Are you having trouble finding Zhu Zhu pets this holiday season? They are going fast, and many stores are already out of them!
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The Zhu Zhu pets are inexpensive robotic toys that sell for about $10. The Zhu Zhu pets have been very popular, possibly due to the price in this recession. The stores are are starting to run out of them, much like the Cabbage Patch Kids did years ago.
To compound the short supply, is the fact that Zhu Zhu pets are not made by any of the big toy companies. Instead, they are made by Cepia Inc, located in St. Louis. Cepia Inc has just 16 employees in the US, and 30 in China.
So how did a small company like Cepia initially get the word out about Zhu Zhu pets to make this one of the hottest toys this Christmas season? It was through local cable ads, and internet marketing, where they tapped into “Mommy Bloggers”, which is initially they got word of mouth going.
So hurry and find those Zhu Zhu pets now… before it’s too late.
If you are figuring out what to give your family pet this holiday season, consider creating a special award certificate for your pet, which you can now easily do online at http://www.PetBoogaloo.com .
PetBoogaloo is offering a free online tool this holiday season, in which you can create a customized official looking award certificate for your pet, which you can then print from your computer. You can create it in minutes.
PetBoogaloo’s award certificate maker is very easy to use. You simply go online, type in your pet’s name, your name, the person who is awarding the certificate, and the award that your pet is being acknowledged for. You can even add your pet’s photo to the certificate. This award certificate maker is web-based, so you can do it from most any computer. PetBoogaloo also offers different templates, so you can choose the look of your award.
Use your imagination with this, and even let your kids have fun with it. You can frame this award and hang it on your wall, put it on a scrapbook page, or send it to someone special.
Have fun and happy holidays.
I thought I might share with you my personal experience on creating a social network on www.Ning.com . Ning is a social networking platform in which anyone can start their own unique online community. As of the time of this article, there are over 100,000 social networks on Ning, with 70,000 of them having been created in just the past seven months alone.
I actually just stumbled upon Ning this summer. I immediately fell in love with the options it provided for someone who wanted to start their own community. It’s an easy way to start an online community for your leads group, your business, your church, or other group. Ning is free to use.
I started a community which you can view at www.PetBoogaloo.ning.com , which is a social networking site for pet enthusiasts. In my easy-to-use control panel, I could create my desired color scheme and graphics. I wanted to provide all the members of my community the ability to add and share their pet videos, pet photos, and to blog about their pets. I also wanted my members to be able to participate in forum discussions, and create to their own groups within the PetBoogaloo community. Every member also has their own profile page, which they can customize even further. Members are able to actively network with each other if they want to.
Adding these features onto PetBoogaloo was easy. I simply selected the features I wanted to provide to my members, and clicked and dragged them to where I wanted them placed on the PetBoogaloo site.
You can also select whether you want your community to be public or private. I’ve noticed that public communities rank very high in the search engines, which is a huge member benefit, particularly if you have business members who want to increase their own website’s search engine rankings.
If you want to get more technical, you can. Ning offers the ability for you to control your own source code. If you or your webmaster wants to further customize the site, you can request and then alter your source code. Initially, I planned on doing that as I loved the option of complete control, but what I found is that once you order the source code, you don’t benefit from all the new features that Ning is constantly providing. With all the current available options, and with the Ning programming team constantly delivering new state of the art features, I decided to go back and have Ning manage the source code instead.
You of course still need to market your community to your desired audience, so that they know you are there. For tips, check out The Dollars and Sense of Online Communities
