It's 2010!

First, let me wish you a Happy New Year.  I hope you and yours are doing well.

New Balloon Design
Well it has been a while since I picked up a balloon and started twisting something. Therefore, I decided to give myself a little challenge.  The movie Avatar is the big talk so I went online and found a photograph of the main character Jack Sully and using what balloons I had in my balloon apron tried to recreated the character.

Why did I do this?  Well I know in the next couple of weeks I will get somebody requesting this character and having done it once will give me a better chance to impress them with my skills.  Plus I was in the mood to twist balloons. It does not happen that often -- working on my 26th year of balloon twisting this April.

The Avatar character took about 20 minutes to create and I did not spend that much time researching all the details, just enough to give an idea what the character looked liked. I feel it's a good representation of the character for just 20 mintues of research and twisting.

Dale is predicting...
I did make a prediction for the 2010 entertainment season.  So for all you entertainers out there, give me your thoughts on what you expect in 2010?

Are you Looking to make extra income 2010….
Find out how you can accomplish this with very little effort.

Store Improvement
If you're a Facebook friend, you would have read my stats last night… Excellent night of computer coding and jammin to the radio.  I have nearly compleated of a quick order form which will make it easier for entertainers to purchase balloons. I hope to release the URL sometime next week.  So keep your eyes open for next weeks update notice.
Is it time to replace that old dysfunctional balloon apron if yours?  Then checkout the Deluxe Balloon Apron and see how it can help you become a better balloon entertainer.

Booking a Party?
Well have you booked me for a party yet?  Have you hired me for your corprate event?  Would love to see all my readers face-to-face.  Give me a call and book your next event with Magical Balloon-dude Dale...708.744.0234

Have you Seen Dale's New Promo video? Go check it out.

Thanks much for being an active follower of Magical Balloon-dude Dale

Great looking Snowman and Reindeer Photos

If you're looking to see some great balloon work, checkout this months posting of Experience the Thrill of being Balloon Artist this Holiday Season. I made a great looking snowman and Rudolf for this article.  The article is about what it is like to be a balloona artist or corporate entertainer. Every entertainer whats to get into corproate entertaining, but see for yourself what it is like to be a corproate entertainer on the road.  Here is a what happend to me this past  December weekend.

Please leave feel free to leave a comment.  Love to hear from you all.

How to Get More Corproate Gigs

If you been following Dale's Blog you would have learned that Corporate Entertainer Barry Friedman gave 10 articles on how to get more corporate gigs.  Starting in 2010 Barry will be expanding his online training program www.GetMoreCorporateGigs.com/TrainingCourse and is working to incorproate more entertainment fields.  Many of Barry techiques can be used in other areas of entertainment.  

Now the information provided in this free training course can help not only entertainers, but any person who is looking to expand their business marketing knowledge.  The ideas presented are not specifically "entertainment only" ideas, but sold business marketing concepts that with a little tweeking can be valuable to any person who is in business.  This is a free class, which I've taken.  When you register for the class, you will recievce an email from Barry, click on the link and it will link you to a short educational slideshow video.  It's that simple.  I hope you take the time to give Barry a chance to educate you and help you grow your business.

Mbd2.com Recap and Holiday Greetings

It's hard to believe that this year is rapedly coming to an end.  I have gone through some presonal things this year, the loss of my mother in May to the birth of my second child in June.  Like most businesses, I am working extra hard in these trying economic to keep improving and to keep employeed.  This year I was able to post 198 articles in Dale's Blog which I hope you found interesting, funny, educational and thought provoking.  Michelle and I have been working on improving and geting more balloon DVD's and balloon supplies, and making it easier for you to shop at the mdb2.com store.

The mbd2.com article section has been constently updated with new articles, which many have now been archieved allowing space for new 2010 information. If you like to write I'm always looking for writers to contribute articles. The mbd2.com forum is still growing with information and entertainers are constanly joining.  I hope that you'll make a donation to the forum to help keep it going.

This is be the last update notice for 2009 so Happy Holidays  and have a great New Year.

From Dale
AKA. Magical Balloon-dude Dale

P.S.  Don't forget to checkout the newest DVD's

Balloon Animal Pictures

I have been recently working with some new video editing software and put together a video presentation on youtube called Balloon Artist.  I'm showing off my talent not only as a balloon entertainer (a person who makes multiple balloon animal sculptures), but as a balloon artist.  My personal definition of a balloon artist is a person who is a very creative and is willing spend an extensive amount of time building a balloon sculpture.   When I say extensive, I'm taking hours to build a design.

In the video, I try to use my best artistic skills and create a video that would be fun to watch and would amaze the average audience member.  I choose Maple Leaf Rag as the audio file, because it was an upbeat melody and plus I like it.

I did try a free on-line software company, but wasn't impressed with it as much.  Since your my fans, why not show you the first Balloon Artist video I made.

I personally like the second video on YouTube, but feel free to share both, if you like.  I know my family and friends like to watch a good video ;-)
 

Secret Reason why Companies are not having Christmas Parties

This is a fun article - Topic is serious, but the story is funny.  If you don't understand why there are less parties... over the past few years the holiday parties are becoming so politically correct that fewer and fewer companies are having them.  Not only are the parties becoming difficult to plan, but the bad economy isn't helping.  Read what HR is going through to get the perfect holiday party.
 

Amidst all the holiday shopping craziness, most Americans at this time of year want to see holiday signs that wish them a "Merry Christmas."

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of adults prefer "Merry Christmas," while 22% like "Happy Holidays" instead.

Older Americans favor "Merry Christmas" more than younger adults. 

Data from http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/holidays/november_2009/most_americans_prefer_merry_christmas_to_happy_holidays

Planning For Kids Birthday Parties

If you have kids you know what it like to plan for a kids birthday party.  If you have never done it before, take a quick read of this article.  I will help you or pass it on to a friend who has kids.

When you are planning for your child’s birthday, you need to take out time from your busy schedule routine to plan all the details of your party. There are a lot of things that you must take into consideration when you are arranging for a kids party. You need to make sure that the decorations, props, food and the games are in tune with the theme of the party that you are adopting.  Take me to the rest of the article.

The Secret of Internet Marketing

Like many people who have a website I am always working on new ways to increase traffic and build my business.  But lately, I have noticed a trend that people are steering away form successful web ranking tools and going with social networks like Facebook that don't help with Google ranking.  We all want to be the first on Google's search list, but to often people don't understand what you need to accomplish this. 

Just recently, I was reading an industry magazine article about how you need to Twitter and Facebook.  The article made it sound like all you need to do was start a Facebook page and Twitter that you have it and people will come flooding to your website.  Well here is what the Guru's are not telling you.

What Everybody Ought to Know About Building a Balloon Show

Over the years I get entertainers asking how to make more money and get bigger gigs.  One simple way to do this is develop a show.  But may people don't understand how to do this or lack the experience to get started.  So why not learn how to do it quick and easy?  It is not difficult, it just means you have to watch a DVD, learn some comedy techniques and buy a couple more videos to increase your balloon skills and you to can have a quality balloon show that people will pay big bucks to see.

Did you Buy Old Tire?

I received an email from my sister about tire safety, that old tires are being sold as new.  This bothered me because I do a lot of driving and buy new tires regularly.  If you were like me, you didn't know that tires have a shelf life.  Duh!  Its rubber and rubber does breakdown over time.  You think a guy who works with rubber balloons and promotes that a twisting balloon is biodegradable would know better, but I didn't. 

The problem comes about when the tire rubber dries out and the threads tear off the tire.  This causes the car to skid, making the car veer in many directions.  Tire manufactures do place a code on the inside of the tire to denote when the tire was made.  The code is not hard to read.  The first number is the manufactured date, followed by the year.  12303 would translate too - 123 day in 2003 the tire was made.  If the tire has been sitting on the shelf for 6 years its not new.  So that new tire you just installed is 6 years old.  I know balloon entertainers who would not buy 6 year old balloons because of fear of failure.

Here is a link to the video - its about 6 minutes long, but educational. 

I just want everyone to be safe as they travel this holiday season.

 
Its not Spam, it me!
Each update notice will on contain two topics, so the updates will be short, to the point, and an easy read if your viewing on a mobile phone.  As always I will start the message with the word balloon so you now its not spam email.

Improving mbd2.com

Over the past 12 years my update notice has grown to over 4,000 subscribers and now with the list so big I have to move to a professional email service.  I've wasn't able to send you an update about the 100 Articles in October because the volume of emails being sent from my service provider was shutting down his server plus, with the large volume of email it was starting to look like a spammer to Yahoo email.  Didn't want that, so I opted to use a professional email service.  I hope you like the new look and the fact that I can keep you abreast of my activities, products, and activies going on in the balloon entertainment community.

Each update notice will contain two topics, so the updates will be short, to the point, and an easy read if your viewing on a mobile phone.  As always I will start the message with the word balloon so you now its not spam email.

100 Article is October
WOW!  Did you get a change to see all the article posted this October?  Articles on Balloon Animal Instructions, Self Improvement, SEO, Marketing, Bubble Blowing, and much much more was written about.

Why not take the time right now and go checkout Octobers Archies for the full listing of 100 Articles

Need Your Help

Cyber Monday has just recently passed and I'm sure many of you did some cyber shopping and are going to over the next couple weeks.  As you know I have a cyber store and I'm always looking to improve upon it.  So did anybody come across a cyber store that had features or product descriptions that helped  make the sale?  If so could you shoot me over the website URL and description on what you liked about it or if you have seen a website that was to difficult and confusing, send me that too.  Input like this can help me improve upon my cyber store.