Smilebox Blog

Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!  Going to parades, wearing shamrocks and even drinking a little green beer –- nationalities around the world will soon celebrate St. Paddy’s Day.  So send your friends and family a festive St. Patrick’s Day photo egreeting whether they are Irish or not!  Get in the spirit and catch the luck of the Irish with Smilebox.  Simply enter St. Patrick’s Day in the search field of our catalog for our St. Patrick’s Day designs.

Check out the new Valentine photo greetings in Smilebox!  Cute and clever or heartfelt and sappy –- we have just the right design for every sweetie in your life.  Below are three of our most popular Valentine designs.  Our personal favorite is “Dreaming Girl,” the newest creation from Smilebox Studios.  It’s the perfect playful Valentine story for your best friend or best guy.

Following customer requests, we have expanded our system to accept payment from more than 40 countries including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and more.  Welcome to all our new international Smilebox customers!  You can now use your credit card to purchase premium designs for $1.99 (US) or $2.99 (US) or subscribe to Club Smilebox for $4.99 (US)/month or $39.99 (US)/year.  With the premium designs, you can choose from hundreds of music options, print keepsakes and play Smilebox on a full screen without ads.

Be a part of our unique and dynamic team of innovators at Smilebox.  We’re looking for an experienced Senior Search Marketing Manager and Senior SEO and Organic Marketing Manager to add to our team in Redmond, Wash. as we establish Smilebox as the world-leading multimedia expressions service.  We are looking for candidates with 3+ years experience in online search marketing.  If you are qualified and interested, send your resume to jobs@smilebox.com.

As we ring in 2008, we would like to extend our best wishes for the new year to all of you.  This is the time of year we take stock of the past, plan for the future and most importantly thank our customers and partners for your loyalty and support in 2007.  We look forward to working with you in the coming year.   As we celebrate the start of the new year and the end of the last, more than 2 million people have installed Smilebox.  Our team of 33 in Redmond worked feverishly throughout 2007 to make many significant enhancements to our service — we added over 250 new designs, launched the ability to include video clips in Smilebox, created a new catalog to make it easier to find the right design, added print and blogging capabilities, expanded our music catalog and added personal music options.  And, we ended the year with the exciting news that we raised $7 million in venture funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.  We’re looking forward to an exciting 2008 at Smilebox as we bring our customers even more creative ways to share their photo and video memories with friends and family!  Look for many new features and enhancements to our service in the coming year including the ability to add comments to your creations, buy premium designs or join Club Smilebox from more countries, use Smilebox on Macs, choose 12×12 design layouts and select from at least five new designs each week from leading digital designer as well as our internal team of designers at Smilebox Studios.    We wish you and yours a happy and healthy 2008!

Andrew Wright, founder and CEO of Smilebox