February was a busy month for Swazzle. The "
Hazel and the Dragon" puppet
e-card produced with
Puppet Greetins.com was the second most popular greeting for the month of February. Despite only being out for a month, it ranked among the top 15 for the year. The Swazzle e-card proved so popular that a new
non-Valentine version was produced, so it could be sent out year round. The e-card was also posted on YouTube.com where it can viewed for free as a
streaming short film.
Summer puppet shows continue to come in, as the booking season winds down. As of this posting the summer total is an impressive 125. Swazzle sits poised to perform more library puppet shows than any other California puppet company for the third year running.
Swazzle.com, Swazzle’s innovative puppet web site also saw lots of activity. Despite being a short month, the total hit count for February passed 90,000 making it the second highest on record. More notably the number of unique daily visits was up to an average of 265 - more than five times last years number, and highest daily average to date. Swazzle.com has also recorded over 1,000 referrals, the highest to date.
For the past couple of months Swazzle puppeteers
Sean Johnson,
Patrick Johnson, and
Anita Coulter have been posting blogs focusing on various aspects of puppetry.
Puppet 101 is about puppet building,
Puppet Design focuses on design for puppetry, and
Puppet U centers around puppet shows and performance. The puppet blogs have been a huge hit in the online puppet community and readership now numbers in the thousands.
Summer is just around the corner and the work continues for Swazzle. Their team of puppet builders are now hard at work building puppets for their two new summer puppet shows, "
Bark the Robot Dog" and "
Rex and Boots Super Sleuths".
The Swazzle team also has some new innovative and exciting puppet projects planned for the future. Visit Swazzle.com for all of the updates.
