Monday, June 28, 2010

From the Texas Distribution Center`


Well the season is finally here. Initial reports from the vendors across the state are that sales are better than they have been in a couple years. It seems as though most everyone got rain in the last couple of weeks and that has lead to higher sales numbers. If everyone would say a prayer, or step outside and blow to the south, and keep Tropical Storm Alex from coming ashore in South Texas that would be greatly appriciated! I wish everyone the best in the season and if you need anything more from us please let me know.
Thanks for the business!!
Brian Hamilton

Friday, June 25, 2010

Ghost Rider - 500 Gram Cake of the Day

Ghost Rider Today's 500 gram cake of the day is the awesome World Class Ghost Rider. This 9-shot beauty features purple glitter mines with purple chrysanthemum breaks, silver glitter mines with willow breaks and green mines up to green chrysanthemums with crackling stars. You can watch the performance video on our Youtube channel here or for more details check out the item page here.

Friday, June 11, 2010

From the Texas Distribution Center

We are busy busy busy so I'm going to keep it brief. We are shipping and doing customer pickups as fast as we can. Looks like most of East Texas got a ton of rain yesterday. Here at the warehouse we picked up over 6 inches and parts of our county got in excess of 10 inches. This kind of slowed our productivity down a bit yesterday but we are still running on schedule. If you have not yet scheduled a pickup time or a delivery date please do so soon. We are open 7 days a week and if you can't get me on the phone just shoot me an email. I try to answer 3-4 emails in between phone calls. Only 13 more days till opening day here in Texas.................

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Crazy for fireworks

Crazy. That seems to be the theme for June. We are pulling and shipping orders out at lightning speed, often working into the wee hours of the morning. Customers seem more excited about fireworks this season than ever before. Our existing product has the consistant quality our customers expect and the new items offer beautiful vibrant colors. Wishing you all a safe and sucessful season!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Touchscreen App now available on jakesfireworks.com

It's no secret that in today's fireworks business, having product demonstration videos in your stores is a key to selling more merchandise. Its easy to forget that a lot of people only do this once or twice a year, and for them, remembering effect styles doesn't come as naturally as it does for us. We here at Jake's have tried to make this as easy as possible by supplying you with tons of product videos on our website, www.jakesfireworks.com, in many different formats to suit all needs. Now we are bringing you a new tool.
If you point your web browser to www.jakesfireworks.com/touch you will see a Flash-based VOD (Video on Demand) interface for displaying product demo videos to your customers. All you need to run this is a computer with internet access and a web browser with flash installed. Pair this program with a simple touchscreen monitor and run your browser in full screen mode and voila! Fully functional touch-screen kiosk for your store. We hope this proves to be a useful tool for you.
Enjoy!
-Ben

Another Satisfied Customer.......


I had a great email from a new customer and wanted to share his story with you. This comes from Brenton in KS.
" Mark, Words can't even describe how thankful I am for being able to do business with such a great company! I have never been to a product demo where I was treated so well, and your customer service is second to none. We got our product in today, and might I say this is the first time that I have received everything that I ordered from a company! I have done business with several other companies in the past years but none of them have been able to grant the respect and customer service that I received while working with you guys. I can guarantee a repeat customer for years to come!"

Saturday, June 5, 2010

From the Texas Distribution Center

Just want to give you'all an update on what is going on in Texas. There were some good showers and rain that moved through most of Texas this last week but we still need more. As of this morning there were 5 counties that were above the 575 KBDI threshold Presidio,Ward and Winkler in West Texas and Rusk and Gregg in East Texas. You can go to the following web addresses to keep yourselves abreast of the latest info. http://webgis.tamu.edu/tfs/kbdi_daily/dryctif.png for counties over the 575 mean or http://twc.tamu.edu/InteractiveMaps/KBDI.aspx for your counties KBDI. June 15th is fast approaching and is the last day that by Texas law counties over the 575 KBDI mean can enact stick rocket and missile bans if they vote to. So let's all continue to keep praying for more rain.
With that out of the way starting tomorrow the last of the new items will be arriving here. We are unloading 2 or 3 containers a day starting Sunday through Wednesday. So we should be good. The trucking lanes are filling quickly so if you have not yet scheduled a day to receive your orders please do so quickly. We are open 7 days a week so please give me a call at the office 903-264-2264 and we will get your orders to you. I hope all is well with everyone and wish everyone a very prosperous 4th of July season! The season opens in 19 days..........
Brian