Talash.com Offers an Exclusive Range of Navratri Special and Navratri Gifts on This Navratri
This season talash.com is celebrating Navratri and Dusshera in its full spirits. Talash.com is back with special Navratri gift items like Chaniya Cholis, Kurta for men and Navratri Accessories, everything under one roof. There are also some unique gifting ideas such as gift certificates and personalized gifts. Such unique gifts are eye-catching and guaranteed to make your near and dear ones smile. Dandiyas or painted sticks are important part of the festivals. Get different types of Dandiyas available is different shapes and colors that are an inevitable part of the celebrations.
Navratri is celebrated all over India for nine consequent nights in the worship of Lord Ram and Goddess Durga. It is belief that Maa Durga, goddesses of power and vitality who is believed to have nine forms called Navadurga, takes a new form on each of the nine days to kill the demon Mahishasur. After nine consequent nights it is on the tenth day that the Goddess kills the demon and this day is celebrated as Dusshera, the victory of good over evil. There also another concept to this, Lord Ram had killed Ravan on this day and this day is celebrated as Vijaydashami or as Dusshera. Lord Ram is said to have worshipped the goddesses, seeking her blessing in order to overpower the evil force of Ravan.
Different states celebrate this festival in different way. The most joyous celebration of Navaratri is seen in Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Bengal. In Gujarat, every night people gather in courtyards to dance the Garba and Dandiya Raas, a community dance in which men and women dressed in festive clothes dancing in pairs with Dandiya or painted wooden sticks. In West Bengal, it is celebrated as Durga Puja where beautifully decorated images of the goddess are worshipped in specially erected Puja Pandals. It has special significance in Mysore, South India. Mysore palace is illuminated for a whole month during Dusshera and caparisoned elephants lead a colourful procession through the gaily decorated streets of the city. In North India, on the 10th day, larger than life effigies of Ravan, his brothers Meghnad and Kumbhakarn filled with different fire crackers are set alight to celebrate victory of good over evil.
Celebrate this victory of goodness with much more enthusiasm as Maa Durga showers all her blessing and strengths onto you and your family. Don’t let your family in India and abroad felt left out in any way. Let talash.com help you to feel a part of the celebrations completely. Send special and personalized gifts to all and make this Navratri yet another memorable celebration of the year
Personalized Gifts Are Packing a Punch At FindGift.com
Kennesaw, GA (PRWEB) August 30, 2009 — As preparations begin for crucial fourth quarter sales, savvy retailers are coming out swinging with what’s been coined “egonomics” — the personalized product phenomenon. In today’s economy, gift givers are looking for a bigger bang for their buck, and personalized products seem to offer consumers that little something extra.
The trend is sweeping through FindGift.com; the premiere online gift giving search engine, where nearly ¼ of the website’s 63,000 gifts, and over half of the site’s Top 20 products offer some type of personalization.
A personalized gift not only pleases the recipient, it makes the giver shine as well
According to June Mauser, Senior Gift Expert at FindGift.com, having a gift personalized makes a big impression, transforming an ordinary gift into a memorable one. “A personalized gift not only pleases the recipient, it makes the giver shine as well,” says Mauser. This type of “double reward” seems to be what today’s gift giver is searching for.
Retailers seem to love the phenomenon as well, as fewer items get returned and price points rise with a personalized perk.
All in all, personalized gifts are showing signs of being among the heavyweight favorites for the upcoming holiday season. FindGift.com is a privately owned and operated company located in Kennesaw, GA, offering over 63,000 hand-reviewed gift ideas from over 1,200 online stores.
Yourwovenphotos.com offers deserving anniversary gifts through photo canvas art
An Anniversary brings totally unique experience of sharing your joy and helps you to maintain healthy relational ship with life partner. So, searching at shopping malls and catalogs for deserving gifts for your loved wife has become an impossible task these days. So, alternate solution for your search ends through online gift stores, as these stores have become the best source to look out for anniversary gifts or personalized gifts and at the same provides wide ranges of gifts based on your choice.
Based on the choice of individuals who are looking out for special gifts for anniversary to make the occasion a memorable one, yourwovenphotos.com is the right place to stop by as it has introduced separate category for anniversary gifts that can not only take up your partner by surprise but also its impact remains for life time. The company states that it has collection of personalized gifts especially for anniversary that can convey romantic and caring impression on your life partner.
Yourwovenphotos.com delivers photo canvas prints that best suits as personalized gifts for anniversary, as the company is tied up with best canvas manufacturers in the photo printing industry and assures you to produce photo canvas prints that forms as deserving anniversary gifts for your loved wife or life partner. The company provides multiple options of photo canvas products like photo canvas framed, featured photo canvas, pop-art photo canvas to make gift as an innovative one.
Individuals who are passionate towards gifts or people who are looking around to gift stores or shopping malls trying to find customized gifts for life partner, yourwovenphotos.com comes as great help with its wide range of photo canvas and other customized products for anniversary and guarantees customer satisfaction through its best customer service and timely delivery of the ordered gifts. So, do visit yourwovenphotos.com to find anniversary gifts with in your budget and with just few clicks make your memories of your anniversary cherish for lifetime.
Hands in the Cookie Jar
sign in the shop reads “No dessert is too pretty to eat,” but Corso’s Cookies, 314 Lakeside Road, Lakeland, is certainly trying to make one. The gourmet cookie factory specializes in elaborate cookie bouquets that can be shipped anywhere in the country for just about every occasion. “These are personalized gifts,” says Tina Corso Hess, 35, the owner and original baker. “We wanted them to have a wow factor.”
With more than 300 different cookie designs and hundreds of themed bouquets, the originality and attention to detail provided by each bouquet contributes to that wow factor. Specializing in vibrant-hued, frosted buttercreme shortcake cookies, the business has morphed from a childhood passion for Hess into a full‑fledged factory producing thousands of cookies each day.
Corso’s Cookies had a booth for the first time at this year’s Taste of Syracuse and also debuts at the New York State Fair, showing off their craftsmanship and selling individual cookies, including a horse‑shaped cookie developed especially for the event.
A flour bouquet: Peter and Tina Hess show off one of Corso’s Cookies’ creations, celebrating summer. MICHAEL DAVIS PHOTO
But Hess didn’t start her business so grandly; it began in her kitchen. In 2001, after taking some old family recipes and baking some edible gifts with her mother, Judy Corso, she began branching out and selling gift baskets involving her creations. “I always had a love of art as well as for baking,” she notes. “This allowed me to add some creativity and artistry.” With her mother’s help, Hess filled the kitchen with cookies and started passing out business cards. By 2002 she quit her job as a realtor in Syracuse and opened up her first shop, located at 107 Montrose Ave., Westvale.
Hess and her mother operated the business together for two months, baking, frosting, arranging and wrapping each gift individually, before the task became too demanding for just the two of them. “We started out with people who could help with the wrapping,” Hess says. “But the first year I baked every cookie myself.”
As demand for Corso’s cookies grew, the business flourished. In 2005, Hess’ husband Peter Hess, 40, quit his own job as a business consultant and came on full time to handle the business aspects of the bakery. Additionally, the couple created a Web site and began selling through third‑party online companies like ProFlowers.com and Amazon.com, which sent business through the roof. “Within hours of being up {on their first third‑party Web site} we had 20 or 30 orders,” says Peter Hess. “Now we do 90 percent of our business through the Web.”
In 2006, the couple bought and completely renovated their current location in Lakeland, transforming an old warehouse into equal parts cookie factory and office. It is here that their new workforce, more than 20 employees who bake, decorate and wrap bouquets all day, create the works of art Corso’s is known for. The company has even done specialized cookie bouquets for companies such as Vera Bradley, eBay and QVC.
With expansion the cookie operation has gone through a few alterations. Old family recipes have been modified for freshness. Cookie designs, once drawn up and executed by Tina Corso Hess herself, are now created by teams of professional cake decorators, who are “master copycats” at designing each cookie. They have experimented with different frostings to find the perfect one that looks and tastes good, but can also withstand shipping.
Personalized Gifts – An Entirely New Line Of Unique Gifts For Internet Shoppers
Greenfield, NH – August 25, 2009 — A new personalized gift source has entered the virtual retail market. E-shoppers now have the ability to order unique “flame cut steel” gifts from the comfort of their home or office. Consumers create the cutting programs from their keyboard, and American Personalized Products delivers the customized gift within a week.
Understanding that gift buyers and recipients alike have a special place in their hearts for durable personalized items that are also a value, American Personalized Products (APP) has recently delivered just such products to the internet for sale. They are made of solid steel, cut by high temperature flame to within a hundredth of an inch accuracy, coated and shipped within four working days of order. Every gift provides the function of identity; most offer some other functionality as well (key hook, coat hook, bottle opener, trivet, fireplace grate…). All of the items are intended to beautify and impress.
As host Ann Curry said about our fireplace grates’ debut appearance on NBC’s Today Show at Christmas “You can show you care about people and give them something a little more special… the guys behind the camera really love this one.” And as Ann’s guest and author of “The Giftionary” Robyn Spizman (who brought our product to the Today Show) said in reply “Send your warm wishes with this one. This is a great way to personalize a grate!”
As Jen from Pennsylvania said in a recent product review of the APP key hook “…it looks great on the wall… more than a couple of our friends have commented on how nice it is… the price was reasonable… so I’d definitely buy again.” As Kristin from Texas said “This product is well made. It serves the purpose of holding keys, with a personal touch of our family name.”
APP offers a wide variety of products for he/she/them. In addition to the products already mentioned they provide tea light candle holders, bookends, mail box name plates, back scratcher/shoe horns, pet and equestrian items, door name plates, entry mats, barbeque utensil holders, garden hose racks, garden and yard markers, Christmas stocking hangers, and a trailer hitch name plate.
Many more products are under development for release in the near future including tables, benches, weather vanes, fireplace utensils, and hold’em poker card markers.
APP cuts all its products from structural grade steel plate. Outdoor products are either powder coated or hot dip galvanized for durability. Indoor products are painted black or clear coated. The cutting process is accomplished by CNC controlled magnetically charged gas particles burning at ten thousand degrees Fahrenheit. All products are buffed clean and bent to specification before coating and shipment. Many shipping alternatives are available to the client at the time of order. American Personalized Products is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Steel Fabricators, Inc. of Greenfield, NH. American Steel’s president is Mark S. Carter. The APP sales contact is Kim Sweeney.
Red Envelope: The Place for Unique and Personalized Gifts
Online shopping enthusiasts should take the time to visit Red Envelope’s website to visualize the company’s vast assortment of affordable gift ideas. Widely recognized as the World Wide Web’s one-stop source for unique and personalized gifts, Red Envelope carries an extensive selection of gift options for men, women and children that are perfect for any special occasion.
One of the company’s most popular items at the moment is the Pink Pearl Illusion Necklace, which is sold exclusively by Red Envelope for an extremely noticeable retail price of just $49.95. The necklace contains three strands of thin tiger tail wire that feature freshwater pearls of various colors, shapes and sizes.
The Pink Pearl Illusion Necklace truly fits the description of a unique and personalized gift with its ability to provide you with an illusion of freshwater pearls suspended in midair due to the incredibly thin strands of tiger tail wire. For men who are searching for a decadent, romantic gift for their significant other, Red Envelope’s Half-Dozen Hand-Dipped Pink Ribbon Berries are made to order and they retail for just $34.95.
Visually captivating and loaded with succulent flavor, these hand-dipped strawberries will help to provide you with an intimate moment with your significant other. Another appealing factor that may influence you to acquire Red Envelope’s Half-Dozen Hand-Dipped Pink Ribbon Berries as a gift is that 10 percent of the revenue that is generated from your purchase is donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help their efforts in developing breast cancer research.
All you need to know about Baby Gifts and Toddlers Books
There is something really special about baby gifts for an entire family. The arrival of a newborn child becomes a reason for celebration for everyone in a household. The best way to celebrate the birth of a child is by gifting personalized gifts such as bibs, kids wall art, blankets, jumpers, growth charts or even baby jewelry. For toddlers, the best gifts would ideally be toddlers’ books. This is because these children belong to their formative years and books can be great stimulants for their overall mental and psychological growth and development. Books are always appreciated and respected by parents. If you wish to gift something to toddlers, then special books meant for them will be the most useful. Before that, you must know more about these specialized books.
Toddlers’ books are available in wide selections. Most of them are popular for their promotion of memory and vocabulary, stimulating verbal ability, and even enhancing the relationship between the child and the parent. This is because the child develops a strong bond towards the person who reads out to him or her. Gradually children develop a fascination for reading and learn to read independently. For gifting any toddler such books, you will find a wide range of durable, attractive and safe books available. Baby gifts are categorized mainly in terms of the age of the child or the occasion that is being celebrated. Some of these occasions typically include baby showers, birth of a newborn child, the child’s first birthday and subsequent birthdays.
For baby showers, where you will be required to give baby gifts to the expecting mother, you must make a choice in terms of the gift’s utility. The most appropriate and appreciated gifts for such occasions are baby suits, baby blankets, baby baskets having many baby products, cribs and bouncers. On the other hand, while making a selection for toddlers’ books that you wish to gift, you must keep in mind that such children usually prefer to see books that have big and colorful pictures and enjoy hearing sounds related to the pictures. These children also prefer to turn the pages on their own. Their attention span is rather short and vocabularies are somewhat limited. Thus, you must select books that consider all these factors.
For gifting the best toddlers’ books, you can ensure that they suit the child’s preferences by simply making the correct selection in terms of the material and content. For instance, for toddlers who are very young, you can look for books with a hard cover, rounded corner page, light weighted, easy for turning pages, easy to wipe or clean, large sized page and indestructible material such as cloth books and board books. It should have good rhymes and simple texts, should be able to produce some relevant sounds, more pictures than written material, lesser number of pages and should have bright and colorful pictures of simple and familiar objects.
In terms of baby gifts for children over a year, you have better and greater options. These include learning toys, baby pillows, walkers, bath toys, swings, baby slings and baby toys other than toddlers books. Apart from these you can also personalize and customize baby baskets to incorporate a host of gift items. Other gifts for younger babies could include feeding bottle kits, alphabetical curios, teething kits and fairytale figurines.
StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced that Family Christian Stores®, America’s leading specialty retailer, is standardizing all of its marketing and transactional email on StrongMail’s commercial-grade email platform. Family Christian Stores previously relied on an email service provider but switched to StrongMail to improve the relevancy, reliability and cost of its email campaigns.
Family Christian Stores is the nation’s largest retailer of Christian products with over 300 locations and 5,000 employees in 40 states. In addition to its chain of retail stores, Family Christian Stores also sells Christian products and church supplies through its website. In order to keep its customers informed of relevant information, promotions and store events, Family Christian Stores relies heavily on email, resulting in multiple campaigns and millions of emails sent each month.
As the company’s email volumes have grown alongside its rapidly expanding customer base, Family Christian Stores began looking to replace its email service provider with an alternative solution that would enable it to keep pace with customer demand and marketplace conditions, while also lowering its costs. After evaluating several solutions, Family Christian Stores quickly determined that StrongMail offered the best solution to meet its needs for increased control, data integration, flexibility and value.
“With StrongMail, we now have the control and data integration necessary to respond quickly to market changes with personalized gifts messages that drive results and customer satisfaction,” said Keith Watkins, CIO of Family Christian Stores. “By offering us a complete solution at the right value, StrongMail will enable us to deliver more relevant and cost effective email communications across our multi channel environment.”
StrongMail’s comprehensive and easy-to-use email marketing application will allow Family Christian Stores to better leverage its customer data to send more relevant information and offers. Equally important, by bringing its email capabilities in-house with a commercial-grade solution, Family Christian Stores now has total control over the timing of its emails and a high-performance delivery engine to get them delivered quickly and reliably. StrongMail’s transactional email capabilities will also allow Family Christian Stores to personalize and track the performance of its critical service-based messages.
“Sending relevant messages that demonstrate an understanding and respect for the customer relationship is a key driver of successful campaigns, and that’s why leading retailers like Family Christian Stores are turning to StrongMail in record number,” said Kristin Hersant, director of corporate marketing at StrongMail. “By allowing companies to reduce their email marketing costs while improving their results, StrongMail continues to see strong demand for our solutions — particularly from companies transitioning from ESPs and custom-built solutions.”
About Family Christian Stores
Family Christian Stores® is America’s leading specialty retailer with over 300 locations and over 4,000 employees in 36 states dedicated solely to the $4.3 billion Christian retailing market. Family Christian Stores sells Christian products and church supplies through its chain of stores and via the Internet. Merchandising categories include Bibles, Books, Music, Childrens, Gifts, Apparel, Software, Cards, Church Supplies and DVD’s.
About StrongMail Systems, Inc.
StrongMail Systems is the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email. Offering maximum flexibility for deployment, StrongMail’s solutions are offered in both on-premise and hosted models to meet the needs of every business. StrongMail delivers its proven email delivery, tracking and campaign management software on high-performance servers that are optimized for maximum deliverability. In addition to providing superior control, security and integration capabilities, StrongMail’s high-performance solutions offer companies a more powerful and cost-effective alternative to homegrown or traditional outsourced ESP solutions.
B-to-B Marketer Doubles Email Sales, Renews Relationship with ExactTarget
The renewal of Myron’s relationship with ExactTarget comes after the online and direct marketer of personalized promotional business gifts such as pocket calendars, advertising pens and note pads, more than doubled its email sales following its decision to replace its in-house email marketing system with ExactTarget’s on-demand email marketing platform in 2008.
“Since we are primarily a direct mail company, most of our advertising dollars are spent mailing free samples, personalized gifts which is expensive and restrictive because we cannot sample every product we offer,” said David Parker, Myron’s director of Web marketing. “ExactTarget provides a solution for us to connect with our customers and makes us more productive by putting marketing in control of our email campaigns instead of IT.”
Myron relies on ExactTarget’s Advanced Edition to power its email communications to clients throughout the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Germany. Using an integration with Adobe Scene 7, Myron is able to build, send and track custom emails through ExactTarget that feature personalized products that display each client’s business name and information. ExactTarget’s international sending feature allows Myron to send the messages in the coding and language required for its European clients.
Myron, which also uses ExactTarget to power personalized reorder e-mails, also plans to expand its email offerings in the coming months, including triggered email campaigns that automatically send welcome messages to new subscribers. The New Jersey headquartered company plans to integrate its Web analytics data with ExactTarget to build customer intelligence to automatically send email offers to clients based on products viewed while on Myron.com.
“ExactTarget’s sophisticated platform has allowed Myron to better serve its global customers by harnessing data to build and send personalized, relevant messaging,” said Tim Kopp, ExactTarget’s chief marketing officer. “The gains Myron has made are exemplary of a multi-channel merchant who is leveraging technology to drive new sales in a tough economy.”
The news of Myron doubling its email revenue follows the launch of ExactTarget’s “One-to-One Marketing Field Guide Set”. The field guides provide 60 practical tips and techniques on how to leverage different ‘species’ of one-to-one technology to maximize marketing ROI through email marketing, SMS text messaging, voice messaging and landing pages. Marketers may download the entire set of field guides online here.
Personalized tech chic with the Flip Video
I’ve been using the HD Flip Video Mino for some time. I love the convenience of throwing it in my bag or pocket. No bigger than my Blackberry, it is great to have when you are travelling light personalized gifts.
I love that you can upload an image and personalize it. What a great gift idea! Consider buying one for a wedding gift, new baby, graduation (yes I’m still buying those gifts..better late than never, right?).
It’s tech chic at it’s best. Once you upload the image, you can move it around, resize it, until you get it just right. The site will alert you to any issues with your image quality.
Both the HD ($229) and Standard ($179) are available to be personalized. If you don’t have a design or image you want to upload, try the pattern generator. Match favorite colors or school colors…have fun!