A balloon competes with a billboard, not with a banner. Once you see it that way the price stops looking like an expense and starts looking like a bargain.
The comparison that matters
A 5.5-foot sphere is $350. A 13-foot blimp is $1,526 with full colour artwork on both sides included.
A month of local radio, one billboard rotation, or a decent print run each costs more than that and stops the day you stop paying. The balloon does not stop. Customers write to us still flying the same one after fourteen years.
That is the whole argument. Not that a balloon is clever, but that it is unusually durable for the money.
The one question that decides it
How many cars pass your frontage, and can they currently see you from a distance?
A balloon at 120 feet clears rooflines, sign clutter and the trees that hide street-level signage. That height is the entire product. If your business sits somewhere nobody drives past, a balloon will not fix that, and we would rather say so before you spend the money.
What it costs to keep flying
Helium, and not much of it. Buy it locally from a welding-gas supplier, about $300 for a 200 cubic foot tank, roughly $1.50 per cubic foot.
A sphere fills with about 87 cf, around $130, and one tank runs it for roughly two months including top-offs. A blimp fills with about 170 cf, around $255, then costs about $2.50 a day.
You lose about one percent a day, so plan on topping off every three to seven days.
| Item | Price | Helium per fill | Cost per fill |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 foot sphere | $350 | about 87 cf | about $130 |
| 13 foot blimp, printed both sides | $1,526 | about 170 cf | about $255 |
Ask for a quote. Call 1-800-791-1445 or email [email protected] and tell us the size and whether you want it printed.
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