Balloon Decorations Tips & Secrets

When carrying around your helium cylinder, and sometimes up stairs, safety and ease of transport is the first and most important considerations.  This is where the proper selection of your hand truck comes in.

Now, you can get a hand truck made for carrying UPS boxes which has a straight back, not very functional for a rounded helium cylinder, or you can obtain a hand truck with a curved back that is especially made for carrying helium tanks.

There are essentially two major types of hand trucks, and these are:

• The 2-Wheel Hand Truck – This is your basic essential for carrying around your helium cylinder.  Cost – $139.00
• The 4-Wheel Hand Truck - If you take it up a notch and get a 4-Wheel Hand Truck, you will have even greater ease of carrying it around.  Since it does not have to lean on your shoulder as you carry it, you can handle the weight almost in the same way that you would move a vacuum cleaner back-and-forth.  Cost – $242.00

These hand trucks are designed expressly for the balloon industry to support and transport all sizes of helium cylinders.

When you are ready to go professional and get your first real balloon decorating hand truck just email me.

cprosper@prosperballoons.com

And I will see that you get one delivered directly to your door.

All the best,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”

It is true that I teach through my methods how to blow and size balloons without any other apparatus other than your visual acuity and your ability to hear the rhythm of the flow of the balloon into the helium.

But even with this, many people struggle and just can’t seem to wrap their heads are this perfect sizing thing that is so integral to doing balloon decorating.

If you have got the budget, help is on the way.  The Dual Split -Second Sizer can make anyone an instant pro at sizing balloons because this marvelous machine sizes your balloon for you perfectly every time – even if you are an abject beginner.

The Dual Split-Second Sizer’s digital control panel lets you easily set and adjust the inflation cycle time in tenths of a second.  Wow!  Now that’s efficiency.  Price tag?  $1,052.70.

Should you be interested in obtaining one, just contact at:

cprosper@prosperballoons.com

And I will see that you get one shipped directly to you.

Sincerely yours,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”

Aside from the selection of balloons and your helium cylinder, the next most important piece of equipment is your helium valve or regulator.

There are certain elements that you should include with the selection of your valve, these are that your valve have a:

• Gauge – You need to be able to measure how much helium you have and how much remains while you are decorating.  Running out of helium by surprise is not very professional.
• Push Valve – I have found a push valve to be faster than a tilt valve.
• Disc Post – One of your most important designs are the single arches.  You will need to use plastic discs and thereby need a disc post located on your valve to utilize them.
• Hand Tight – Using wrenches to attach your valve to your helium cylinder is so 1984.  The correct cylinder needs no wrench.
• 3-Way Inflator (Preferably)  – A good single valve is great with all of the features above, and even better is a 3-way inflator.

When you are ready to purchase your valve, email me, and I can get you the best valve and at the best prices.  cprosper@prosperballoons.com.

Yours truly,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”

And now I would like to invite you to get your Free Instant Access of 3 Chapters of my book “How To Become A Balloon Artist and Make Up To $100,000 A Year” and instant Free access to my WEEKLY video tips of “Balloon Decoration Ideas” which will show you how to set up and start your own profitable home-based balloon decoration business. You can get your 3 free chapters now and opt-in for the FREE weekly video tips magazine when you go to http://www.secretsofballoondecorations.com

Sincerely,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”

What I will teach you in this article is so disarmingly simple that I am shocked the most of the so-called sales professionals who proclaim to be in business haven’t figured this out. I regularly sell 8 out of 10 prospects who call me by phone.  I have many secrets, and this is one I will reveal to you today.  It is the forgotten art of the use of the surname.

What I will teach you in this blog post is so disarmingly simple that I am shocked the most of the so-called sales professionals who proclaim to be in business haven’t figured this one out.

With this one simple tip, I promise you that you will far out perform all of your competitors in the sales department when it comes to your balloon decoration business or in any service business for that matter.  Read on and win.

Let me ask you a question, how do you routinely address a brand new customer who has just called you on the phone.  Let’s say that her name is Veronica Patterson.  When you begin to address her, how do you call her?  Do you say, “I’m glad you called me today, Veronica”  or do you say, “I’m glad you called me, Ms. Patterson.”  Most so-called phone professionals selling a product or a service are dolts.  I really mean that.  Most lack common sense.

When it comes to addressing a total stranger in a business or professional setting, the immediate protocol should always be to address that person by their last or by their surname.

A lot of people are not aware of it, but in the African-American community and to a large extent within Latino, Spanish speaking communities, it is an unspoken cultural preference to be called initially by a person’s last name in a beginning business and professional relationship before assuming a familiarity which has not yet been established.

I know I whole lot of people from certain ethnic communities who if given a choice between dealing with a person who initially gives them the respect of calling them Ms. So-and-So or Mr. So-and-So and someone who just flat outright starts addressing them on first-name basis, will prefer, even if it is on an unconscious level the person who refers to them by their surname.

This Is The Secret

Always start off by calling a person Mr. or Ms.  The trick is to allow the person to tell you, “Oh, please, just call me Marcia”, or “Please, just call me Tony.”  Now, it’s okay to be on a first name basis, because the person has given you their permission.  This may seem like a small thing, but can you say that you close 8 out of 10 calls when prospects  call you about your product or service, Mr. Reader?

And now I would like to invite you to get your Free Instant Access of 3 Chapters of my book “How To Become A Balloon Artist and Make Up To $100,000 A Year” and instant Free access to my WEEKLY video tips of “Balloon Decoration Ideas” which will show you how to set up and start your own profitable home-based balloon decoration business. You can get your 3 free chapters now and opt-in for the FREE weekly video tips magazine when you go to

http://www.secretsofballoondecorations.com

From Charles Prosper “The Baron of Balloons”

Once you learn how to do letter and number balloon sculpture, you can truly brag to be in the big leagues of professional balloon decorating.  As I always teach my 10-year old daughter, nothing is difficult if you know what you are doing.  The same is held true for balloon decorating.  I would be so bold as to say that there is a right and a wrong way of doing things which is the same as saying that there is a complicated way and a simple of way of doing something.  Here I want to teach you “simple” and “effective”.  I’ll let someone else teach you “complicated”.

The 4 Secrets of Doing Numbers and Letters with Balloons

Secret #1 – Always Use 5″ Latex Balloons – The choice of your size of balloon is the most critical decision in the selection of the most artistic medium to do this sculpture.  The only size of balloon that will give you the most creative possibility is the 5″ latex balloon.

Secret #2 – Always Inflate Your 5″ Balloons With Air – The most important thing to know in ALL balloon number and letter sculpture is that you must always inflate your five-inch balloons with air and never with helium.  When you use air, the balloon sculpture will last for weeks.  Should you make the mistake of using helium, your balloons will deflate within 24 hours.

Secret #3 – Always Use 3/16″ Aluminum Rod for The Frame – You will obtain 3/16 inch aluminum rod which you can obtain from any Metal Company for which you can do a search on the internet for a company in your area.  Do NOT settle for 1/2 inch aluminum rod.  3/16 inch rod is very malleable and bendable.  1/2 inch rod is very strong and almost impossible to bend.  Make sure that if you get 14-foot pieces to cut each rod down to 12-foot pieces which will be your standard length for doing your letters or numbers.  You can cut them yourself using bolt cutters – but NOT wire cutters.

Secret #4 – Shape Each Number And Letter To A Standard Height of 5 Feet – Your letters and numbers will stand 5 feet high.  This makes it easier to price quote each number and letter, and aesthetically, your numbers and letters will always look great when they are placed along side each other with the exact same height.

Sincerely yours,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”

If you are part of the media, that is to say, radio, television, magazines, online newsletters or radio, I am available for any serious interview on any aspect of the professional balloon decoration business.

Have you agent simply email me cprosper@prosperballoons.com

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Charles Prosper
“The Baron of Balloons”

You must understand correct color coordination to be able to become a professional balloon decorator.

The very first decoration that I did back in 1979 was the classic 6 Single-Arch Rainbow Tunnel. I didn’t know it at the time, but this first decoration was actually a study in the basics of color combination.

How To Create The Balloon Arch Rainbow Tunnel

The 6 single arch rainbow tunnel comprises itself of 6 rows or 6 arches of balloons. 11 inch balloons are attached by means of plastic discs along outstretching curling ribbon. Each arch contains about 45 to 50 balloons per arch. Because each arch is inflated with helium the entire arch will begin to float. You need only to attach each end of the completed arches onto a rectangular brick base that has been pre-wrapped with aluminum foil.

Each arch of the six arches will have balloons of the same color but of a different color from the arch adjacent to it. The secret is in knowing the color order or the 6 color steps to create this balloon tunnel.

The 6 Color Steps To Create A Rainbow Arch Tunnel

1.   R
2.  O
3.  Y
4.  G
5.  B
I
6.  P

If you stretch out this 1 through 6 column horizontally, you will spell the name:

R O Y   B.   B I P

This is your acronym for the perfect color order combination. Let’s take a look at it again, but this time we will fill in the 6 color names:

1. R – Red
2. O – Orange
3. Y – Yellow
4. G – Green
5. B – Blue
I - Indigo
6. P – Purple

The 6 single arch rainbow tunnel comprises itself of six principal rainbow colors with each single row or arch being different solid color in a specified and unchangeable order. (These are all 11-inch, helium-filled, latex balloons.)

• The first row is all ruby red balloons.
• The second row is all mandarin orange balloons.
• The third row is all citrine yellow balloons.
• The fourth row is all standard dark green.
• The fifth row is all sapphire blue.
• The sixth and final row is all quartz purple.

The next time you see a real rainbow or a picture of a rainbow, you will notice that is has the same color order. You may notice that I included the color Indigo in the middle of Blue and Purple. You may ignore indigo for our purposes; the “I” serves and a nice vowel to form the word “BIP”.

You may have learned the rainbow color order in grade school. This was your refresher course, and now knowing or remembering this will serve you to great use in your profession of balloon decorating.

Leave me your questions and challenges in the comments section, and I will answer here in one of the posts.

Yours truly,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”

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• The Bride and The Groom
• The Balloon Clowns
• Numbers and Letters
• The Balloon Heart
• The Weave Arch
• Christmas Designs
• Balloons for Weddings
• Balloons for 15 años Celebrations
• Balloon Designs for all occasions…

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Yours truly,

Charles Prosper

“The Baron of Balloons”