch dip. Maybe some salad would work as well. Avoid the greesy chip snacks, these can get heavy and messy which is not a good combination with the heat.

Burgers and hot dogs are a staple at any summertime cookout, but you can also choose to have chicken or vegetable skewers instead. Desserts MUST be cold: ice cream, ice cream cake, sherbets or popsicles are great choices.

For drinks, keep a selection of beers, sodas, water and juices on ice. You can even have a concession machine rentals like margarita machine or a slushie/snow cone machine on deck to add a little flare. Nighttime cocktail parties may call for a full bar and bartender to attend to a variety of drink preferences.

Cold drinks are a great way to keep your guests cool in the sun, but don't forget about tent rentals to put up for shade. You certainly don't want any dizzy spells on your hands at your party.

In any case, make sure to have plenty of tables and chairs for all your guests to comfortably eat at or take a break from standing around in the heat. Have appropriate music playing to make sure guests don't remain seated for too long, though.

Pop music is great for a lively party atmosphere, but if your party is more laidback, then island music will be perfect. For nighttime cocktail parties, consider jazz music for entertainment; and if your daytime party is going to include kids, consider water slides and games.

For decor and lighting, keep things bright. Bright and neon colored streamers, accessories, tablecloths, utensils and even food and drinks will add to the mood. As an outdoor party, bug repellent candles are essential. They can even double as lighting once the sun sets. If you have the space and money for it, a fire pit would be an awesome addition to really top off that summer atmosphere.

Summertime is fun time. Get your friends and family together, fire up the grill, pour the drinks and turn up the music for a memorable party

Plan a Summer Time Party

2011-07-07T12:56:00.000-07:00

Have a birthday or block party during the Summer that you are trying to plan for? There are a couple of things to keep in mind and take into consideration to have a cool and refreshing Summer time party. Summer is a fun and active time for a lot of people because of the great weather and ability to cool off with in the water or have a fun day out at the park. Here are a couple of things to take into consideration when you plan a Summer time party:

Shade From Sizzling Heat

We have experienced a lot of dramatic changes in weather due to climate change with hotter Summers and colder Winters. So as you plan a Summer time party, pool party, or Summer picnic at the park, plan on having some shade with tents or canopies. Tent Rentals are a great way to provide shade and cool from the heat.

Water, Water, Water

Whether you have a party at your house, on your block, at the park, or at the beach, you have to make sure to provide a lot of H2O for everyone to keep hydrated. The heat tends to get to people during the course of the day and being overheated can bring down our mood, so make sure to provide plenty of water for you and your guests to keep hydrated and cool.

Cool off With Concessions

Another great way to cool down from the heat at your backyard Summer, pool, or picnic is to rent a Concession Machine. Some good concession machines during the summer include Snow Cone or Ice Shaver machines and Margarita Machines. Concession machines are really simple to make and usually party rental companies will provide all the supplies to go with it, so you have nothing to worry about.

So remember, Summer can be a really fun and warm time, but make sure to provide plenty of shade, water, and refreshments to cool off. Last thing any party host wants is his/her guests having their moods melt away.

Planning for A Grad Party at the Top of Its Class

2011-05-31T13:49:00.000-07:00

It is graduation season and grads of all ages are ready to celebrate their academic successes in preparation for a fun-filled summer leading to a new chapter in their lives.

A graduation party is one of the most exciting parties students may ever attend. It takes some work tor properly plan and successfully host a grad party, so read on to find out how to celebrate at the top of your class!

Since graduation is celebrated with so many family members and friends, it is important to host your party on a date that allows graduates to be flexible with their own commitments and celebrations. Plan ahead to give guests enough time to secure the date and inform them on dress codes and whether meals will be served.

Create a guest list to help make planning easier. You can count on your closest family and friends, but if guests can’t commit to your party, invite them to drop-in whenever they can to celebrate with you. You may even invite a broader list of friends and classmates to make your party one of the stops for celebration in case there are a number of grad parties going on in town.

A menu for your party should definitely be age-appropriate. Depending on whether it is a pre-school graduation party or college graduation party, your selection of food and drinks will surely differ.

Pre-school and elementary kids may be entertained with snacks and juices, whereas middle school and high school kids might prefer pizzas and soda. Be careful with the older high school kids that may try to sneak in alcohol. Underage drinking is not a problem you want to deal with during your celebration.

A college grad party may call for a more sophisticated menu of appetizers, a variety of foods to fill a plate with and desserts. Beer, wine and cocktails might also entertain your guests better.

As you can see, even the menu will take some planning, but no matter what, do not forget a “Congratulations Graduates!” cake to share with guests.

For decorations, stay true to your school’s colors and mascot. You may also include themes of major events and accomplishments for your school in your graduating year. Since graduation is in the springtime, an outdoor or luau themed party may also be appropriate.

To entertain your guests, decide on a DJ or live band for music that caters to the older graduates. Maybe hula dancers for the luau parties or magicians and face painters for grade school grads.

There are a number of items to plan and budget for in hosting a grad party, just make sure to include your graduate in on all aspects of planning. It is their special moment to say goodbye to past memories and prepare for the future, so be sure to celebrate the memorable occasion with a special party.

Memorial Day Party Planning Ideas: Remembering our Troops

2011-04-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day is one of the more exciting three-day weekend holidays that Americans truly enjoy celebrating. It is a great way to kick off the summer up ahead as the weather warms up and school winds down. However, don’t forget that this holiday is meant to celebrate the lives of those who died serving in American wars. Be sure to enjoy this holiday weekend fully and patriotically.

Since it is a summertime party, Memorial Day parties should be outdoor events. Whether you decide to host the party at your house, a park or the beach, be sure everyone knows where to go. Why not have the fun start with the invites? Send patriotic invites online at Evite.com or through the mail.

Decorations are easy and obvious: red, white and blue is the way to go with any decorative items. Flags, colorful carnations, streamers, balloons, confetti and all should be red, white and blue.

For your menu, think of foods that you can toss on the grill. Make it a summertime cookout party with lots of hot dogs, burgers, steaks, chicken, shrimps and anything else you feel like firing up. Keep it simple and fun. Guests can even bring their own meats while you provide the side dishes such as corn, beans, potatoes, salads or you can even host a potluck menu to share a variety of foods.

Plenty of drinks should be on ice for the party as well. Soft drinks and juices are great thirst quenchers for the kids while a cold beer and iced/blended cocktails will keep the party alive for the adults. For desserts you can decorate a sheet cake or cupcakes with patriotic colors.

Any Memorial Day party or weekend is going to be a day of fun in the sun so be sure to have plenty of bug spray and sunscreen on hand for everyone to enjoy the party comfortably.

Plan activities for young and old alike to enjoy throughout the day. Kids love being active, so have them moving around with games like tag and hide-and-seek or hold potato sack races. You can even rent out carnival games and inflatable games such as bounce houses, inflatable obstacle courses and even water slides and games like water-balloon tag if it’s hot out.

Even the adults love inflatable games and water slides; but for the guests who would like to relax a bit more you can arrange a game of cards, charades, karaoke challenges, horseshoes and Frisbee. Everyone should know to dress lightly, but encourage them even more by holding a “best Hawaiian shirt contest”. Remind them to bring extra clothes if you plan on having water games.

There is plenty to enjoy outdoors in the sun during a Memorial Day party, be sure to do so responsibly. Most importantly, don’t forget to remember those who have served and are currently serving in the United States military. Attend a parade, visit a grave, collect donations for a military fund or simply create your own “thank you” cards with arts and crafts to send to a soldier, sailor or marine. Make Memorial Day a truly memorable holiday celebration.

Party Planning for Cinco de Mayo: Have A Fiesta!

2011-04-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

May is here and Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner. Be prepared to celebrate Mexican culture and heritage and enjoy all the festivities that come along with it. A Mexican-themed fiesta is a great way to gather friends and family for a fun time.

Whether you’re Mexican, have Mexican friends or are just looking for a reason to party, celebrating the Mexican militia’s victory over the French puebla army on May 5, 1862 is a great reason to do so.

If you’re going to host a more formal party, draft an invite list and send out Cinco de Mayo or fiesta themed invitations. You can even save time and money by sending invites through email at sites like Evite.com or by creating an event page on Facebook to invite friends and family to RSVP.

As decorations for your party be sure to stay in the Mexican mood. Think red, green and white for your colors and use Mexican culture images and symbols throughout. Chili peppers, cacti, sombreros, ponchos, serapes, maracas and plenty of bright colors and lights should do the trick in setting the scene properly. Plant a Mexican flag to mark where the fiesta is and have little flags decorated all over.

Food and refreshments at a Cinco de Mayo party are easy and stress free. Unless you are looking for authentic Mexican recipes, a fajita, taco or burrito bar with all the fixings should be plenty. You can prepare your own bar or hire a catering service to take care of this. Finger foods like nachos, corn chips with salsa and guacamole dip and quesadillas are perfect appetizers. For dessert it would be easiest to go with churros and flan.

Refreshments should be served ice cold to beat the heat and keep the party alive. Quench your guests’ thirst with plenty of Mexican beer on ice. Dos Equis (XX) and Corona are crowd favorites, but there are plenty to choose from for variety. Margaritas always add to the fiesta mood and are easy to change up with any fruit flavor you choose. Also, don’t forget the Mexican sodas or other soft drinks for the non-drinkers.

There is no shortage of entertainment at a Cinco de Mayo fiesta, but to have some activities in order first consider a giant piñata. Fill it with candies and little toys and offer a main prize for whoever manages to break it. Play the game with whatever twist you’d like to add to it – drawstrings, blindfolds, dizzying effects – just make sure no one gets hurt. You may also have inflatable games as amusements for the little kids. There are plenty of inflatable game designs that may fit a Cinco de Mayo theme.

Hiring a Mariachi band is a great way to make sure your party never dies down. Live music is always fun, but you can even simply play a CD full of Mexican music for your guests to dance to. Latin dancing always spices up the party. You may even ask your guests to come dressed in Mexican attire or as a famous Mexican.

As you can see, there is no shortage of ways to prepare for and enjoy a Cinco de Mayo fiesta. Plan your celebration accordingly or add your own twist. Whatever you do, just make sure to have a fun time.

St. Patrick’s Day Party Planning

2011-03-01T13:07:00.000-08:00

March is here and St. Patrick’s Day is the marquee holiday of the month. So take a green marker and circle the 17^th on your calendar to be sure to celebrate with a fun crowd of friends, family and even strangers; for as they say, “everyone’s at least a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.”

First thing’s first: you must think green. Decorations for a St. Patrick’s Day party definitely need to be centered on green. Props and pictures of shamrocks, leprechauns, pots-o-gold, and rainbows are perfect for your party’s theme. Blow up some green balloons and of course don’t forget to wear green yourself. Mark your house accordingly so guests know where to go.

As for what you will serve your guests, once again think green. Food coloring goes a long way in turning your food and beverages green. Save the light beers and clear sodas for the green drinks while serving some traditional Irish beer (Guinness, O’Hara’s, Murphy’s); don’t forget the green Jell-O shots! Green M&Ms or cookies and chips with guacamole make for easy themed treats.

For entertainment at your party, you can play a CD of classic Irish pub songs, a Dropkick Murphy’s greatest hits album, or sing along to popular Irish songs like “Whiskey in the Jar”, “The Wild Rover”, “Danny Boy”, or “The Unicorn Song”. What may be even more entertaining is to hold a limerick contest or just have an open floor for people to have fun with humorously witty poetry that need not make any sense. It’s always fun to drink and be silly, for:

There are plenty who party in the States,

All with their guys and their gals on this date.

When they gulp down their beers,

Out come all the cheers,

And laughter along with all that they ate.

With a green house (not the kind you grow plants in), lots of green food and drinks, and entertainment as suggested above, you are sure to have a cheerful and fun St. Patrick’s Day party.

So as you begin planning your party: a “top of the mornin’ to you…(and the rest to me-self)”. “May the sun shine on your windowpane” and “the hand of a friend always be near you” on the day of your party; and “may the wind at your back not be from the cabbage and corned beef that you eat on St. Patrick’s Day!” Cheers!

USA Inflatables and Moonwalks, A Minneapolis Party Rentals Company

2011-02-02T16:48:00.000-08:00

Party rentals are a growing source of entertainment for families, businesses, and organizations alike. More and more, people are turning to the convenient benefits of Minneapolis party rentals, games, and inflatables of all sorts for attraction and amusement at their events. Whether it is a kids’ party rentals or entertainment for teenagers and adults, there is an inflatable game or party rental attraction that is sure to fit the bill.

Party rental businesses are easy to start up, so they seem to be available almost everywhere a party is being planned. With so many to choose from, it is important to consider the value an experienced Minneapolis party rental company that has premium products and services for your event.

As a company that has been around since 2001, USA Inflatables and Moonwalk Party Rentals has become well established in the ever-growing inflatable amusements industry. It has become a leading party rental company in the Midwest, servicing Minneapolis party rentals as well as Minnesota party rentals entirely. USA Inflatables and Moonwalks even reaches out to nearby Wisconsin and Iowa with its party rental services and countless inflatable amusement products.

With years of service centered in the Minneapolis party rental market and even servicing the Minnesota party rental market, USA Inflatables and Moonwalks has grown with a vast knowledge of Minneapolis party planning and event coordination. Professionalism is key with its highly trained staff that is ready to answer all of their customers’ questions.

Inflatable rentals are USA Inflatables and Moonwalks specialty. With over 150 products and games, accommodating any party need is a task that this company thrives in. Whether it is a hometown Minneapolis party rental or party rentals crossing state boundaries to Wisconsin and Iowa, USA Inflatables is prepared to put together a custom arrangement of rides and amusements to make any event a memorable success.

Reserving your Minneapolis party rental needs with USA Inflatables and Moonwalks is a safe bet in ensuring timely planning, convenience, and safety in presenting fun-filled amusements for guests to enjoy at events. For large events and private parties alike, there are special deals available to make sure your Minneapolis party rentals are serviced efficiently.

If you are in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro areas or even in the greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Iowa party planning markets, keep USA Inflatables and Moonwalks in mind. Their experience, service, products, and convenience are unmatched in the Minneapolis inflatable rental market.

As a party rental service, USA Inflatables and Moonwalks has properly defined how a business should service its customers.

Planning a Special Valentine’s Day

2011-02-02T11:45:00.000-08:00

As a holiday shared between two lovers, Valentine’s Day should be celebrated romantically and in a way that engages all the senses sensually. Make this Valentine’s Day the best one yet by planning an event accordingly.

It goes without saying that your romance and passion should be expressed by sending your loved one a bouquet of flowers. Start the holiday by awakening her senses with the wonderful scent of freshly blossomed flowers. Roses are a popular choice, but jasmine, gardenias, and stargazer lilies will also do.

If you can manage, leave a romantic voicemail message for her to hear during the day or surprise her with a CD in her car stereo full of her favorite love songs; and make sure that it starts with your own special song, this will really tantalize her ears as she drives around town.

For even more cupid-like gestures, write her a love-letter, a romantic valentine, a poem, or find a nice greeting card to help express your thoughts and feelings.

If you can have the whole day together, plan a day of sightseeing and activities to have some fun leading up to a romantic evening together. Try a picnic at your favorite outdoor spot, visit an exciting town center or try an exciting new activity together such as hot air ballooning.

If you only have the evening to share, go for a drive along your favorite scenic road or vista to take in the evening sights. Enjoy a panoramic view of the glimmering city lights atop your favorite hill or mountainside, these visuals will help spark a romantic atmosphere for the rest of the evening.

Be sure to have dinner plans arranged ahead of time to avoid conflicts. Reserve dinner at a favorite restaurant, where you first had dinner together, or even someplace new you’ve both wanted to try. You can even surprise her with a candlelit dinner at home, outdoors at your favorite romantic spot if it’s not too cold, or even in a special hotel room suite.

Make sure the champagne is kept on ice to begin your romantic evening with a toast to each other. Prepare a dinner with favorite foods to excite her tastebuds. Oysters, shrimp, salmon, steak and other flavorful foods will make for a romantically savoring meal. Chocolate dessert is a must after dinner, so make sure to have the truffles and raspberry treats elegantly wrapped as a tasty gift.

After dinner you may take a carriage ride through town, go dancing, step out for a romantic stroll, go out for drinks, go ice-skating, or anything fun that you will both enjoy. Be sure to remind her of all the reasons you love her and enjoy kisses throughout the night.

Upon return to your house, suite, or whatever romantic getaway you have arranged, you may enjoy giving each other a full body massage with aromatic oils or even just a neck and shoulder rub with facial caresses to ignite her sense of touch. If planned ahead, you can prepare a bath with her favorite scented candles and rose petals all around for her to enjoy as you offer a massage. Rose petals across the sheets are also a nice touch for a romantic close to your evening.

Other romantic ideas include a weekend getaway to a bed-and-breakfast, a beach house, a cabin, or even on a yacht rented out for the weekend. Also, remember the bonus touch of a special gift just for her. Jewelry such as necklaces and earrings are nice while a ring may be more appropriate for the more serious couples, but any special gift should be appreciated.

Although this article highlights the guy as the one planning everything for the girl, the gesture may fittingly be applied either way. This is just an idea of some of the ways you can make Valentine’s Day a memorable day for you and your loved one. Be creative and be thoughtful in your own approach by including whatever may be personally special between you and your loved one.

Planning a Super Bowl Party

2011-02-02T11:36:00.000-08:00

Now that February is under way and the boredom of January is behind us, let’s kick off the new month with a winner: your very own Super Bowl XLV Party! This is one party where you can let loose with the planning and focus on simply having fun. Let’s begin by tackling some of the best ways to make sure your party is worthy of championship celebration.

The two most important ingredients are lots of food and drinks and a TV or two. Whether you or your guests gather for the love of the game or not, these are the essentials.

A buffet table of simple, portable foods is your best bet. You don’t want to commit a penalty by asking your guests to sit around a table for entrees when they’d rather be shouting at the TV and jumping around in celebration or despair. If you plan on having a large gathering, set up as many TVs as you have available around your party area for easier viewing for everyone.

Regarding the foods to prepare: keep it simple. Avoid a menu full of items that require intensive preparation that will keep you in the kitchen the whole time. Make sure you get to enjoy your own party as well.

Chips, an assortment of dips, salsa, chili, chicken wings, cheeses, pizza, mini sausages, and basically any high-fat finger foods that are easy to serve, eat, and enjoy while watching the game are perfect menu items. For drinks, be sure to have a variety of sodas and beer kept on ice.

For the most part, these are foods and drinks that everyone loves and enjoys worry- and guilt-free or hurting their diets as long as it is during a Super Bowl party. However, for your more health conscious guests who are not into football as much or simply don’t want to overindulge, have some carrots and celery with fat-free ranch dip and some water and wine for them to enjoy.

To further accommodate the hardcore fans from the casual partygoers who aren’t interested in the game, have a room set aside for the game and another where guests can have a quieter place to talk without disturbing the fans with idle chatter.

For an added feel at your party, decorate in team colors or jerseys if you have them handy and various football props such as goal posts, footballs, whistles and so on. Since most guests will be more interested in the quality of your TV’s reception, you shouldn’t worry too much about decorating heavily for visual appeal.

Football games, especially the Super Bowl, are known for the betting pools they create. Whether it’s the outcome of the game, isolated quarters or plays of the game, or even proposition bets such as who will score first, how long the national anthem will last or if there will be a halftime show costume malfunction, which commercial will play the most, etc., there are plenty of wagers that may come up. So keep a little spare change and small bills handy to have some fun with these best as they pop up.

After all this fun and excitement, you will surely have a lot of cleaning up to do. Have lots of paper towels and napkins for guests throughout the party to avoid dirtying furniture and such. Also, be prepared to bring out the vacuum and rug cleaner solutions to take care of the messes that will be created during exciting plays. Have a big trash bag to help make cleanup easier at the end of the party as well.

All in all, a Super Bowl party planning should not be a hassle, but a fun and exciting ordeal. Keep it simple and keep it fun. Just make sure to invite some guests that will stick around and help with the cleanup afterwards.

Good luck with your party and the game should you be a fan of either team this year!

Planning Graduation Parties

2011-01-05T13:18:00.000-08:00

Elementary Graduation Party

For many young students, graduating from elementary school may be their first such celebration, so an elementary graduation party is definitely in order. Even pre-teens know how to party! If you don’t have space at your residence to host a graduation party for your young one, you can always find a indoor play center nearby to go to. There are many vendors listed for you right here. If you can accommodate a party at your own home, you can still have all the fun of a play center in your own backyard. Inflatables, clowns and a variety of live entertainers can be reserved to keep the fun alive at the party. Be sure to have your party supplies and equipment ready along with table, chair and tent rentals. There are also catering services that can make life easier for you in serving food and drinks; even concession machines can be arranged for your convenience. Everything is prepared right her to help make your planning and decision making that much easier.

Middle School Graduation Party

Graduating from middle school is an exciting time in one’s life. Realizing that the next step is high school is enough to make a crowd of young teenagers want to get together and have some fun. For a group of young teenagers, a play center is the most exciting place to be. This is also convenient for parents since you can take care of food and entertainment with one decision. Search through our list of vendors to find the play center that is best for you. Hosting a party at your home can be just as easy. Just browse through the lists of suggested vendors and you can have a party planned in no time. All your supplies, equipment, rentals and entertainment are readily prepared for your choosing. You can even hire catering for your party if a table of snacks, pizza and sodas is not enough. PartyJumpUSA has made it easy for you to plan your party. Just have fun!

High School Graduation Party

After high school comes three months of carefree fun; so what better way to welcome the summer ahead than with a memorable high school graduation party? Whether you attend your school’s grad night celebration or not, you can still hold your own graduation party where you and your friends can party just the way you want to. Graduating from high school is a special moment so it is important to celebrate accordingly. Find a venue for your party or even host one at your house. PartyJumpUSA has a listing of vendors for all your party needs to help make it happen successfully. Find live entertainers, party equipment, supplies and rentals, catering services and even inflatable games. There is no doubt that a successful party incorporates these ingredients, so get on it and find everything you need right here!

College Graduation Party

It is not an easy task to make it through college and to finally graduate with a degree; so, once that special day arrives, be sure to have a party to celebrate your academic success. You can either go out to celebrate with friends at any number of venues or bring the party to your place. Wherever you choose to party, PartyJumpUSA has everything to give you a jumpstart on your event planning. Find everything you may need for your party right here, including: supplies, equipment, rentals and ever catering and entertainment services. Life was hard enough the past few years in college, make it easier now with suggested vendors to fulfill all your party needs.

Planning Customer Appreciation Days

2011-01-05T13:12:00.000-08:00

A customer appreciation party is one of the best celebrations a company can host to thank its customers for their year of loyalty. What could be better than celebrating those that support a company the most? It is good to occasionally remind your customers that you appreciate their business, as maintaining positive relations with them is a great way to ensure success in the business world. An annual Customer Appreciation Day party is a great way to express thanks. Host a party free of charge to your customers so that they may come and enjoy a day of fun, food, drinks, and entertainment. Any company representative can plan this event with ease through PartyJumpUSA's party planning directory. There are listed vendors for every party necessity.

A number of planning needs can be skipped if the event is to be held at a play center for families and their children. There are many local venues that would happily host your event. Play centers are convenient since they provide for entertainment, food and drinks, seating arrangements and are a great place for kids. However, you may even create a similar environment on your own with the many party vendors listed right here. There are live entertainers and clowns that can serve as attractions at the event. Children and parents alike would surely be amazed by a fun magician or any other playful act. For games, there are plenty of local inflatable rental companies that can service the event with a variety of inflatable games. Concession machines can also be rented for the event as supplementary snacks for everyone to enjoy. Show customers appreciation with a proper party. Everything is organized right here to planning easy for you, so be sure to take advantage of PartyJumpUSA and its services.

Google Instant Impact on SEO

2010-12-02T13:21:00.000-08:00

Instant Impact: Google’s newest search engine advancement with Google Instant may leave an impression on SEO.

When Google implemented its new Instant search results interface, it created a wave of interest and speculation on what impact it will have on SEO and overall ranking and advertising with Google. The new technology streamlined search and made it easier to target any query, but did that make things easier for you to get found in the results page?

When considering the significance of SEO efforts, Google Instant has made it even more important to achieve top ranking on its search results. As its drop down “suggestion box” attempts to predict your search query, a chunk of the advertisement positions gets taken up, pushing the page of results further down. This means that SEO results will be pushed “below the fold,” and unless you commit to your search all the way without stopping short thanks to a successful Google Instant prediction, you will not see many organic search results above the fold. ReelSEO discusses these effects with fine examples.

Furthermore, this means that “CTRs on positions 1 and 2 organically will rise at the expense of positions 3 and 4.” With more impressions appearing through instant rendering, lower CTRs will present a negative impact on SEO. Also, with results changing so quickly, and with our ability to read much quicker than we type, the traditional meta-description “calls to action” should move into the title tags for your pages. Users will definitely spend less time examining results as they scan the more-easily viewable title tags of search results.

Google Instant is also likely to have a major impact on PPC performance since these results get prominent placement in its new page rendering format and since, impressions on websites are set to increase with so many search results rendering and re-rendering as you type. The classic Google search impressions of pressing “enter,” clicking “search,” or selecting a prediction are joined by new criteria for impressions. Now, if a user pauses for 3 seconds or longer as they type a partial keyword, any website appearing in the instant search results gains an impression. A site appearing in the instant results that a user clicks on a result from also gets an impression; same goes for when a user clicks on a refinement of maps or news and such.

For advertisers, this means that sub 3-second impressions will not impact their quality score and in a sense be free as long as the user does not interact with the page and create definite impressions. On the other hand, if Google Instant leads to shorter queries by delivering immediate results, AdWords CPCs may go up for many terms due to a diminished inventory of valuable keywords. Fewer keywords, more bidding, higher prices and lower ROI: all this is good for Google, but not so much for advertisers. Meanwhile, consumers remain unconcerned.

For more on the effects of Google Instant on advertisers and to learn more about what to test and watch for follow this link. But for now, keep in mind the importance of optimizing for shot-tail and long-tail keywords to increase your website impressions and chances of getting a click. Also, always incorporate appealing title and description tags. These tips should help you in the short-run, but do not overlook constant maintenance of your SEO efforts as techniques are ever-changing, especially with lightning quick result technologies such as Google Instant.

Google Instant, An Instant Look

2010-12-02T12:33:00.000-08:00

Google Instant: The innovative engine speeds up search by instantly displaying results as you type.

In further enhancing its search-engine, Google has created a faster, more targeted and efficient way to search. With Google Instant, the predictive search technology is accompanied by a real time visualization of the results of your search, showing you results as you type instead of only suggesting keywords for your search.

Google Instant allows you to scan results as they refresh to match each keystroke’s predictions. The instant feedback on your search terms makes it easier to refine your search on the fly. This “instant” approach to finding what you need decreases the amount of time it takes for you to complete a search. The technology minimizes your need to type your full search term or even click “search.”

The Google Instant search feature only works when you are signed into a Google account. As it logs your search history, the technology is able to make smarter predictions to guide your search, even when you don’t know exactly what you are looking for. With the instant results, you can see where your search will take you as you type, instead of having to click search to get there.

If Google Instant is a feature you do not find beneficial and would rather not see results as you type, you may turn it off. However, keep in mind that you don’t lose any of the original functionality with Google Instant. You may still type in your full search terms and hit enter to search like you always have. Google Instant simply brings what you are looking for to you immediately and help you find it on your first attempt.

It is worth noting that the application of Google Instant does not impact the ranking of search results; however, it may have an impact on other aspects of search engine optimization. These issues will be further discussed in the another article.

New Party Directory Website; More Categories, More Options, and more Opportunities

2010-11-17T11:05:00.000-08:00

Due to increased demand from searches and party vendors we have fully improved our party directory to encompass 14 categories related to the event planning industry. The new website provides a lot more information and gives our registered party vendors a lot of opportunities in getting FREE advertising.

New Features:

Now with 14 categories related to party planning
Party Articles with expert advice from our party vendors
Party Themes with event ideas and suggested games
Videos highlighting our Exclusive and Premier party vendors
Simplified Search Features

New Website Design:

Our new website design makes it quick and easy to search for a local party vendor for the category of service you are interested in. The new website also provides a lot of useful information and expert advice on how to plan your party or event and what to expect. With all these new features and useful information, we hope our new and improved Party Planning website will make it a piece of cake to plan your next event.

When ABC's Don't Make Things Easy as 123

2010-11-08T17:00:00.001-08:00

It used to be that everything was listed in alphabetical order from A to Z by default, no matter the item, the category or degree of importance. It was believed that alphabetical ordering was inherently important in the organization of lists. While alphabetical sorting is, in fact, beneficial to some lists, it mostly should be avoided.

Sorting items in order of A-Z is mainly beneficial for lists of items that users know the name of. Alphabetical ordering allows users to find what they are looking for pretty quickly in this case. An example of this is a list of the 50 U.S. states. It would be easier to browse this list for a specific name if it were in alphabetical order as opposed to, say, grouping the states in order of population.

Essentially, an A-Z order is best for known-item lists. When users know, for certain, what they are looking for, an alphabetized list will surely facilitate their search. If they have to look at several places in the list, it defeats the purpose of alphabetizing.

So, the first thing to consider is whether users will definitely know what their selection is. If you can answer yes to this question, then an A-Z list works, if not, consider another type of list.

More often than not, users don’t know the name of what they are searching for. As discussed, alphabetizing lists of items under these circumstances is useless. Also, when items have an inherent logic that dictates a different sort order, such as abbreviations for measurements from smallest to largest, using an alphabetical listing hides that logic and diminishes usability. Jakob Nielsen explains the effects of inappropriate alphabetizing with a fine example here.

Essentially, the nature of your information usually will determine a structure to use. At times, A-Z listings will be best for your items, but don’t be lazy in designing a better structure. We all know our ABCs and can put items in proper sequence, accordingly, but with ordinal data such as measurements, ordering in increasing sequence makes more sense. Time lines and geographical location may be useful at times, or even degree of importance or frequency of use.

So, the next time you have a list to compile, work a little harder to create a more useful order to improve its usability.

Web Design for Short-Term Memory Limitations

2010-11-08T16:49:00.000-08:00

When creating a website, keep in mind that the human brain is not optimized for abstract thinking and memorization; therefore, your design should be optimized instead for the benefit of short-term memory, not to display abstract features and bits of information. Doing the latter only further impedes a person’s already weak short-term memory bank.

The reason our brains seem to be so weak in recalling heaps of data is because many of the skills of memory involved in using a computer were not necessary for survival throughout our ancestry. Our ancestral environment did not demand the skills of remembering obscure codes and interpreting abbreviated data in order to survive. The human brain is the same that it was when cavemen roamed the earth. So, in essence, it would not be a bad idea to design your website for a caveman to ensure a web design optimized for short-term memory and consequently a favorable user experience.

Our extremely limited brainpower allows our short-term memory to only hold about seven chunks of information that begin to fade from the brain in about twenty seconds. This is a commonly cited capacity of our brain when relating to abstract thinking. With this fresh in our short-term memory, let us consider other Web design guidelines that our brainpower limitations dictate:

Response times: In another article, we discussed the importance of shortened response times and, essentially, speedy page loading/service on sites. Response times need to be fast enough so that users don’t forget what it is they are doing while waiting for the next page to load. There is nothing more frustrating than having to click back to a page to remind yourself of what your purpose was and risk forgetting again upon return due to a slow-loading page.
A website design error that irks just about anybody is not changing the color of visited links so that users can keep track of which sites they have already visited. You can imagine how frustrating it would be to revisit a page you had already been to, especially if you are also dealing with the above-mentioned problem.
If your site offers a variety of related products, aim at making it easy to compare them. Highlight the important product features and differences and do so in a special comparison view format. This is the preferred method of product comparison. Avoid making customers go back and forth between pages to compare product features.
Offering help and user assistance features in the context where users need them is also beneficial to the user’s experience. This will prevent them from having to travel to a separate help section, where they would have to waste previous short-term memory capacity memorizing steps before returning to the problem they encountered.

So when it comes down to it, designing a website for a 2010 audience should not result in a website that the brain of a caveman would not understand, since both audiences share the same limited brain capacity.

Web Response Times

2010-11-08T16:47:00.000-08:00

Think back to the days when you had to operate on a 56K modem and were forced to wait a while to properly operate a website as a picture slowly appeared in its entirety piece by piece. Frustrating, wasn’t it? Fast download times are important for users. No matter what it is that slows down response time, users will be turned off by the delay.

The two main reasons a website’s responsiveness speed matters is due to human limitations and human aspirations:

It is not a rare phenomenon that our memory eludes us at times, especially short-term memory. Also, it is increasingly tougher to hold someone’s attention. These factors refer to our human limitations. A slow website download speed adversely affects our memory and attention span and “we simply don’t perform as well if we have to wait and suffer the inevitable decay of information stored in short-term memory.”
As humans, we like to feel in control of our destiny and doings rather than under the control of another, especially a computer or machine. Once a computer or website delays its response time, we tend to feel like we are not in control or what we aim to accomplish. Also, from a consumer’s perspective, a company that makes patrons wait instead of providing responsive service comes across as either arrogant or incompetent, neither of which is a good perception to put out.

Considering this, it is important to realize that a quick and efficient user experience beats out a glamorous one. Increased speed and efficiency allows a user to engage more with a site by spending their time moving freely and focusing on content instead of waiting. A user’s experience with a site is much more important than all the slogans, advertising or widgets a site takes its sweet time loading.

Jakob Nielsen expands on the notion of website responsiveness by providing a simple breakdown of response-time limits and their respective effects on the user and his experience. He also provides an example from a recent eyetracking study he conducted. The study demonstrated the adverse effects of increased load time on the user’s viewing of the page and its intended promotional focus.

At the end of a user’s experience with a given site, what tends to leave a lasting impression on them is the response time they experienced while navigating the site. The longer a user has to wait to be served by the computer, the more annoyed they will get. It essentially reflects poor service, no matter how fancy of a page you deliver at the end of the load time. So it does not matter if it is simply a large image loading through a 56K modem or a bunch of fancy widgets loading with a high-speed cable modem, increased wait-time is an experience-killer.

In conclusion, to increase your user-friendliness and likeability on the web, get to the users quicker than the slow sites do.

Keyword Analysis Using Google Keyword Tool

2010-11-08T16:46:00.000-08:00

When creating a web page or simply writing an article or web log to post on a site, choosing the right keywords makes all the difference in the amount and quality of visitors you receive to your webpage. Using a keyword tool like Google Keyword Tool can help you find the right keywords to use when creating any content. Taking advantage of this free tool will help you reach people who are looking for what you have to offer, whether it is your business’ products or services, or a publication you may be posting. This article will outline the primary use of the Google Keyword Tool, how to use it, along with the benefits.

The primary use of Google’s Keyword Tool is to generate a list of keywords that you may use to effectively draw larger audiences and efficiently target your advertising toward those who are looking for what you offer. Individuals and businesses may use Google's Keyword Tool to discover the statistics behind a list of specific keywords that are used or want to be used. An initial keyword search will reveal the level of advertiser competition for that keyword and its variants, along with a breakdown of the global and local monthly search volumes for each. This information allows you to determine whether the keywords you are using or want to use are bringing in high search volumes and whether advertiser competition for them are high or not. Such information provides a great start in building a successful set of keywords to use in your advertising. If you are unsure of which keywords to use, Google's Keyword Tool is also a great way to acquire a list of additional suggested keywords that may be beneficial.

Now that you know what Google’s Keyword Tool can be used for, it is time to learn how to use it yourself. Once you access the Keyword Tool, you will be prompted to type in a security word as it appears on the screen to continue using the program. You may also have to do this occasionally if your session times out, but you may stay logged in using a Google account. Once the Keyword Tool page is active, you may input any amount of keywords to test. There are a number of keyword tools out there that you may use for this research, but the most accurate and trusted is Google's. Google’s Keyword Tool gives you 100% accurate data on the keywords you search, giving you reliable information to help you decide which keywords you should be targeting.

Once you have generated a list of keywords along with the corresponding data, you may begin to analyze your options. The first column will list your keyword along with its relevant variants and additional keywords Google suggests you consider based on your search. The second column will display the level of competition for that keyword, while the third and fourth columns show the global and local average monthly search volumes for each keyword, respectively. The last column is also helpful in case what you are offering is seasonal. The Local Search Trends column shows a bar graph that indicates the search volume for each keyword during each month of the year. The previous Keyword Tool interface – which can be accessed by the link provided in the upper right hand corner of the current Keyword Tool page – is a more simplified version that allows you to show or hide certain columns of data that you may or may not be interested in analyzing. If you decide that the newer version is better for you, simply click back to the new Keyword Tool interface using the link provided in the upper left hand corner of the page.

The information above is meant to give you a quick overview and basic instructions on how to use Google’s Keyword Tool to discover data on keywords you are using or want to use and to help you with suggesting additional keywords. No matter what you are conducting SEO for, knowing which keywords to target needs to be Step One. Keywords are essentially the building blocks of successful SEO. Proper keyword targeting will increase the traffic and conversion rate to your website. There are many ways to successfully apply keywords in optimizing your website for high traffic and conversion rates, but the purpose of this article is to simply show you how to get started. For more information on how to use Google's Keyword Tool, visit eHow.

Optimizing Videos on Youtube

2010-11-08T16:43:00.000-08:00

Did you know that you could get to number 1 on Google by optimizing videos for high ranking in YouTube? Read on to find out more and to learn how to achieve this yourself.

As a video file sharing website, YouTube has become the primary source of video distribution for people all over the world. The volume of searches for videos that occur in YouTube rival that of popular search engines that we use for every other search. Considering these facts, it would be a good idea to start producing and optimizing videos for SEO results. Certainly you already optimize web page content and vigorously market it for improved rankings on Google and other search engines, but you may not have considered doing so with videos. The written web already poses massive competition in SEO, while video optimizing remains a relatively new concept, thus making it an easier task to achieve higher rankings. Also, achieving top spots in YouTube often results in equally high rank positions in Google’s universal search results.

When you begin to optimize videos for SEO within YouTube, keep in mind how its algorithm works in ranking videos within its search results. The key signals that YouTube relies on when ranking videos within its search results are:

The text provided in the title and description of the video;
The number of views the video has;
The recent trending of the video (essentially the recent increase in popularity);
Its overall ratings.

Garry Przyklenk at Search Engine Watch does a great job of analyzing the influence of these factors on videos and their relative YouTube search results rankings. It goes to show that videos in YouTube that are not even optimized at all can gain top ranking in search results, even in Google. Realizing this to be the case begs one to imagine the results a video can achieve if it was optimized in YouTube for specific keywords.

Follow these tips and techniques to achieve similarly high search result rankings in YouTube for your own videos:

Video Title: YouTube allows 99 characters for your video’s title text. Be sure to optimize your title text with the keywords you want to target and rank for, but do not ignore branding and descriptive text. If what you are optimizing for is already secured at the top spot by another agent, continue to optimize it for second or third placement since search results on YouTube suggest other related videos which also get plenty views.

Video Description: YouTube allows 5,000 characters for your video’s description text. This gives you plenty of space to write as much about your video as you would like. Be sure to include the keywords you are targeting and also use the space to request people to rank your video, since video ratings and views are factors in your search rankings within YouTube and consequently Google. Sharing and embedding your video will also be beneficial.

Video Tags: Using tags is useful for the search terms you use in your title text and description. Including names and branding will also help your video get recognized by relevant searches.

Broadcasting and sharing options:

Privacy: Make sure that your video’s setting is set to public so it is available for searches.

Comments: It is advisable that you enable comments on your YouTube videos as this will allow users to talk about your video, your brand or your message, thus generating optimum discussion and allowing word about your video to spread.

Video Responses: Allowing video responses may help boost views since they automatically link to your original.

Ratings: Allowing ratings is a must since they have a direct impact on your rankings as a key part of the YouTube search results algorithm.

Embedding: Enabling embedding allows people to share your video on blogs and social media websites. These help boost views and extend your video to new audiences outside of YouTube so it is advisable to enable it.

Syndication: This is yet another way to boost your views and help your videos rank higher on YouTube and Google. Enable syndication as well.

Following the above mentioned tips and strategies is sure to help you gain increased rankings on YouTube for your video and consequently on Google. Increased viewership is important, and since YouTube considers a video “viewed” after eight seconds of runtime, be sure to produce a video that will draw viewers in past that threshold. Embedding and social media sharing is a great way to achieve maximum views, so don’t be shy to ask others to do so, whether you do so personally, in the video or in your video description. There are many strategies to get your videos viewed by all. These are just a few thoughts to help you get started. Just think of optimizing your video for SEO on YouTube as you would optimize your typical web content. Seeding your videos, distributing links, promoting viewership through Google AdWords and even creating a series of interrelated videos are all methods that can help. With viewership, ratings will come as well, but be sure to encourage others to rank your video by asking for it.

Hopefully this article has helped you realize the benefits awaiting you in optimizing videos for SEO on YouTube. If web content optimization was getting too competitive to gain from, be sure to try optimizing for video. Marketing with video will surely earn you a top spot on YouTube and it may lead to a top spot on Google as well.

Web Usability Improvement Strategies

2010-11-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

What are some of the most offensive mistakes website designers make that chase users away? What can businesses do to improve the usability of their website? This article will cover some of the mistakes to avoid and simple strategies businesses can use to improve their website's usability.

Top Mistakes

Bad Search - When users want to search for something, they always look for a simple box to type in their search, any other form of search input does not stand out and is sure to frustrate users. Also, search engines that are overly literal and cannot handle typos, plurals, hyphens or other variations of the term the user is searching for greatly reduce usability. Search engines should be able to recognize what a user is trying to look for without the user having to search for the item of interest exactly as the search engine recognizes it.

Not Changing the Color of Visited Links - No one likes to get lost when navigating, and websites that do not change the color of visited links get users lost. With this feature in place, users are able to keep track of where they have been on the site so that they do not unintentionally end up on the same page over and over again. Knowing past and present locations helps users figure out where to go next. With different link colors identifying visited and unvisited links, users can easily track which links they already viewed and determine whether they should avoid it in the future or reference it for revisit.

Non-Scannable Text - Having a wall of text is a big turn off for users. It is never appealing to come across a big chunk of text that a user cannot easily skim through. To avoid this pitfall in website design, use simple tricks such as:

Headings
Subheads
Bullet lists
Highlighted keywords
Short paragraphs
Easy language that sounds personable rather than professional

It is important to make your website as easy on the eyes as possible.

Anything That Looks Like An Advertisement - Websites that try to attract the user's attention with flashing text and images or animations actually achieve the opposite. Users tend to ignore anything that looks like it is trying to advertise information. When someone is on your website, they are there with a purpose and anything that attempts to get in the way of that will be ignored.

Design Convention Violation - When people design websites with the hope of creating a unique and different design that will stand out among the rest, they actually end up hurting the usability of their site. Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Knowing this, it is obvious that a website that appears out of the ordinary will make the user uncomfortable. When users are not comfortable and do not feel like they are in control of the website, they tend to not like it, and no one wants to continue with something they do not like.

Not Answering User's Questions - Once again, users visit websites with a purpose, a goal, and hope to achieve that goal. When websites clutter the page with information irrelevant to the content presented or with information that resembles useless fluff, users tend to get frustrated. When it becomes nearly impossible to find the specifications a user is looking for, usability is diminished significantly. If you are selling products, for example, be sure to list prices; or if you are describing items, be sure to include specifications. In other words, get to the point and make sure you provide the user with the information they may be looking for.

Improvement Strategies

Following are some strategies to incorporate in building any website. They will definitely help improve the usability of your website and enhance the experience users have navigating your website, which will in turn improve the value of the website.

Be sure to mention who you are and what you do

A one-sentence tag line will go a long way in summarizing your identity.
Title your page appropriately with your name to gain good search engine recognition. Using words like "the" or "welcome to" in your title will alphabetize your website under "T" and "W," respectively.
Create a clear and concise "About Us" page containing all relevant information.

Make it easy for users to find what they need

Emphasize a clear starting point for the main functions of your website.
Offer a search box that is easy to locate on the site and large enough to fit searches without obscuring parts of the user's search text.

Use images, graphics and decorations wisely

Users tend to ignore anything that looks overly fancy. Elaborate illustrations and designs come across as advertisements that users tend to avoid. Avoid clouding your site's important content with unnecessary imagery.
When using images, keep it simple and use real-life images to portray real people in real situations that will help connect the topic and business to the real world.

These are some of the tips that you can use to improve the usability of any site. As long as you avoid the top mistakes of website design with regards to usability and try to improve the usability of your site with the suggested strategies, users will have a positive experience visiting your site over and over again.

Jakob Nielson's Alertbox. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.. Accessed May 25, 2010. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

Jakob Nielson's Alertbox. Top Ten Guidelines for Home Page Usability.. Accessed May 25, 2010. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html

Introduction to Web Usability

2010-11-08T16:35:00.000-08:00

Web usability is important for the success of any website. Understanding how to improve the usability of your website and decreasing error rates will help you create a successful online presence.

What is Web Usability?

Web usability is an approach for making websites easier to use, learn and remember without any special training. Web usability is defined by five quality components:

Learnability: First-time users' ability to learn how to accomplish basic tasks.

Efficiency: The ease with which users can perform tasks once they have learned the design.

Memorability: A user's ability to remember the functionality of the website after not using it for a period of time.

Errors: The amount of errors users encounter while navigating a website and the degree of significance of these errors.

Satisfaction: The satisfaction you get from using a website.

Why is Web Usability Important?

For any website, usability is important because it can determine the success or failure of the website. If a home page is difficult to navigate or understand, users will tend to leave before even navigating further. A website that is hard to read, will typically turn away users. Websites with too many errors may frustrate users and prevent use of the website. Upon leaving a website, users will look for an easier, more user-friendly website to use. Therefore, it is very important to make your website easy to understand and use in order to succeed with your online goals.

Remember the first law of e-commerce: "If users cannot find the product, they cannot buy it either" (Usability 101).

Improvement Rate of Web Usability

Formal usability metrics of about 262 websites showed a 17% improvement in the last decade (from 2000 to 2010) on failure rates (not being able to proficiently use a website). Website conversion rates doubled during this same time period from an average of 1% to 2%. Looking at the improvement rate of web usability over a long-term period, on average web usability improves by 6% a year (Progress in Usability).

What this all means is that web usability is in the infancy stage and has a long way to go until we reach a period where websites are very easy to use.

Jakob Nielson's Alertbox. Usability 101. Introduction to Usability. Accessed May 25, 2010. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

Jakob Nielson's Alertbox. Progress in Usability: Fast or Slow?. Accessed May 25, 2010. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/usability-progress-rate.html

How To Optimize Product Pages

2010-11-08T16:33:00.001-08:00

Every page of a website is unique and requires unique descriptions, content, and tags. How do you optimize a website that is like a shopping cart and is generated through new products? Most shopping carts and web software’s that automatically generate the Meta descriptions are somewhat limited on optimization. These carts or software’s will generally take your default websites Meta description, but this is not how to optimize a product page. Each product is unique; it might have a unique audience, feature, or characteristic, and therefore should be optimized individually.

To start off, each product page should have unique content. It is not recommended to have a default content that is automatically generated for all product pages. Search engine crawlers don’t like to see the same content throughout the website. Since each product should be different, the content, along with any Meta tags and descriptions should be different. It is best practice to optimize the product page for the products name. Since consumers become accustomed to products by their name they learn to search by them as well.

To start optimizing a product page you should start with the title tags. The title tag should contain the products name along with the category that describes it and the company name. The product name should also be characterized by a H1 style. All Meta descriptions and keywords should contain the products name in it as well. The content or description of the product should be around 150 to 300 characters in length and should describe the functions and uses of the product. Photos are videos are very helpful both for the user end and for SEO. Photos that display the product should be used along with alt and title tags to describe the photos. One of the most helpful things to have on the page is a video of the product. People love to watch videos of products and web crawlers love to read the videos code. Keeping both of these audiences longer on your site is a reason to add videos to your product pages.

Other aspects of the product page that are very helpful are placing a comment section to generate new content. A comment section can be good for two reasons. One, it provides people feedback and information about the product, and secondly it is a free way of generating new content on the page which helps out in your SEO initiatives. Another way to improve your product page is by incorporating sharing buttons that allow users to share the webpage with their favorite sites.

Treating each product page like you home page, as far as optimization, load time, unique content, etc. are concerned, will help your overall online advertising efforts. Having just a picture and a short description is so last year, it’s time to beef up those product pages and get them optimized for today’s Internet users.

Creating a Local Buzz

2010-11-08T16:31:00.000-08:00

With most local stores or services there needs to be a buzz around the community regarding the company or service. Simply having a website does not mean people are going to find you online. Creating an online buzz about your website or service means putting yourself in geo-specific sites. The benefits of geo-specific sources include targeting local customers and companies as well as branding yourself as the provider for that area. There are some easy steps you can take to creating a local buzz around your community, which includes getting listed with geo-specific online directories and searches, using social media sites, optimizing your website for local searches, and more.

The benefit of online directories is that they connect you with customers searching for a service in a local area. Meaning, if you registered in a directory for Los Angeles, than you would get leads for Los Angeles customers and maybe even neighboring cities. One of the largest geo-specific directories is Yellowpages.com (now YP.com). YP.com is a great source for any business or service because they have the largest number of visitors to their website looking for specific services in their local area. Party Jump USA is an alternative option to YP.com for customers looking to get exposure to YP.com visitors without the expensive cost of advertising. For more information visit the party directory advertising page.

Another great geo-specific advertising option is the local Yellowbooks. These Yellowbooks are divided into city sections and companies can get advertising for a specific area in the books. These books, however, can be even more expensive than online advertising and business owners should only advertise in their most profitable locations. Other geo-specific advertising consists of local newspapers and magazines that are affiliated with the businesses industry.

One of the most promising methods of creating a local online buzz is through online optimization and marketing through social sites. A business should start off by optimizing their website for the areas they service. This can be done by creating landing pages for the city keywords or optimizing the company website for highly searched keywords that contain the city name in it. Using these landing pages, a company can increase its conversion rates by providing information that is most relevant. Some other sites that can increase or help geo-specific marketing are social review sites like Yelp.com. These sites help recommend products or services to people searching for a specific location. Another option is adding the business name to Google Places. Google Places is free and provides local business search results for people using the Google search engine.

Creating a local buzz about your business involves multiple avenues with different advertising options. The more geo-specific sources your business is exposed to the more likely you will create a brand or image within your community. Even incorporating social networking sites into the advertising mix can help increase popularity through sharing and viral marketing.

Importance of E-Commerce

2010-11-08T16:17:00.000-08:00

Thinking about streamlining your business operation? Having a company website is the first task, but where do you go from there? You have your products and services highlighted and maybe even more detail like the size of your party rental or supply supplies. However, is it important to provide an e-commerce system for shoppers to rent your products or purchase your products online? Some people argue against it saying it reveals your prices to competitors or don’t get customers to call in to talk to a representative. But think about the last time you shopped online for something. How did you feel about seeing that price there, or an option to purchase online? Providing a method for customers to purchase your products or services at their own convenience is essential for gaining their trust and increasing sales.

Specifically for the party rentals or party supplies industry where a lot of business owners tend to be part-time workers or have other jobs, it is crucial to implement an e-commerce system where customers can find the company website and purchase your products or services without you being there. One area a lot of companies have tried to reduce their operational time on is answering phone calls from price shoppers. This takes up a great deal of time for any business employee, or agent. By reducing the time spent on this task, people can focus on more important functions, like improving operations, increasing sales, and growing. For the moonwalk rental industry, having an online payment system also helps reduce the hassle of cash transactions and issues regarding deposits or payments. An online payment system can ensure a rental event is schedules and paid for, all that is left is the delivery personnel to show up at the event and setup the product.

Two of the most popular payment systems that are out there, which a lot of companies are using, are PayPal and Google Checkout. PayPal and Google Checkout are two free and trusted sources that accept all types of credit card and debit card transactions. With both of these systems, it is fairly easy to get the code and integrate it into your website. It is still highly recommended that you have a website programmer or someone with experience do this task. PayPal and Google Checkout will simply create an account for you where your customers’ transactions will lead. All you have to do to get the money is simply withdraw it from that account to your banking account. The cost of these systems will amount to about 2-3% of the transaction amount. The cost system depends on how much monthly sales you do.

Blogging and It's Implications

2010-11-08T16:15:00.000-08:00

Blogs have created a buzz for numerous reasons like an outlet for news and information, a public forum for participation, search engine optimization, as well as education and training purposes. Blogs serve countless purposes and depending on how the blogger uses it, blogs can be very effective for an organization. Microsoft guru Robert Scoble talks about how blogging can be used and should be used by organizations to improve their lines of communication (Spring, 2006). He says blogging can substantially improve SEO ranking for some long phrase keywords or unorthodox keywords that you normally would not optimize your site for. A survey discovered that about “94% of bloggers reported seeing measurable SEO benefits from blogging within 12 months” (Odden, 2010). The most cited benefit of blogging for SEO related purposes were to attrach inbound links from other web sites. This creates a community and establishes visibility for your organization as well as getting feedback and commentary about any new products, ideas, or events.

Some good uses for blogs include highlighting new products or services to your general public. Incorporating social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Myspace with your blog can only help to increase your reader group. A blog can function as a good channel for feedback or commentary from your consumers on their ideas of your new products or services. This can help save you potential time and resources with a product or idea that might not be very successful. However, since blogs are a public forum you should be cautious of what you do make available for everyone. You don’t want someone taking your ideas or innovations and using them against you.

Have a lot of employees, distributors, or partners you work with? Find it difficult to communicate your news with them? Blogs can work out to your benefit by creating a forum for you and your peers to deliver news to all the members at once. It also allows for feedback so you don’t have to waste time in a meeting anymore. You can gain feedback about your business model or operation and use it to help improve your services. Blogs can be used for both internal and external purposes, it’s just figuring out how to use them and incorporate them effectively that is key.

Specifically for party rentals or entertainment companies, blogs can be productive by creating a buzz about your company and marking your brand more visible online. Consumers are always looking for online sources to gain information before they shop. Especially party planners and coordinators that are looking for best practices and tips on making their party work. Having an informative blog that helps educate your target market will improve your company’s perception and increase sales. Some party planning and event planning companies use a blog style website because it can create a participative and committed loyal customer base that helps you as a company improve your products and services.

Spring, Natasha (2010) "The impact of blogging: real or imagined? Microsoft blogging guru Robert Scoble talks about what the technology means for companies and how they can use blogs to their advantage". Communication World. FindArticles.com. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4422/is_3_23/ai_n26855783/

Odden, Lee (2010) “Survey Results: Impact of blogging on search engine optimization” Online Marketing Blog. http://www.toprankblog.com/2010/01/survey-seo-blogging/

Inflatables Business Advertising: The Sunshine Business Opportunity

2010-11-08T15:54:00.000-08:00

The most successful business ideas are generally the simplest. One such business idea revolves around the concept of catering to the individual and corporate parties. Today the parties have become very theme oriented and hence present a unique business opportunity. The inflatables business advertising has emerged as a great inroad to gain an entry to this business.

Inflatables business advertising concerns itself with providing information about the inflatables which are used as party rentals. The inflatable rentals or moon walk rentals are gaining tremendous popularity across the party circuits. They provide an entirely new appearance to parties and make them very enjoyable.

The inflatables generally include the bounce house rentals, bouncing slides etc. These objects are the center of attraction in a party and help the kids to have a really great time. The inflatables help the parents to be carefree about the kids so that they can enjoy a really great time. It for this reason that the inflatables are becoming so popular in party business and hence inflatables business advertising provides a great opportunity.

The bounce house business advertising is also a great option if you want to serve the corporate party circuit. The corporate parties are generally thrown for the families of the employees and hence involve the presence of kids in good numbers. The inflatables help to keep the kids really busy.

Various inflatables like obstacle courses also find a lot of importance in the training of employees. These inflatables can be easily set up anywhere and used for promoting team building amongst the employees. This presents a great incentive to start a party rental business.

Inflatables business advertising involves placing your company across the various online inflatables business advertising sites. These sites provide a comprehensive listing of the various companies into the party rental business and are referred by customers to hire inflatables for parties.

A bounce house rental company also provides financial assistance to budding entrepreneurs who are just foraying into this field. This helps them to build a solid foundation and design new concepts and strategies for their business. Inflatables business is truly a sunshine industry and offers tremendous growth opportunities. A proactive approach can really help you to establish a strong foothold in this field.

Bouncer Rental Directory: Get on the Fast Track

2010-11-08T15:17:00.000-08:00

Do you have that spark in you that make for a successful businessman? Well, then the party bouncer business can prove to be the perfect launch pad for you! The party jumpers are gaining tremendous popularity across the party circuit and hence present a lot of opportunity. The bouncer rental directory can help you establish firm footsteps in the exciting business of party jumpers.

The party bouncers are unique objects that lend a completely new theme to parties. Also known as moonwalk rentals, these rentals are popular for providing a lot of opportunity to make a party theme based. There are various bouncers available in the market today which includes obstacle courses, castle houses, water slides etc.

The bouncer rentals are finding a lot of acceptance across party circuits. The portable design and multi utility is what makes them popular for the purpose of parties. Jumpers like water slides are also very popular as they add an element of entertainment park to the party and are also very safe for the kids.

The bouncer rentals also keep the kids busy and occupied and hence allow the parents to enjoy the party thoroughly. The kids also get a felling of the outdoors and have a really great time. The parents thus prefer to have these rentals in the parties as the kids stay right in front of their eyes and are totally safe.

It for these reasons that the popularity of the party rentals is growing like a forest fire! The industry is still in the nascent stages and entering it right now can help you to reap rich dividends. You can lay the stepping stones by registering your company on the bouncer rental directory. This directory is a comprehensive listing of companies in the rentals business and will give you an exposure to thousands of potential customers. Being a weekend affair you can also concentrate on your day job as well.

Party Jump USA offers bouncer rental directory services to help bouncer rental companies get visibility and advertising online for an affordable price.

Prioritizing Lists

2010-11-04T20:52:00.000-07:00

On too many websites, there is an overabundance of features vying for the user’s attention. Too many colors, animations, blinking texts and graphics tend to annoy users by blending everything into each other. If everything on a page is equally outstanding, nothing stands out. The same goes for everything being equally dull.

As a designer, you want to advise and guide users to the most important or most promising choices. As Jakob Nielsen points out, “the goal is to give users more of what they need. And easier access to what they need.”

Prioritization is essentially accomplished in two ways:

Listing items that users are most likely to want on top or made to stand out;
Highlighting new items on the homepage and also featuring a link to hot topics that may be buried deep within the site on the homepage.

Using prioritization will essentially guide users to the most important and most promising content on any given site. This is not to say that user’s will not be free to go anywhere they please; prioritization will merely point towards the more prominent content.

Some ways to guide users with prioritization include, but are not limited to:

Editorially selecting the most important stories or items and giving them better headlines or more visible placement much like newspapers do;
Placing best-selling products at the top of search listings, as this is what most customers are looking for. It means nothing to a customer that items be organized according to internal attributes such as SKU/Item numbers or even that they be in alphabetical order.
Guiding users to areas of the site that have high activity with links on the homepage. This will simplify user experience and keep them posted on hot topics.
Feature popular or high rated contributors’ material.
Highlight the most popular items in a list that is sorted by another criterion.
Mark new items with a small, but noticeable “NEW” icon. This is not necessary on pages where new items are constantly uploaded.

These suggestions are meant to be tips on how to effectively guide users on your site toward more prominent information. Make sure not to overwhelm users by highlighting every item or bore them by not featuring any featured items. Allow them to surf freely, but point them towards the new or hot-topic information. This will surely improve usability.

Writing for Online Readers: Using Numerals

2010-11-02T13:09:00.001-07:00

After conducting eye-tracking studies, Jakob Nielsen discovered how users read various elements of a website. Among the findings, an interesting discovery was the effect numerals had on users’ wandering eyes as they scan through or browse a webpage. Even if they were lost in a pile of words, numerical digits attracted readers’ eyes enough that they stopped scanning and focused their attention of the digits.

Digits tend to be more attractive to readers than words because they tend to represent facts, which readers typically look for when they read on the web. Digits are also a more compact version of representing information, which is preferred over wordy descriptions.

How the effect of digits works is that their shapes stand out significantly among words, especially with a group of digits. This allows one’s peripheral vision to pick up on the uncommon figures before the reader even focuses their vision on it. This enhances the scannability of a page.

Aside from being more attractive to readers, digits also help improve a site and its content’s usability and credibility. E-commerce shoppers, whether they are shopping or just doing research, typically are looking for a particular piece of information or even just the gist of a page. Using digits instead of words to represent numbers significantly improves the usability of the page for shoppers.

Customers often look for specific facts of a product or service, such as products’ size and weight or a service’s cost or specifications. These are all bits of information that are best represented as numerals. Even if users are not scanning for data, presenting facts in a manner that stands out visually enhances credibility of a page with useful information.

The important thing to remember in online writing is that readers are prone to scanning pages and texts. When everything starts looking the same, information tends to get lost in the jumble of words. Therefore, if you have a numerical fact to represent, do so with digits rather than words, you will be sure to grab the reader’s attention.

Web-Based Reading: Content on the Web

2010-11-02T13:07:00.000-07:00

It is hard to get someone to focus online attention to reading content in detail. Most people browse the internet just as the action word describes: they browse or scan through content. Therefore, it is important to focus web writing efforts on creating concise, objective and scannable text.

Rarely do people thoroughly read through web page content word-for-word (only 16% of test users) according to studies by Jakob Nielsen. Instead, they scan over the page, picking out words and sentences that may strike an interest. Almost 80% of test users always scanned new pages they came across; therefore, it is important for web pages to be designed with scannable text.

Some ways to incorporate scannable text into the web page include:

Using highlighted keywords. This can be achieved with bolded text, italicized text, colored text or even hyperlinked text.
Writing meaningful, rather than clever, subheadings.
Using bulleted lists.
Including one idea per paragraph. People will skip the remainder of a paragraph if the first few words or sentences don’t capture their interest.
Using the “inverted pyramid” style of writing that introduces the most important information first before going into the detailed discussion of background info.
Use fewer words than you do in conventional writing (half or less).

Of critical importance in web writing is credibility. Web users appreciate increased credibility regarding the information presented to them in web writing with the use of high-quality graphics, good writing and links to outbound sources where information was gleaned from.

At the other end of the spectrum, web readers absolutely hate promotional writing. If you make boastful, subjective claims in your writing, you will surely turn off readers with your content. Web users usually look for objective facts rather than subjective opinions, so focus on concrete facts. Also, exaggerated writing has an adverse effect on credibility.

Jakob Nielsen measures the effects of improved web writing styles to compare to the base, control condition of promotional writing. He charts the details of the style, respective content and results to display the effects when compared to one another. In order of usability improvement measured against promotional writing (0% as the control condition), objective language (27%), a scannable layout (47%) and concise text (58%) performed considerably better. Even more impressive was that when the three improved writing styles were combined, the usability improvement was 124%.

These are all suggested methods of improvement for writing for the web. Incorporating any one of these styles or using any combination of them may improve usability. Use them to improve the content on your website or even in articles you may write to help in your link-building efforts.

Headline Usability - Creating Concise and Information Headlines

2010-09-14T10:00:00.000-07:00

Creating concise and informative headlines can go a long way in improving usability of your webpage.

Whether you present links to articles on your homepage or have an archived section of news and feature articles, ensuring headline usability is a must. Doing so gives readers and even casual visitors to your site a pleasantly quick and informative glimpse into what you have to offer without having to click through pages they may not be interested in.

Headline usability is essentially achieved with precise communication in a handful of words. As hard as it is to write concise, scan-able and objective content for the Web, it is even harder to write headlines for the content.

In writing headlines, following a set of guidelines, as set out by Jakob Nielsen, may help in creating concise and informative headlines that maximize usability. Headlines must be:

Short (because people don’t read much online);
Rich in information (clearly summarizing the target article);
Front-loaded with the most important keywords (because users often scan only the beginning of list items);
Understandable out of context (because headlines often appear without articles, as in search engine results); and
Predictable, so users know whether they will like the full article before they click (because people don’t return to sites that promise more than they deliver).

The most important thing to remember about writing headlines is to be concise and informative. Each word used should be meaningful. This allows you to create a headline that will communicate to the reader a proper idea of what the article is about without forcing them to click through to find out. Optimum headline usability will limit, if not eliminate, wasted clicks for users as they will be able to tell which articles they would be interested in reading from the headline itself.

Keep in mind that people’s attention span is not very long and their tolerance for vague and misleading information is low. So when you go to create a headline, keep it short and sweet; clear-cut; concise and informative. Jakob Nielsen even recommends visiting reputable sources such as BBC News to get an idea of how to achieve remarkable headline usability. You may discover how BBC editors create such excellent headlines and apply their discipline to the headlines you create.

Corporate Blogs - How to Structure a Good Home Page

2010-09-14T09:57:00.000-07:00

Displaying summaries of many articles on the first page as opposed to presenting each posting’s full content may serve to attract users.

In creating homepage designs for blogs, you typically have two options:

Posting each article in its entirety on the first page so users can read it all without having to click to an article.
Providing article summaries on the first page that link to the full content on secondary pages.

When managing a corporate blog, it is important to remember that the number of postings may eventually reach the hundreds or thousands depending on the size of the organization. Clearly, not every posting will fit on a single page. This is where you need article summaries linking to the full post in the archives.

Web Usability Design columnist Jakob Nielsen discusses in detail his findings through an eye-tracking study of how people read the “official” weblogs of corporations. His gaze plots diagram how users read the front page of several corporate blogs.

In short, his study revealed that the blogs featuring full articles on the front page lost the interest of users after the first post, whereas the blogs offering summaries on the homepage were able to attract the user to browse through more, if not all of the article summaries.

Through Nielsen’s study and general experience, corporate blogs fare much better with summaries rather than full articles on their homepage. Article summaries allow blogs to post more in a shorter page-length, thus exposing users to a broad selection of topics.

With more topics available in the same, if not shorter amount of space, users are more likely to find something that interests them. This will entice them to click through to read more, as opposed to abandoning the blog after the first full-length article failed to appeal to them. Few people will actually continue browsing after exhausting their interest on the first posting.

So for the most part, it is best to include summaries on the homepage of your corporate blog, especially if you have a wide product range with many topics to discuss. People are simply not fully interested in everything, but may prefer browsing through to find the one thing they are.

In the case that you do receive regular visitors that are passionate about everything your company does, you may want to post full articles as Nielsen recommends, but this is rare and unlikely. So stick to the summaries and offer a broad sample of articles in hopes of attracting a user’s interest and getting them to read on.

Increased Advertising on YP.com means more Leads

2010-06-11T11:03:00.000-07:00

Party Jump USA has increased its online advertising with YP.com (formerly Yellowpages.com) to be included in 5 categories nationwide (formerly only 3 categories). This means companies advertising in Party Jump USA will receive more visibility, leads, and sales for the cities they currently have Exclusive Advertising in. Party Jump USA will now be listed under:

Party Favors, Supplies, & Services
Party Supply Rental
Children's Party Planning & Entertainment
Party & Event Planning
Party Planning

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The New Yellowpages, YP.com

2010-05-18T09:55:00.000-07:00

Yellowpages.com is now YP.com. It seems like all of the major websites have been doing some redesigning lately, from Google, Facebook, Youtube, and now Yellowpages. The new website YP.com starts off with a shorter URL for ease of memorization. Their search functions has improved to bring about more relevant results. The search results page has been redesigned to somewhat mimic that of Google's, with organic, or free listings on the left and paid sponsored listings on the right and top. They have also added a map function to diagram the location of the companies. All in all it seems like YP.com is more up to date than the older version, Yellowpages.com.

How Your Website is Analyzed

2010-04-06T23:04:00.000-07:00

How do search engines work, and how do they decide which website is more relevant for a keyword? These are good questions and to find out the answer to them you must first know how search engines work and how they crawl and analyze websites. There are about two hundred factors that are taken into consideration when deciding how relevant a website is for a keyword and where it should rank. Some of these factors include how fast your website loads, the amount of content on your site, the density of the keyword, amount of pictures, video presence, feeds, meta tags, links, etc. Knowing what factors search engines use can help improve your website score and ranking.

Search engines send out spiders, or crawlers, to go through your website and collect information. You should be able to show up in the search results once these crawlers have gone through your website and indexed it in their database. This usually takes about one to three months. When search engine spiders index your site they usually don’t stay on your website for more than a couple of seconds. These crawlers travel through links to find all of your pages, therefore, it is very important to have good internal linking throughout your site. Crawlers cannot see pictures or color, they can only read and understand text and codes. It is very important to have your website coded correctly so search engine crawlers can read and understand the page. Having outdated or improper coding can contribute to a lower page score.

Some of the easiest ways to optimize your site is by choosing the correct combination of title, header, and Meta description. Each page of your website should be unique, search engines don’t like to see the same content, and will usually penalize you for copying content. Since each page should be different, it should also have different title, header, and Meta descriptions that are unique for the page. Crawlers rank the importance of keywords for a page based on the amount of times it is used, the backlinks to the page, and any off page optimization. It’s good to have a lot of content on your page, but simply putting down a bunch of keywords just to get a high ranking is going to hurt your websites usability. Search engines also take into consideration the amount of different font treatments used. Different font treatments include the style, size, color, whether it’s bold, underlined, italicized, etc. Having too many different font treatments can be bad for your page score, so it’s a good idea to keep it simple and stick with a few font treatments that make sense.

It is also important to have a good proportion of pictures on your website. Search engine crawlers like to see more than just simple text. True, crawlers can’t see pictures, but they can read a pictures tag or description. Having good alt tags can contribute to the keywords importance for the page and thus rank higher in relevance. However, you don’t want to get carried away with pictures. The more pictures you have on your website the longer it will take to load. The speed at which your website loads affects your page score and whether users will stay on your website or not. Search engine crawlers love to see videos, and will usually stay on your website a little longer to read the videos code. Videos also have descriptive text that website crawlers can read. An easy and useful way to add videos to your website is by using YouTube, which Google owns and places more importance for.

Having links on your website are also important because search engine crawlers need a way to bounce through your pages. Usually crawlers will start from your main page, or home page, and from there travel through links to your other pages. Having links to the most important pages of your website are key to getting indexed successfully. You should be careful that links are not broken because crawlers don’t like to see that. Each webpage needs to have a link directing crawlers there or else some of your pages will not get indexed. You can also use tags or descriptions for the links to direct crawlers to look for a specific keyword or phrase when indexing it. One thing that’s recommended is creating a site map for your entire site and placing the link on your home page.

Another thing search engines like to see is new content on websites. Search engines try to distinguish websites that are dynamic and in use from ones that aren’t, and will usually visit your website more frequently if they see you constantly have new content. A way to easily place new content on your website without the hassle of hiring a professional is through user comments. Companies sometimes allow user comments for products, articles, or blogs, because people like to place comments, and companies welcome them because its free content creation. Another way to get new content on your site is through feeds. For instance, if you have an off page blog you manage and want snippets of the postings to show up on your website, than you can have a feed management program like Google’s FeedBurner push the content onto your website. These are fast and easy ways to create tons of content on your website without the need of a professional.

Off page optimization matters as well and complements the work of the on page optimization. Off page optimization includes blog submission, article submission, and backlink creation. The more links you have from other websites directing to yours, the better your page rank will be. However, you should take note that having your link on websites that are spam sites or that use black hat tactics can actually be harmful to your site. If the website on which you have a backlink has a higher page rank than yours and is also relevant to your website, than that backlink would be more beneficial to your overall score. Every little piece of optimization matters in order to get a higher page score and ranking for a keyword. Search engines are just like any other company, they constantly change, and it’s recommended to keep up to date on the things they find important.

How to Grow Your Party Business

2010-04-06T23:02:00.000-07:00

The party industry is a profitable, fun, and exciting industry to be in because of the nature of the work and the constant interaction with different people and events. Due to this, and the easiness of entering the industry, competition is always increasing. So how does a small family owned business or part-time business owner grow and expand its company? There are a lot of methods or practices that you might not be already familiar with, and that is what we will cover in this article. Some options to explore include email marketing, reminders, discounts and incentives, new products, customer interaction, business partnerships, distributors, and more.

One of the first ways any small business should start off in expanding their business is to take their business online. The amount of time people dedicate per day cruising the internet, along with all the new gadgets that allow them to do so, are evidence of a company’s need to go online. An online presence allows a business to do other things as well, like communicate to the public about the latest news, events, discounts, promotions, etc. One way a business owner can retain customers is by sending email reminders to its previous customers about their upcoming events or discounts during a particular date. An online service like Constant Contact simplifies the process so anyone can do email marketing. E-commerce and office management software’s like Rental Pad help streamline your business and reduce employee costs. Incorporating payment methods like PayPal or Google Checkout can help reduce payment-processing fees and make life easier. Business owners should take advantage of all the options available to streamline their business, make purchasing their products easier, and educate the public and employees. (Read More)

Lead in Vinyl Products

2010-04-01T11:22:00.000-07:00

As manufacturing of products move overseas a raising concern is building amongst consumers and regulators on the presence of lead and other phthalates in inflatable manufactured games. It is recommended to check your state's regulations and specifications on the acceptable concentration of lead and phthalates allowed. There are a couple of hand-held lead test kits that can be purchased for a quick test. A simple and cost-efficient one that is recommended is the Lead Detective Paint Test Kit sold by HealthGoods.com. You can use this kit to quickly test your inflatable products to see if they comply with your state's regulations.

Upcoming Changes to Party Jump USA Online Directory

2010-03-04T10:46:00.000-08:00

Party Jump USA has been providing online advertising for inflatable rental companies for nearly a year now and there are many great things our staff has learned from in this time. We have learned how important it is to educate rental operators on the importance of online marketing and the keys to success. We have learned how rental operators seek a directory that is affordable and valuable that will also give them a competitive advantage over other local companies. We have also learned how our competitors, mainly party rental and moonwalk rental directories don't provide this type of service, but rather, they simply provide a website to exchange links and get listed.

In the past year Party Jump USA has grown tremendously amongst the moonwalk rental industry and is reaching the 200 mark for registrations of rental operators. The website has had numerous changes and modifications in the past months because we continuously seek to improve the usability, appearance, and optimize it for organic searches. We value the input and feedback of our rental operators and customers using our website and use that feedback to improve our services. We have learned that customers visiting the website are seeking to find local companies for a range of services and not only inflatable rentals. To make the directory more meaningful for people visiting the website we will be implementing the following changes.

In our continued efforts to improve our services we will be implementing the following changes and updates to the directory.

1) Expanding the directory to include other services such as children entertainers, tent rentals, DJ service, party planners, table and chair rentals, party supply stores, photography videography service, food catering service, and more.

What will this mean?
Companies still get exclusive advertising for the city they service, there will be no other company advertised in the same city with the same category of service. Meaning, there will not be two inflatable rental companies advertised, there will be one inflatable rental company, one clown service company, one tent rental company, etc. per city.

2) Reducing advertising prices to be more competitive.

What will this mean?
In our goal to becoming the exclusive party services directory we seek to be more valuable to companies advertising, therefore, we are reducing our advertising prices to be affordable for startup companies as well as established companies.

3) Improving company profile pages with videos.

What will this mean?
Companies advertising in our directory will be able to include a video about their company on their company profile page. Companies will be able to upload or connect their videos from Youtube.

4) Implement party tips and article submissions from companies advertising in our directory.

What will this mean?
Companies advertising in our directory will be able to add their articles and party tips to our directory with direct backlinks to their company website. This will provide more information for people searching our directory as well as improve your companies popularity online.

We thank you for your support and interest in our company. We will continue to dedicate our services to improving our directory and providing a more valuable and meaningful advertising for party rental and service companies.

The Party Industry, Service is Golden

2010-02-26T13:45:00.000-08:00

The party services industry is a broad and large industry that encompasses services from the likes of party planners, inflatable rentals, tent rentals, children entertainers, clown service, table and chair rentals, videographer and photography service, catering service, concession machine rentals, DJ service and more. As large as the industry is and as many services as it encompasses, it still has one thing in common, it is in the service industry. This means that all companies provide a service, an intangible good to consumers. The quality of the service determines the quality of the company and its image to consumers. Just like the quality of products for retailers and manufacturers determine the success of the business, the quality of service determines the success of a service company. So what must you do to improve your company’s image and service?

Every company must have a mission, goal, or objective in the endeavor. The company’s corporate culture, along with the mission, goal, or objective, must be represented by every member in the organization. The members of the company and the quality of service they provide represent the company to the customer. This can be the customer service representative, the manager, the delivery personnel, or even the attendant service the cotton candy. Every direct line of communication is important and must be coherent in its level of quality and service. Yes it is difficult to align all members of an organization to provide the same level of service since individuals are different and act differently. However, managers and executives should seek to identify the levels of direct communication between the company and the customer, what information is passed, how communication is done, and how company representatives can be trained or directed to providing a service that’s coherent to the company. (read more)

Party Jump USA offers information for party rental and party service companies. The website www.partyjumpersusa.com provides complete information about the company.

Marketing Your Party Service Company

2010-02-26T10:47:00.000-08:00

Are you a new company or have you been having a hard time getting your company name out there? A company can only be as successful as its marketing strategy and the level of exposure it gets to its target market. As a new company it is important to put your name out there so potential customers can know you exist and are there for them. As an established company, it is recommended that you do continuous advertisement so customers are aware you’re still out there and offering your services. Since competitors are always increasing, advertisements and promotions are being exposed to your customers constantly from other companies. Therefore having a continuous form of advertisement and exposure is essential to being successful and keeping your market share. However, this article will delve into how a new or small company can get their name out to the general public.

There are numerous methods and sources new or small businesses can use to effectively gain exposure. One of the cheapest and most used methods is word-of-mouth advertising. Word-of-mouth advertising is the first step any business should turn to get exposure. In this current economic and social world that we live in, consumers rely on their trust groups for referrals and information. These trust groups include family, friends, co-workers, and classmates. As a new business owner you should be constantly soliciting your services at every venue and to every person you know that can in turn refer your business or service to their trust groups. This creates a form of viral marketing that spreads quickly to people that might use your service. This viral marketing or word-of-mouth referrals can be enhanced through the Internet and social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter.

Another way to create the effects of viral marketing is through incentives and referral programs offered to your customers. This form of marketing has seen dramatic effects in the recent years with a lot of online-based companies. Incentives and referral programs can create leads and advertisements between trust groups that can be more valuable than any other form of advertisement you do. By tapping into your customers’ social networks and trust groups you can increase your target market dramatically and without any form of cost. An example of an incentive and referral program is discounts or prizes offered to customers who refer your company to five or ten of their friends and family members. Some companies use incentive and referral programs strictly for their advertisement and to get their name out there, and it has proven to be very successful for them.

One form of advertisement that creates exposure to a vast amount of people at once is through large venues and events. As a new company you want to find a way to get yourself out to these large venues like carnivals, city fairs, school festivals, and community events. Providing your products and services, whether its inflatable rentals, clown service, catering service, or photography service, is a great way to gain referrals, experience, and exposure. Some new companies may find it difficult to get into these venues, therefore donating and offering your services for free might be necessary. However, the amount of exposure a company can get and the potential number of clients from such events can be substantial.

A new startup company can also look to partner with established companies or affiliated services to gain exposure. Offering your services to established companies can get you to events and venues and dealing with customers without spending any money on advertisement. Partnering with established companies can be done through a fee based or contract based program where you give a percentage or fee to the company for connecting you with the customer. This form of exposure can get you established in your location before you know it. When partnering with another company you want to make sure that all details are laid down and a formal contract is written up before you proceed. Other important things to consider when choosing which company to partner up with is the level of market share and company image that the company has. Partnering with someone that has as low of a market share as you does not do either of you any good. Also partnering with someone that has a bad company image can be detrimental to your success. Taking such things into consideration are important when partnering with other companies.

Getting your name out there and exposing your company to potential customers can be most successfully done through numerous sources. Using only one of these sources is not as effective as combining numerous sources and avenues. One of the keys to gaining exposure is by concentrating on networks that will give you the largest amount of exposure. Focusing on large venues, large companies, and large social groups can be the key to immediately gaining exposure in your community and establishing yourself as a company.

Party Jump USA offers marketing and advertising information for party rental and party service companies. The website www.partyjumpersusa.com provides complete information about the company.

San Antonio Party Rentals - Incredible Moonbounce

2010-02-09T16:24:00.000-08:00

Incredible MoonBounce is a San Antonio party rentals company that provides inflatable to children's parties and events. Inflatables are becoming increasingly popular for children’s parties. More and more people rent inflatable games, because it is an affordable and fun way of entertaining a big group of kids. Renting an inflatable for a children's party or a big event in the texas area is a great way to keep a large crowd of kids entertained. We service parties in texas ranging from birthday parties, holiday parties, private parties, business events, non-profit events, and more.

We guarantee our products to be the best in the industry. All of our products are cleaned and sanitized after every event. Our moonwalks are new and conform to the newest safety standards in the inflatable industry. Our services are unmatched for all texas party rentals needs, so give us a call for more information and pricing.

Stamford Connecticut Party Rentals - Super Fun Inflatables

2010-02-09T15:46:00.000-08:00

Super Fun Inflatables is a locally owned and operated stamford party rentals company with offices in Danbury, CT and Newtown, CT. What began in July of 2000 as one man, a truck and 5 inflatables has now grown into three delivery vehicles, a staff of 6-10 and over 50 inflatables and fun childrens's party rental items to choose from.

We specialize in inflatable bounce house rentals, giant wet and dry slides, obstacle course and jump slide combo rentals. We also rent inflatable sports games plus some non-inflatable fun equipment as well. Once you've picked out the inflatable to rent add on a Popcorn, Cotton Candy or Sno-Kone machine and your kids party is complete. Whether it's a simple backyard birthday party, a church or school fair, a corporate picnic, or a town festival, our wide assortment of inflatables will instantly turn any event into a Super Fun event.

When you rent from Super Fun Inflatables, we're sure you'll be completely satisfied with our equipment and our staff. Our inflatable rentals are top of the line equipment that we guarantee to be clean and in perfect working order. Our staff strives to be courteous, professional and prompt at all times. Although our inflatable rental and party rental business has grown over the years we are still small enough to offer you a very personal and professional level of service. Many of our original customers from 2000 still rent inflatable slides, jumpers and obstacles courses from us today. Once you rent from Super Fun Inflatables we’re confident that you’ll feel like “part of the family” and return year after year too.

Safety Certified and Insured. We service all connecticut party rentals needs in Newtown, Danbury, Ridgefield, Trumbull, Monroe, Easton, Redding, Weston, Westport, Norwalk, New Canaan, Stamford, Greenwich, Wilton and all other towns in Fairfield County, CT. Now celebrating 10 years of delivering inflatable fun and still going strong! We hope that we can be a part of your next party or special event......Thank You!

Benefits of Exclusive Advertising in Party Rental Directory

2010-02-04T12:28:00.000-08:00

Have you had any experience or exposure advertising in an online party rental directory or moonwalk rental directory that provides exclusive advertising? The concept is simple, but the implications and benefits are a lot. First let’s consider how an exclusive advertising differs from a listed advertising. The following are the benefits of an exclusive advertising that you don’t get from a listed advertising:

No competition amongst companies

Exclusive advertising means there is only one company that gets advertised for a location. This makes the advertised company stand out and gain a competitive advantage because customers will be directed ONLY to them and not to any other company.

No price shoppers

Customers find what they are looking for and don’t need to shop around anymore. An online moonwalk rental directory like Party Jump USA, which is specifically for the party rental industry, targets customers that are looking to rent an inflatable in an exact location, and the party rental company advertised in that city gets that customers sale without any price per lead, click, or competition amongst other local companies.

You get your moneys worth!

Paying for advertising in a source that lists multiple other companies makes your advertisement money less valuable. However, the advertisement you get with an exclusive listing is more valuable because you don’t have anyone else competing with you, you get more relevant leads and customers than being listed.

Actual website you can advertise

If you don’t have a website for your company than getting exclusive advertising in a directory like Party Jump USA can provide you with a website you can show off to customers. It functions just like a real website, you have limitless images, content, contact information and logo. With other advertisements you get a small banner or a box that limits the amount of information you can provide.

Exclusive city advertisements give companies the ability to target certain locations. For instance if you have a city that has demographics more relevant to your company or service and you want to advertise specifically to them, than exclusive directory advertising is the way to go. A directory like Party Jump USA gives you the flexibility to control your advertising by the term you want, by the area you want, and by the content you provide. This exclusive city advertising can also function as a landing page for your product or service. Target specific keywords and be able to edit the content to reflect them. The boundaries are limitless with the ease of use and flexibility of Party Jump USA’s exclusive advertising opportunity.

Bizzie Bounce - Columbus Party Rentals

2010-01-22T15:41:00.000-08:00

Bizzie Bounce and More, LLC was created with the goal of enhancing fun for kids! No matter what your event, kids are sure to have a good time and even sometimes the parents get in to jump along.

Bounce Houses are great for: Birthdays, Work Events, Parks, Family Reunions, Church or Daycare Events, Festivals, Grand Openings, Fundraisers, School Field Days, & More!

Looking for Columbus party rentals? Look no further. Bizzie Bounce delivers and sets up, all you have to do is sit back and enjoy your party.

Advertisement Banners for Party Suppliers, Stores, and Services

2010-01-18T13:16:00.000-08:00

Looking to advertise your party supply store or service company? Look no further, online advertising is the most profitable method to get your name out there and get business. In Party Jump USA's online party rental directory, advertisers get visibility in all of the major online search sources like Google, Yahoo, Yellowpages.com, Superpages.com and more. With visibility in over 13 of the major online search sources, your business is guaranteed to see results.

Try out the advertisements spots for 1 month, 6 months or 12 months and see how profitable advertising with Party Jump USA can be. Our specific city state searches connect you with customers in your local area that are looking to arrange a party, get supplies, services and more. For an average cost of $8-15 per month for online advertising, can you resist not giving it a try? Register today to get started with advertising your party supply store, DJ service, clown service, face painting, live dancing, tent rental, table and chairs rental, and more (excluding inflatable rental companies).

Here are some images of what the ad will look like and where it will be placed.

Your advertisement banner will be customized by you to say whatever you want!

Visibility in the search results page (top) and also in the company profile pages (bottom).

Bounce Fun - Brownwood Party Center

2010-01-18T09:41:00.000-08:00

Bounce Fun is a Texas party center indoor Family Entertainment Center (FEC) filled with exciting inflatables that kids love. Jump, slide, go thru obstacles and play all you want in the brand new facility. The indoor facility features giant slides, unique bounce houses, bounce and slide combos, obstacle courses and more. Its fun for kids of all ages, including grown up kids. Give Bounce Fun a call and schedule your next event!

Happy Bouncers - Aurora party rentals Joliet party rentals

2010-01-11T14:11:00.000-08:00

Happy Bouncers is a aurora party rentals company that services the Chicago and surrounding cities for moonwalk and moonbounce rentals.

Happy Bouncers has provided inflatable rentals service to all occasions, such as house party, school party, carnivals, business events, birthday party, block party, city events, day care centers, anniversaries, weddings, picnic party, park events, etc.

Why choose Happy Bouncers? Because we are devoted to providing our customers with the best quality service along with the safest, cleanest, and newest products that will make any event an unforgettable one. Happy Bouncers provides the best chicago party rentals service around!

Maxwell Jump - Cincinnati Party Rental

2010-01-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

Maxwell Jump is a cincinnati party rental company that has been selling fun to kids since 1950. You don't want to miss that gleam in their eyes
or surprise on their faces when a jumper, bouncer, moonwalk, or inflatable bounce house comes home. Can you imagine what fun everyone will have, yes even the big kid in all of us can enjoy the fun of having a inflatable at your next party. So what are you waiting for?

Maxwell Jump provides service for all types of parties and events, from small birthday parties, private parties, graduation parties, to big school events, business events, carnivals, block parties and more. Maxwell Jump provides moonwalk rentals to the Cincinnati Ohio and surrounding areas. Maxwell Jump delivers, sets up, and picks up the bouncers and lets you have all the fun!

Rentame USA - Charlotte North Carolina Party Rentals

2010-01-05T12:03:00.000-08:00

Rentame USA, offers comprehensive event planning services, perfect for festival, carnivals, churches, grand opening, promotional event, corporate or private parties, picnics, birthday parties, fundraising, family reunions, baby showers, any occasion. Our team of event planners will use their talent and expertise to create your most memorable events.

Rentame USA offers the following services and products; birthday party Bounce House, Moonwalks, Water Slides,Tables and Chairs, Tents, Inflatables Tents, Sky dancer, Tubes, Money Box, Any kind of Inflatable, Clowns, Disc Jockey, Equipment Sound, Promotional Equipments

Rentame USA is a charlotte party rentals company that offers delivery to Charlotte, North Carolina, Rock Hill, South Carolina and the surrounding areas. Call Rentame USA for more information about rentals in the area.

Laugh N' Giggle Bouncers - Florida Jumper Rentals

2009-12-23T12:10:00.000-08:00

Laugh N' Giggle Bouncers is a locally owned and family operated Florida jumper rentals company in the Palm Bay and Melbourne area. If you are planning birthday parties, corporate events, church events, school function, family reunion with bouncers and waterslides then Laugh N' Giggle Bouncers is the right place for you. Laugh N' Giggle Bouncers is fully insured, as well as licensed.

Laugh N' Giggle Bouncers' prices are competitive as we will match any local competitor's price. They bring the fun to you by offering free delivery and set-up so no worries for you.

For your safety, their equipment is cleaned, sanitized, and inspected prior to every use. Their friendly and courteous delivery team will deliver your equipment promptly and with a smile. Laugh N' Giggle Bouncers will provide you with the best equipment and the most outstanding service in Brevard County.

Party Hoppers - Seattle Party Rentals

2009-12-16T16:39:00.000-08:00

Party hoppers is a family owned and operated seattle party rentals business. Party hoppers are dependable and deliver clean units on time, every time! Party hoppers are also very flexible and easy to work with. Make your next party or event exciting and memorable. It's easy - Party hoppers delivers, sets-up and picks-up when your event is over. Party hoppers has a large variety of sizes, styles and themes to choose from.

Party hoppers take reservations for any day of the week, including holidays. We also do late evening pick-ups at no extra charge.

We Deliver to the Seattle / Bellevue / Bothell / Federal Way / Auburn Washington Area!

Billy's Bounce House - St. Lucie Florida Party Rentals

2009-12-16T16:19:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Billy's Bounce House, your Saint Lucie party rentals, Indian River, Martin and Okeechobee county party rental company. We service all of these counties, delivery, setup and pickup all included. Give us a call today to get pricing and availability for your next event.

Billy's Bounce House has bounce houses, jump and slide combos, inflatable slides, dunk tanks, sumo suits, fun games, food machines, and more! Billy's Bounce House services every party and event, big and small, from backyard parties, private parties, school events, corporate events, carnivals and more.

Give Billy's Bounce House a call today to get pricing and availability for your next event!

U.S. vs. Chinese Manufacturers, who to choose?

2009-12-08T15:33:00.000-08:00

This debate has been going on for a while and is prevalent in every manufacturing industry. The question is really left for each person to make for himself or herself. You must take a couple of things into consideration when you make your decision to go with an overseas company or with a local company. Do you want to buy something for cheap, with low quality, or pay a little more and have a quality product? Other things you want to take into consideration are the image of your company, repair costs, delivery time, potentially hazardous products, and legal ramifications.

Overseas companies have been infamous for making low quality inflatables that tend to break down much sooner than US inflatables. The reason for this is because usually in overseas countries like China or India there is no minimum wage and/or age laws, meaning companies tend to hire the cheapest workers. This leads to workers with no skills or experience producing your products, which in turn leads to defects and low quality production. Consumers of overseas products have noticed the difference and suffered the consequences of low quality products. One of the reasons for this is because overseas companies are not liable for any defective or non-safe products they make. There is no way for an individual or a company to get recourse from an overseas company for a defective product. This leaves individuals and companies that purchase from overseas companies vulnerable to lawsuits from anyone using their products. Normally if your products are purchased from U.S. manufacturers, than the manufacturer will be liable for any defective products, and their insurance will pay up. However, between international transactions there is no such enforcement or security.

Who do you ship your product to when you need a repair? That’s another question to ask yourself when purchasing from an overseas company or even a distributor of an overseas company. Sales people might mislead you by saying its made in the U.S., even though it’s not, so how can you tell if there telling the truth or lying? First and foremost you can tell by the price, if the price is surprisingly lower than other companies then they are either using low quality products or importing from overseas. A good question to ask companies is how long the warranty is on the product and what happens when there is damage or repair that needs to be done on it. No one in the right mind will ship their product back to China to get it repaired, it takes weeks to deliver and costs an arm and a leg to ship, so what do they do? They’ll usually end up going back to the U.S. based company for repairs and find out how much easier it is to work with someone who is local.

The image people get from ones products and services is what they’ll remember the most about a certain company. Also people tend to identify products or services based on the country of origin. U.S. is and always has been known for safety, quality, and customer service. Overseas countries like China have been infamous for making hazardous products, creating defective units, and using low quality materials. Usually people that tend to buy into the low price, low quality products, are usually the ones that give the same type of service. These types of companies are never successful in the long run, maybe for a short period, but never on a continuous basis. Customers always want to deal with companies that care for safety, security, and service. There are always price shoppers, but the trend of customer habits have moved towards a requirement for corporate social responsibility. This means they want to deal with companies that will look after their best interest at all times, whether it’s with safe products or good service, they are willing to pay the extra price.

So when considering to buy products from a US inflatable manufacturer or overseas manufacturer, ask yourself what type of product and service you expect to get. Then ask yourself what happens after you get your product, is there any technical support or help from the company or do you simply get a bill and a thank you. Try doing some research if you are not convinced and follow the examples of successful companies with the best customer service, and see what type of products they use. I can guarantee you they use the highest quality products or else they would not stay in business for long.

Advertise Through Social Networking Sites

2009-12-08T09:58:00.001-08:00

Social networking sites have created a world where people and businesses can connect and keep in touch with one another on a personal level. Almost everyone has at least one type of social networking account and uses it to keep track of their friends, family, classmates, coworkers, or other interests. Social networking sites also create a great way for companies to stay connected with their clients and their community. Customers typically like to do business with companies that are on a personal level with them and listen to their feedback and opinions. Therefore, connecting with your customers through social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter help you keep in touch with your customers.

People generally keep tabs of their social networking sites on a daily basis, place updates, posts, and so forth for followers and friends to see. Companies advertising through social networks in essence do the same thing. By sharing information about public events, party tips, suggestions, discounts, promotions, new products, etc., you keep the customer informed and up to date about what’s going on with your company. Since the majority of sales for moonwalk rental companies come from repeat customers, this is a great way to keep them updated and informed, thus increasing the likelihood of retaining them as customers. So how do you get started?

First and foremost you would need to create an account at these sites. It is suggested you use your company name and create business profiles where allowed instead of personal pages. After creating a profile, you will then need to get connected with your customers. The fastest way to go about this is to send a mass email to your customers notifying them about your new networking sites and how to join. Some people might instantly add your company and get connected while others might disregard the email either because they are not interested or they don't use those services. A great way to motivate your customers to add your sites is to offer them an incentive like a discount on their next jumper rentals.

Now you have your list, but how do you grow it? To grow your list it is highly advised to post links to your social networking sites on all of your websites pages. You can also add the links to your email signature and any letters or faxes sent out. The more avenues you use to notify people of your networking sites the more people you will have joining or adding you to keep in touch.

So you have your list and people are joining, now how do you use it to promote your business? There are plenty of ways to promote your party rental business through social networking sites. Generally you should open up discussions with your customers to get them involved and participate in the networking sites. Any information regarding discounts, promotions, public events, new products, testimonials, videos, photos, should be shared with customers to keep them updated with all facets of your company. Since people keep track of their networking sites on a daily basis, notifying them of such things will keep them instantly updated with your company.

What are the costs? None, social networking sites are free. The only cost is time. Time to login and update your site with information. The fabric of our society is molded together through media news and social sites that streamline information to people. Keeping an updated and informative social networking campaign will greatly improve your customer's information regarding your company and services and help drive sales and increase revenue on any promotions and deals.

We invite you to join our social networking sites and stay connected with us for the latest updates in the moonwalk rental industry, events, moonwalk business advertising, business startup, special promotions and discounts, and more.

The Playroom - Richmond Virginia Party Rentals

2009-12-07T08:51:00.000-08:00

The Playroom is a richmond party rentals & Play Center that also does inflatable rentals for Richmond, Ashland, Glen Allen, Fredericksburg, Mechanicsville and Highland Springs. Admission to the indoor play center are $8 (plus tax) infants and adults Free!

The Playroom is an indoor amusement center for kids of all ages, where you can bring the whole family to play and have fun. Inside you'll find a variety of large, interactive inflatables, moonwalks, jumpers, bounce houses, bouncy castles, a pretend town, arts and crafts, snack bar, new friends to meet, party rooms, lots to climb on, jump off, crawl through and slide down.

Everyone is welcome at The Playroom during regular business hours. Socks & signed waivers required to play.

Online Website Tracking

2009-11-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

So you have your website and you advertise online, now what? Well some things any marketing representative wants to know is where customers find you, what keywords they use, what websites they bounce from, what time of the day they search, what day of the week they search and more. Every bit of information that helps analyze your customers shopping trends will help you make more informed decisions regarding your advertising. So how do you find out about your customers’ shopping trends? By implementing a website tracking system that will provide detailed information about the people that visit your website.

Here is a list of some of the free website tracking software's out there, but the most popular one is Google Analytics.

AddFreeStats
FreeStats
GoldStats
Google Analytics
GoStats
Site Tracker
StatCounter
StatSession
TulipStats
WebSiteTrafficReport

These are some of the free ones that are offered, however there are plenty more with paid subscriptions to choose from.

Implementing the tracking code into your website is real simple. If you have a web master you will want them to handle this task, but you can do it yourself as well if you don't have a web master. Simply take the tracking code they provide and copy paste it to your websites html code. You should implement it to every webpage you have to analyze how customers use your website and which pages they visit. Once you have the code pasted into your website the tracking software will read that code and start analyzing visits.

Tracking your visitors is a must for any company that has a website. Not knowing where your customers find you from and how they use your website can lead to an unsuccessful online marketing campaign. Understanding which advertisements give you the most referrals and best results also help cut costs from unpromising advertisements that are wasting your money. Once you get an analysis of your customers and their shopping trends you can implement promotions and advertisements that are the most suitable for those days. Knowing which days customers usually shop for your products or services helps you in making decisions about which days to advertise and focus your promotions. In every form of process, whether business, school or other, you must know how your are doing during the process and what results you are getting. Without a formal online tracking system there is really no way for anyone to know the results of their website and online advertisings.

Online Advertising for Beginners

2009-11-29T13:39:00.000-08:00

Search Engines

The biggest and most used search engines are Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com. About 70% of people use Google, 16% use yahoo, 9% use Bing and 2% use Ask.com (November 2009 statistics). The most widely used search engine and source for finding any type of company or service is Google. Google lists companies a couple of ways when people do a search. There are organic search results, pay-per-clicks (also known as sponsored searches), map search results, articles and more.

Organic Searches

Organic Searches are the searches you see on the left hand side of Google. These searches are free. Companies do not pay any fee to Google to show up here. However, it is very tricky on how Google lists the companies in order. Google has spiders, which are programs in a sense, that go through the internet, surf all the websites and read the texts that are on the websites. These spiders classify web pages according to their text. If a particular websites text is related to the keyword "jumper rental", than Google classifies it as a webpage people would want to see when searching for "jumper rental". The priority of the list for a specific keyword always changes because people are always writing articles and optimizing their website, so one month a company might be first on the list for a keyword, but 3 months later they might be the 10th company showing up for that same keyword. Search engine optimization is a way to help make a website more relevant to specific keywords. Organic Searches are the most used search results from all the sources because they are the most relevant to what the person is looking for.

Pay Per Click

Pay-per-clicks are the sponsored search results you see on the right side of the results page when you use search engines. Companies pay money to be listed here for their desired keywords. Companies pay every time someone clicks on the advertisement banner. Usually companies see a lot of results from advertising in pay-per-clicks because they pay usually around 0.20 to 0.80 cents per click (depending on how competitive the keyword bidding is). However, keeping track of the keyword performance and optimizing the ads takes up a lot of time and requires the person doing it to have knowledge in pay per click advertising. Usually most people hire a company that does pay-per-click optimization and pay them on a monthly basis to keep track of their keywords and optimize their ads. The cost of doing pay per click depends on how much money you decide to spend on it, but usually it runs in the hundreds of dollars a month. Companies can place a daily or monthly budget so it only spends that much, once the limit is reached the advertisements stop. They say about 10-30% of clicks on the advertisements are fraud, meaning a competitor is sitting their clicking on the advertisements so the company can get charged. Google's pay-per-click program is called Google Adwords. Pay-per-click is usually more expensive on the long run than search engine optimization.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is when someone optimizes their website so Google's spiders will recognize it as important for a specific keyword. This can be done by creating back links (links from other websites/webpage's to your website), articles linking to your website, directory submissions and more. Search engine optimization is kind of like a popularity game. The more websites there are that refer or link back to your website for a specific keyword, for instance "jumper rentals", than Google's spiders think, ok this website is the most important for the keyword "jumper rentals" and therefore, should be the first listed under the organic search results. Companies that usually get listed on the top of search results for a keyword do search engine optimization on a continuous basis. This means they either hire someone or do it themselves. Hiring someone costs around $350-$600 per month to continuously do search engine optimization, but this does not guarantee a company will the listed in the first page.

Online Directories

Online directories differ from search engines in the way that they are more specific to a particular topic. There are probably hundreds of thousands of directories out there, each one for its specific topic or subject. Directories, like party directories, are more helpful to customers looking to find a company or service in a specific location. For instance, someone looking to find a jumper rental company might do a search in a search engine for "jumpers in Glendale", but might come across companies that are located out in Glendale California or Glendale Arizona. Directories, however, usually list companies servicing specific locations and for specific services. Therefore, finding a company or service in your local area through a online directory is easier and usually more informative than using a search engine.

Costs

The cost to be advertised in a directory is usually either free or too expensive. The most widely known directories for party rentals are Yellowpages.com, which is usually too expensive, and also PartyPop, which takes too may steps and is too confusing to find what you're looking for. Party Jump USA is a unique directory because it offers companies advertisements in all of the major online search sources like Yellowpages.com, Google, and Yahoo, but they do so through exclusive advertisings, which in essence gives the company advertising all the customers looking for the directories' specific service in the area their advertising. Party Jump USA's directory does not create competition between companies advertising, so they get the most efficient form of advertising, a competitive advantage over their competition.

Jumping Monkeys - Savannah party rentals

2009-11-25T16:28:00.000-08:00

Jumping Monkeys is a small family owned and operated savannah party rental company.

Jumping Monkeys offers jumpers, combo, large slide, waterslide, popcorn, cotton candy, and snow cones. Jumping Monkeys can also inflate balloons at your party location.

If you have a small backyard party or a larger gathering, Jumping Monkeys can do it all. Jumping Monkeys services any event, from birthday parties, school events, business events, carnivals, block parties and more.

Jumping Monkeys services Savannah Georgia and surrounding areas, including Richmond Hill, Statesboro, Pooler and Rincon.

Jump N Jam - Chicago Party Rentals

2009-11-25T11:29:00.000-08:00

Jump N' Jam is a family owned and operated chicago inflatable rentals company located in the south suburbs of Chicago. These inflatables are often called jumpers, bouncers, or moonwalks and kids love them. We also have obstacles courses and combo units.

Our goal is to maximize your fun and entertainment for any and all occasions.

We specialize in:
Birthday Parties
Family Reunions
Picnics/BBQs
School Functions
Church Fundraisers
Any and all other occasions

Our inflatable rentals are:
Reasonably priced
Sanitized after every use
Safe
And most of all, kids love them!!

Our company is based on the belief that our customers' needs are of the utmost importance. Our entire team is committed to meeting those needs. As a result, a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals.

Jump N' Jam would welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and deliver you the best service in the Orland Park party rental industry.

Billy's Island Hopperz - Galveston Texas Party Rentals

2009-11-17T14:06:00.000-08:00

Billy's Island Hopperz is a Galveston party rental company that services Galveston Texas and the surrounding cities. Billy's Island Hopperz have bounce houses, obstacle course, water slides and inflatable combos.

What makes a party a bigger success than these fun inflatable games? Billy's Island Hopperz have everything to choose from, from regular bouncers to water slides and obstacle courses.

Give Billy's Island Hopperz a call today at 409-392-8817 to get our special pricing and to get availability information

Billy's Island Hopperz service the following cities: Galveston, Bacliff, Bayou Vista, Hitchcock, Kemah, La Marque, League City, Santa Fe, South Houston, Texas City, Tiki Island, Webster and surrounding cities. Please call for delivery information.

Billy's Island Hopperz services any event from backyard birthday parties, church events, company picnics, carnivals, school parties, etc. No event is too big or too small for Billy's Island Hopperz.

Eli's Fun Center - Harrisonburg Virginia Play Center

2009-11-13T13:01:00.000-08:00

Eli's Fun Center is an indoor inflatable play center serving the Harrisonburg Virginia and surrounding areas. No more cleaning up and mess, host your own party at Eli's Fun Center. Eli's Fun Center offers seven giant inflatables, a kiddie corner for toddlers, arcade games and Guitar Hero. There is something for everyone at Eli's Fun Center to enjoy and keep active.

Give Eli's Fun Center a call today to arrange your next party center in Harrisonburg.

Maxwell Jump - Cincinnati Party Rentals

2009-11-13T11:35:00.000-08:00

Maxwell Jump has been selling fun to kids since 1950. You don't want to miss that gleam in their eyes or surprise on their faces when Disney World comes home. Can you imagine what fun everyone will have, yes even the big kid in all of us can enjoy the rentals. So what are you waiting for give Maxwell Jump a call today for your Cincinnati party rentals.

Ask about the volume discounts for multiple orders!

Maxwell Jump provides service for all types of parties and events, from small birthday parties, private parties, graduation parties, to big school events, business events, carnivals, block parties and more. Maxwell Jump services the Cincinnati Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana tri-state area.

Billy's Bounce House - Florida Party Rentals

2009-11-13T11:25:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Billy's Bounce House, your Saint Lucie, Indian River, Martin and Okeechobee county party rental company. We service all of these counties, delivery, setup and pickup all included. Give Billy's Bounce House a call today to get pricing and availability for florida party rentals and sebastian party rentals.

Billy's Bounce House has bounce houses, jump and slide combos, inflatable slides, dunk tanks, sumo suits, fun games, food machines, and more! Billy's Bounce House services every party and event, big and small, from backyard parties, private parties, school events, corporate events, carnivals and more.

Billy's Bounce House services the following cities Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie, For Pierce, Indian River Shores, Okeechobee, Sebastian, Stuart, Vero Beach and all other surrounding cities in the area.

Give Billy's Bounce House a call today to get pricing and availability for your next event!

Louisville Inflatables - Louisville Party Rentals

2009-11-09T16:25:00.001-08:00

Louisville Inflatables is Kentucky & Indiana's number one Louisville party rentals headquarters! Louisville Inflatables is the party central in the Louisville, Kentucky & Southern Indiana area. We have heard them called bounce houses, bouncers, bouncy's, jumpers, moonwalks, spacewalks, & inflatables. Louisville Inflatables calls them just plain old FUN!

Louisville Inflatables is a Christian family owned and operated party rental business. Louisville Inflatables treats all their customers as they would want to be treated, with kindness, dignity, and most of all respect.

Louisville Inflatables' party pro's and event planners can put together a package deal for any of the following special events!

Birthday Parties
Backyard cook-outs
Company Pic-nics
Corporate Events
Church Functions
Daycares
Family Reunions
Fund Raisers
Grand Openings
Summer Camps
Promotions

Laugh 'N Leap - Columbia Party Rentals

2009-11-06T15:39:00.000-08:00

LAUGH 'N LEAP is a Columbia party rental source providing inflatable bouncers, bounce houses, moonwalks, jumpers, and inflatable water slide rentals. Our service area includes all of Richland and Lexington County.

We welcome the opportunity to provide entertainment for any event such as: Kids Birthday Parties, Backyard Parties, Church Festivals, Corporate Events, School Functions, Day Care Activities, Fund Raisers, Picnics, Family Reunions, Grand Openings and any occasion requiring FUN, FUN, and more FUN!

Give us a call today to get pricing and availability for your upcoming event.

Funflatables - Dyer party rentals

2009-11-03T12:08:00.000-08:00

FunFlatables is a dyer party rentals company that services Indiana and Illinois areas. FunFlatables is jumping your way to add fun to your special day. That’s right! FunFlatables delivers to you. Spice-up any event with our adventurous, action-packed and fun-filled inflatables. The kids will be fully-entertained OUTSIDE. FunFlatables have carefully selected all of our inflatables to accommodate “All Ages” and provide a variety of activities for your children. All of FunFlatables' bouncers have added features to jumping: “slides” “obstacles” “basketball hoops” and/or “climbers.” FunFlatables have also incorporated a variety of kid-appealing themed bouncers to indulge those adventurous minds.

Inclement weather back up plan. Before you cancel your party due to inclement weather, call FunFlatables for availability at either of their indoor facilities and bring your party to them. Your deposit can be transferred right over.

All of FunFlatables inflatables are made of commercial 18 oz. fire retardant vinyl and have covered roof tops.

Action Attraction Party Rentals - Tallahassee Party Rentals

2009-10-30T16:39:00.000-07:00

Action Attraction Party Rental is a Tallahassee party rental company that rents inflatable bounce houses, moonwalks, slides, karaoke equipment, concession machines as well as tables and chairs. Action Attraction Party Rental also rent advertising inflatables to promote your business. If you're looking for more than just inflatables, check out our outdoor movie cinema or live game show! Action Attraction Party Rental also do custom balloon decor and lawn greetings to complement your occasion.

Action Attraction Party Rental have special discounted party packages and are eager to work with you to meet your individual needs and budget. Give us a call today and let us know how we can help you create the perfect party scene!

Giggle Bugs - Greenville Party Center

2009-10-30T16:33:00.001-07:00

Giggle Bugs is a Greenville party center that features plenty of open space to provide a safe family fun indoor play zone for children ages 2-10.

Giggle Bugs is committed to creating a great atmosphere for an affordable price in a convenient location just off of Fairview Rd. between Publix and Tire Kingdom, located behind Movie Gallery and Arby's.

Walk Ins welcome all the time! $7.00 admission (plus tax). Stop in anytime we are open. Out shopping for the day and the kids are restless? Stop in and visit Giggle Bugs to let the kids get some great exercise, while you can sit back and relax in the lounge area. With our open floor plan, you will be able to relax knowing that your child is easily in sight.

Give Giggle Bugs a call today to reserve your party center for the next event you will be having.

Fun 4 U Novelties - Riverside Party Rentals

2009-10-30T15:49:00.000-07:00

Fun 4 U Novelties is a riverside party rentals and supplies for any event or occassion in the Corona, Lake Elsinore, Murrieta, Norco, Riverside, Wildomar and surrounding areas. Fun 4 U Novelties provides A to Z, from small toys, clown service, table and chairs, live characters, face painting, game coordinator, balloons, concessions, bounce houses, water slides, and more.

Let Fun 4 U Novelties organize your party and provide everything you will need to make it an unforgettable one. Fun 4 U Novelties services all events and occasions from backyard parties, school events, carnivals, business events, birthday parties, and more, no event is too big or too small for them.

Give Fun 4 U Novelties a call at 909-838-9606 today to speak to one of our professional party coordinators and to get more information about pricing and availability.

Happy Jumpers LLC - Houma Party Rentals

2009-10-29T12:01:00.000-07:00

Happy Jumpers LLC is a family owned Houma party rental company committed to bring happiness to any one of your events. Happy Jumpers LLC has many types of bounce houses and slides, from bounce houses, jump and slide combos, water slides and more. Happy Jumpers LLC service Houma, Bayou Cane and Thibodaux Louisiana.

Happy Jumpers LLC delivers to all types of parties and events. Happy Jumpers LLC service birthday parties, private parties, school events, business events, graduation parties, carnivals, block parties and more. No event is too big or too small for Happy Jumpers.

Give Happy Jumpers LLC a call today at 985-857-9529 for pricing and availability.

The Bounce House LLC - Plainville Party Rentals

2009-10-28T15:03:00.000-07:00

The Bounce House LLC is a plainville party rental company that services Plainville, Bristol, Farmington, Southington, and New Britain. The Bounce House LLC's rental division is where you can rent the inflatables for your own party or event. Free local delivery and setup is included with each reservation.

The Bounce House LLC's rental division has many different types of bouncers for all of your party and special functions. Rentals are limited to demand, so the earlier you book the better chance you'll have to get the bouncer you want. Contact The Bounce House LLC to book yours today!

Special pricing for Churches, Schools, and Fundraisers. The Bounce House LLC is fully licensed and insured.

New Website Design for Party Jump USA

2009-10-27T12:13:00.001-07:00

Party Jump USA's new website design is up and running!

This new design is sure to make searching for a rental company more efficient and faster. We would highly appreciate if you would take the time to surf the directory, search for a jumper rental company and view the information.

Once you do so please take our website satisfaction survey to help us in our effort of improving our directories services.

Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables - Kentucky Party Rentals

2009-10-22T09:41:00.000-07:00

Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables is puttin' the jump into your party. Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables is a kentucky jumper rental company that provides party supplies for events.

Kids love to jump! There's something about the feeling of bouncing up and down that just gets a child laughing! That's why Inflatables, also known as Bounce Houses are so popular at a kids party, or any other party. That's why Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables wants to offer their Kentucky bouncer rental services to people who reside in the area, at an affordable price so everyone can enjoy the fun that inflatable products provide.

Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables serves the Kentucky area, and more specifically Pikeville, Prestonsburg, Paintsville, Salyersville, Whitesburg, Hazard, Louisa, and surrounding cities. Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables serves any and all type of party from backyard parties to block parties, carnivals to corporate events, churches to day care centers. No event is too big or too small for Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Inflatables.

Leap and Bounce 4 Fun - Illinois Party Rentals

2009-10-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

Leap and Bounce 4 Fun LLC is a Belleville party rental supply company specializing in Inflatables, Bounce Houses, Moonwalks, Jumpers, Inflatable Slides and Concession equipment. Located in Belleville IL, Leap and Bounce 4 Fun is committed to providing quality bouncers at an affordable price. They serve Southern IL, including but not limited to Belleville, Ofallon, Fairview Heights, Collinsville, Cahokia, Caseyville, East. St. Louis, Alton & Waterloo. Leap and Bounce 4 Fun also offer service to St. Louis, Chesterfield, St. Peters, Ofallon MO and surrounding cities.

At Leap and Bounce 4 Fun no party is too big or too small. Leap and Bounce 4 Fun services backyard parties, birthday parties, school events, corporate events, carnivals, day care centers, churches, block parties and more. Contact Leap and Bounce 4 Fun today to get pricing and availability for your Alton party rental.

Bounc Inc - Jacksonville Florida Jumper Rentals

2009-10-20T16:11:00.000-07:00

Bounce Inc is a jacksonville jumper rentals company that provides inflatable bounce houses and games for parties. Tired of the same inflatables at every party? Check out Bounc Inc's unique selection of bouncy houses, interactive inflatables, slides, and obstacle courses.

Bounce Inc delivers to the Jacksonville Florida and surrounding cities. Bounce Inc will deliver, setup and pickup the inflatable bounce houses for any party or event.

Bounce Inc services birthday parties, private parties, school events, church events, corporate events, fundraisers, carnivals, block parties, day care centers and more.

ABC Bounce With Me - Lawrenceville Party Rentals

2009-10-20T15:50:00.000-07:00

ABC Bounce With Me is a lawrenceville party rentals company which is a family owned and operated business. ABC Bounce With Me is dependable and delivers clean units on time every time! ABC Bounce With Me are flexible and easy to work with. ABC Bounce With Me delivers, setups up and picks up. ABC Bounce With Me has 15'x15' inflatable units that meets the highest quality and safety standards in the industry, offering six hour rentals for a four hour price.

ABC Bounce With Me takes reservations for any day of the week, including holidays, and they deliver to all northeast metro Atlanta and surrounding counties.

Give ABC Bounce With Me a try and let them get your party jumping!

Universal Rental - Pennsylvania and New Jersey Jumper Rental

2009-10-20T15:22:00.000-07:00

Universal Rental is a Hawley party rental and Randolph party rental company servicing the New Jersey and Pennsylvania area.

Universal Rental services block parties, picnics, corporate events, carnivals, birthday parties, company picnics, school fairs, fundraisers, and church events.

Universal Rental offers brand new, safe, clean and affordable inflatable bounce houses, slides and inflatable obstacle courses that will delight kids of all ages and make your next party a blast!

Universal Rentals bouncers are clean, it's their policy. That's why besides their regular cleaning all of their delivery drivers always carry a vacuum cleaner, spray bottle and cloths, to guarantee that the jumpers will be clean prior to use. Universal Rentals equipment is cleaned and inspected for damage after every use.

Universal Rental has no hidden fees and no extra charges. Universal Rental is open 7 days a week through their toll free number 877-656-7766 from 8am to 8pm. Universal Rental is also available through their website where you can make reservation or ask them questions online.

Universal Rentals jumpers are made using the highest quality materials, which results in maximum durability, the hottest designs and the best safety features. Universal Rentals always have safety in mind. Universal Rentals bounce houses and slides are all built to ASTM specifications. Universal Rentals party jumpers and slides are all made of heavy-duty fire retardant vinyl. They have: X-large safety steps, Bigger windows, High quality materials, 4 special double resistant anchor straps (prevents jumpers to move), Double stitching on "all" seams.

Backyard Bouncers - Lufkin and Diboll Jumper Rentals

2009-10-20T15:13:00.001-07:00

Backyard Bouncers is a Lufkin jumper rentals and Diboll jump rentals company and is family owned and operated.

Backyard Bouncers is dedicated to serving your inflatable needs for every event or special occasion. Backyard Bouncers offers Slides, Bounce Houses and Jump and Slide Combo Inflatables.

Nothing gets a party jumping like a Backyard Bouncer. Backyard Bouncers serves Lufkin, Diboll and surrounding areas. Reserve your bounce house today by e-mailing or calling for prices.

Bouncin' Fun N More - New York Party Rentals

2009-10-20T14:50:00.000-07:00

Bouncin' Fun N More is a family owned New York jumper rental company with brand new inflatables, just waiting to make your party a "Big Success." Safety is Bouncin' Fun N More #1 concern, besides having fun.

Bouncin' Fun N More delivers to private parties, birthday parties, church events, school events, day care centers, business events, carnivals, graduations and more.

Bouncin' Fun N More has bounce houses, jump and slide combos and obstacle courses to choose from. These are 100% US made inflatables and have all the industries leading safety measures installed.

So give Bouncin' Fun N More a try and call them at 518-225-6388 or E-mail at bouncinfunnmore@aol.com and Bouncin' Fun N More will bring the fun to your house soon.

AH Sir Bounce Alot - Santa Maria Valley Party Rentals

2009-10-20T14:03:00.000-07:00

AH Sir Bounce Alot is a Santa Maria party rental company and family owned business. Together, with our three sons, we have built a really exciting business. In 1993, AH Sir Bounce Alot only had two bounce houses and now they have a inventory of eleven inflatables, concession items and even an awesome twenty six foot mobile rock wall! AH Sir Bounce Alot looks forward to hearing from you for your next family party, birthday, company picnic or any fun gathering you might be having.

If you have a special situation, please contact AH Sir Bounce Alot -- they want to work with you! One example of their great customer service was when a new customer called them in a panic because the rental company they ordered from did NOT show up and AH Sir Bounce Alot was able to get a bounce house out to them very quickly! It makes AH Sir Bounce Alot happy to be able to go the extra mile! "We Deliver Smiles"

AH Sir Bounce Alot delivers to Santa Maria, Santa Maria Valley, Santa Ynez Valley, and Lompoc California.

Bouncin Craze - Oklahoma Party Rentals

2009-10-20T13:51:00.000-07:00

Bouncin Craze is a oklahoma jumper rental company and the newest concept of indoor inflatable fun for your childs birthday party. Offering food, private party rooms, and a nice large room of inflatable fun. Bouncin Craze is great for birthday parties, church groups, corporate team building, day care outings, field trips, graduation parties, homeschool groups, moms groups, neighborhood get together, school outings, team parties, and youth groups.

Bouncin Craze wants to promote a safe, clean, fun, and positive environment for families to enjoy year round.

Bouncin Craze has party rooms, an inflatable arena with AWESOME inflatables, game room, free wi-fi, and a snack bar. Come and enjoy Bouncin Crazes free air hockey.

Bonza Party Rentals - Paris Texas Party Rentals

2009-10-20T13:45:00.001-07:00

Bonza Party Rentals is a paris texas party rentals company offering premier inflatable rentals. We are a premier provider of jumper and bounce house rentals and service any and all events and occasions.

Bonza Party Rentals services birthday parties, school events, church events, carnivals, business events, graduation parties, anniversaries, showers, etc. No event is too big or too small for Bonza Party Rentals.

Give Bonza Party Rentals a call today to get pricing and availability on their bouncer rentals.

Castillo's Party Rentals - Illinois Party Rentals

2009-10-20T13:37:00.000-07:00

Castillo's Party Rentals is a Plainfield party rentals company that offers new, clean inflatables, party rentals, concession machines, tents, tables and chairs. Castillo's Party Rentals do it all! For complete list of the products and services please contact Castillo's Party Rentals at 630-816-5786.

Castillo's Party Rentals delivers to Shorewood and Plainfield Illinois and the surrounding areas. They cater to any and all events from birthday parties, private parties, school events, business events, church events, day care centers, carnivals, graduation parties and more.

All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals - Kentucky Party Rentals

2009-10-20T13:26:00.000-07:00

The areas largest insured inflatable rental company with over 45 inflatables! All Blown Up is a henderson party rental and owensboro jumper rental company.

All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals has been in business 2 years and is one of the only insured inflatable companies in the area. Delivery is available within a 100 mile radius of Evansville, IN! All Blown Up will also travel up to 500 miles for large venues.

All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals offer Bounce Houses, Super Slides, Obstacle Courses, Games, Bungee Runs, Velcro Walls, Boxing Rings, Slip n Slides, Water Slides, Combo Unit’s plus many more! All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals also rent Cotton Candy, Popcorn, and Snow Cone machines, Coolers, Tables and Chairs, Corn Hole Games, Washer Tosses, and Generators.

All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals serves Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. Liability insurance is very expensive, and most area rental companies choose to operate without it. All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals is fully licensed, insured, state inspected, and their experience speaks for itself. All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals, LLC follows accepted industry practices and carries a $1,000,000 general liability policy. This policy allows us to use indoor facilities that require proof of insurance, such as local school systems, and corporate entities.

All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals is an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau, members of the American Rental Association (ARA), International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), the Inflatable Rental Company Operators (AIRCO), and the Safe Inflatable Operators Training Organization (SIOTO). SIOTO has recognized All Blown Up Inflatable Rentals as one of less than 100 inflatable companies in the United States certified with both BISOC (Basic Inflatable Safety Operations Certification) and AISOC (Advanced Inflatable Safety Operations Certification).

We are THE FUN ONES!!!!!

Instant Fun Inflatables - Florida Party Rentals

2009-10-20T13:16:00.000-07:00

When your looking for Instant Fun for lakeland party rentals nothing delivers excitement better than one of our wonderful Inflatables. Choose from bounce houses, wet and dry slides, jump and slide combos, and concessions like cotton candy, popcorn, and snow cones. All sure to give your event Instant Fun!

With Instant Fun Inflatables affordable prices, exceptional service, and new inventory, your guest will think you went overboard to throw a terrific event that guarantees to bring fun and laughter!

Instant Fun Inflatables party planners are standing by to help you so give them a call today at 863-419-4349.

Instant Fun Inflatables deliver to Lakeland, Davenport, Haines City and surrounding cities in Florida.

Bouncy Bonanza - McAllen Texas Party Rentals

2009-10-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

Bouncy Bonanza provides the most fun, new and cleanest inflatables for your party. As a McAllen party rentals company, Bouncy Bonanza can provide you with all the party supplies you will need to make your event or occasion a great success.

Bouncy Bonanza services the Edinburg, McAllen and Mission Texas areas. Call Bouncy Bonanza for more detail if you live in a city outside our area.

At Bouncy Bonanza they have the newest and safest moonwalks that are all made 100% in the U.S. They have bounce houses, jump and slide combos and water slides to choose from.

Bouncy Bonanza services all types of parties and events, from backyard birthday parties, school events, business events, carnivals, and more. Give them a call today to get more information and pricing at 956-451-1025

Eli's Fun Center - Virginia Indoor Play Center

2009-10-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

Eli's Fun Center is a state of the art indoor play center for kids of all ages. Their family entertainment center (FEC) can be booked for any party or event, from birthday parties to weddings. Eli's Fun Center has expert party coordinators that will help plan your party to be a big success.

They have obstacle courses, bubble ball interactive games, bounce houses, inflatable sporting games and more. Give them a call today at 540-248-7287 to arrange your party in the Virginia area.

They do party planning in Virginia for the following cities Harrisonburg, Staunton, Verona, and Waynesboro.

Wazees World Lazer Zone - Phoenix Arizona Indoor Play Center

2009-10-14T16:50:00.000-07:00

Wazees World Lazer Zone is the most fun, most unique Arizona indoor play center in the Phoenix metro area. Not only do they offer bounce parties, we have a 7500 sq. ft. Area 51 themed laser tag arena and a nine-hole Cosmic (black light) Golf.

Wazees World Lazer Zone do parties for every event and occasion. They have open bounce, Mommy & Me time, lock-ins, church groups, corporate and more. We can taylor a party to just about whatever you want! Wazees World Lazer Zone have a full service snackbar with homemade pizza and various snacks. They have a full arcade with some of the top games and a great selection of redemption games.

Wazees World Lazer Zone does party rentals in Phoenix, Glendale, Goodyear, Avondale, and Peoria. Please check the website for hours, pricing and specials. Be sure to look at the photo page too!

So You Think You Can Bounce - Texas Party Rentals

2009-10-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

So You Think You Can Bounce uses only the highest quality bouncers available in today's market. They are all made in the USA and are sturdy enough to handle the daily wear and tear that commonly damages other bouncers. Their equipment is brand new and we offer a range of models sure to fit within your budge and put a smile on your face.

So You Think You Can Bounce is a local and family owned operation. We do Bellville party rentals, Brenham party rentals, Hempstead party rentals and Sealy party rentals, and are glad to assist you with any questions you man have. Please feel free to contact us at any time via phone or email.

They offer the nicest and best water slides, slip n slides, obstacle courses, bounce houses and 3 in 1 combos in town. They service the Bellville, Sealy, Hempstead, and Brenham areas. Please feel free to contact them at 832-212-3064.

Premiere Jump - Tennessee Party Rentals

2009-10-14T16:26:00.000-07:00

Premiere Jump is a Knoxville party rentals company in Tennessee that offers a variety of interactive inflatables, which include jumpers, bouncers, combos, water slides, obstacle courses, slides, interactive inflatables, and coming soon...concession machines. They continually look to add new and innovative inflatable units to our rentals. All of our inflatable units are new and cleaned after every use. All of their inflatable units meet the latest standards for safety in design and operation.

Premiere Jump thrives on its excellent customer service and timeliness so customers can enjoy their party without having to worry about their order.

Premiere Jump will provide inflatable rental(s) service to all occasions, such as house parties, school festivals, church celebrations, carnivals, business events, birthday parties, block parties, city events, day care centers, anniversaries, weddings, picnic parties, park events, etc.

Why choose Premiere Jump? Because they are devoted to providing their customers with the best quality service along with the safest, cleanest, and newest products that will make any event an unforgettable one.

Currently under construction at 620 Sullivan's Place Rd., Seymour, TN, is our 4800 sq.ft. building with inflatable arena and private party rooms. Open jump times and multiple party packages with or without the inflatables will be available.

Bounce By The Ounce - New Jersey Party Rentals

2009-10-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

Bounce by the Ounce is a New Jersey party rentals company that offers a large variety of jumpers, bouncers, interactive inflatables. They continually look to add new and innovative inflatable units to their rentals. All of their inflatable units are new and cleaned after every use. All of Bounce By the Ounce inflatable units meet the latest standards for safety in design and operation.

Bounce By the Ounce thrives on its excellent customer service and timeliness so customers can enjoy their party without having to worry about their order.

Bounce By the Ounce has provided inflatable rentals service to all occasions, such as house party, school party, carnivals, business events, birthday party, block party, city events, day care centers, anniversaries, weddings, picnic party, park events, etc.

Why choose Bounce By the Ounce? Because they are devoted to providing our customers with the best quality service along with the safest, cleanest, and newest products that will make any event an unforgettable one.

Galaxy Jump and Bounce - Jackson Mississippi Party Rentals

2009-10-14T16:08:00.000-07:00

Galaxy Jump and Bounce is a locally owned licensed and insured company serving the Jackson Metro area. If you need a bouncer, slide, water slide, obstacle course, dunking booth, sno-cone, cotton candy, popcorn machine, gazebo, table, chairs or generator we are here to help. They carry a full line of supplies for all of our machines.

They provide everything you'll need for Jackson party rentals. They offer our services for any party or event. They'll do the delivery, all you need to do is have fun at your own party! They service the following cities in Mississippi; Jackson, Pearl, Brandon, Clinton, Ridgeland, Flowood, Raymond, Richland and surrounding cities. Please contact them for more details.

Billy's Island Hopperz - Galveston Texas Party Rentals

2009-10-14T15:56:00.000-07:00

Billy's Island Hopperz services the Galveston, TX area for Galveston party rentals and supplies. They have bounce houses, obstacle course, water slides and inflatable combos for rental.

What makes a party a bigger success than these fun inflatable games? Billy's Island Hopperz has everything to choose from, from regular bouncers to water slides and obstacle courses. Give them a call today at 409-392-8817 to get their special pricing and to get availability information

They service the following cities: Galveston, Bacliff, Bayou Vista, Hitchcock, Kemah, La Marque, League City, Santa Fe, South Houston, Texas City, Tiki Island, Webster and surrounding cities. Please call for delivery information.

They service any event from backyard birthday parties, church events, company picnics, carnivals, school parties, etc. No event is too big or too small for them.

Bay Area Fun Jumpers - San Francisco Party Rentals

2009-10-13T13:16:00.000-07:00

Bay Area Fun Jumpers is a San Francisco jumper rental and children's inflatable party rental company located in the Bay area. They provide bounce house and jumper rentals from San Francisco all the way down to San Mateo.

With a great inventory of themed party rentals like Batman Bouncer, Dora Bouncer, Hello Kitty Bouncer, Spidey Bouncer, Sponge Bob Bouncer, Incredibles Bouncer, bouncer and slide combinations, Shrek Bouncer, Brother Bear Bouncer, Snow White Bouncer, Sleeping Beauty Bouncer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bouncer, Disney Cars Jumper, Mickey Mouse Jumper, Pirates of the Carribean Jumper, Little Mermaid Jumper, Sport Games Inflatable, concession machines, Piñatás and more, they are able to supply customers in the Bay Area with a fun and exciting party game that will make any party or event a great success.

They provide free delivery and setup in the entire San Francisco Bay Area. They service the following cities in the Bay Area; San Francisco, South San Francisco, San Mateo, San Bruno, Pacifica, Millbrae, Half Moon Bay and Burlingame California. Bay Area Fun Jumpers is Bonded & Insured.

Se Hablá Español, special discounts include a 10% discount for anyone who mentions the website. For more information or for San Mateo jumper rental call 415-286-6070.

Magic Jump Rentals - Los Angeles Party Rentals

2009-10-12T10:02:00.000-07:00

Magic Jump Rentals has provided party rental in Los Angeles service in the Los Angeles county area since 1996. We have grown to be one of the biggest and most reliable inflatable rentals company around.

MJR offers a large variety of jumpers, bouncers, combos, water slides, obstacle courses, slides, interactive inflatables, concession machines, and other games. We continually look to add new and innovative inflatable units to our rentals. All of our inflatable units are fairly new and cleaned after every use. All of Magic Jump Rentals inflatable units meet the latest standards for safety in design and operation.

Magic Jump Rentals provides an easy and convenient method for online rental, all it takes is 3 easy steps to rent from us. Magic Jump Rentals thrives on its excellent customer service and timeliness so customers can enjoy their party without having to worry about their order.

Magic Jump Rentals has provided jumper rentals in Los Angeles service to all occasions, such as house party, school party, carnivals, business events, birthday party, block party, city events, day care centers, anniversaries, weddings, picnic party, park events, etc.

Why choose Magic Jump Rentals? Because we are devoted to providing our customers with the best quality service along with the safest, cleanest, and newest products that will make any event an unforgettable one.

Our special packages include great discounts, and are designed to provide the utmost excitement whatever the occasion may be.

SacTown Jumpers - Sacramento Party Rentals

2009-10-12T09:55:00.000-07:00

Sactown Jumpers Party Jump Rental is here to meet your inflatable fun needs! Sactown Jumpers was founded by people who have worked with moonwalk manufacturers for years, so when we were ready to start our own Sacramento Party Rental business, we custom ordered our bounces to meet the highest quality and safety standards.

Our service includes delivery and setup as well as a review of the instructions and safety rules for enjoying your bounce rental. Our trained installation experts will set up your bounce securely, then answer any questions you have before leaving you to enjoy your bouncer.

Our inflatable units are cleaned and maintained after every use to keep them in top shape. We take pride in our clean bounces!

We want you to be pleased with your rental, so don't hesitate to let us know what we can do to make our service better.

We Service the following areas in California; Sacramento, Roseville, Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Folsom, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Rocklin and El Dorado Hills.

Jumping Jax Party & Fun Center - Papillion Nebraska Jumper Party

2009-10-09T16:13:00.000-07:00

Jumping Jax Party & Fun Center is a Papillion party center aka Family Entertainment Center (FEC) or indoor play center. They provide a fun environment for people of all ages to come in and have a blast in our bounce houses, inflatable slides, jumpers and moonwalks.

Tired of cleaning up after parties? Or just don't have enough time to organize a party? Then give Jumping Jax Party & Fun Center a call and they'll be more than happy to host your event. At Jumping Jax Party & Fun Center they can make your party planning a piece of cake. All you have to do is come in and have a good time!

Give them a call today for more information and pricing at 402-515-2272.

IncrediBounce - Texas Party Rentals

2009-10-09T11:08:00.000-07:00

We are your #1 Lubbock Party Rental Company serving Lubbock & the surrounding communities. Whether you are looking for a traditional bounce house or a bungee run, IncrediBounce carries the equipment to meet your needs.

We specialize in inflatable bouncers & interactives - but we also carry a wide selection of games & concession machines. We have everything you need to make your party INCREDIBLE!

IncrediBounce delivers & sets up the equipment at your location & returns at the end of your event to pick everything up. We offer FREE delivery within Lubbock County.

We deliver to Levelland, Abernathy, Littlefield, Muleshoe, Plainview, Hale Center, Crosbyton, Post, Tahoka & Brownfield. If your community isn't listed, call for delivery availability. Due to increased gas prices, delivery fees will apply to all rentals outside of Lubbock County.

Our newest party rental is our line of yard greetings. Yard greetings help celebrate any special occasion in a BIG way! Check out our Yard Greetings page for more information & be one of the first in Lubbock to send an Incredible Greeting!

Call Holly at (806) 790-9945 to schedule your upcoming texas party rental. Big or small, Let Us Make Your Event Incredible!

Happy Hopper Moonwalks - Texas Party Rentals

2009-10-09T10:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Hopper Moonwalks is a texas party rental company offering moonwalks, bounce houses, bouncers, inflatable slides, water slides, games, sport games, jumpers, jump and slide combos and more. Make your event one to remember by reserving a moonwalk with Happy Hopper Moonwalks! This will be the event to remember for a life time. Let Happy Hopper Moonwalks do all the work, while you have all the fun.

To better serve our customers we offer all day rentals. Please, feel free to call us with any questions regarding inflatable or party rentals in or around Houston Texas.

We rent moonwalks 7 days a week. We rent to individuals, schools, churches, day cares for birthday parties, BBQs, church functions, family reunions and any many other functions.

Enjoy, Have Fun, Be Safe, thats our motto. We service the following areas; Humble, Kingwood, Porter, Spring, Houston and surrounding areas.

Please feel free to contact Happy Hopper Moonwalks for Spring party rentals or any surrounding city at 832-496-4187.