Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:40:00 -0700
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
From: Mike <mikekenyon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Info on Advertising, Stage Balloons, Pumps, & More

To Neophytes Everywhere:

When you wonder how to do your first balloon gig, what to say, what 
to bring, how to display your work; or when you wonder how to 
advertise yourself; or even if you're wondering what equipment to 
buy, there's a very easy, simple, thorough source to check. The 
BalloonHQ Guide. Yup, the BalloonHQ Guide, which you can get to 
without a credit card or money order.

There are an awful lot of e-mails posted that are already answered in 
the Guide. If you've checked the Guide before posting, let us 
subscribers getting your e-mail know. (I read through the Guide, and 
this aspect of my question is still unanswered.) In the Guide you'll 
find tons of reviews, comments, and even URLs for things like aprons, 
pumps, balloons, music, and more.

The Guide is several years old, so you know that you've got many, 
many thoughtful responses all filed away. Take floor standing pumps 
as an example. The Guide is quite thorough in offering evaluations on 
floor standing pumps, as well as electric models, hand models, and 
compressed air.

After the Guide, the next place to seek information is the Sponsor's 
page. BHQ Sponsorship matters to me, and I will buy from the BHQ 
sponsor every time - assuming they carry what I need. After checking 
the Guide and the Sponsors for solutions, if the question is still 
unanswered, that seems like the time to post.

For any question, I recommend the Guide as the first stop. Heck, they 
even call it the Guide, which is what it does.

Good luck -

Mike, in Maryland where the weather is great once again

-- 
"One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us 
tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose 
garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are 
blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie