What a busy week it's been with my new business venture......I'll reveal exactly what it is once a few more things are in place which will be early next week. But I only signed up on Monday and I've done the first session of team training, the classroom training on Thursday, been to a team meeting on Friday and I will complete he online training ( Read more... )

I've always been surprised how few people enter our prize draws though the websites.....at craft fairs it is rare for someone to decline to enter but, despite plenty of promotion, very few enter the same draws online.

Today I have added We respect privacy and never sell your details to the forms to see if that makes a difference. It has always ( Read more... )

Having put off the latest marketing emails for too long I have actually got round to sending them today. I sent a letter to a small portion of our customers a couple of weeks ago and followed that by an email taylored to them a few days ago......so today I sent a fairly general email about Christmas presents to the rest of the database. Then ( Read more... )

I seem to have had an unexpectedly productive afternoon :)

Having drawn up a todo list of tasks I wanted to accomplish this afternoon I made a start and then got distracted fiddling with a revamp of the Shoples website. And one thing led to another to the point that I was just a short way off being ready to see how it all fitted together on the ( Read more... )

I think my post about feeling more motivated and less down was a bit premature. The last few days have been terrible - I have lay in bed until well into the afternoon and when I do eventually get up I struggle to make any progress with anything at all. I am continually tired and lacking in desire to anything work related or otherwise. I really ( Read more... )

It's been a productive few days ( Read more... )

We just had a rather successful few days for Shoples despite 2 disappointing craft fairs. First we have introduced a new way of collecting entries for out monthly prize draw where we ask for the person's birthday and comments. Over just one weekend we have got 3 good testimonials and a handful of birthdays ( Read more... )

There are times when I really wonder why we do craft fairs.....and this weekend is one of those times ( Read more... )

I have been far too lax recently at writing here which is a pity as I really find LiveJournal useful. It is much more permenant than Facebook or Twitter and certainly a place where I chart things that are going on in my life with more meaning than just this second r few minutes ( Read more... )

Grrrrr.....
I'm still not doing very well at updating this!

Bloomin' June has taken up alot of my time and efforts over the last week, as has setting monthly targets for Shoples for the first time. Thankfully Bloomin' June should take care of itself now apart from having to line up new promotions every few days and generally promoting it on ( Read more... )