I'm a bad host!

Sorry Ultimate Blog Partiers, I am a bad blog party host this year! This week has been a bit of a mess for me. For one, I'm in the middle of doing taxes. Doing taxes if you're self employed is NOT fun, especially when you have inventory stuff to deal with. Can you say nightmare??

I'm also in the middle of a new advertising thing. One of my goals this year is to start advertising our business. We've been extremely blessed in that our first year (half year, really, since we didn't officially open until the summer) went really well! Starting any business, especially online and especially in a competitive field such as artisan jewelry, is hard. It's usually a rough start. So we definitely feel blessed that our start up went well! But now that we're settled in and starting to get established, it's time to start growing and you need advertising for that. So this week I have been designing a graphic that will be used for it a coupon thing we're participating in. Since I'm participating, I will have packs of coupons from all sorts of indie companies. These coupons are awesome! Our customers can have the opportunity to get a pack if they want, and maybe I'll send some to my bloggy friends if any of you like to support indie companies. Just let me know.

Let me tell you, this whole advertising thing is very scary to me, even though I'm choosing fairly cheap advertising routes for now. But it's still money invested that you have no idea whether or not it will give you a return. I don't like risks! That's why I don't invest in the stock market. But investing in advertising feels almost as scary as playing the market to me. So it is a big step, and one I hope you will cover in prayer. :o)

I donated a prize to the Ultimate Blog Party list. We're number 147 on the list if you want to check it out.

There are also a billion and one other things going on right now, so I'm very scatter brained at the moment. Lots of stress! Hopefully I'll survive 2008. lol