From The Horse's Mouth

This week my wife and I are exhibiting at Macworld in San Francisco, California at Booth 312. If you are attending, please visit with us – you won’t be disappointed. You might wonder what product are we displaying at Macworld?

If you have followed Apollo, you will have noticed a few changes over the last three years. We have started a few additional companies and several departments at Apollo and Blue Pony have all contributed in launching these companies. We now have four companies that are somewhat interrelated, as they use a lot of shared resources. To many this might seem a little confusing. To me this is a wonderful creative formula that feeds off each other. We can mix and match ideas based on each company’s needs. We can test ideas in one area and apply them in another. Since Apollo is a 20 year old company there is a little more resistance for big changes but changes tested and proven with a startup is low risk.

An example of this is a classifieds site we started, jasperdaily.com. I was always disappointed by Craigslist in the graphic layout and user interface. We decided to test overseas programmers, (continue reading…)

Our sister company, Blue Pony Digital, has just won a DIGI Award! They won a DIGI for Best Ambient Content for their 9/11 10th Anniversary Tribute, a moving video honoring the lives lost and families effected by the tragic day in American history.

The DIGI Awards are put on by Digital Signage Magazine together with The Digital Signage Group. The DIGI Awards is an industry award program that recognizes the outstanding integrators, content providers and product manufacturers focusing on digital signage.

At the LDI New Product Breakfast we launched a new product video on the Multiform HP3-90 and HP5-70 LED units. Both will be available mid December. More information to come!

So, sit back, relax and check out the creative works from Blue Pony and learn a little about our new HP3-90 and HP5-70 LED units.

Congratulations to the Blue Pony team for a record sales month in October. They have done some incredible work on big projects and their ability to grow and deliver day in and day out has been impressive. The projects for the month included a job for Hawker Beechcraft on a military variety of the King Air line of planes. Great job everyone!! Visit them at www.bluepony.com

Joel Nichols

Marketing and Blue Pony were working on a new product video with Joel. The sales department caught wind of it and decided to have a little fun of their own. How many of you have been able to throw water balloons at the boss? Never a dull day around Apollo!

Guys, if you’re going out this weekend, this is the video for you! Great advice from Abe!

We traditionally do a Friday video, however today I want viewers to look at our previous blog from this week, a tribute video for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

http://blog.apollodesign.net/news-and-views/a-tribute-to-911/

The ten-year anniversary of 9/11 is upon us. That day was a moment in time many of us will never forget. Our sister company, Blue Pony, created this video in memory of the loved ones who were lost and in honor of those who served and gave their life on that tragic day.

When this video was first discussed, we thought about where we were when this happened and what we were doing? This is a moment in time many of us will never forget. Personally, I was the Sales Coordinator, going through emails when the phone calls started rolling in about this tragedy. Several of us went into the conference room to watch it on the t.v. monitor.  We also had six staff members in London for PLASA as well as another staff member traveling on sales calls close to where all the events were taking  place. So many of our customers were also touched by this tragedy. Feel free to share with us your memories of this tragic day in American history.

If you would like more information on how you can obtain a copy of this video contact sales@bluepony.com. Here is our tribute to all those affected.

Celebrate these last few weeks of summer with some sweet tea. Below is a comical little video on how to make sweet tea. Have a great weekend!

For this Friday’s video, we have found an interesting video and PowerPoint presentation “Life after death by PowerPoint” by Don McMillan. PowerPoint is a unique business tool that can help you communicate effectively and efficiently to your clients, while also having the potential to hurt you if not used in a professional and sophisticated manner.

Blue Pony, our sister company, couldn’t agree more. Let them take your current PowerPoint and move it to the next level, making you look good!