a blog in the life of an online gift shop and its owner
Daylight savings in NSW, ACT, Tas, SA & Vic starts this weekend (5 Oct 08). So at 2am on Sunday morning (or more sensibly, when you go to bed) put your clocks forward 1 hour, sadly this means we lose an hour on Sunday and our mornings are going to be darker I’ve actually […]
1. Friday
2. My mums birthday - happy birthday mum!
3. sunny
4. the start of NSW school holidays
5. spent waiting for the Salvos to turn up
6. the 270th day of the year
7. Serena Williams birthday
8. the day Australia II won the Americas cup in 1983
9. a quiet day
10. the end of another long week
11. for catching up […]
to the world! Gorgeous gifts to help celebrate the new arrival/s:
These new gifts can be found here.
Standard delivery: $9.95
Next Day delivery: $14.95
More information on our delivery options can be found here.
It’s always so hard to know what products will be popular! I love these new bears and hope that they will appeal to family […]
Going through our sales data over the last 6 weeks it was interesting to see the breakdown of how our customers pay for their gifts:
70% paid by Credit Card (Mastercard & Visa the most popular followed by Amex*)
21% used Paypal and
9% preferred to pay using direct deposit/bank transfer
This third option is good and bad for […]
Today I had planned on getting all the orders done early so I could focus on two things:
1. our phone order form
2. Christmas gifts - more precisely the labels for them:
I managed to get the orders done and was even able to organise for the couriers to come and pick them up, bonus, but…. I […]
We’re still tweeking a few things here at Rainbow Designs to get everything running extra smooth but so far the new improvements, mainly to delivery, are working well and helping customers who have left their gift shopping to the last minute (we can all relate to that I’m sure!).
So what is new? First up we […]
The L&H 500 was on over the weekend (500km V8Supercar race) although it was hard to tell if you were watching it on television - brilliant racing, shocking telecast. Channel 7 are really letting motorsport down I’m afraid. Ads are a part of television I don’t deny this but seriously who expects to watch a […]
oh so true! Changes have been happening at Rainbow Designs and probably will for awhile, even if it is just behind the scenes stuff but the main one being (so far) how we do our deliveries. Since our start back in 2004 we have been using Australia Express Post (and I have to say with […]
The V8’s are heading into the two enduros, L&S 500 (formally at Sandown now at Phillip Is) and then Bathurst 1000 and I can’t wait. There has been a massive gap between races due to Channel 7’s coverage of the olympics so they better make this telecast pretty darn special and not full of ads […]
Reading this blog post from Valerie at Enterprise (SMH) has helped me calm down. Things need to change, as I mentioned on Thursday, but when I started thinking of everything I need to do I got dizzy and then ate a lot of chocolate (it’s never far from my desk).
Breaking things down into bite sized […]
