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!