GiftTree Gets Social with New Facebook Application YouTube and The Gift Exchange Blog



GiftTree.com (http://www.gifttree.com) has long been recognized for their premium gift offering of gift baskets and wine gift baskets, as well as same day delivery of flowers, balloons and fruit baskets. GiftTree.com is using social media to interact with today's savvy internet users and as their new YouTube video shows, their having fun doing it.

GiftTree debuted on YouTube early this year and recently launched their first "made for YouTube" video, Bad Pet Habits (http://www.youtube.com/watchv=PUoirzBUcWI). Craig Bowen, CEO and co-founder of GiftTree.com explains the motivation to create the tongue-in-cheek video. "GiftTree.com is a pet friendly company. A lot of our employees bring their dogs to work. They're all sweet and charming, but you get to know all of their bad habits too. Imagining the bad habits of unusual pets invites some pretty funny scenarios. We wanted to make a video that was funny and offbeat and we had a lot of fun doing it." The GiftTree "video crew" plans to create more fun videos as creative ideas surface.

The company's most recent venture into social media partners GiftTree.com with What I Want (http://apps.facebook.com/whatiwantapp), a "social shopping" application on Facebook. Through What I Want, Facebook users can purchase gifts, create shopping lists and registries, share recommendations and much more. The application centers around sharing. As people add products to their lists, all What I Want users are able to see what products others are finding interesting.

What I Want is a unique application that has attracted other partners such as the Apple Store, Zappos.com and Eddie Bauer. GiftTree chose to partner with What I Want because of the high quality and usability of the application. GiftTree has high expectations for the future of this shopping channel.

The Gift Exchange (http://www.gifttree.com/gifts-blog), GiftTree's blog, was established in the beginning of 2008. The goal was to create a quality blog that people could look to for gifting guidance as well as encourage an interactive relationship between GiftTree and consumers. The blog has since become a hub of activity and continues to evolve to include expert wine tips, community involvement information, contests, and the opportunity to get to know GiftTree employee-bloggers, through their posts. Comments and questions are always highly encouraged.

About GiftTree.com:

GiftTree.com is an online retailer of premium gift baskets, wine gifts and flowers and has been recognized by Internet Retailer Magazine in their "Hot 100" and "Top 500" lists. Located in Vancouver, Washington, GiftTree.com successfully strives to offer the highest quality gifts and make the gift giving process easy and pleasant. The GiftTree.com customer service team is available to help customers 24 hours a day.





GiftTree Gets Social with New Facebook Application YouTube and The Gift Exchange Blog