So what makes a Spooktacular LeapFish Halloween Bash? Great Employees, Great Food, Creative Costumes, Fabulous Decorations and a Costume Contest with awesome prizes!

This time last year the office was celebrating Halloween and gearing up for the launch of LeapFish Beta. This year will be hard to forget, from the life-size kissing booth to the scariest of Zombies, LeapFish truly captured the spooky spirit of Halloween and everyone had a great time.

Congratulations to the Jungle a.k.a Halloween Allstars who not only won a private preview of LeapFish 2.0 prior to the highly anticipated launch this November but also took first place as the winning team in our Costume Contest!

A big thank you to all LeapFish employees who participated in this years festivities! Without our people LeapFish is nothing. Every LeapFish employee plays an important role and we are thankful to be part of a loyal team of people  and it is through them that we’ve been able to perform month after month & continue to celebrate our success.

Our Team at LeapFish wishes everyone a safe and fruitful Holiday Season and looks forward to an even bigger and better 2010!

LeapFish is a sponsor of the St. Jude Dream Giveaway to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Giveaway has a grand prize of $250,000 and it’s expected to raise a total of $1,000,000 for the charity.

LeapFish is proud to be a sponsor and donate a Flat Panel TV and PS3/Blueray system to the Giveaway. The winners will be announced on June 21, 2009 Live on the St. Jude television special on KOVR CBS Channel 13.

More information for the contest and how you can enter to win can be found at http://www.sjdreamgiveaway.org/sacramento or you can call the toll free information line (800) 564-8758 .

Last week Ben Behrouzi was covered by Forbes for providing some experience around actions companies can take during tough economic times like these in order to maintain or even increase employee happiness and wellbeing. We all know that without a happy and thriving team, there’s no growth, especially in a recession.  Ben provided the following experience and advice to Forbes :

At LeapFish we strive to employ a two pronged approach to increasing team happiness and wellbeing during recession times like these:

First Method :

First, we immediately roll out substantial, structured and predictable performance based compensation in the form of bonuses and spiffs. Nearly anyone, including managers and directors, can earn additional compensation if they are able to perform above general standards on a challenge by challenge basis. As a result, regardless of economic slow downs, team members are still able to maintain control over their financial destiny.

Second Method:

Second, we aggressively enhance the quality, frequency and quantity of spirited culture activities that play directly into happiness and wellbeing. For example, our team holds competitive monthly ping pong tournaments, gathers weekly at pubs and cafes, has weekly trivia contests and just recently joined a corporate softball league. Simply put, there is a direct correlation between increased positive cultural events and team happiness and production.

Each of these efforts enhances our level of happiness, strengthens our bonds and positions us for great production and growth even in recession times.