Tag Archives: Gift Experiences

An Amazing Experience

This is my ninth RedBalloon Christmas... And so far it has been the most exhilarating. The numbers are way up on last year. All the planning, preparation and investment means that things seem to be going smoothly. No chaos. The team has it all in hand. We are so much bigger now that there are [...]
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Leaving Home.

In the past eight years since founding RedBalloon, we’ve created several businesses along the way and they all have lead to other greater things. One of the businesses that we invented was to solve a particular ‘problem’ that we had at RedBalloon - some 30% of our customers are self purchasers, another words they really like [...]
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Where does the entrepreneurial drive come from?

Probably one of the questions that I get more than ever is 'How?' How did you come up with the idea? How do you do it? How do you stay passionate? The question that drives me though is 'Why?'  It is the why I do what I do which makes me bound out of bed every day (even in [...]
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Secret Millionaire Chapter 2

My life as an undercover volunteer Secret Millionaire – Channel Nine 9.30pm 29 Oct 2009 Episode Four: Features Naomi Simson I sit here in my bed in a motel on a GoldCoast highway which seems a million miles from home – I can hear the traffic and my neighbors. It's not so bad, just different – [...]
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