Balloon

Mr.

Balloon hands.

Mr.

Balloon.

Have you ever seen that video? So I have it on shrooms and he's like sits in his closet in the dark and he just comments and whatever he sees.

Someone alerted me of that recently.

Barlow's Pancake Mix, I can say that.

Ayala's Balloons, you know, I can say that because these are good, good, solid companies who are just looking for that magic connection with the everyday customer who wants to use their services.

With me saying that, because I want to use some examples, not saying these are potential clients, But with me putting these names out there, these brands out there, how do you react to them? Or how would you move forward with creating a relationship with them?

Well, I like to, you know, because there's a lot of businesses out here that are popular, you know, and they have good products, but they get stuck because we are doing, you kind of do the same thing.

Welcome to the Bright Balloon Podcast, the show for balloon decorators and party pros who want to make real money without burning out.

I'm Sarah Meyer, and each week we talk about pricing, systems, mindset, and the behind the scenes decisions that actually move your business forward.

Stick around for bright ideas and honest conversations with balloon business owners like you that will help you book better clients, simplify your workflow, and build a business out of thin air.

Welcome to the Bright Balloon.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode.

Today, we're talking about branding and how to use AI to either start your branding journey for your balloon business or give it a little glow up.

And I'm joined by a real live person, not just AI robots.

Courtney from Courtney Lynette Creative Co. is back on the podcast talking from a designer's point of view on how she recommends using AI to get your branding updated.

Scientist Bob will be with you shortly.

I'm here at a laboratory to meet Scientist Bob, who will help us learn more about atoms, physics, and balloons.

Now, let's just wait.

[crowd murmuring] [bell chiming] Scientist Bob is ready for you.

Okay.

Bye, Scientist Bob.

We're gonna go to the experiment room to look at the balloons.

[door opening and closing] Welcome to the experimenting room.

They had not taken into consideration fighting in the air to any extent, nor did they at first regard the great military principle that to gain information, one has to fight for it in the air as well as on the ground.

The airplanes which appeared on the battlefields in August 1914 had engines of from eighty to one hundred horse power and a speed of from sixty to one hundred miles an hour they had no machine guns on them no large cameras and they had the ability of staying in the air for a couple of hours only when hostile aviators met they went ahead about their business in some cases waving a sign of recognition one to the other as they passed nobody took the air service very seriously except the aviators themselves at the beginning in many instances their reports were disregarded and laughed at a notable instance of this which led to the destruction of a whole army occurred to the austrians at the battle of chome in august nineteen fourteen when after successful preliminary battles with the russians they held that city with the intention of advancing further into russia the russian army reinforced advanced to attack them and in doing this sent heavy columns against the right flank of the austrian army the austrian aviators immediately reported this move but the general staff of the austrian army proved conclusively that a column of the size length and character of the one reported by the aviators could not possibly be in that vicinity that the russians did not have the means of transport for getting these forces there and even that russian organizations could not march on the roads indicated on account of the character of their equipment the russians however were there just as the aviators reported the result of this was that the austrians were attacked in entirely unexpected quarters and their army was completely defeated and practically destroyed instances of a similar nature occurred on the western front both in france and in germany by the autumn of nineteen fourteen it dawned on all the contenders in the war that aerial observation was a necessity and that without it in every operation pertaining to reconnaissance regulating the fire of artillery and even finding out where one's own forces were nothing could be done without the airplane the germans particularly saw this very clearly and when making up their plans for the spring drive of nineteen fifteen they considered that if they were going to be successful they must drive the french airplanes out of the air so as to surprise the enemy troops on the ground and render victory to the german armies possible the germans therefore took their fastest and most manoeuvrable airplanes and put the machine-gun on them to take the place of the pistol and hand rifles with which they had been previously armed the idea of the german army was to smash through the french in the vicinity of verdun and as a preliminary to this attack to seize and hold the air so that the french would not know from which direction their ground attack would come on the battle-field the first german attacks took place in february the ground was covered with snow and the weather was cold the arrangements for landing-fields on the part of the french in that locality were almost nothing and although experiments had been made with machine-guns on their airplanes the french equipment was very deficient in this respect the germans on the other hand came on with their armed airplanes and commenced an era of fighting in the air which will extend and increase for all time the french replied to this by exerting their every nerve to counteract the air attack and during the year nineteen fifteen pursuit aviation or that which goes out and fights the enemy aviation for control of the air was established definitely as a special branch of aviation from that time on primary consideration was given to the fighting of airplane against airplane as a principle as a prelude to any other air work whether it be gaining information for the army to which the airplanes were attached dropping bombs by day or night or the actual shooting up or strafing as it was called in those days of troops on the ground in nineteen fourteen the airplane carried a few little grenades weighing less than ten pounds each steel darts to throw down on their enemies and one or two light-weight cannon projectiles made up as bombs were tried by nineteen seventeen definite organizations of airplanes were carrying bombs weighing up to five hundred pounds by the end of the war airplanes were carrying bombs weighing upwards of a ton and the organization in the air forces for this purpose numbered hundreds of airplanes in fact during the operations of the american army in the argonne a single aerial formation had over three hundred airplanes in it for the purpose of a bomb attack against the germans as things progressed the combatants began to put armor on their airplanes so as to resist machine-gun fire from the ground or other airplanes they began to machine-gun the troops at low altitude and even to mount cannon on the planes making veritable battleships of the air a whole new industry sprang up to make all the airplanes their engines and their accessories and all the special arms and appliances connected with them nothing like this had ever occurred in the world's history the tremendous development in aeronautics was not entirely confined to airplanes but a similar development took place with balloons and airships Balloons had been used with armies for a great many years.

In fact, the French army operating in Belgium in 1792 had observation balloons as a part of its equipment.

Napoleon used them in Egypt, and our own Army of the Potomac in the Civil War was equipped with them.

Balloons.

Balony.

Refers to the soundtrack played during celebrations, the music that keeps the atmosphere lively.

Music at party.