See Jordans Fireworks advertising

Our 2010 advertising campaign has just started. This was all planned early in the year so it is very frustrating when other mediums try to get us to advertise at the last minute. The buses we advertise on in the midlands are fantastic value for money, how many times have you been stuck behind a bus with just the advert on the back to look at? We are also trying Google adwords properly for the first time. In the past we have been given vouchers from companies to spend on adwords and we have just played at it but we didn't realy know we were doing. So early this year we approached a local company to handle a pay per click campaign for us this September/October. I can see straight away that they are doing lots of things that we knew nothing about but then that's what we are paying them for. Our motorway banners will also be in place during October. Again we use a professional company to handle this for us. Please keep your eyese on the road but we will be advertising by the M40 and M1. Not a cheap medium by any means but when you look at the number of people passing those banners in a day we tend to think it is good value for money. We don't do much press advertising these days, locally there are now so may free papers I wouldn't know which one to choose and they have such a short shelf life.

New firework stock

New fireworks are arriving every day at the momment. We have just moved down the new Panther Rockets from Absolute Fireworks down to our showroom. New stock of the Fury single ignition firework also moved to our showroom, this is a fantastic value for money barrage, outperforming many larger fireworks.

the busy firework season

Like magic the 1st of September seems to awaken peoples minds to the fact that Bonfire Night is getting near. The next few weeks are going to be very busy with allocating orders and in goods and out goods are well co-ordinated. Hopefully the weather will stay dry as it makes the job so much more pleasant.

Jordans Fireworks latest news - August

Coming to the end of the holidays. Every week someone is off so it will be good to get back to normal staffing in September. The first of the deliveries for bonfire night are now in stock. We have managed to upload some video clips onto the web site. During September we will try to speed up the loading time of the videos but just at the momment due to holidays and a sudden rush of orders for August/early September parties we have been too busy. We still have a few brochures to post out and should get that done next week.

New Firework Brochure finished.

Our winter 2010 firework brochure has been signed off (hope we don't find any mistakes now!)and should be delivered within the next few days. We then will start the process of sending them out in the post. This often takes quite a few days, stuffing encevopes, putting in order forms etc.

The move around in the office is coming along well. The new long desk should help as two of us can work side by side on either the same or different tasks. The new linked computers should be installed next week so we will have plenty of time to iron out any problems.

The new web site is ready to be uploaded, however as many of the new items have not yet arrived from China we will probably wait a few weeks before posting it up. This will also give us time to insert the new video clips of the new fireworks into the site.

Office re-fit

After what seems forever we have made a start on re-fitting our office. New desk, new computers and hopefully more workspace allthough I'm sure we will soon fill it.

Jordans Fireworks brochure

We have been working on the new brochure and web site for the last couple of months. The possible change in VAT has put things on hold for a while but now things are going to stay the same for the next 6 months we can sign off brochure designs. We have the new web site layout sorted out and are now just transfering video formats to wmvs (I know we should probably be using something more modern but I like to work with what I know and understand). We will probably wait until the new stock arrives in bulk before posting the new site up. Most stock arrives in the country during August, we hope the floods in China wont affect things too much and it will allow us to get our 4th July sales out of the way. 4th has become quite a busy time for us, after all there are a lot of people from the states living and working in the UK and it is great that they can celebrate this special time for them.