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2/1/2012 Our Instant Gift Certificate & Special Daily Deal platform now supports Australian businesses (another shrimp on the barbie!)...View plan comparison
1/23/2012 The Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals include adding the TheGiftCardCafe.com system as one of the tips in their "Start the Year Out Right with a First-rate Website" campaign to ABMP members. We couldn't think of a better way for business owners to to start the New Year!
11/16/2011 Press: Yahoo Finance - Schedulicity Unites With the TheGiftCardCafe.com to Help Small Businesses Bolster Sales With Online Gift Cards. Appointment-Dependent Small Businesses Can Now Offer Customers Branded Digital Gift Cards, Just in Time for the Holiday Season...
8/22/2011 Drinking wine while painting a masterpiece is a unique business concept that is becoming incredibly popular in cities all over the country. It's a really good time that makes a great gift. Which is why many of these new businesses have found our Instant Gift Certificate platform to be the perfect fit. Checkout how some of these new businesses are using our system:
Wine & Design - Raleigh, NC (8 locations and growing)
The Corky Canvas - Lincoln, NE
Bottles`n Brushes - Mount Pleasant, SC
5/25/2011 Drive Revenue from Facebook: Many businesses using our system have started to cash in on their facebook fan pages by adding gift certificate buy now buttons and Special Daily Deal Widgets. It's become so popular we made a video to walk you through step by step... View How To Video
3/1/2011 Today Daily Deals, like Groupon or Living Social, are the hottest way to drive new & existing customers to your business. We have just added a NEW "Deal Widgets" feature to our Special Daily Deals system that allows you to promote your deals deals right on your website with simple copy and paste widget code...checkout our Special Deals samples & features
2/1/2011 Our Instant Gift Certificate & Special Daily Deal platform now supports Canadian businesses...View plan comparison
1/15/2011 New Feature: Phone Order Instant Gift Certificates. Collect payment over the phone and then use our system to easily email an Instant Gift Certificate in just a few seconds. All for a fraction of the cost of mailing out physical gift certificates or gift cards. You can easily print out gift certificates for in-store orders too... View How To Video
11/9/2010 New Feature: Our Complimentary Instant Gift Certificate feature allows you to easily & quickly email or print instant gift certificates for any dollar amount or custom offer. It's the perfect solution if you need to make an unsatisfied customer happy, as a marketing tool to get a good customer to come back, or to send a customer or friend a birthday gift certificate without charging your credit card... View How To Video
8/5/2010 Article: 10 Holiday Ecommerce Pitfalls. If you are not already thinking about the holiday shopping season (in August), you are destined for doom...
8/1/2010 New Feature: TheGiftCardCafe.com launches their new Special Deals feature similar to Groupon or other Deal of the Day websites.
5/1/2010 Press: Our new campaign "Alligators will eat your customers" hit news stands in April with rave reviews! The subtle theme that it's a no brainer to offer instant gift certificates really grabbed business owner's attentions.
3/12/2010 Case Study: Checkout the latest success story for The Renaissance European Day Spa of Fayetteville, NC who hit record breaking sales since they switched to TheGiftCardCafe.com
1/11/2010 Press Release: TheGiftCardCafe.com has partnered with ABMP adding value to their Member Benefits Program.
12/29/2009 The big news at the beginning of this year's holiday shopping season was not so much that brick-and-mortar spending is down. It's that, according to Coremetrics, online shopping sales saw a 15% increase over 2008. Our numbers confirm that businesses using TheGiftCardCafe.com clearly took full advantage of the 15% increase...what a great year for online sales!
11/30/2009 Article: 5 Tips in 5 Days for Over the Top Holiday Sales: Today's Tip - Make Gift Certificates available and easy for clients to buy!
10/23/2009 Article: BookFresh guest blog by TheGiftCardCafe.com co-founder - Website Analytics and Why It’s Important
10/20/2009 Salon Today October 2009 IssueArticle: Salon Today October 2009 Issue - News and Views of the Professional Salon Industry
10/10/2009 American Salon October 2009 Issue - Better Business Bright Ideas for Salon & Spa OwnersArticle: American Salon October 2009 Issue - Better Business Bright Ideas for Salon & Spa Owners
10/4/2009 Article: InternetRetailer.com - A massage therapy spa relaxes while last-minute online sales roll in
9/3/2009 Article: eHow.com - How Can I Get Gift Cards for My Business?
8/31/2009 Article: Got a brick and mortar store and a website? Want to sell gift cards online? TheGiftCardCafe.com will do it for you with no upfront investment.
8/10/2009 Article: American Spa - TheGiftCardCafe.com Debuts Real-Time Gift Card Sales
8/3/2009 Podcast: Listen to a podcast with the founders of TheGiftCardCafe.com on Franchise Whale with Chad B. Harris
7/28/2009 Article: Get Your Website Noticed for Less
7/14/2009 Article: PMQ Pizza Magazine: TheGiftCardCafe.com Launches a New Online Gift Certificate Service
7/10/2009 Press Release: TheGiftCardCafe.com Introduces New Multi-Store Service for Retail Businesses
6/30/2009 Article: 5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Existing Clients
6/9/2009 Article: Five Steps to Making Your Massage Practice GREEN
5/28/2009 Press Release: Urban Oasis Gains a 600+ Percent Return from TheGiftCardCafe.com.
4/1/2009 Feature: Offering Instant Gift Certificates online can help your business Go GREEN.
3/3/2009 Article: Wall Street Journal - The Green Side of Online Shopping.
3/1/2009 Event: Join us at the Day Spa Expo & Business Forum March 15 - 17, 2009 in Las Vegas.

The founders of TheGiftCardCafe.com will be conducting the "Creating Your Website into a Revenue Generator" track.
2/8/2009 Press Release: Finally an Online Instant Gift Certificate Solution for High Volume Salons, Spas, and Restaurants
1/21/2009 Case Study: Urban Oasis Increased Online Gift Certificate Sales to $87,000

Learn how Geoffrey Gross, Urban Oasis Spa Manager, increased his day spa's online gift certificate sales to $87,000 after switching to our Instant Gift Certificate Monthly Subscription Plan.
1/15/2009 New Feature: TheGiftCardCafe.com launches their new discount feature to help merchants boost sales by offering promotional & holiday discounts.
11/1/2008 Partner: GenBook offers Free Powerful online appointment scheduling for your business.

Let your customers schedule their holiday appointments on your website with a Free Genbook.com scheduling system.
3/1/2008 Article: Using your website as a marketing tool to make it easier for your web visitors to book appointments, buy gift certificates and products.
2/1/2008 Article: More than 85% of the world's Internet users surveyed have purchased something online...
1/10/2008 Article: Online Holiday Sales Pass $29 Billion.
11/1/2007 Article: Consumers will spend an average of $203 on gift cards during the 2007 holiday season
10/12/2007 Article: Gift Cards & Gift Certificates just keep on giving
10/10/2007 Press Release: TheGiftCardCafe.com Launches a New Gift Card Service for Web Designers to Add E-Commerce Functionality to Their Design Packages in Less Than 5 Minutes


 

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Perfect for all types of businesses that offer gift cards at their physical location or businesses that want to increase revenue by offering Instant Printable Gift Certificates online.

Visit some of our client sites to see how our shopping cart works on their site:

• Harlow Salon - Nashville, TN
• Modern Companies - Arlington, VA
• Kingfisher Resort - BC, Canada
D'Elegance Salon & Spa - Katy, TX
• Gretta Luxe - Boston, MA
• Smooth Solutions - San Antonio, TX
• Newtown Grill - Newtown Square, PA
• Eden Day Spa - Victoria, TX
• Walker Bros Pancake - Lincolnshire, IL
• Lilly Pad Village - Blue Ridge, GA
• Transitions Studio - Rome, NY
• Spa Lux - Tulsa, OK
• Renaissance Spa - Fayetteville, NC
• Wine & Design - Raleigh, NC
• Bettye O Day Spa - Chicago, IL
• Kitchen On Fire - Berkeley, CA
• Volume Hair Salon - Tampa, FL
• Urban Oasis Massage - Chicago, IL

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