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Your favorite pelleted bird food
Posted by Derek on Oct 27, 2009 8 Comments
Today I wanted to get some feedback about what brand of pelleted bird food our customers prefer for their companion parrots. In our store, we offer Harrison’s, ZuPreem, Roudy Bush, Totally Organic Pellets, Scenic and Goldenfeast. We want you to vote for your (or your bird’s) favorite pelleted food. We also want to hear why you chose this diet, so please add your comments!
The winner of this poll will have all their items on sale!
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Loading ...New Stanley’s Bird Toys
Posted by Derek on Oct 27, 2009 2 Comments
Today we just added more wonderful bird toys to our store, all from Stanley’s Bird Creations. You can find them in our What’s New section or by searching. We will be adding even more new bird toys to the store here shortly!
Our new rewards program, Bird Bucks
Posted by Derek on Oct 15, 2009 No Comments
We are very excited to announce the start of our new rewards program. With every purchase you make at Hello, Bird! you will get 10% of your order total in Bird Bucks to use on a future purchase.
Example: Make an order of $150, you get $15 in Bird Bucks
When you have accumulated a minimum of $25 Bird Bucks, you can then use that towards your next purchase at our store! If you already have an account on our store, you can see how many Bird Bucks you have at any time by visiting the Bird Bucks tab.
We have been working hard to bring this new feature to our customers to reward them for their loyalty. We hope everyone enjoys this new program.
Unfortunately we are not able to give Bird Buck credit from past orders before launching this new program, we apologize.
Halloween fun with your bird
Posted by Derek on Oct 15, 2009 No Comments
Today we have launched a new promotion: 25% off all bird treats! (Ends Nov 5) We feel even your birds should be able to enjoy in the Halloween festivities.
For Halloween, one of the most common things you can do with your bird is have him be a part of your pirate costume. Some things to consider if you are going to be having your bird on your shoulder as part of your interactive costume is: 1) Make sure they are comfortable on your shoulder 2) Make sure your bird is allowed to be where you are going with him 3) Be careful of loud noise or very active places – your parrot may freak out and grab on to your ears or some other part of your head you don’t want him to.
If you don’t want to be the stereotypical pirate, another idea is to be a jungle explorer. Another idea even dress up as a parrot yourself and have a “mini me” parrot with you (think Austin Powers).
Our Greenwing loves seeing people and we have been working with him to do a monster “rawr!” on command for a while – perfect for Halloween. So we love to greet the neighborhood kids while holding him. He loves seeing the kids in costume and the kids love seeing a parrot (often times it’s the first time they have ever seen one!)
As with everything, there are some things to be concerned about during Halloween with your bird. Learn more about Halloween safety ideas for your parrot.
We hope everyone has a fun, and most importantly, safe Halloween this year!
Our flock is growing, and migrating!
Posted by Derek on Oct 09, 2009 3 Comments
We love animals, especially our wonderful parrots. We love to spoil them with parrot toys, great parrot food and of course lots of love and attention. We are extremely happy to finally announce that we are growing our flock here at Hello, Bird! However, it’s not with more parrots but humans. We’ve been keeping this news quiet except with family and close friends, but we are very excited to finally tell everyone who visits our store that my wife is pregnant with twin girls due sometime in March. We are incredibly excited by the news and of course have to tell everyone.
As a result of this major life change, we have decided to relocate back to our roots in Southern California. How will this affect the Hello, Bird store? Not one bit. We are only an online store and our shipments are managed from our distribution center so moving our home base won’t affect anything at all.
If anyone has had parrots before having children, we’d love to get some feedback! Some things we’re concerned with are having our birds’ sleep disrupted by a crying baby and how we’ll have less time to give attention to the birds for a while until we get settled in to the new situation. There are probably even more things we haven’t thought of yet.
Monthly drawing for $10 coupon
Posted by Derek on Oct 01, 2009 2 Comments
Did you know that each month we do a monthly drawing for a $10 coupon? We randomly select 1 winner from past customers and our email list. If you’re not on our email list, go ahead and join now! The coupon is good on anything in our store.
Send Us Your Birds
Posted by Derek on Sep 30, 2009 No Comments
We are bird fanatics and love just seeing other birds. So, we thought we would try to collect some great photos of our customers and fans! Please fill out the form below to submit photos of your bird(s). We’d especially love it if there are items purchased from our store in the photo! We’ll be showing off the photos here in our blog and Facebook pages.
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Images must be in .jpg and under 2MB. By uploading an image, you are agreeing that you have permission to use this photo and it is not copyrighted. You are also granting us permission to use the photo in our marketing efforts (you will be notified if it is used).
Poll: Bed time for your birds
Posted by Derek on Sep 10, 2009 1 Comment
Birds need about 10-12 hours of sleep each night (so do I). After a day of work is when we have the most time to spend with our birds, so they don’t go to bed extremely early. What time do you birds get tucked in at night?
Loading ...Feeding schedule
Posted by Derek on Sep 02, 2009 No Comments
Birds can be just as picky eaters as kids. Usually, for birds and kids, it’s a result of what they are given as options to eat. I eat mostly junk food because that’s what I grew up eating after school every day (although my wife has helped me significantly expand what I’m willing to eat).
Knowing this, we try to make some good bird food options available for our two parrots. Although some of the exact foods we give them changes over time, we’ve stuck to the same general idea of giving nutritional pellets and veggies (basically things they don’t like as much) in the morning and then fruit and nuts in the evening.
We started this because we used to have regular 8-5 jobs and our birds spent that time in their cage. Even though they weren’t huge fans of the pellets and veggies, it’s all that was available for most of the day. We would come home to almost clean bowls most days. When they get the good stuff in the evening they make it disappear pretty quick. They also finish off their leftovers the following morning before we can change out their food.
One interesting little tidbit: I think at least 1/3 of our grocery bill is for the birds.
Give us sale ideas
Posted by Derek on Aug 25, 2009 No Comments
We want to help all our customers find great bird toys, bird cages and other supplies for their companion parrots. We have some ideas on promotions to use throughout the year, but we want your input. If you have a fun idea for a sale, let us know! If we choose to use your sale idea, we’ll give you a $15 off coupon code for your next order! Post your ideas as a comment below.
