Happy President's Day!

Happy President's Day!  There is never a bad time to look at giving more interesting and unique gifts - upgrade the average boring gift card present to first class in GiftCard Storybooks!  Take 2 or 3 gift cards and place them in your favorite GiftCard Storybooks storyline - an extended greeting card if you will.  Now your gift recipient will be entertained as they blissfully flip through the story and find money to their favorite spots throughout!

With one of our founders being an aviation lover with 10 years of airline experience, it only seemed appropriate to relate our GiftCard Storybooks to upgrading.  Once people were done asking whether they can get a discount and what the lowest fare is from Peoria, Illinois to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the final best buddy 'ole pal request is can you upgrade me?  Well the simple answer can be no but you can upgrade yourself without paying sometimes - here's how!  When do airlines offer complimentary upgrades?

1)  When the coach cabin is overbooked.  Most will allow those coach customers without a seat to suck down a few white Russians in first/business class before making a fast enemy by bumping you off of the flight simply because a coach seat is not available.  Do your research - look at an airline's website and "shop" for your flight.  You can usually pull up a seating chart for the flight - don't see any available seats?  Looks like it may be a pretty full flight!  Approach the gate agent working your flight and mention that special occasion you are celebrating and jokingly mention that if any involuntary upgrades are necessary today, you would be glad to oblige.  It doesn't hurt to have reached an elite tier with the carrier (usually upgrade benefit is domestic only) or to not be in the lowest fare sold on the airplane but many savvy travelers have pulled this off.

Now, remember to upgrade your gift card presents to First Class too with GiftCard Storybooks.  Take those mundane little plastic treasure chests of presents and attach them into a well thought out, inexpensive, customizable storybook and save the $6 on a useless greeting card.  GiftCard Storybooks allow you to give gift cards, a greeting card, and a keepsake all in one.  Thanks for reading - check us out at http://www.giftcardstorybooks.com/.

Want to know more tips?  Keep following our blog and follow us @GCStorybooks on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook!

Hi Everyone,

Interesting fact of the day - gift card sales are estimated to have reached around $25 Billion for 2010 - at this level, how can you not package your gift cards in something more interesting than a boring custom envelope or tin?  Checkout GiftCard Storybooks where you can uniquely package two or more gift cards in an interesting storyline for your Valentine, spouse, kids, grandparents, co-worker, boss and more!  They will enjoy reading the story, keeping the book (even regifting if they would like....hey, that still helps us spread the word!), and stumbling across well thought out gift cards that you have attached in the books along the way.

Follow us now on Twitter @GCStorybooks and on Facebook for the latest deals and books.  More to come soon as we continue to invigorate our brand!  Thanks as always for following, be-friending, and subscribing - more exciting news to follow soon.

Best wishes,
Chris and Lesley

A belated Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope that everyone is thoroughly enjoying this crazy time of year and all of the snow for those lucky enough to have a dose already.

I just wanted to drop a quick note to update you on things we are working on:

New book covers incorporating new design and illustrations versus the standard cover

YouTube video featuring the books

Marketing campaign set to launch around March, 2011 - hopefully you'll find us in a store near you soon.  We welcome any referrals to your local stores!

Blogging so please recommend us and comment as you wish here and several other sites such as giftcardstorybooks.blogspot.com

New titles and a GiftCard Storybooks for Business webpage for companies interested in co-branding a customized storybook for their business.

Remember, we have titles for all ages and gift recipients - thanks to our customers and to those who have really liked receiving their unique gift.

Happy New Year!

Chris and Lesley

Hello all! Hope that your Christmas season is going well. Lesley and I are very excited by the recent article published in the News & Observer featuring our product. If you did not happen to see it, check out the link below!

You can really put yourself into these gifts – News & Observer

As always, check back frequently for book updates. Our business 2 business co-branding custom books is set to launch in full force in Jan., 2010. Please feel free to contact us for details in the meantime.

Welcome to our website! Visit us often for all of your occasions as we will constantly be adding new storybooks and an example book for viewing shortly. By popular request, we will be adding “A Teacher’s Touch” in the coming days – perfect as a gift for your child’s teacher or a friend who is an educator. Wedding and college age / young adult storylines coming out shortly. Also, over the next few days you will see our list of gift card vendors continue to grow as we upload additional gift card options. As always, the GiftCard Storybooks are available with no gift cards so that you may personally select the store or restaurant and the denomination of your choosing as to make this a small or large gift!

Happy shopping during this holiday season. Please always feel free to contact us with any questions. We look forward to making gift card gifts more personal for you and your loved ones.

Chris and Lesley