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Conversation With MyPunchbowl Founder & CEO Matt Douglas
We’ve written about party planning tool MyPunchbowl several times before including their relaunch last November. I had a chance to speak with Matt about two announcements the company is making today. The announcements are: a new partnership with 1-800-Flowers on a new site called Celebrations and "Share on Facebook" functionality. Check out the details on both on the Mypunchbowl blog.
MyPunchbowl is creating an end-to-end party planning tool rather than just an invite service such as eVite. He went on to say that their tool "helps the host look good". They are working on finishing the complete loop for party planning. It’d be great to have a service that can not only help you schedule the party but make sure everything you need is ready including location advice and rentals where needed.
Competitors to MyPunchbowl include Socializr and Renkoo (our Renkoo coverage). Matt notes that MyPunchbowl is much larger than both competitors using analytics charts from Compete (Compete is down so I can’t embed a chart unfortunately).
The team is located in Boston and has 4 full-time employees and 5 contractors. All development is done inhouse.
What service do you use for event planning? My sister uses evite for everything, I haven’t had many events to plan.
Dude – you know I like you but for the love of curling, please spell my name right!
I believe the business model is in the party planning – getting you the flowers, the place settings, the table rentals, etc.
Alan,
Although I don’t throw a lot of events that require an invitation, MPP has taken over Evite. It find it a lot more user-friendly and intuitive. I’m having trouble seeing the business model, although partnerships with 1-800-FLOWERS suggests where that will/could happen.
Mark
I’m a little underwhelmed with MyPunchBowl. Just found pingg.com…i think it’s new competition for them.
I’m a little underwhelmed with MyPunchBowl. Just found pingg.com…i think it’s new competition for them.