{"id":10347,"date":"2020-11-23T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:54:39","slug":"celebrities-who-love-our-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/celebrities-who-love-our-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Who Love Our Personalized Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">THE BEGINNINGS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It was December 2018, and we were getting ready for the launch of our then-new personalized book. We knew it had the potential to become widely popular but just didn\u2019t have quite enough resources to launch a lucrative marketing campaign. The only thing left for us to do was to put our heads together and&nbsp;<em>think, think, think<\/em>\u2026 and that\u2019s what we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">THINK GUERRILLA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Out of nowhere, a colleague shouts,&nbsp;<em>\u201cLet\u2019s send our book to celebrities! Just pick them randomly and send it! And I\u2019m talking A-listers here.\u201d<\/em>. It struck us like lightning!&nbsp;<strong>That\u2019s it!<\/strong>&nbsp;Everyone nodded in agreement that this could be feasible, so we got to work! We didn\u2019t really know what to expect though\u2026 Would they like it, could we possibly get a shoutout and join the big leagues? Or would it just get lost in their fanmail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We sent out around<strong>&nbsp;100 personalized books<\/strong>&nbsp;to all the celebrities whose information we could find and hoped for the best. Just when we were slowly losing hope\u2026&nbsp;<em>one notification changed it all!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4191.TRIM_-1-2.mov\"><\/video><figcaption>Happy Birthday True<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">HER SISTERS JOINED THE BAND<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Could this be real?!&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hoorayheroes.com\/stories\/true-got-a-personalized-hooray-heroes-book-for-her-1st-birthday\/\"><strong>Khloe Kardashian<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;mentioned us in her IG story? Talk about the big leagues! That gave us all the motivation we needed to keep going with this approach! Not long after,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hoorayheroes.com\/stories\/kim-kardashian-west-loves-personalized-books\/\"><strong>her sisters<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;also joined the buzz and showed love for our personalized books in her IG stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"519\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kourtney-768x1514-1-519x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10349\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/?attachment_id=10349\" class=\"wp-image-10349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kourtney-768x1514-1-519x1024.jpg 519w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kourtney-768x1514-1-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kourtney-768x1514-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"571\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Posnetek-zaslona-118-2-571x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10350\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Posnetek-zaslona-118-2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/?attachment_id=10350\" class=\"wp-image-10350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Posnetek-zaslona-118-2-571x1024.png 571w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Posnetek-zaslona-118-2-167x300.png 167w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Posnetek-zaslona-118-2.png 601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">OK, WHO\u2019S NEXT?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We weren\u2019t stopping here. Not in the slightest. We knew there must be a bunch of people out there who\u2019d love a personalized book about themselves and their kiddos!<br>How about&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hoorayheroes.com\/stories\/david-beckham-hh\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Beckham<\/a><\/strong>, an absolute soccer legend? Yup! We believe we even made him shed a tear or two!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"565\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dejvi-768x1391-1-565x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dejvi-768x1391-1-565x1024.jpg 565w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dejvi-768x1391-1-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dejvi-768x1391-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/personalized-books\/books-for-daddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When Harper Grows Up<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">INFILTRATING POP CULTURE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ok, so we checked some of the biggest names in the influencer and sports industries off our list, but we needed to infiltrate pop culture as well! And who\u2019s better at introducing you to pop culture than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hoorayheroes.com\/stories\/major-key-alert-another-one\/\"><strong>DJ Khaled<\/strong><\/a>? We spotted our personalized Christmas book that glows in the dark in one of his posts on IG, and, a couple of days later, he also posted a couple of IG stories with \u201cHooray Aalam You Did It\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/personalized-books-for-children\/the-adventures-of-ryan-and-sarah\" target=\"_blank\">The Adventures of Aalam and Asahd<\/a>\u201c. Another one! Thanks, Khaled!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095235-768x1365-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10352\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/?attachment_id=10352\" class=\"wp-image-10352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095235-768x1365-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095235-768x1365-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095235-768x1365-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Hooray, Aalam! You Did It!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"583\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095315-768x1350-1-583x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10353\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095315-768x1350-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/?attachment_id=10353\" class=\"wp-image-10353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095315-768x1350-1-583x1024.jpg 583w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095315-768x1350-1-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201119_095315-768x1350-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The Adventures of Aalam and Asahd<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">PINNACLE OF SUCCESS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The achievement we\u2019re most proud of is handing one of our personalized books to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hoorayheroes.com\/stories\/anderson-paak-personalized-book\/\"><strong>Anderson .Paak<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>from the front row at one of his concerts! We tried our best to meet him \u00bbofficially\u00ab, but no luck\u2026 so the only way to do it was to fight our way to the front row and hope for the best. Take a look below to see how that panned out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/StorySaver.Org-ursakrajnc_60241316_158413455338011_4884943775672789290_n-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"571\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/andy-768x1378-1-571x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/andy-768x1378-1-571x1024.jpg 571w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/andy-768x1378-1-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/andy-768x1378-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/hooray-heroes.ca\/personalized-books-for-children\/the-adventures-of-ryan-and-sarah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Adventures of Shine and Soul<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A big THANK YOU to all the people that have shown us love over the past few years \u2013 from the not-so-famous people to the world\u2019s biggest stars \u2013 and helped a small business gain traction. 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