Thursday, December 25, 2008

Unique Advertising Opportunities

Some unique opportunities will be available to advertise on Free Gift Registry shortly.

Stay tuned from Free Gift Registry.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Advertising Available

If you have checked out Free Gift Registry recently you would have seen a lot of Advertising Available.

Free Gift Registry are offering advertising from $39AU for 3 months but for a limited time only.

Please contact Free Gift Registry on advertising information soon!

Gift Registry Team

Friday, October 31, 2008

1000 Members!!!

Free Gift Registry this week signed up our 1000th member to our website. This is a very exciting time for us and our service.

We wish to continue to provide this service for a long time and that you grow to love what we provide.

We don't know what we have in store for the future ourselves, what we do know is this; we strive to be the online gift registry service to the world.

If you have any questions at all, please contact us!

Tim Faase & the Free Gift Registry team.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

So Simple But So Sweet!

Free Gift Registry recently launched one of our favorite updates to our service. The forwards and backwards buttons on the gift detail popup. You can now scroll through lots of gifts quickly but using the new navigation buttons we added :)

If you feel you have a great idea and would like it added to our gift list service, please contact us!

Free Gift Registry

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Updates

Free Gift Registry Team recently released an update to correct the Gift Contributions report by guest. This had problems when a user didn't insert an email or name into the system.

This problem has been resolved and will be effective to all registries.

If you would like more information about our gift registry, please contact us.

More Updates

Free Gift Registry is soon to release another handful of updates and fixes. If you experience anymore errors or issues, ensure to let us know :)

All the best gift registers...

Gift Registry Team.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Updates

Hi Everyone,

This is a quick message to let everyone know we have made some updates to the interface to improve user experience and reliability. If you have any problems with the new updates, please contact us!

Free Gift Registry

Consider Us

Why not consider us the next time you or your friend/family is organizing a gift registry for a;
  • Birthday
  • Christmas
  • Baby Shower/Gift List
  • Bridal Registry or Wedding Registry
Our services are perfect for you.

Free Gift Registry Team

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Design Awards

We have had some fantastic wedding gift registries created recently on Free Gift Registry. Please see them below:

If you feel your gift registry is worthy of this award, please contact us! :)

Free Gift Registry Team.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Editorial Feature

At Free Gift Registry HQ, in our local area, we are having a feature article done on our service!

With a lot of coverage it will be exciting to see the potential response from the shire...Stay tuned Sutherland Shire, Sydney! :)

Free Gift Registry

Baby Shower Gift Registry

Congratulations to Denise's Baby Shower as they have won a Design Award for their fantastic colour scheme.

If you have your online baby shower gift registry with us and feel you should be awarded a design award. Please contact us.

Free Gift Registry Team.

Good Luck

Free Gift Registry recently has been used for many proposes. Weddings, birthdays, baby showers are the most common though every so often we get some random occasions join.

A Good Luck well wish has been used every so often to people leaving for other countries or moving on in jobs.

If you feel this would be an appropriate step for someone you know, feel free to setup an occasion for it but also don't forget us for wedding and bridal gift registries and baby showers.

Free Gift Registry

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

New Feature!

Free Gift Registry has recently launched a new feature to make adding and entering of gifts easy!

We have created a very simple mobile site for your convince.

What does this mean? - You can be in your favorite stores looking at your favorite gifts, and add the gifts online immediately on your phone with our new special mobile interface.

To view the mobile site, please go to our Free Gift Registry Mobile Interface.

For more information on what this might mean for you, please contact us! :)

Free Gift Registry Team

Design Award

Congratulations to Chauntelle for her design on her Baby Shower. We have awarded her the design because of the simplicity and colour scheme.

If you would like more information on our Design Awards.

Please contact us! :)

Free Gift Registry

500!

Today we have reached 500 gift registries worldwide, in 20 countries!

This is a great achievement for our service and feel it is just the start. Our goal is to reach 1000 by the end of 2008 which will be a comfortable reach.

Don't forget to tell your friends about Free Gift Registry!

eNewsletter

Today was hopefully the start of many eNewsletters that will go out in the cause of the next few months. If you didn't receive the email and would like to view it;

You can read the newsletter here

If you would like to unsubscribe to these emails, simply click the link at the bottom.

For more information on Free Gift Registry, please contact us.

Free Gift Registry Team

Monday, July 21, 2008

Birthday Gift Registry

Free Gift Registry over our lifetime has had a handful of Birthday Gift Registries. If you are confident your friends will get you some crappy gifts that you will never want how about trying to casually directing them to your gift registry website.

Sign up for a Birthday Gift Registry now!

We have lots of samples on our website that may be useful. Another concept that could be a help is that the gift list can be a checklist for what to bring for a certain occasion. A great help to this is a sample site we did for Dolcie's 70th Birthday.

Another great idea is that young Mum's or Dad's setting up a gift registry, set up a Birthday Gift Registry for young kids, toddlers or even babies. We have lots of people using it for baby showers. Please let us know if we can be an assistance to you at all for setting this up.

Another great plus Free Gift Registry has is it's pre-developed styles and backgrounds to suit your every needs.

Free Gift Registry Team

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Congratulations

Congratulations to a handful of our international users of Free Gift Registry, they have been awarded our prestigious :) Gift Registry Design Award!

These users are:

These international users came from:
If you feel you are worthy of the design award and recognition, please contact us!

Free Gift Registry Team

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Advertising Engine

The Free Gift Registry team today started on the advertising engine that will assist local retailers to connect to users they need too.

Keep watching this space.

Free Gift Registry

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Free Gift Registry Canada!

Free Gift Registry, now in Canada, has released a new domain name for Canadians to use! :)

Create it now!

Free Gift Registry Canada will hope to attract a lot of attention with global users mostly come from Canda.

Confused What To Get?



This is a simple graph that displays the worlds interest in finding the perfect Christmas Gift.

  • Blue Line: Christmas Gifts
  • Red Line: Skateboarding (generic)
In comparison, Christmas Gifts is hot on the agenda for getting the perfect gift. Don't know what to get someone? - Suggest a Christmas Free Gift Registry!

Why Not?!

Why not start up a Free Gift Registry Christmas Gift Register this Christmas? It will be the fast, new, easy way of getting the gifts you really want this Christmas.

Sign up today!


Free Gift Registry.

Free Gift Registry Adverising

Free Gift Registry will soon have the capacity to empower local retailers and stores to sell their gifts and promote their services online.

We are starting to work on an advertising engine that is non-intrusive and effective to link buyer and seller like no where on the internet. Stay tuned!

We will launch this concept for Christmas Gift Registries this year.

Free Gift Registry!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Facebook Application Launch!

Free Gift Registry Facebook Application is now available! We already have 10's of people using it and we expect it to be a huge success.

If you would like to Sign Up to our application, please click below:
For more information about Facebook and Free Gift Registry, please go to our website.

Free Gift Registry

Christmas Registry

Free Gift Registry is about to launch a big Christmas Gift Registry service this year! For everyone who wants gifts they really want, this is the perfect fun solution!

Stay tuned :)

Great News!

Like shorter domain names? We do! www.FreeGiftRegistry.com has now replaced its longer version www.freeonlinegiftregistry.com.

If you would like us to change your domain name in the database, please let us know!

Free Gift Registry Team

Monday, July 14, 2008

Christmas Gift Registry

Why not this Christmas have a Christmas Gift Registry for your friends and family. It is the perfect way to get the gifts you really want, casually!

Free Gift Registry Team.

Christmas Occasion

Free Gift Registry congratulates Bonnie's Christmas on her very creative design for her Christmas Registry. Stay tuned for an exciting something to do with Christmas this coming year.

Free Gift Registry!

Baby Showers Look Great

Congratulations to two couples who have setup gift registries for their Baby Showers :) These are:

Also, congratulations to Jacynta's 21st Birthday who has also been awarded a Design Award for her fantastic use of the templates. These unique registries have been recognized as some great work, keep it up.

Free Gift Registry

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Exciting News

Hi All Facebook Users!

We should have a complete version of the Free Gift Registry Facebook Application very soon.

Please check this space on Friday for any updates :)

Free Gift Registry

Design Awards

Two fantastic designs have been produced for Gift Registries over the weekend and we are proud to host them!

These two have produced a fantastic design using our Template Builder. See Free Gift Registry for more information about wedding and bridal gift registries.

Free Gift Registry

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Facebook Application

A quick note to everyone in Free Gift Registry land that your gift registry will soon be avialable on Facebook.

For more information in the future, please check back.

Free Gift Registry

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Baby Shower Gift Registry - Rude Concept?

Recently we have had lots of mothers to be and friends creating gift registries for their Baby Showers. However, we have been told it is rude to ask for gifts specifically and especially from special stores.

Is there a trend change in society, are baby shower registries now becoming okay? We will keep an eye out.

Keep in mind Free Gift Registry for any baby shower in the future!

Free Gift Registry Team

Design Awards

Congratulations to Clea and Jeremy's Wedding for being awarded a Design Award by the Free Gift Registry Team.

A Design Award is given when we like the design made on the registry, this is from a variety of themes.

If you think you deserve a Design Award, please talk to Free Gift Registry about it!

Free Gift Registry

Monday, July 7, 2008

Design Awards

Congratulations! Liz and Rob's Wedding has been awarded a design award on Free Gift Registry website.

If you would like more information on us, please ask!

Free Gift Registry

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Sutherland Shire Bridal Expo

A quick thank you to everyone who took cards at the Sutherland Shire Bridal Expo from Erica Jayne about Free Gift Registry.

I trust it was a helpful opportunity to organize your wedding and network with service suppliers.

If you would like more information about our service, please contact us :)

Free Gift Registry

Welcome Fiji

Free Gift Registry is now hosting our second pacific island gift registry at FIJI. We hope this gift registry service works well for you, and trust your occasion goes well.

Welcome from everyone at Free Gift Registry.

Tim Faase

Design Award

Everyone!

I am proud to present another Free Gift Registry Design Award to Racheal McDonald's Baby Shower. This award was given from the mixture of design elements and suitable colour scheme.

Looks fantastic, well done :)

Free Gift Registry.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

400 Occasions

Free Online Gift Registry today reached a milestone of 400 gift registries! Our goal is to attract over 1,000 users by the end of the calendar year which should not be a problem at all.

1,000 gift registries will be a big milestone for us and there will be a way of celebrating that by giving a prize to the 100ths gift registry.

Keep posted on more information on our bridal and wedding gift registry service.

For more information, please contact us!

Free Gift Registry Team.

Gift Registry by definition

Free Gift Registry, started in Australia, has seen great international growth over the past few months. The website was initially being used only really in Australia and developed by Australians, has incorporated terminology and social language into the system and it's branding. Is this a problem? If someone in the UK wanted a 'Gift Registry' they would be searching 'Gift List', and if an Australian was searching 'Glory Box' it would be 'Hope Chest' in the US. OR for a bit of fun... an eski would be a chilli-bin in New Zealand.

So what issues does this cause? - In recent research we have discovered that Canada, by far on the worlds scale is searching the terms 'gift registry'. Thanks to Google Trends, we can do this research.

As you can see on the right hand side, there is a graph that displays two lines.

The blue line is volume of keyword searched 'gift registry'.

The red line is the volume of keyword searched 'gift list'.

At the bottom you can see the break down of searching across different countries. What can be observed is that Canada is way out in front of any searches related to 'gift registry' and uk is way out in front of 'gift list'.

What Free Gift Registry endeavors to do is reach everyone around the world, no matter the language and location barrier.

No matter if you search;
...that we can provide an effective service to you that you are proud to tell your friends.

If you would like more information about Free Gift Registry or how our online gift registry service works, please contact us!

Correct .com!

Free Gift Registry has been working hard to obtain the correct .com domain name. This will mean; www.freegiftregistry.com will be available, hopefully, very shortly.

For more information on this domain name and what it might mean for your registry, please contact us.

Remember, Free Gift Registry is the fastest growing online gift registry.

Free Gift Registry Team.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Free Gift Registry in Canada

Free Gift Registry after some research has opened the service to people in Canada. This will be avialable shortly and we will do a big campaign to spread the word.

Please let us know if you have any questions?

Free Gift Registry Team.

French Translation

Free Gift Registry is now available in French! This is automatically displayed if your computer is set to a French language, or you can manually set this by choosing the language at the bottom of the website.

If you would like more information, please feel free to contact us.

Free Gift Registry Team.

Monday, June 30, 2008

French Translation

Good News! The French translation of Free Gift Registry will soon be available to everyone to use. The correct translation is in and ready to be implemented into the website.

If you speak in French, are located in France or you know of friends that would need a service like this in their native language, let them know about Free Gift Registry.

This gift registry service is the fastest growing and easiest to use, around the world.

If you would like more information, please talk to us! :)

Free Gift Registry Team!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Design Award - Congratulations!

We have a new Design Award has been given to Julia and Lindsay's Wedding for their selected background and custom template.

If you would like more information on the design awards, or feel your registry is great for an award... please contact us! :)

Our gift registry is the fastest growing gift registry is Australia and is moving around the world. This system is appropriate for any baby showers, or wedding gift registries etc.

Free Gift Registry

Advertisers

There is some very exciting opportunities coming available very soon. Please contact us to get in early.

We will be targeting initially advertisers wanting to sell to Bridal Showers, Engagement Parties, Wedding Gift Registries, Baby Showers and Birthdays for retail and branding services.

To start of we will want to request advertisers in Australia, then move global.

For more information, please contact us!

Free Gift Registry

Friday, June 27, 2008

Questions

To provider a greater service to you, Free Gift Registry will soon be asking some more questions about you and using our service.

This first one will include specifying where you live closer than where we can guess. We don't want you to select anything like your house or even close to that... just the generalized area will be helpful to us.

If you would like more information about how this is used, please contact us!

Free Gift Registry Team.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Significant News

Free Gift Registry will be shortly releasing the inital stages of our gift suggestion service. Initally we will have organisations that you might wish to donate money too.

Keep posted, this will be big.

Tim Faase

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Sample Sites

Free Gift Registry will soon have new backgrounds available on the homepage to get a sample of the gift registries we provide.

Gift Registry Team.

Success!

Free Gift Registry had a huge success at the Penrith Bridal Expo last weekend. Tim Faase from Free Gift Registry was there all weekend handing out business cards and talking to newly-to-be weds about what our service can provide and what are the potential limitations.

We gave out 1,500 information cards and talked to several hundred brides and grooms to be.

Free Gift Registry continues to be the best solution for any bridal/wedding gift registry.

Please talk to us if you would like more information?

Free Gift Registry Team.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Advertising Opportunities

Free Gift Registry has lots of advertising opportunities available for general services, wedding specific or babies. Our gift registries are self advertising and promote services to lots of people in a similar society group.

If you would like more information about advertising retail products for baby showers, bridal/wedding registry please contact us.

Also, if you would like more information on advertising your service to our market, let us know!

Free Gift Registry Team

New Method Of Displaying

Free Gift Registry now has new a new method of displaying the How Does It Work page. We have integrated a dynamic method of showing the features of the website. Check it out! :)

The gift registry team is currently working on a new design for the homepage.

If you have any suggestions? Please let us know?

Tim Faase

Homepage

Free Gift Registry now has a new and improved homepage! Check it out

Don't like it? Let us know! :)

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

HTML Emails

Free Gift Registry now completely supports HTML emails throughout the website. If you would like more information on what this means, please contact us.

There is one more aspect to the emails that still requires work but we would like your feedback first. Would you like the optional registry update emails sent in HTML?

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tim Faase

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

All the rage!

Increasingly we have had referrals to our gift registry from Wedding/Bridal Websites and Forums across Australia and the world recommending people to use and express interest in our service.

For everyone out there promoting the service, good and faithful customers... thank you!

We appreciate the support you are continually giving this free service.

Free Gift Registry Team.

Milestone

Free Gift Registry plan to reward the first occasion organiser to bring us into a 3 figure total amount of users.

We currently have 10 countries using the gift registry with after the milestone title we are after.

Keep recommending Free Gift Registry to your friends for their baby showers, engagements, birthdays and bridal gift registries.

Gift Registry team.

Gift Registration Emails

Along side with the other update we implemented this morning to the gift registry, your guests can now receive Rich Text HTML emails reminding them of the gifts that they registered.

The email will be designed similar to your registry style so everything is uniformed and how you like it.

If you have any problems or would like any more information... please ask us!

Free Gift Registry.

New Homepage Coming Soon!

The Free Gift Registry team is currently working on a new homepage for the website. Stay tuned and prepared to be dazzled.

Free Gift Registry provides services for Bridal, Baby, Wedding, Engagement and any gift registry service needed.

New Feature Available!

Free Gift Registry this morning launched a new feature that will allow occasion organisers to send rich text HTML emails. The emails display the same information however it now styles the email the same as your registry.

To enable and start using this feature, go to the Gifts area first. At the bottom you will find a group of Settings. Ensure 'I would my emails sent in the rich text HTML version.' is checked.

Feel free to send as little or many email invitations as you wish! If you have this option enabled, your emails will now send using this feature.

Please let us know if you have any questions about this new feature to the gift registry service.

Free Gift Registry Team.

Monday, June 16, 2008

New Style - Leather!

Our design team today has developed a new theme and design style to choose from for your gift registry! Check it out now...

The registry is called Leather, check it out with the Bubbles background picture!

Stay tuned for new Free Gift Registry design styles.

How Does It Work?

Our website has been updated to provide our new users with a greater understanding of what Free Gift Registry does and provides. Please check out the new How Does It Work page.

If you have any questions about how our gift registry works, please feel free to contact us.

Free Gift Registry team.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Western Sydney Bridal Expo

The Free Gift Registry team will be at the Western Sydney Bridal Expo on the 21st and 22nd of June presenting our service.

Tim Faase and Sarah Hall will be available to discuss and talk about what the gift registry provides. The team will be handing out business cards to ensure everyone remembers the address.

We are excited to see the response and who takes up this fantastic opportunity.

Free Gift Registry Team.

Myer or Store Gift Registries

Hey everyone,

This post is a quick note to express our understanding of current gift registries and how it is a change in common thinking. Gift Registry was designed to allow our guests add gifts from any store, allowing for as much or as little as you wish. See the page: How It Works.

Free Gift Registry has seen many gift registries work with store gift registries or use the store as a sale point to buy the gift.

We continue to ensure that Free Gift Registry is as seamless and helpful as possible.

Bridal Registry Team.

Card Design Service?

Dear Gift Registry users,

Would a invitation card design service help organizers? Free Gift Registry have been toying with the idea that we could offer a custom graphic design service which would involve a flat fee for design and print.

The organizers of the gift registry for say a baby shower or bridal registry can specify what they like and the wording and our skilled team of designers will produce and print your invitation cards.

Let us know what you think?

Gift Registry Team

Family/Friends Referrals?

Everyone in the world of web! Thank you... thank you for your assistance and support of Free Gift Registry.

Free Gift Registry has received 50 referrals from Family and Friends to Free Gift Registry.

Keep it up! Tell your friends :-) It's a free service, take advantage of it.

It's a perfect system for baby showers, bridal gift registry, or any gift registry in general.

Free Gift Registry.

The Only Free Gift Registry?

On recent market research, the Free Gift Registry team has learned that we are the only online Free gift registry service? If there is any out there, please let us know! :)

The point of the article is this: to ensure that our customers understand we will:
  1. not start charging money
  2. not introduce a limited free version or extended paid version
  3. be bombarded with ads
It is our top priority that the end user, customer, guest is treated well and their experience is nothing but ideal. Our online gift registry service is going to continue to serve a fantastic free service until I grow old.

Bridal gift registries continue to be a biggest type of occasion on Free Gift Registry... the type of statistic we want to keep... weddings are way to expensive.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Baby Shower Registry

Free Gift Registry now has some fantastic templates, styles and backgrounds available for baby shower registries. The concept of having a baby shower gift registry has been very common recently and we encourage anyone planning on throwing a party to get the gifts they really NEED. Especially just weeks before coming a mother of parents.

Examples of Baby Showers or Baby Gift Registries:
Free Gift Registry has helped over 30 families create their gift registry. Why not consider use us for your Baby Shower gift registry.

Design Award - Gift Registry

Another user of the gift registry has been awarded with a Design Award. Their gift registry has been designed using our new background images.
If you feel your wedding, bridal or baby shower gift registry should be awarded, please comment or contact us.

Themed Invitation Emails

Recently we have had a few people request that the email invitation function on the gift registry is also in the theme of their registry. We will be updating this function very shortly with also the feature to leave it as plain text.

This is especially important for bridal, baby and wedding/bridal gift registries to have consistency... an email might be the best form of inviting a guest, we want to ensure that your occasion 'look' is consistent and not branded Free Gift Registry.

What do you think? Good idea? Want more changes? ... Let us know! :)

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Gift Registry

Free Gift Registry has been used in the past for a variety of reasons. Free gift registry has been used as:
  • Going away parties
  • House warming parties
  • Birthdays
  • Anniversary's
  • Check lists
  • Road trips
  • Online store
But the more common uses have been used as:
  • Baby shower
  • Kitchen tea
  • Bridal shower
  • Wedding gift registry
What have you used our gift registry for? Anything uncommon?

Free Gift Registry team.

Design Awards - Whats that about?

We love you being creative with your registries and we have all been amazed by some of the designs. The gift registry service we provide allows you to design your own theme without any real limitations (except for our banner at the top).

We are awarding specific occasion designs with Design Awards to acknowledge some fantastic efforts. Some registries that have been awarded the Design Award already are as follows:

If you think your design is worthy of a design award, let us know! Comment on this post :)

Gift Suggestions

As all the gift registry users know, we have a placeholder box on the gift page letting our users know about a gift suggestion feature. The team thought we should shed some light on what this actually means and how it will work in the future.

The gift suggestion system will automatically profile your occasion type and the kind of gifts you are after and suggest appropriate gifts that you might like. The gifts suggested won't cost the occasion organizer a thing to add on to your registry.

This feature won't be available in the short term sorry but hopefully it will be well on the way by the end of the year.

Facebook Intergration

Baby showers, weddings and bridal registries are different for everyone we have found. There are none that are the same and in how they work. We have started developing a Facebook application which will integrate with Free Gift Registry.

The application will use your existing online network to help your guests to register the gifts they want to get you.

This feature and application will be available within a month or two. Though in the meantime, let us know what you think? Worthwhile? Or a waste of time?

Keep posted.

Themed Emails

If you liked to be able to customise your gift registry page, Free Gift Registry is now going to integrate the same style you selected for you registry page as in the reminder emails that are sent to your guests.

There are parts such as the title font and background image that we can't carry into the email but it will look much better than the current plain text email.

We will leave an option for you to leave emails sent in plain text if you would rather it.

Ideas?

Multi-Lingual

Free Gift Registry is soon to be completely multi-lingual in starting with 3 languages. This will be:

  • French
  • Spanish
  • English (US version)
The system already has global date and currency formats but language will soon be an option for you and your guests.

What do you think? Are there other languages you would like us to start with?

Welcome!

My name is Tim Faase, I'm sure you have meet me at some stage while using Free Gift Registry. I started this service when my fiance and myself got engaged, it's been by baby for quite a while now and the team is happy with where it is at.

Have you got any good ideas out there? Want any changes? Love or hate it?

All the best!