tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198147184353800062024-03-05T08:34:17.368-05:00Homemade Button, Crystal, and Pearl Jewelryhttp://www.galla15.etsy.com
http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com
<a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com">Handmade Jewelry</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-63936452262819686842012-02-01T12:36:00.002-05:002012-02-01T12:45:28.044-05:00PFT Gifts and Purchases<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So the Promotional Frenzy Team did Secret Santa's this past holiday season and I wanted to share with everyone what I received as a gift!<br />
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Symbolic Imports sent me this really nice wood soap tray/dish, and perfume oil! The clean cotton smell is really nice! I LOVE the smell of dryer sheets and things similar so this was just perfect for me!<br />
If you haven't shopped through her shop before you should really take a moment to check it out!<br />
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Then last week I decided to make a purchase from a teammate. I do quite a few craft shows each year, and like to display my business cards. I have gone out of my way to try to make my business cards unique and stand out. So I wanted a display that would also stand out. So, I splurged on this!<br />
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Isn't it beautiful? You can find this beautiful shop here:<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Mtbaldyglassworks">http://www.etsy.com/shop/Mtbaldyglassworks</a><br />
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She makes amazing pieces from fused glass! Wine stoppers, to these business card holders, just stunning pieces of work!<br />
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Thanks PFT for such amazing gifts, and products!! Now I will smell good, while making a statement at my shows :)<br />
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Janet<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So for 2011 I set 9 personal goals and achieved 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am very disappointed in that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the goals were just too ambitious and some were just bad timing and I just wasn't able to complete them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2012 Goals for me personally and my business:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New line of Jewelry coming - Updates to my rings, and new accessories</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>List over 400 items in my shop</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Achieve over 1000 sales</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use Pinterest and Google Buzz more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hit 10,000 Circles (I know CRAZY, probably not possible... )</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have at LEAST 4 local shops carrying my jewelry</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get my 3rd shop up and running on Etsy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buy a house and Move</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">****************************************************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Promotional Frenzy Team had an AMAZING 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We consistently maintain a roster of over 100 team members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had a 100% compliance rate with blogs, we create many new events, and participated in contests for more visibility and the biggest accomplishment??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OVER 1600 SALES IN OUR BNRS!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is impossible to know how many sales our teammates have had just from our team activities but with 1600 sales from our bi-weekly event I am sure this was a successful year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PFT GOALS: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have everyone work on their circles (minimum of 500 each)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Improve upon our team Twitter account (1000 followers)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use Flickr team account more </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Master Google Buzz and Pinterest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have our team blog up and running</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enter more contests, apply for Etsy grants, advertise and more!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well over 3000 sales for the team!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to all the support of my friends and teammates.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">HAPPY NEW YEAR</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Janet</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">www.galla15.etsy.com</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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I used Southern Comfort eggnog, any store bought brand will work.<br />
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You will need a 10 inch fluted tube pan to bake it in.<br />
ONLY 8 ingredients.<br />
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1 Package (18 1/4 oz) white cake mix<br />
1 package (3.9oz) instant vanilla pudding mix<br />
4 eggs<br />
1 cup eggnog<br />
1/4 cup canola oil<br />
2 teaspoons rum extract<br />
1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg<br />
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GLAZE Ingredients:<br />
1 cup confectioners' sugar (10x sugar)<br />
1/4 teaspoon rum extract<br />
3 to 4 teaspoons eggnog<br />
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1. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, eggnog, oil, rum extract and nutmeg. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.<br />
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2. Pour into a well-greased 10 in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 38-41 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving platter.<br />
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3. In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, extract and enough eggnog to get a drizzling consistency. Drizzle over the cake once it is completely cooled.<br />
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TIPS: I found you need much more eggnog for the glaze then called for. So I would recommend adding 4 teaspoons of eggnog and the 1/4 tsp of rum extract, then slowly add the 10x sugar until the right consistency. It was very sweet to me. It took closer to 41 minutes for mine to finish and get that really golden color around the edges.<br />
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I hope you guys will try it and let me know how you like it. I am not even a fan of eggnog I made this for my dad and I LOVED it.<br />
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Janet<br />
www.galla15.etsy.com </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-37156856384155735692011-11-27T14:54:00.000-05:002011-11-27T14:54:28.156-05:00Questionable Ethics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I would like to start out by giving a frame of reference, a little insight into me personally.<br />
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When I was growing up I had an extremely creative mom and sister. My mom could knit, sew, quilt, paint, ceramics, wreaths, decorate, stage, throw parties you name it this woman could do it and do it VERY well. My sister was the same way, she would come home from school with beautiful pieces to show my mom from art class. Now my dad really couldn't barely draw a stick person LOL My dad was on the more analytic side, he loved to build things and was very good at drawing up plans. My point is I grew up thinking I was not creative at all compared to my mom and sister, that I took after my dad. It was only in the last 6 or so years of my life that I discovered my creative side through jewelry.<br />
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It is one of the ONLY things I can say in my entire life that I truly feel creative, and absolute love doing. So with this history I take a huge amount of pride in my work. I strive to create truly unique items. With all of this said, I know that in jewelry just about anything and everything that can be done has been done at some point in time... and that we all get inspired by one another at times.<br />
But I strive to put my own personal touches on each piece, and to create my own niche in the market, and feel that is the ethical way to handle any craft or business. <br />
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So the drama from yesterdays craft show actually started an entire year ago. These 2 older women selling jewelry (a vendor at the same show) came to my booth wanting to know if they could buy the pattern for some of my bracelets. I told them the patterns were not for sale, that I didn't want them or other vendors selling my creations. They continued to pick up each piece and put their glasses on and examine them very very closely. Later that day I had someone buy 4 of my bracelets, I was thrilled until I saw them later at the booth with these 2 women. They had sent a friend in to buy the bracelets from me since I told them NO. These things happen quite often but usually it isn't done in such a blatant manner. I bet this happens at most shows but we just don't know about it because most people have a little more sense about them, that this is WRONG to do so don't be obvious if you are going to do it! I tried to not get too upset, but decided I would talk to the event organizer. I have been a vendor at this show for 5 years now and felt strongly this wouldn't be the type of vendor they would want to have if they knew the things they were doing. The organizer said she wasn't happy with them either, there were other problems apparently and she wouldn't be inviting them back.<br />
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Flash forward to this past Friday at the same show just a year later and these 2 older women were back at the show! Not only were they back but they had a prime location near the entrance, AND they had EXACT copies of my bracelets! I was furious and immediately went to the organizer to complain. It is bad enough they are copying but to now sell it at the SAME show and for me to not have a better spot in the show as a long standing vendor was upsetting too. The organizer said I needed to talk to the copycats myself and make it clear that I wasn't happy with this, but I should wait until the end of the show so that it doesn't cause a problem. I agreed to wait to the end of the show to handle it.<br />
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So the show starts and these 2 women immediately come to my booth and start examining more bracelets. They want to know where I get my displays from, where my bracelet trays came from... Of course I just said ONLINE! Where else do you think I got them from? LOL<br />
They walked away finally. All day Friday I had customers who have come to this show for years to see me.... come up to my booth to warn me that someone has copied me. I have some loyal customers which I love them all dearly for. <br />
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Near lunch time on Friday my mom and dad came up to let me use the bathroom and get a drink and they brought me lunch. As soon as I walked away from my booth these 2 women came flying over to examine more of my items. I guess they thought my booth was unmanned, but my parents were there! These 2 women made VERY bold and blatant moves the entire day Friday wanting more and more information on my pieces in order to copy not only my jewelry but my displays too!<br />
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Saturday comes around and I am really started to get worked up, this has been going on since the previous year, it is becoming more disruptive where I feel I can't even leave my booth. Friday night into Saturday I had to put my entire display away because I knew they would come in early or stay late to stare at my booth! Throughout the day Saturday more customers were noticing the copycats and saying more and more too. Other vendors around me starting commenting, as I was talking to one of my neighbors the copycats came running up behind me trying to look again... until the my neighbor pointed it out to me. One of the other vendors actually went up to these 2 ladies and asked them, so who is copying who, you copying that girl in there or is she copying you? Apparently the lady refused to answer and just changed the subject to explain their designs. <br />
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My mom and grandmother came up Saturday to shop around and they gave me a short break again. Again as soon as I walked away these 2 women came flying up to my booth. My mom told me they were whispering and pointing at everything, picking up more bracelets and looking and then she heard one of the ladies say those button necklaces would sell great we can do those! So now the bracelets weren't enough, trying to figure out my display isn't enough let's rip off ALL her designs. I am a person of principal and this to me is so very wrong, I was fuming inside. But I wanted to try to maintain my image and reputation at this show and with my customers so I just kept waiting for the end of the day to talk to the copycats.<br />
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Finally around 4pm on Saturday I was with a customer who was buying earrings from me when the taller of these copycat ladies came up to my booth. She had her hands on her hips and this stern look I quickly glanced up to make eye contact and say HI, and she started screaming at me. I honestly don't know what she said because I was so concerned about my customer, that I just looked up at her and said can this wait I have a customer and she yelled NO it can not wait. I took my customers money and slowly packaged up her item and tried to keep a smile and be as calm as I could as to not scare my customer away. And as soon as I gave her the item this woman was screaming. She said how dare you tell others we are copying you. Honestly I don't know what triggered this I had been biting my tongue the ENTIRE day to wait for an appropriate time to confront these women. My only guess is the combination of my customers giving her a hard time and the other vendor at one point flat out asking who is copying set her off. None of which is my fault, I didn't copy, I didn't ask people to do these things, and really don't know what was done or said.<br />
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It got really bad, to the point where the woman was leaning over my table with her finger in my face and I said I am not talking to you about this now. I just kept repeating as calmly as I could I am not doing this in the middle of the show. I said can we handle this later, she yelled you better believe we will handle this later, I will handle you. I said is that a threat, she said you better believe it. Mind you this woman is at least in her 60's!! Finally my neighbor vendor came over, and chest bumped the copycat and said that is enough walk away. So the woman left. Now any customer that was in our aisle has gone RUNNING, it is a ghost town in here. I asked my one neighbor to please go get the organizer, that this had crossed a line and was not acceptable. She came back to tell me the organizer was busy but would be over shortly.<br />
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I just tried to calm down at this point and keep a smile for any customers nearby and to regroup. 15-20 minutes went by and I had another customer at my table when the 2nd shorter copycat lady came to my table SCREAMING. She talked about how if she had the jewelry they had bought with her she would return them, honestly I don't know what she was saying. I tried for about a 1/2 second to talk and it was obvious they weren't reasonable and weren't going to listen. So when I couldn't even say one word, I dug my heels in and said I won't talk about this now. I am not going to discuss this now.... finally I said please leave. She said NO. I said leave my booth, she said no. I repeated myself at least 10 more times, she refused. So I felt I had no choice at this moment but to call the police. The organizer had not made it over to me yet and this woman was scaring away my business and I had been threatened and she would NOT leave..... I told her if she didn't leave I would call the police, she said go ahead and call. I got my phone out, not really wanting to call, because I did not want a bigger scene then this had already become... so I warned her one last time, I am calling now if you don't leave and she stood there. So I had to call the police. The entire time I was on the phone she was yelling in the background. I could barely hear the guy on the other end. WHAT A DISASTER! The police hung around to escort me to my car at the end of the show and these women didn't say another word after that.<br />
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**** So the bottomline to me. These are experienced women, and I don't just say that because of their age. These are women who have clearly made a living out of doing this. In my personal opinion people do not get that bold, and don't have such an elaborate system in place by accident. It is from years of doing these things, and literally being BULLIES to other small crafters. I bet most crafters ignore their antics, most crafters don't know what they can do, what they should do, and these women are so dominating in their actions that I bet most don't stand up to them. These women have been able to get away with this behavior for so long that it has become more and more aggressive. I let them get away with it for over a year myself because I didn't think there was much I could do, these things happen in the craft world etc. etc.<br />
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But these women will continue to do these things until something is done about it, obviously. Even with the idea of the cops coming they wouldn't leave my booth. That woman just flat out did not care. And I am positive it is NO coincidence that each time they came to throw a fit was when I had customers. They realized at this particular venue the GIG WAS UP for them and they were pissed and trying to do as much damage as they could on their way out. That is my honest opinion, when they realized that there were other vendors and so many customers protective of me and commenting to them, and that they weren't getting away with it they threw a temper tantrum!<br />
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They did do a lot of damage, but probably not like they had hoped. They succeeded in making themselves look like complete asses. They were able to flaunt their selfishness and their unethical behavior to my entire customer base, and to all these other vendors. They were banned from this venue again in the future, and my customers clearly know me and my work and wouldn't give them the time of day and certainly never will now either! <br />
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And they have been successful in motivating me to take the next step with my business. If this is something I deeply care about, and treasure my creations and my hard work and time then I have to do more to protect them. I have contacted a lawyer, and I have copyrights, trademarks you name it, all in the works for my company. So I should be thanking them to a certain extent because my business will be elevated now due to their unethical behaviors. <br />
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In all the years of doing craft shows I have never even seen a conflict let alone been involved in one. And I hope for the rest of my years doing craft shows I won't have to deal with something this ridiculous again.<br />
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Thanks for reading my book.<br />
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And I really want to thank all the other vendors who were supportive to me, protected me, and all of my very loyal customers :)<br />
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THANK YOU!<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">Trinkets N Whatnots - Crystal and Button Jewelry</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-90107445129452049102011-11-08T21:20:00.002-05:002011-11-08T22:26:28.036-05:00One Social Share Button<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Everywhere you turn there is a social networking site that people are using. Each site has their own "button" for you to put in your toolbar of your internet screen so that you can share content with that site.<br />
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For instance, Stumbleupon has a green share button with SU on it for your toolbar.<br />
But if you are trying to grow a business using social networks it can be hard to keep up with all those buttons! Your toolbar could look quite the mess, and very hard to manage right?<br />
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So I discovered a universal SHARE button. It isn't perfect, for instance it doesn't have some of the newer sites like Pinterest just yet. However, it has tumblr, stumbleupon, kaboodle, linkedin, facebook, twitter, google buzz, digg, and many other options!<br />
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Once you have this green universal share button you can use it to pick which site to promote too.<br />
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Here are the directions for firefox installation.<br />
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Here are the steps.<br />
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1. Click the orange Firefox button at the top of your internet screen, you will see a series of menus CLICK Add- ons<br />
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2. You should now see a page with a search bar near the top right. Type in "Share" into that search.<br />
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3. Now you will see a bunch of results, at the very bottom of the result page is Show More Results, Click on that.<br />
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</a></div>4. The 2nd result on the page should be a green Shareaholic add on. The 1st result is also a share button but it isn't as popular and I prefer the one in the 2nd result. If you put your mouse over that 2nd add-on you will see "Add to Firefox" Click on that to install.<br />
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5. Now that it is installed on firefox, you will need to restart Firefox by closing it completely out and reopening it. If you don't see the green share button right to the left of where you type in a URL on the page then you have to adjust your internet menu.<br />
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Click the Orange Firefox menu button top left, move your mouse over the menu "options" and you should see "Add-On" Click on it to make sure a check mark is next to it.<br />
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6. Set up which social networks you want to have available through this button.<br />
To the left of where you type in the URL of a webpage is the Green Shareaholic button, there is a little green drop down arrow... click on there to see a list of choices, and click on MORE OPTIONS.<br />
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7. Now you will see a screen with sites on the left and right. You click a site you want that is on the left and then click ADD to move it to the right. All sites on the right hand side are ones that will show under your button on the toolbar. You can remove them or add them through this menu.<br />
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****** <b>HERE IS A LINK TO GET THE DOWNLOAD FOR INTERNET EXPLORER ******</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shareaholic.com/tools/ie/">IE Shareaholic</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Now get sharing on all these sites :)<br />
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Have fun.<br />
Janet </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-65169860180787042672011-10-19T00:44:00.004-04:002011-10-19T01:45:31.276-04:00SPECIAL Baby BNR Bash!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">WOW! <a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team">The Promotional Frenzy Team</a> had a special BNR on Tuesday the 18th. And we had 189 sales in one single day!!<br />
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I want to give some special thanks out to those that organized this BNR.<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/Crystalphotography">Crystal Photography</a> - She is pregnant with twins and realized we could have fun trying to guess the date of birth for her twins and turned that into an amazing theme for our BNR. She spent countless hours while pregnant with the twins blogging, and promoting, arranging all the details. She was able to help get all the prizes lined up and all the curator shifts together. AND donated a prize to this event!<br />
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You can read all the details about the BNR and the PRIZES that were over $700 dollars, here at her blog<br />
<a href="http://crystalgaylephotography.blogspot.com/2011/10/baby-bnr.html">http://crystalgaylephotography.blogspot.com/2011/10/baby-bnr.html</a><br />
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Check out her amazing shop:<br />
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</div>Then there is <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/camillescloset">Camilles Closet</a>. She really had a lot of ideas to set this up and helped Crystal set it all up. She had some really creative ideas and incentives to make this such a huge success. <br />
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Her amazing Wax seal pendants I think really make her shop stand out. She donated a prize to this BNR too!!<br />
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Our resident BNR lady: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/crochetedbycharlene">Crocheted By Charlene</a> She also donated a wonderful prize and has an AMAZING shop. She helps make sure all the curators are lined up and convo's them all the details... lots of behind the scenes leg work on her part each week for our team! <br />
Check out her newest line, crocheted headwarmers!<br />
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</div>Then we have a member on our team that is still fairly new but just jumped in with both feet with amazing energy and enthusiasm. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/lostlemonade">Lost Lemonade</a> She stayed online for basically 14 hours today to help track all the sales, how many entries each person has etc. HUGE detailed, LONG day... she gave our preggo Crystal a small breather today. And I am sure you can start to sense a pattern, we have such supportive members... so she also donated a prize to the cause!<br />
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Check out these very cool bath products in a festive Ornament!!<br />
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</div>With 189 Sales Total it was obviously a HUGE team effort. Tons of promoting, donations, and hardowrk that resulted in an AMAZING event.<br />
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Obviously I can't thank every individual person that helped us make this event such a success.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">BUT A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HAS SUPPORTED THE PROMOTIONAL FRENZY TEAM AND THIS EVENT.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">This was the list of curators we had tonight AND those that donated prizes. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.symbolicimports.etsy.com/">http://www.symbolicimports.etsy.com/</a> - a bar of oatmeal, milk and honey soap valued at $6.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thechristmascorner.etsy.com/">http://www.thechristmascorner.etsy.com/</a> - a surprise gift valued at $15.<br />
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<a href="http://www.smileykit.etsy.com/">http://www.smileykit.etsy.com/</a> - a Bird Handmade With Swarovski Crystals in the color of your choice valued at $11.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dellcovespices.etsy.com/">http://www.dellcovespices.etsy.com/</a> - a 5 pack Pin Up girl spice kit valued at $15.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.potsdamelf.etsy.com/">http://www.potsdamelf.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of hand felted ball earrings valued at $17.00. <br />
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<a href="http://www.sunnycrystals.etsy.com/">http://www.sunnycrystals.etsy.com/</a> - a glass heart shaped pendant valued at $8.00. <br />
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<a href="http://www.rooee.etsy.com/">http://www.rooee.etsy.com/</a> - a pot holder valued at $8.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.urdelights.etsy.com/">http://www.urdelights.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of earrings valued at $20.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.crochetedbycharlene.etsy.com/">http://www.crochetedbycharlene.etsy.com/</a> - a headwarmer valued at $14.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.calliopeazcreations.etsy.com/">http://www.calliopeazcreations.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of earrings that are made of real turquoise and hand worked old carnelian beads. The drop is 1.5 inches. Value is $18.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.greenhouseglassworks.etsy.com/">http://www.greenhouseglassworks.etsy.com/</a> - a Dichroic Fused Glass Pendant valued at $20.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.prittyfy.etsy.com/">http://www.prittyfy.etsy.com/</a> - a charm bracelet valued at $32.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.magdamagda.etsy.com/">http://www.magdamagda.etsy.com/</a> - a Chiffon Scarf and Rose set valued at $9.90.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lostlemonade.etsy.com/">http://www.lostlemonade.etsy.com/</a> - a bottle of Bath Sea Salts valued at $7.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.crystalphotography.etsy.com/">http://www.crystalphotography.etsy.com/</a> - a 5x7 print called 'Daisy in the Spring' valued at $20.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.havendawndesigns.etsy.com/">http://www.havendawndesigns.etsy.com/</a> - a pendant of the winners choice, including the option of a custom pendant design, valued upto $7.50.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flirtysanchezproject.etsy.com/">http://www.flirtysanchezproject.etsy.com/</a> - a set of No Place Like Home washi tape deco clothespins and 4 Whisper Neutrals papercraft upcycled mini card gift tags valued together at $8.00. <br />
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<a href="http://www.yesterdaysmemories09.etsy.com/">http://www.yesterdaysmemories09.etsy.com/</a> - 2 sheets of personalized thank you labels valued at $7.75.<br />
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<a href="http://www.delightfulprints.etsy.com/">http://www.delightfulprints.etsy.com/</a> - any item in her shop up to a $15 value.<br />
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<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> - a $15 credit to her shop.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lestroisfleurs.etsy.com/">http://www.lestroisfleurs.etsy.com/</a> - a Sunshine eyeglasses lanyard.<br />
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<a href="http://www.createdrose.etsy.com/">http://www.createdrose.etsy.com/</a> - a Red Flower Print Of Original Flower Painting 5x7 valued at $15.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.camillescloset.etsy.com/">http://www.camillescloset.etsy.com/</a> - 2 Wax Seal Initial Necklaces valued at $17 each.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jqjewelrydesigns.etsy.com/">http://www.jqjewelrydesigns.etsy.com/</a> - a Brighton leather accessories are timeless creations assembled by hand and created from fine leathers. Available only in Brighton Collectibles stores and select specialty shops, they are well-known for their heart logos and silver charms adorning many of the products in their collections.<br />
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This limited edition case measures 3 by 4 inches and has a zipper closure with pretty silver charm pull. A heart-shaped window is perfect for a favorite photo. It is designed with deep brown fine pebble leather and the famous Brighten croc detailing. Valued at $35 US.<br />
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<a href="http://www.turtlexiii.etsy.com/">http://www.turtlexiii.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of pumpkin earrings valued at $15.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nangatesdesigns.etsy.com/">http://www.nangatesdesigns.etsy.com/</a> - a wristlet valued at $16.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.overthemoongifts.etsy.com/">http://www.overthemoongifts.etsy.com/</a> - a luggage tag valued at $8.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.eveyinorbitshop.etsy.com/">http://www.eveyinorbitshop.etsy.com/</a> - an art zine valued at $3.50.<br />
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<a href="http://www.grapvineceramicsgft.etsy.com/">http://www.grapvineceramicsgft.etsy.com/</a> - a ceramic sunflower ring marble valued at $12.99.<br />
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<a href="http://www.photomom101.etsy.com/">http://www.photomom101.etsy.com/</a> - a Genuine European Charm Bracelet with Murano Glass Bead valued at $105.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.plarnstar.etsy.com/">http://www.plarnstar.etsy.com/</a> - a bracelet made of recycled plastic bags (to be custom made for the winner) valued at $18.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jeannelamp.etsy.com/">http://www.jeannelamp.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of earrings valued upto $10.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.impulsivecrafter.etsy.com/">http://www.impulsivecrafter.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of baby leggings valued at $7.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.unicornpaper.etsy.com/">http://www.unicornpaper.etsy.com/</a> - 2 sets of tags valued teogether at $5.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.unexpectedtreasure.etsy.com/">http://www.unexpectedtreasure.etsy.com/</a> - a Elmo Inspired Earflap Hat with Red Fringed Scarf valued at $28.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.papermajik.etsy.com/">http://www.papermajik.etsy.com/</a> - a 4 pack of Exclusive Seeds and Fern Handmade Paper Stationery valued at $15.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flutterbyconnections.etsy.com/">http://www.flutterbyconnections.etsy.com/</a> - a Christmas ornament of choice valued at $10.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jesseciani.etsy.com/">http://www.jesseciani.etsy.com/</a> - a Silk Flower Headband valued at $25.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.uglyducklingbeads.etsy.com/">http://www.uglyducklingbeads.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of Perfectly Twisted Wire Earrings tutorial valued at $12.00.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lexiekinprints.etsy.com/">http://www.lexiekinprints.etsy.com/</a> - a printable thank you card valued at $9.50.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nickollette113.etsy.com/">http://www.nickollette113.etsy.com/</a> - $15 store credit.<br />
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<a href="http://www.smileykit.etsy.com/">http://www.smileykit.etsy.com/</a> - curator<br />
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<a href="http://www.urdelights.etsy.com/">http://www.urdelights.etsy.com/</a> - curator for TWO shifts<br />
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<a href="http://www.fairladyboutique.etsy.com/">http://www.fairladyboutique.etsy.com/</a> - Curator for TWO shifts<br />
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There were countless others who helped convo friends to get the traffic up. <br />
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A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL!!!<br />
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Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> <br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-82154860100899733472011-10-04T12:59:00.004-04:002011-10-04T22:47:59.715-04:00Operation Care Package<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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I am working with an organization called, "Operation Care Packages" and they are collecting items to send overseas to our troops that will be deployed during the holidays. I have worked with this organization for 4 years now. h<a href="http://www.operationcarepackages.org/index.html">ttp://www.operationcarepackages.org/index.html</a><br />
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I think about an organization such as Etsy that connects millions of people and can see so much potential to make a difference. If everyone gave one or two items we would easily meet and of course exceed our goals. <br />
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So how can we all help with this, in these tough economic times? Direct donations are of course appreciated and needed but there are MANY ways to help this year.<br />
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<div align="center">HOW TO HELP?</div><div style="text-align: left;">1. Just help spread the word. Please blog about this, email your friends, tell your co-workers... just help spread the word on this wonderful cause.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Get a local school or church involved. My mom is a retired teacher and she gets kids at school to draw and paint and send messages. The troops love to see all of that support.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Look around your house to see what you don't need or want anymore. Old magazines are greatly appreciated, used books too. Do you have old games, decks of cards, or movies laying around? All of these things are keep the cost to you down but would make a huge impact for our troops. Other than the cost to ship these wouldn't cost you a thing!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Go to the local dollar store and buy 5-10 items which will cost you 5-10 dollars. This organization loves to send a stocking to every troop so you could buy 5 PACKS of stockings. Or just some toiletries, or games and books from there. Very cheap and you can buy multiple items.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Here is a great website with very affordable odds and ends, such as deck of cards, stockings that are only 50 cents each, games and ornaments.. .</div><a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/">http://www.orientaltrading.com/</a> <br />
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6. You can send blank cards so that they have something to send back to loved ones, or a book of stamps. Just get creative and send something, one thing :)<br />
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Here is a LONG list of things they would want and could use:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"</span><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Wish List"</span> </u></b></div><br />
The following is a list of items that are especially needed to add Holiday cheer to packages. <br />
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Cards & letters of support to 'any hero' <br />
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Hot Chocolate & Hot Cider Packets Cookies (small individual packs) <br />
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Chocolate bars & kisses <br />
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Batteries AA & AAA <br />
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Hand held games, dvds and cds <br />
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Sweat pants and blanket throws <br />
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Socks - Mens - white /black - work /crew <br />
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Summer sausage, beef sticks or pepperoni sticks (6oz to 12oz size) <br />
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Granola Bars, Trail Mix, Nuts (individual sizes) <br />
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Small Christmas trees - 8 to 18 inches tall <br />
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Zip lock bags (quart and gallon size) <br />
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Popcorn balls / Carmel corn <br />
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Phone cards 120 min AT&T <br />
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Little Stockings (Approx 10-16 inches tall x 5-6 inches wide) <br />
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Hand made ornaments (no glass please)<br />
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Protien Bars * Batteries * Jerky<br />
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Pre-sweetened powdered Kool-aid, Gatorade<br />
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Kool aid singles or similar<br />
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Jerky, Slim Jims, Summer Sausage, Beef Sticks<br />
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Canned Fruit, Dried Fruit, Fruit Snacks<br />
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Canned Hearty Soup, Ravioli, Stew<br />
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Cup A Soup, Top Ramon, Dinty Moore<br />
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Trail Mix, Nuts, Sunflower Seeds<br />
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Pre-Packaged Cookies<br />
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Instant Oatmeal, Boxed Cereal<br />
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Easy Mac & Cheese, Microwave Popcorn<br />
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Canned Tuna, Chicken<br />
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Peanut Butter / Jelly (No Glass Please)<br />
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Small boxes of crackers<br />
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Muti-Vitamins, Tylenol <br />
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New/Used DVDs / CDs<br />
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Puzzle Books, Pads of paper, Long Envelopes<br />
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Qt. / Gal Zip Lock Bags<br />
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Hand Held Games, Hand held Mini fans, Misters<br />
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Batteries AA/ AAA<br />
Cards games...UNO, Skip Bo,<br />
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Yahtzee, Board Games, Sports equipment, Hacky Sacks, X-Box & PS2 Games<br />
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Mens White/Black Crew/ Work socks<br />
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Under Armour Wear T-Shirts Sm., Med., Lg., Xlg.<br />
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Shave towels, wash cloths, Cool scarves<br />
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Sun glasses, Safety glasses, Gloves, 72" boot laces<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Special Wants</span></u></b></div><br />
Small Personal or Desk Fans, Hand & Foot warmers, Hot Plates, Small Coffee Grinder, Twin Sheet Sets, Pillow cases, Travel Size Pillows, Cool Scarves, Jogging Pants, Cool Max T-Shirts, Wash Cloths and Bath Towels, Flashlights, Headlamps, Leatherman, New or Good Condition Books, No Romance Please, Mystery, Western, Thriller, Sports, Inspirational<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">SuperBowl Sunday Help us give them a day every American Loves</span></u></b></div><br />
Footballs, Nerf Balls, Sports Related Items, New Football or Sports Magazines, Salsa - in plastic please, Totilla Chips, Summer Sausage, Small boxes of crackers, Cheese - Non refrigerated, Plastic Football Bowls for chips, Football Napkins, Football Sports Flags or Banners, Men's Deodorant, Shave Cream, Foot Powder, odor eaters, Small size shampoos, conditioner, mouthwash, Floss, lip balm, toothpaste, toothbrushes, nail clippers, Sunblock, Mosquito repellant, Fly tape, Wet Wipes, Anti-bacterial liquid soap<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Holiday Needs</span></u></b></div><br />
Summer sausage, Crackers, Canned Ham (Sm.)<br />
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Lots Pre-packaged Cookies, Hot Chocolate, Coffee<br />
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Chocolate Candy, Hard Candy,<br />
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Handmade or mini ornaments<br />
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Small 18-22 inch Christmas Trees (Artificial)<br />
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New or Handmade Blanket Throws<br />
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Cards & letters of support<br />
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Hand made kids pictures/ letters<br />
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Small un-wrapped gifts<br />
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Homemade / bought stockings / Mini or regular size <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;">SEND HERE No Later Than November 15th</span></b></u><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Operation Care Package</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">611 Wilcox St. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Joliet, IL. 60435 </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>On a separate note I also collect packages for the local injured troops. I personally deliver them to the local fisher houses at Andrew's Air Force Base, and Walter Reed Army Hospital etc.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">These are people who will be in a hospital during the holidays and can't go home and are dealing with major injuries. So if you are interested in helping some local injured troops please contact me directly.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I will post updates here as to what we have collected, and hopefully have some pictures of the local troops, and of the donations to post here too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Thanks.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Janet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a></span></div><br />
<b></b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-21970117313770483452011-09-20T22:20:00.003-04:002011-09-20T22:46:08.514-04:00Announcing An Exciting New Etsy Partnership<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A very effective way to market a business is to form mutually beneficial partnerships. To find an ideal partner you have to know your business and who your target market is.<br />
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Ideally you can find a business that has a similar target market but is not in direct competition.<br />
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For me I am most known for my button creations, and I have been trying to form several partnerships for awhile to fill some unique markets. When a good friend wanted to send me buttons for a custom made necklace it dawned on me.... I could offer customized button creations for my customers. <br />
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My customers can send me buttons from a sentimental button collection they have and I will work with them on a color scheme and create necklaces, rings and/or earrings for them.<br />
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Then I went one step further and found an amazing ceramic artist on Etsy who makes handmade buttons! It fits perfectly with my unique button creations. My customers won't be getting any buttons, they will have <strong>handmade</strong> buttons from:<br />
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<a href="http://www.buttonalia.etsy.com/">http://www.buttonalia.etsy.com/</a> <br />
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She is willing to make just about any shape, size or color button and mail them directly to me for these custom orders! I will be referring my customers to her shop, to find the most unique buttons and then they will order a custom piece of jewelry to be made from the buttons. She will be listing custom listings highlighting the fact that my shop can use her buttons to create <a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">unique jewelry creations</a>! It is a wonderful arrangement, we both have good Etsy traffic, views and sales and have set up our first listings to cross promote!<br />
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Here is the listing in Buttonalia's shop for the custom buttons:<br />
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And here is my first listing for a custom necklace, but I will be doing rings and earring listings soon. PLUS I am still tweaking bracelet designs with buttons so hopefully an entire set of jewelry will be available soon.<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/82148100/design-your-own-customized-button">http://www.etsy.com/listing/82148100/design-your-own-customized-button</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sOMpMheuB9T0KTmTUNzRN7apQLd4PUWpS214RKMfxv_euTyxe69YwJaEbR7IgXDDIryjKBxF3Xzs7DJd4T0oZv5S4jpDueXLVNPW5xFFFT_KfmksG7mn74mJ0p8qTQ8uIxT1s_tLzKiX/s1600/Button+Necklaces+076.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sOMpMheuB9T0KTmTUNzRN7apQLd4PUWpS214RKMfxv_euTyxe69YwJaEbR7IgXDDIryjKBxF3Xzs7DJd4T0oZv5S4jpDueXLVNPW5xFFFT_KfmksG7mn74mJ0p8qTQ8uIxT1s_tLzKiX/s320/Button+Necklaces+076.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div>We both featured pictures of each others work in our listings, and tried to cover all the details for the customer. Such as the length of time needed to complete an order, including the time to receive the buttons to create a piece of jewelry, links to find the listings, pictures to show examples, etc.<br />
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I am truly excited about this opportunity. It will be wonderful for both of us but best of all is the opportunity provided now to our customers. <br />
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Such a <em>unique product</em> now available!! The possibilities are endless....<br />
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Would love to hear if you have partnered with other shops or websites and what your experiences have been.<br />
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Thanks!<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-59433211979577931362011-09-10T16:41:00.000-04:002011-09-10T16:41:29.204-04:00Update on Lola<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I just wanted to give a quick update on Lola! She is doing pretty good. She is definitely relaxing and appreciative of being indoors where it is safe and DRY.<br />
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She is starting to stretch out and really relax, purring and eating really good. We will definitely need to get more work done on her, probably some blood work to make sure everything is ok since she is so malnourished, and to get spayed, and the rest of her vaccinations.<br />
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Here are some pictures of her relaxing<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBh0z_IZm0XHH1u9XXOVhVR19qzKnapZiz88kedW2ZrVINnMAnanrl1IdOnzliahYjZ7R4Amb50dsifdNPENL_SuOg5FMpcijTw1uihUE8S4Wis_zKfdNkTGvGz8kdqTcOL7Aaa6CRfGEz/s1600/DSC04072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBh0z_IZm0XHH1u9XXOVhVR19qzKnapZiz88kedW2ZrVINnMAnanrl1IdOnzliahYjZ7R4Amb50dsifdNPENL_SuOg5FMpcijTw1uihUE8S4Wis_zKfdNkTGvGz8kdqTcOL7Aaa6CRfGEz/s320/DSC04072.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div>We received some really nice donations from friends, and it is GREATLY appreciated. 100% of all donations go strictly to Lola's care. The vet bills and her food, etc. For her to get healthy and to find a loving home.<br />
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If you would like to donate the button is at the top right of this blog.<br />
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Thank you everyone for the support.<br />
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Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a><br />
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She had a home, was indoors, and had a family. But then the family moved and dumped her in the woods well over a month ago. She has been outside now for a month, I would rarely see her going through the yard, and the last time I saw her a few weeks ago I could see all her ribs. I started putting food out to help her when I could. She was outside during the earthquake and Hurricane we had and now seeing her so skinny and knowing all she has had to endure, plus we are having huge rains and flooding again.... I trapped her in a humane trap last night 9/6.<br />
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She was taken to the vets today to make sure she doesn't have FIV or HIV and it was rather shocking what this kitty has gone through. She is luckily negative for the FIV and HIV! YEAH<br />
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But we discovered she has been biten by another animal and has an infection from it. <br />
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She weighed in at 6 pounds, and is approximately 1-2 years old. She is very skinny and scraggly. She was covered in mud last night from the huge rains we are having. She has fleas and some ticks and she also has a bad case of worms! They discovered a tooth missing in the bottom front of her mouth too!<br />
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It is like she has been through a war! To top it off it does not appear that she has been spayed so there is a possibility that she could be pregnant. So for now Lola is in my bathroom with a sleeping bag and warm towels, tons of food and water and love. She needs a home. We got her a rabies vaccination today, and she will be on anti-biotics for the next 2 weeks to get rid of the infection.<br />
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We have to give her 2-3 weeks to see if she develops rabies from this bite she has on her back, and if she ends up pregnant, also to make sure the infection clears up. But in 2-3 weeks hopefully she will be gaining weight and healthy and we can get her spayed and placed in a home!<br />
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If you would like to help with Lola ... to help her get healthy, get her vaccinations and spaying and placement in a home we would greatly appreciate donations. Just $5 dollars would be a huge help. Today's vet bill was $188, and we will likely need 400-500 more for the spaying, vaccinations, deworming meds, food etc. The donate button is at the top right of this blog, just click donate and you can put ANY amount in you like. Even $1 dollar! All donations are greatly appreciated.<br />
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Here are a few more pics. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As you can tell from these pictures she is very affectionate. Despite all she has been through she just wants to snuggle and have love. She reminds me of the Pink Panther, a rather long, broad nose, skinny, she has a little goofiness to her but is the sweetest cat. At the vets she never put a claw out, or anything just wanted to have her head and cheeks rubbed and to be wrapped in my arms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can find pictures of many other animals I have helped over the years on my flickr account:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/galla15/sets/72157624027304995/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/galla15/sets/72157624027304995/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We just helped this guy who had to have a 1700 dollar bladder surgery! He is doing great now but there are a lot of bills involved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/galla15/5919973221/in/set-72157624027304995">http://www.flickr.com/photos/galla15/5919973221/in/set-72157624027304995</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All support and help greatly appreciated. I will keep updates posted on how she is doing on this blog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Janet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/">http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-66853038826669022912011-08-25T23:06:00.002-04:002011-08-26T00:38:17.273-04:00Who Wants to Pinterest? All the Scoop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Pinterest is a place for visual bookmarking that you share with others. It’s a great way to keep track of all those things you’ve been wanting to try, and a fabulous way to discover new and inspiring ideas!<br />
It is very addicting the ability to share, and search and visually see everything.<br />
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Here is the website:<br />
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<a href="http://pinterest.com/%20">http://pinterest.com/ </a><br />
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You can also follow them on facebook:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pinterest">http://www.facebook.com/pinterest</a><br />
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There is also an iphone app if you want to have it at your finger tips on your cell:<br />
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1. Get an invitation:<br />
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In order to try Pinterest out you have to receive an invitation. You can request an invitation through the website itself but most people I know wait forever to get approved that way. People on Etsy, twitter and facebook seem to be helping each other out with the invitation to join.<br />
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2. Set up your account<br />
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You can sign in using your existing twitter account or facebook account. The benefit of using one of those social media accounts to sign in, is that you can find people on Pinterest that you already interact with on those other sites. You also can log in to Pinterest using the email and password you establish when setting up your account. <img alt="image" border="0" height="218" src="http://thedailydigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image68.png" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="450" /><br />
When signing up, you will be prompted to create some boards. Pinterest suggests a few basic boards with titles.<br />
3. Start following others:<br />
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This site is like most social networking sites... as you follow people you will see their "pins" and they can see yours. So following people from your facebook network to twitter and finding others to follow will be important.<br />
You can follow all of of someone’s boards, or just pick a one or a few to follow. You can also unfollow a person or certain boards at any time.<br />
Once you have a few friends to follow, look around their pinboards and see if you can find anyone else who looks familiar or interesting. You can always unfollow them later on. You can click on who I follow or who follows me to find some fun people.<br />
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4. Create Boards:<br />
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You can “like” pins which is liking adding them to a “favorites” file. If you “repin” them, you will want to sort the pins into boards. After browsing through a few pinboards from friends, you will probably have a pretty good idea of what topics you want to focus on. You can always rename and rearrange your pinboards so don’t worry too much about getting them “just right”!<br />
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To edit them at any time, I just go to the boards from my drop down menu and I can edit each one individually or even rearrange the order they are displayed in.<br />
It’s also helpful to be be sure each board is categorized properly – this helps others find your pins. Just click on “edit” for each board and select the most appropriate category.<br />
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#5 Start Pinning Re-Pinning:<br />
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Find the image of photos on a wall that I want to repin to my own boards. As I hover over the picture with my mouse, the option appears to either “repin” or “like” it. I choose “repin” and it prompts me to categorize it to one of my boards. I choose Gallery Walls and click on repin. I could also automatically share this pin on twitter or facebook by using the buttons at the bottom.<br />
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What if you want to pin something you find on another site? You can go to “add a pin” and then enter the url and description. You can also have a button added to the toolbar on your internet window to make it easier.<br />
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The quick way is to add the “pin it” shortcut. It says you can click and drag it to your toolbar, but I couldn’t get it to work. Here are the instructions:<br />
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To install the “Pin It” button in Internet Explorer:<br />
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1. Display your Favorites Bar by clicking Tools > Toolbars > Favorites Bar<br />
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2. Right-click the “Pin It” button and select “Add to Favorites”<br />
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3. On the pop-up window, select “Create in: Favorites Bar”<br />
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4. When you are browsing the web, push the “Pin It” button to pin an image<br />
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As always with any social network basic etiquette applies. Try to be polite, leave comments, share, but don't spam.<br />
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Here is a really nice article with more details on Pinterest:<br />
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http://www.sortacrunchy.net/sortacrunchy/2011/05/pinterest-a-beginners-guide.html<br />
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ALSO, TurtleXii wrote up a blog post answering specific questions from our team:<br />
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http://turtlexiii.blogspot.com/2011/08/pinterest-and-all-its-questions.html <br />
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Hope this helps everyone! Have fun with this site.<br />
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Janet<br />
www.galla15.etsy.com<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-12432743097916336912011-08-09T22:47:00.001-04:002011-08-09T22:48:52.444-04:00Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results - Personality Test<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Well here is a little window into the type of person I am. I took a 70 question test to determine my personality type. Although I didn't pay for the details of a more specific answer, this was my general result:<br />
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<div align="center"><div closure_uid_cwglmk="99"><strong>GUARDIAN</strong></div></div><div closure_uid_65td3g="121" style="text-align: left;">Guardians are the cornerstone of society, for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have natural talent in managing goods and services--from supervision to maintenance and supply -- and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and businesses.</div><br />
<div closure_uid_65td3g="122"><div closure_uid_cwglmk="104">Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly -- they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.</div></div><br />
<div closure_uid_65td3g="123">Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline, and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even though they know that change can be healthy for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap.</div><br />
<div closure_uid_65td3g="124">Guardians make up as much as 40 to 45 percent of the population, and a good thing, because they usually end up doing all the indispensable but thankless jobs everyone else takes for granted.</div><br />
<div closure_uid_65td3g="125" style="text-align: center;">Guardians at Work</div><br />
<div closure_uid_65td3g="127">As a Guardian, you enjoy working as a valued member of a team, whether you are leading it or following a credible leader. You like to work with people who carry their weight. You appreciate having clear-cut responsibilities and being recognized for your dedication and achievements. Your natural traits are those that employers have traditionally valued - and that successful companies still respect. You are responsible and loyal to an organization once you've signed on.</div><br />
<div closure_uid_cwglmk="105">In any environment, including your work place, you are usually focused on making people happy and facilitating harmonious relationships. You often lend "aid and comfort" by drawing on a combination of tradition, past experience, and the direction of established authority. In your ideal job, people would give of themselves and work toward the good of the group.</div><div closure_uid_cwglmk="105"><br />
GO take the test for yourself, 70 questions with 2 choices each. Post a comment with your results!!</div><div closure_uid_cwglmk="105"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_cwglmk="105">Janet</div><div closure_uid_cwglmk="105"><a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> </div><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-44363867230975708582011-07-31T16:56:00.000-04:002011-07-31T16:56:36.965-04:00Promotional Frenzy Specials - Our banners, badges and listing pics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ok guys here are all the pics you can use for this event. <br />
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We have a team banner if you want to use. All of this is optional but it will help grab the attention of people going to your store and help point out to them that you have a special going on. It will also help brand out team and help us gain a following!<br />
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Here is the team banner:<br />
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Make sure you promote this to everyone you know, promote the EVENT and how to search for the deals.<br />
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Thanks everyone.<br />
Janet<br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-52093337264198776582011-06-25T00:03:00.024-04:002011-07-24T22:22:39.674-04:00Facebook "Like" Giveaway!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><span style="color: red;">All Winners have been contacted!!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red;">Congrats and thank you to everyone who helped :)</span></div><br />
There is a large contest for Etsy promotional Teams on the new site<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://handmadetop10.com/#/Lists/66ofba7g1">Handmade Top 10 </a></div><br />
My team, the Promotional Frenzy Team<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team">http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team</a> has been doing amazing in this contest. There are 3 things we have to do to win this contest and one of those things we need help with:<br />
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We need people to "LIKE" our contest page on facebook.<br />
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So if you click like for our Team Contest Page you will be entered to win some amazing prizes from shops on my team!!!<br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: black;"><b>HOW TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">1. Go to this page:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://handmadetop10.com/#/Lists/66ofba7g1">http://handmadetop10.com/#/Lists/66ofba7g1</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">2. On the left side of the page are share buttons, click on the blue Facebook logo (you will need your pop up blocker disabled, a pop up window will appear) Here is a picture of what the buttons look like on the left side:<br />
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3. When the pop-up windows comes up click the top left <span style="color: blue;">LIKE </span><span style="color: black;">button.</span><br />
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4. Now leave a comment at the bottom of this post with your contact info (email, etsy shop link... etc.) </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Please post to your friends and that way they can share and entered too.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>WHAT YOU CAN WIN</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Our Team shops have donated prizes (although we may have more donations). Well over <b>$300 dollars</b> in handmade goods up for grabs!!!!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Each comment will be put into a list, in the order that the entry was given... I will then use <a href="http://www.random.org/">http://www.random.org/</a> to pick 3 winners. 1st winner picks 8 prizes, then the 2nd place winner picks 6 prizes, 3rd place winner gets the remaining 6 prizes!!! (We may change how the prizes are divided if we get more donations for prizes, meaning each winner would get MORE prizes)<br />
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Each shop will ship DIRECTLY to the winners. Shipping is covered by the donating shop.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">1. <a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> - $30 dollars in Crystal Jewelry</div><br />
2. <a href="http://www.turtlexiii.etsy.com/">http://www.turtlexiii.etsy.com/</a> $15 dollars pair of Earrings<br />
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3. <a href="http://www.kellyjsorenson.etsy.com/">http://www.kellyjsorenson.etsy.com/</a> ~ Premade Banner set plus color/font customization $30 value<br />
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4. <a href="http://www.themayflower.etsy.com/">http://www.themayflower.etsy.com/</a> - $30 worth of jewelry supplies<br />
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5. <a href="http://www.lindab142.etsy.com/">http://www.lindab142.etsy.com/</a> - $16 - includes (shipping) shop Gift Certificate<br />
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6. <a href="http://www.calliopeazcreations.etsy.com/">http://www.calliopeazcreations.etsy.com/</a> - One Medicine Rock ($14 - $18 dollars)<br />
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7. <a href="http://www.camillescloset.etsy.com/">http://www.camillescloset.etsy.com/</a> Wax seal pendant. Choice of color and letter.<br />
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8. <a href="http://www.bloomandbling.etsy.com/">http://www.bloomandbling.etsy.com/</a> - One set of Poofy Piggie Bows OR one Diva Dazzle Bow<br />
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9. <a href="http://www.prittyfy.etsy.com/">http://www.prittyfy.etsy.com/</a> - a pair of cluster earrings, $29 <br />
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10. <a href="http://www.uniquecozytreasures.etsy.com/">http://www.uniquecozytreasures.etsy.com/</a> - Hot Cold Therapy Rice Pack<br />
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11. <a href="http://www.toystorynutty.etsy.com/">http://www.toystorynutty.etsy.com/</a> - 2. Polymer Clay Pens!! <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/76624260/bold-and-beautiful-mokume-gane-polymer">http://www.etsy.com/listing/76624260/bold-and-beautiful-mokume-gane-polymer</a><br />
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12. <a href="http://www.symbolicimports.etsy.com/">http://www.symbolicimports.etsy.com/</a> - spa package Soap, Scrub and Lotion ($23 value) <br />
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13. <a href="http://www.newcreationz.etsy.com/">http://www.newcreationz.etsy.com/</a>- digital stationery pack ($10 value)<br />
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14. <a href="http://www.laughingpenguin.etsy.com/">http://www.laughingpenguin.etsy.com/</a> - 2 free necklaces Up-cycled Bottle Cap lines ($10 value)<br />
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15. <a href="http://www.magdamagda.etsy.com/">http://www.magdamagda.etsy.com/</a> - Handmade Women's Top ($25)<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/70961162/exuberance-top-s-m">http://www.etsy.com/listing/70961162/exuberance-top-s-m</a><br />
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16. <a href="http://www.leahrhood.etsy.com/">http://www.leahrhood.etsy.com/</a> - $10 gift certificate <br />
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17. <a href="http://www.delightfulprints.etsy.com/">http://www.delightfulprints.etsy.com/</a> - choice of any item in my shop up to $15.00 <br />
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18. <a href="http://www.petuniaandivy.etsy.com/">http://www.petuniaandivy.etsy.com/</a> - A blue Beanie Hat<br />
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19. <a href="http://www.crystalphotography.etsy.com/">http://www.crystalphotography.etsy.com/</a> - set of two coffee aceos Value $9.00<br />
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20. <a href="http://www.powersoflove.etsy.com/">http://www.powersoflove.etsy.com/</a>- $10 Gift Certificate to her shop. <br />
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WOW!! Some amazing prices, imagine the jewelry, the supplies, the therapy from the medicine rock to the therapy rice pack, and even Graphic design! <br />
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<b>****ALL ENTRIES/COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JULY 5TH, midnight eastern time.</b><br />
<b>Winners will be announced within 1 week of this giveaway ending here on this blog.</b><br />
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We appreciate all the help and support.<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> - Button, crystal, and Pearl jewelry<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a> - Jewelry supplies<br />
<a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a> - Crafting books and ebooks coming soon!<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com140tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-83028549434757125352011-06-21T22:20:00.001-04:002011-06-21T22:30:09.559-04:00A Family Cookout!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Well on Saturday June 18th we had a huge family cookout. My dad's side of the family came into town, my mom's family was there, and then my sister's in-laws came. In our family we always have a TON food. My mom is an amazing cook so is my grandmother... well our whole family.<br />
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I make macaroni and cheese from scratch that is required at any gathering we have LOL<br />
I buy 4 different kinds of cheeses in HUGE blocks. I then shred or cut into small pieces so it will melt easier and smoothly. Mix the cheese with some flour and butter, and milk, add noodles and voila. The secret is in the cheese!! But the recipe I have makes a HUGE HUGE amount. I think the one pan weighs 10 or more pounds. It is a ton of cheese, incredibly rich and a family favorite for sure.<br />
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We of course had hotdogs, and then my mom made pulled pork BBQ! We had amazing fruit platters, that my mom fixed, she is very creative and always fixes visually appealing displays.<br />
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We had steamed shrimp!! I LOVE seafood.<br />
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A really good friend of the family that truly is a part of our family makes this amazing taco dip! It is cream cheese and cottage cheese, taco seasoning, cheeses, lettuce, tomato, onions, olives... and you dip dorritos into it. YUMMY. I only get this like once a year and it is amazing!<br />
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Of course there were deviled eggs, corn pudding, chips and dip, a tomato mozzarella basil olive oil salad, wine, tea, sodas....<br />
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The desserts... My grandmother makes a candy bar cake that has chunks of Hersheys bar in with the chocolate cake. Oh my goodness! My mom made a lemon lime refridgerator cake, it is cake mix that you poke holes in and you add lemon and lime jello liquid into it, and put cool whip on top..... My dad's side of the family, his in-laws are Italian. My Uncle's mom on that side of the family made some amazing Italian pastries! There was a coconut cake. HOLY COW! I mean there would be enough to feed an Army. <br />
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It was really really nice to decompress, relax, visit.... my parents have a peaceful yard, surrounded by a beautiful flower garden, woods, and then a pool. It was a wonderful day.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed reading about our feast! LOL And that you don't get too jealous :)))<br />
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Thanks.<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-7081924336268135002011-06-18T23:33:00.002-04:002011-06-20T00:26:56.054-04:002nd Heartsy Deal Results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Well I had a Heartsy deal about a month ago, many of you read how that went. If you missed it here is the information on my 1st deal:<br />
<a href="http://galla15.blogspot.com/2011/05/raw-deal-on-heartsy-find-out-inside.html">http://galla15.blogspot.com/2011/05/raw-deal-on-heartsy-find-out-inside.html</a><br />
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Monday, June 13th was my 2nd feature. Heartsy heard my complaints and tried to give me a 2nd experience that would be better.<br />
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Was it better? I really don't think so. I am trying to be objective and reasonable so let me start out with some positives to give the facts on both sides of this experience.<br />
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1st: John at Heartsy was extremely nice and I think he probably did all he could for me with what he had to work with. He e-mailed me quite a bit, and called me multiple times. He tried to offer some special perks to me that I am not at liberty to speak about for the sake of their business. And I appreciate the effort on John's part.<br />
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2nd: I did sell 10 more vouchers this time than the last. NOT great at all, NOT more money but at least it was SLIGHTLY better in that one aspect.<br />
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Now on to the rest of the facts. Just like the 1st deal I only had ONE person truly spend over the voucher amount. Heartsy will tell you repeatedly that when considering a deal with them to keep in mind that most of their buyers do spend over the voucher amount. I asked John how they know that, because I have personally convo'd several shops that were featured and flat out asked if they had people spending over the voucher amount and most said no. John said that the majority of the people report back that they had most of their sales over the voucher amount. I guess I could just be in the minority, but twice now that was not true for me or quite a few other shops I have spoken too. <br />
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The 2 main ways you can make money with such a huge discount is: <br />
1. hope people spend more than the voucher amount<br />
2. hopefully turn these customers into repeat buyers who will buy full price from you down the line.<br />
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I had a handful of buyers that I had to send an invoice out for $2 dollars to cover some of the shipping charges, but only 1 went over the voucher amount in merchandise. So based upon my experiences I have a very hard time believing that the buyers on Heartsy will spend money over your voucher amount. As I suspected in my previous blog post most of these buyers are bargain shoppers and will not be spending large sums of money in your shop. And I HIGHLY doubt these buyers will come back to buy full price items when there are so many deals on Heartsy each day. Why spend full price when you don't have too? So I really doubt I will see future sales from these buyers.<br />
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I sell jewelry which is one of the most saturated categories on Etsy. So I understand that Heartsy probably has a huge amount of jewelry sellers applying to be featured on their site, but the day of my feature there were 4 other jewelry sellers featured. So 5 jewelers in one day. I would like to think my jewelry is different than most, but lets face it this is really not the best structure to create sales.<br />
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Since this was supposed to be a way for Heartsy to create a more positive experience for me I really would have thought more consideration would have been taken into account. That didn't help me with sales that is for sure.<br />
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It is a lot of little things that (to me) add up to a bigger picture. So here are some of the details that I wasn't happy about.<br />
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1. I submitted 4 pictures of items for my feature but they show 3 of the 4. I had 2 amethyst necklaces up with earrings most of the day (until the 1 necklace sold). Why didn't they show the necklace, earrings and ring instead of 2 necklaces? Variety is better right?<br />
Or ask me which 3 I want featured if they can't feature all 4 pictures the way I submitted them? Yes yes I am sure that seems a bit picky but it is the details that will make or break a deal! A variety of items showing would clearly help more with attracting buyers.<br />
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2. I was e-mailed on the 9th that they would finalize all the details for my deal and e-mail me "tomorrow" with the details (the 10th I should have heard something). Well on the 12th the night before my feature I had never received that email. I had to e-mail and ask them. (And not that they could do this with all features, but I would think since I had such a bad experience the 1st time I would think they would have contacted me after my feature to see if I was happy but they didn't)<br />
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I never received the final details, like final tips on how the deal would go down, or what I needed to do to prepare. I realize I had a deal prior to this one but they are a new site that is changing constantly. There should be a standard form e-mail they send to every shop being featured with standard/basic instructions. Their format is completely different this month than last month. The last deal I at least received an e-mail that stated what I could do to prep my shop for heartsy customers and phone numbers if I had questions the day of the feature etc. <br />
3. Their newsletter that notifies their subscribers of the deals was sent out about an hour before the deal goes live. (During the 1st deal the newsletter went out about 6 hours into the deal so at least this time it went out early!!) Their newsletter this time only highlighted ONE shop out of 8 of the featured deals! Honestly I don't understand that, if their goal is to drive traffic to their site and to the featured shops why would they only feature 1 of the deals? Maybe a coincidence but that deal sold out! Because they had a lot more exposure than the rest. The exposure for each of the deals of each day should be as equal as possible since we are all contributing the same thing. They should rotate the positions of the deals on their site, and include all the deals in their newsletter etc. Just copy and paste the deal page into the newsletter, it shouldn't take any longer to do that!<br />
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Maybe I am being too picky or have too high of expectations... but I am generally an organized person and it seems there is a pattern with my experiences where details keep getting missed that definitely affect the outcome of features.<br />
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And these mistakes or things overlooked do add up!<br />
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I submitted my deal and waited a month for that 1st deal and then to have all the glitches and problems. There was a lot of time and effort involved in preparing. People spend their time and money to list a ton for these deals, buy extra shipping supplies, time promoting Heartsy's site for them!!<br />
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I expected above and beyond care for the 2nd deal since they new my feelings on the first one. If they were trying to change my point of view then I would have thought all these details would be covered.<br />
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Maybe it is from my time in the military but we had to have an SOP (standard operating procedures) for EVERYTHING. It was the most detailed instruction book for everything you could ever think of. It made sure that everyone knew what was expected, what to do, if this situation arises you do this _______.... <br />
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To me Heartsy needs a little SOP. Detailed instructions that prepare a shop for their deal. It should explain how to navigate their account to find the deals, how to check the vouchers, how to find the money in the heartsy account, how to set up your etsy shop for the deal, a form letter that the Heartsy staff can just fill in the blanks of the date and details of each deal... It should be clear who handles what details, and who the customer should contact for which issues. <br />
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I think they have tried to break down the jobs, because one person negotiates the details of the deal and another sets your deal up. But after 2 deals I am still not completely sure who is handling what details, and obviously they don't either since many details are overlooked.<br />
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Anyways, I am not an expert on their website and I am not privvy to behind the scenes information but from an outside standpoint there is a lot of room for improvement. <br />
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I still appreciate John's help in trying to make a better experience for me but I can't recommend the site to others. At least not at this point, maybe as time goes on and they get more organized and established things will change.<br />
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I stand by my previous statements that these customers do not spend large amounts of money, they will not likely become returning customers because they want a deal. They are not going to pay full price for anything (most I should say), the only way to achieve high sales is to offer a large voucher amount and have lower priced items. But you won't be making a boatload of money.<br />
I did send a list of questions to quite a few featured shops from Heartsy to ask about their experience and very few had large sales and if they did they offered quite large voucher amounts.<br />
PS- There are a lot of other negative things being talked about throughout Etsy teams that would serve as further warning. The voting system they are using is being manipulated, if you sell jewelry you get all your friends to go through and vote NO for all other jewelers up for consideration (just as an example). There are teams of people on Etsy doing this!!! Since Heartsy sends out this information to their frequent buyers and VIP's to determine if your deal will be popular, I don't think us getting 60 votes for consideration is really a valid evaluation of a shops potential for a deal. Just because I will vote for my friend to help them, doesn't mean I will actually buy from them. The voting system is HIGHLY flawed and ineffectual in predicting outcomes of deals.<br />
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Also, because the wait can be a month or more to hear back on whether you get a deal with Heartsy, many are submitting multiple times. That is clogging up their systems with multiple entries, and people are annoyed that they have to vote on the same shop several times. <br />
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There are a lot of things going on that are leaving people feeling negative about the site and so I would just caution you to consider all of this before jumping into a heartsy deal. Just consider your personal goals when signing up and find out if your goals will be compatible with how the site works.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">MY FINAL RESULTS: </div><br />
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I did have quite a few item hearts but I was listing like crazy to prepare for this deal so I can't be sure how many hearts resulted from my listing efforts or from the Heartsy people that visited. If you are just looking for a flood of views then this could be ok. But the VERY next day after your feature your shop will go dead.<br />
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There were 4 other jewelers selling my day.... 1 had 10 sales, several others had 30 and 36 sales. The last one I couldn't figure their sales since it is on Artfire. The 2 shops that had sales in the 30's offered vouchers for 40 or more dollars!!! So again I stand by my theory you either have to offer over 40 dollars in merchandise OR have very low priced items so that the buyer can get multiple items with their purchase.<br />
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So there you have it.<br />
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Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-11411801133949471372011-06-12T23:54:00.000-04:002011-06-12T23:54:46.004-04:00HEARTSY DEAL LIVE TODAY Monday 6/13<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So as many of you know I did a Heartsy deal a few weeks back and didn't go very smoothly.<br />
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So Heartsy staff has been working with me for weeks to try to come up with a solution that would make a 2nd deal go much better. TOMORROW is the day. Although 2 people have already bought vouchers so I think you can go NOW to get a deal!!!<br />
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FREE PAIR OF EARRINGS with all purchases over $60 dollars!! <br />
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Click the link below to see the deal!<br />
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<a href="http://heartsy.me/deals/3823?s=notif">http://heartsy.me/deals/3823?s=notif</a><br />
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I will definitely be blogging about the results from this deal. So I hope you will all come by and check it out.<br />
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If you can please promote the deal.<br />
Thanks.<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> <br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-35312622414925155402011-06-07T23:05:00.000-04:002011-06-07T23:05:05.100-04:00Opa!! An Amazing Greek Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As many of you know I had a huge craft show this past weekend. It was at a Greek Orthodox church for the annual Greek Festival. They had amazing food: baklava, gyro, pastitsio, spanakopita, loukoumades and much more!<br />
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Greek music played the entire time, they had dancing throughout the weekend and tours of the church.<br />
Of course to top this event off was the amazing crafters. There was an amazing woman who made stained glass pieces, lots of jewelry, clothing, even olive oil! <br />
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What a long but amazing weekend!<br />
It was Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Over the 4 days we all worked around 40 hours and well over 25,000 people attended!<br />
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It takes weeks to prepare for this type of show. I try to build up my inventory of course but so much more goes into preparing. I put all my pairs of earrings onto earring cards and I place stickers of my logo on the back of every card with a price. It is so important to take advantage of all the people that you will come into contact with, by BRANDING. I put tags on each individual rings with the size on one side and the price on the other. Then organize all the rings by size! This way it is easy for someone to find a ring in their size. Of course by the end of the weekend they are not that way anymore LOL<br />
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Then I take all my boxes that I package my jewelry in, and all my receipt books and put my logo on each and every one! I use the carbon copy sales books and I put my logo onto the customer copy. <br />
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I have blogged the checklist before to help others... you can view the checklist here:<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://galla15.blogspot.com/2009/12/craft-show-checklist.html">http://galla15.blogspot.com/2009/12/craft-show-checklist.html</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Make sure you have your camera and that the camera is charged, I also have a propay reader for my credit cards so I plug that in overnight into my computer to make sure it is ready to go! The day before I go to the bank and make sure I have plenty of change. Honestly I have no idea how to figure what amount of change I need but I brought 200 dollars worth of 10's, 5's, and some 1's. It is always more than enough and this was a very large show so I would think that is a good amount of change for most occassions.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The day of the show I go 3 hours early because I don't want to stress out. I can take my time unloading the car and arranging, and re-arranging my space. I have tried to have 90% of the things I bring to the show on wheels. I have even invested in a small fold up dolly to help carry the things that don't have wheels. </div><div style="text-align: left;">I have 3 tables that fold in half and can be raised to 3 different levels. I bring a lawn chair, a fan, all my displays, table covers, packaging and bags... Well here you can see what I bring here: (this is my car packed up)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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So the day of the show, I set up my display and have 1 table that is just for me to check people out and to be able to work. That table has a stack of my packaging materials, the receipt books, and my tools and wire on it so that I can re-size rings on the spot or change clasps for the customers.<br />
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Here is my final setup:<br />
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Overall I found I didn't have a lot of big ticket sales. Most purchases were one item, which was unusual. I was very nervous after the 1st day that I wasn't going to be able to do as well as I had in the past but I ended up surpassing my previous years sales! <br />
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I think it is really important to notice that well over half of my sales were done via a credit card! I have almost $2000 dollars in the Propay account so imagine how much I would have made without being able to process credit cards!! I had read somewhere that accepting credit cards can triple your sales and I believe it! And I had almost 60 credit card sales, that is a lot. I also handed out well over 500 business cards and had many new subscribers to my newsletter. Even though I am exhausted and having a lot of back pain from this long weekend it was obviously an amazing experience!<br />
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So in the next couple of weeks I will be adding my FIRST e-book to my new Etsy shop: <a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">Artisan's Book Lounge</a> The book will be everything you need to know about craft shows. From accepting credit cards, to setting up your space, to how to interact with the customers and what NOT to do. I hope to be able to help others have successful craft shows! Keep an eye out for my very first ebook! So excited.<br />
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Thank you everyone who supported me through this, and a special thanks to our Etsy Team that has been so positive and helpful!<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team">http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team</a><br />
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Thanks everyone<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> - Crystals, Button and Pearl Jewelry<br />
<a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/">http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a> - Beading supplies<br />
<a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a> - crafting books and ebooks<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-34433835230730298632011-05-31T23:16:00.001-04:002011-05-31T23:16:44.278-04:00The Benefits Of Flickr<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Flickr has millions of very active users and is in the top 15 social networking/media websites!</em></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>How does Flickr work?</strong></div><br />
A Flickr account is free. You’ll need a Yahoo ID to sign up. Once you’ve joined, adding photos to Flickr is done through a simple upload system. <br />
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The typical experience for most users of Flickr would involve uploading a photo, adding the photo to a personal photo album (a “set”, as Flickr calls them), and then sharing your photos.<br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">First, let me emphasize that it’s against the Terms of Use to “exploit for any commercial purposes” the Flickr/Yahoo service. Posting a photo specifically for the purposes of advertising your company, your products/services, etc., would be against the TOS and would turn off the Flickr community. </span></em></strong><br />
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That said, by being a smart and active contributor to the Flickr community, your business (web site) can get indirect marketing exposure via Flickr. The MORE people that see your product the more solid your BRANDING is. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Here are a lot of ideas and options to use Flickr to your advantage:</div><br />
1.) Use your web site address as your Flickr screen name. Your screen name will be attached to every photo you upload, every message you post in a Group discussion — everything you do on Flickr. Let your screen name advertise your web site URL.<br />
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2.) Use your Flickr profile to advertise your company, products, services, etc. In your profile, Flickr asks you to describe yourself and lets you give your web site name and address. Use this to describe who you are and what your business does, but keep the sales pitch to a minimum. Make it informational instead. Make your company logo your Flickr icon. <br />
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3.) Upload quality photos of your products/services, and things related to your business.<br />
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4.) Write appropriate text for each photo, but avoid the hard sell. You can give a name and write a description for each photo you upload. You should describe the photo accurately — i.e., “This is a bottle of our newest release, 2005 Chardonnay….” — but avoid any hard sell copy. Remember to keep the focus on the photography, not the sales pitch. You can also add “tags” to describe each photo. If you rely on local traffic, the tags should include the city names where you do business (but don’t overdo it).<br />
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5.) Find and join appropriate groups and share your photos in those groups. There are groups on Flickr for just about anything you can imagine. Be sure to find and join any groups related to your location — search on your city name, nearby city names, and your state. When appropriate, posting photos and joining discussions in those groups will allow you to reach a local audience. Read carefully the rules of each group for posting photos. There are usually limits.<br />
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6.) Link prominently from your web site to your Flickr photostream. There are three reasons for this: First, because people visiting your web site are likely to be interested in your photos, too. Who doesn’t appreciate good pictures? Second, some of your visitors are probably already Flickr users, and they might welcome to the chance to add you to their “contact list.” (Return the favor if they do!) The third reason is that search engine crawlers should follow a prominent link from your web site to your Flickr photos, and when that happens, you have more potential matches for search engine users. (Yes, Flickr photo pages are crawled by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com, too.)<br />
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7.) Take part in the Flickr community. By this, I mean the following: <br />
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• Comment on other photos you like, whether they’re related to your business or not. <br />
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• Add great photos to your “Favorites” list. <br />
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• Take part in discussions in your groups (but avoid the hard-sell tactics).<br />
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Remember that every time you do one of these things, your screen name will show — with your comment, with your discussion posts, etc. And if your screen name is your URL, that’s free advertising. <br />
Be smart and creative about this. If you find a photo from another user in your area of interest, and that photo is getting a lot of views and comments, add your own comment to get your screen name in front of a lot of eyeballs. (Just make sure it’s a legitimate comment on the photo, and as always, don’t comment to promote your business.<br />
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8.) Providing Stock Photography- If your online marketing goals include establishing your company as a subject matter expert, building brand recognition, and establishing relationships and goodwill, then providing stock photography via Flickr is a great strategy. Make sure you alter your permissions to allow others to view and use your photos. Each time your picture is used in a blog they are supposed to link back! Creating very valuable back links for search engines and the possibility of those blog readers clicking on that picture to see more of your items! Of course there are always limits and risks to this, especially if you sell photography you risk being copied. So this should be thought through carefully before doing.<br />
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9.) Load pictures on Flickr and push them out to a Facebook page. When photos are only published on Facebook only subscribers of Facebook can search for them. Pictures posted on Flickr allows anyone on the Web to find them.<br />
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10.) Build your Flickr contacts by inviting your friends to join Flickr, and also by networking with other Flickr users you meet online through your groups and so on. You will see your contacts’ new photos on your Flickr homepage and, more importantly, they will see yours too!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Don’t spam.</strong></div><br />
1. There’s no need to stuff linked keywords into your photo descriptions, into the comments you leave on other’s photos, etc. <br />
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2. There’s no need to plaster your URL all over the photos you upload. <br />
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3. There’s no need to post advertising messages in discussion groups. <br />
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If you try these, all you’ll do is turn-off the Flickr community … when the whole point is turn them on.<br />
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FINAL NOTE: Like all social networking sites it takes time to grow and network. It is important to not do the hard sell, and blatantly self promote. We have some interesting workshops to come to help us all out <br />
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Have fun, and enjoy learning about each other through photo sharing!!<br />
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Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> - Handmade Jewelry<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a> - Beading Supplies<br />
<a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a> - Craft Books and E-books for business<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-33806221016255662592011-05-25T00:56:00.001-04:002011-05-25T20:28:51.607-04:00The Raw Deal On Heartsy - Find out the Inside Information<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Heartsy is buzzing all over Etsy lately. A fairly new website that would maybe be comparable to groupon. They basically work with shop owners to offer amazing deals to their subscribers and traffic to small businesses like Etsy shops. As small business owners many of us are starving for traffic, and sales so when an opportunity presents itself with minimal investment we all want to jump but I am here to warn you to really think through what this will entail and if it will truly be a positive and beneficial experience. It seems like a MINIMAL investment because you pay NOTHING to be featured but think carefully about your deal!!<br />
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I pride myself in being business saavy. I have spent a lot of time researching and reading about every business topic you can imagine. One of the more important topics that should be thought through carefully is pricing before jumping into a site like Heartsy where huge discounts are involved. I have most of my items set for retail prices so that I can offer wholesale and cosignment. But I do not offer wholesale on my entire inventory and Heartsy does not offer coupons to specific groups of products (it is for your entire shop.) So unless your entire shop is priced at wholesale and you negotiate a low % for Heartsy you will not profit from using Heartsy.<br />
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Wholesale pricing means the person/business wanting to buy in bulk will expect 50% discount on the pricing. You make a lower profit but because they are buying so much product it is worth it. Heartsy is basically asking for wholesale OR MORE for individual sales. So it is a risky venture to take. Heartsy expects 50% off MINIMUM to be considered for a deal, and if you should only sell a handful of vouchers it probably wouldn't be worth it financially to do it.<br />
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If you want more information on how to price your items so that you ensure a profit, and you give yourself as many options as possible for selling check out this article:<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/seller-handbook/etsy-success-reevaluating-your-prices-11033/">http://www.etsy.com/storque/seller-handbook/etsy-success-reevaluating-your-prices-11033/</a> <br />
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Here is the catch: They offer a large discount but based upon a limited amount of money. For instance, they will offer $16 for $36 which is a discount of 56% percent on a purchase of 36 dollars. Most of my items that sell are 30 dollars and 3 dollar shipping. So in this example, I sold 33 dollars to most for 16. (The Heartsy vouchers include shipping.) So this is just a little over 50% off. So that really wouldn’t be as bad as it seems. The customer feels they are getting a steal, but keeping it close to wholesale pricing, IF you are priced correctly for wholesale… it can be great to gain new customers.<br />
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You need to consider when negotiating your deal not just the percentage but think about those dollar amounts. If most of your items are around 10 dollars and you offer 10 for 30, you will be selling 3 of your items likely for that 10 dollars. Ideally set up a deal that will leave each customer with a credit to your shop. Don’t forget it includes shipping costs, so in my example above most of the customers I had ended up with a 3 dollar credit to my shop. That isn’t a huge amount, probably could have been a higher credit to entice more…. But try to consider that…. to promote the customers to come back!<br />
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So if you have considered the finances of this arrangement, here are all the other pitfalls and experiences I had during my deal with Heartsy. (Since my deal over a week ago their deals have already changed. They now want 70% off of my items for VIP’s and 65% off for others. They require one deal for all users and then a special deal for their VIP’s that is a minimum of $10 dollars more for VIP’s!)<br />
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I submitted my shop the 1st time, got the 30 votes required and waited about 5 weeks to get denied!! I submitted a 2nd time, they then required 60 votes. I acquired the 60 votes, waited about 4 weeks and finally got a positive response. Once you receive the required # of votes, Heartsy then sends your deal out to their VIP members and best buyers to do more market research. If they don’t receive a more positive response from their frequent buyers they do still deny your deal even after receiving the required votes. I know many people that got their minimum votes waited over a month just to be denied!!<br />
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It was indicated to me that I had a “high quality” shop and an unusually positive response from their VIP’s and so they would love to work with me. This is what they asked me in the initial contact to me:<br />
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1. What are your goals for this promotion?<br />
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>>> How many new customers would you like to attract? This will help me<br />
understand how to help you best structure your deal.<br />
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>>> 2. Given your statistics and products, you are a perfect candidate for our VIP exclusive program. VIP Exclusives are deals that can only be purchased by our paying VIP members. This community of paying members on Heartsy is growing each day and currently represents 25% of the purchases made on the site. With a VIP exclusive deal your store receives the same amazing visibility and attention on Heartsy as all other deals, but it is targeted to a specific cohort of extremely dedicated buyers. <br />
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>>> 3. What are your thoughts on the terms of your deal?<br />
Heartsy requires at least a 50% discount but many sellers have been achieving amazing results with better discounts. For instance, the average deal on Heartsy is between 55-65% off. After looking at your store I would suggest a "$14 for $36 in store credit" deal.<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>I made it clear that my goal was to gain new customers, would love huge views for branding, and of course sales. </li>
</ul>The initial offer to me was around 60% off and to be a VIP exclusive deal, which I replied that as a small business I am priced for the standard 50% wholesale rate but I really can’t go much higher. They came back to me with a 56% off offer. I really had to debate this heavily, and I said the only way I could do that high of a rate is if I could get a minimum of 50 sales but I would ideally want 100. I asked if this was a reasonable amount of sales or were my expectations to high, especially if this is ONLY for VIP’s. Their response wasn’t, “50 sales is reasonable”… but that it was very likely to get 100 sales. This conversation went back and forth for many days, I asked a lot of questions… <br />
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I asked about payments, and how the vouchers would be redeemed etc. and their response was this:<br />
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“Customers are typically given 1-3 months to redeem vouchers. They redeem on your site (our account managers will walk you through that).<br />
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> Payment works through Etsy (again, we will walk you through this aspect of the deal when it's time).” <br />
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I honestly don’t know who the account managers are, and never had a walkthrough. I was told I could call or they could call me the day the deal goes live to walk me through it but there wasn’t an official form or e-mail that would allow you to prep for this. <br />
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This could turn into a very long story but basically I thought I had a VIP only deal, I was told I could very likely get 100 sales, not just 50 sales but 100, so I agreed to VIP only if it meant 100 sales. Then the night before my deal went live I was told this, “The feature will be live for 48 hours (1 day for VIP early access and the second day for regular users). The VIP period starts at 12am PDT Friday morning and it will be available for all users on Saturday morning at 8am PDT. The feature will end on Saturday evening at 11:59pm.” <br />
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I thought this is great even MORE exposure if it opens up to everyone on Saturday. I posted this EXACT message to my blog and very excitedly I told the Heartsy staff that I had blogged about the event and promoted their VIP members. That if people wanted to make sure to get my deal they should sign up to be a VIP. She asked for a link to view my blog, she read it and replied back it was great. <br />
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I then blasted this to like 10 Etsy teams, facebook, twitter etc. I have almost 7000 twitter followers, over 600 facebook fan pages, probably a 1000 or more Etsy members on all the teams…. Basically I promoted their site and my deal to over 10,000 people! <br />
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Friday I get up and run to the computer and it is crickets. I go check the website the deal is up, but nothing is happening.<br />
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I was really upset, when I was told 100 sales were likely and I was told at one point that I could sell out and they wanted to know if they could extend my deal… but I tried to stay positive and wait for Saturday when ALL users could buy my vouchers!<br />
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Saturday I run to the computer and check for a flood of convos and sales, again crickets. I look at Heartsy and my deal is still VIP exclusive. It never turned over to all users! I immediately contacted the lady who told me it would go live Saturday morning to all, and she responded about an hour later… her response? That I originally signed up for VIP she was mistaken when she gave me that information she was sorry. If I wasn’t satisfied I could always submit a new deal. By the way their live chat wasn't available during this time and I called the number she gave me for during my deal for help and no one answered or returned my call. So I e-mailed and she responded an hour or so later with that non-chalant response.<br />
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Honestly, that is the worst customer service ever. I should submit a new deal and wait another month to have this issue resolved? I wrote her back asking if they could change my deal or offer a new deal that I was very unhappy. She wrote me back that they have SEVERAL hundred VIP members and so they had every reason to believe I would have 100 sales. And that they have a policy against changing a deal once it goes live. Although I am truly not happy with Heartsy as a whole, for the sake of being fair…. I understood the logic. If someone bought the VIP membership just to get my deal and then it goes live they would clearly be upset. But what I didn’t understand was why when this deal ended that they couldn’t offer my new deal. The exact deal we had agreed up, but open to ALL users. <br />
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If you have been in sales or marketing for any amount of time you have heard many times that sales is a numbers game. Statistics show you have to have your brand in front of a person 7 times before they will start to recognize your brand! So even if someone loved my deal it wouldn’t mean they will buy in that moment. So you have to get in front of as many people as you can, as often as you can. I have to ask: How on EARTH could I get 100 sales out of several hundred buyers? A couple is 2, several hundred is 3 or 4?? That would mean I would have at least a 3rd of people buying from me which is an UNREASONABLE expectations. <br />
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I truly feel mislead by the Heartsy staff, and used. I understand business, and if you help me I will help you. They were getting me in front of a new audience so I promoted their VIP program (how they make their money) to over 10,000 people!! And in the end it was pure confusion on the details of the deal, they definitely mislead me, and did NOT try to make it right. The last offer to fix this was they would extend my VIP exclusive deal through Sunday for a 3rd day. I can’t see how that will be beneficial at all, since the VIP’s have seen my deal now for 48 hours, that last 24 hours wasn’t going to really make a difference. <br />
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To top it all off, they are supposed to send out a newsletter to all their buyers/subscribers to tell them of the daily deals. The newsletter wasn’t received until 4pm the day of my deal, 8 hours into my deal!! I had a boatload of convo’s to field of people wanting my deal but couldn’t get it without signing up for a 7.99 a month fee to be a VIP. They were VERY upset with me, felt I had falsely advertised. They couldn’t get my deal for $16 dollars, they would actually have to spend almost 24 dollars, AND the 7.99 is a recurring monthly fee. So they weren’t actually getting a deal on my items. It was a nightmare for me personal and for my business. Ultimately I sold 19 vouchers, several of which were very good friends that were just trying to support me. THANK YOU <br />
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Clearly I didn’t even get the low goal of 50 and definitely didn’t reach the 100 sales they said I could get. Eventually the person I dealt with told me they have close to 1000 VIP members, not several hundred. I don’t know what to believe since everything changes so often with them. And if you go to their site it states, first 100 VIP’s get 7.99 per month, after that the fee goes to 14.99. That statement would lead me to believe they definitely don’t have 1000 VIP’s. <br />
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I eventually got in touch with Heartsy staff to complain about my experience and they finally offered to give me a NEW deal without having to re-submit my shop. But they want 70% off now! And they want me to give vouchers for over 40 dollars worth of merchandise. They now require that you offer at least $10 dollars more to VIP’s and then all users get a deal too but it is for a minimum of 10 dollars less.<br />
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Meaning I would offer $19 for $44 to VIP’s… and $19 for $33 to everyone else. When I explained that I can’t offer more than wholesale pricing, I was “taught” about marketing. And told I need to think about what it is worth to me to have new customers! I was then told that big businesses spend millions on marketing because they know it will result in new customers!<br />
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And to that I want to warn you all to NOT fall for this logic. Big Businesses have a VERY different business model from a small business and for that matter small businesses clearly have a MUCH smaller advertising budget. AND that the millions spent are on well researched ideas, and psychology to ensure results. It is a very poor comparison to put a million dollar campaign against a discount website.<br />
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Businesses are about PROFIT, making money… not about taking a loss.<br />
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<strong>THE BOTTOMLINE</strong>: Do your research. This is a coupon/discount site, so their target market is frugal shoppers. Not meant in a negative way, just that these are people truly looking for a deal… what does that mean for you? They are not big spenders. I have looked at the current deals and past deal, then I go into those Etsy shops and go through their sold items. You can get a very good idea of their sales. Many have HUGE sales, like 100 items sold. (Of course they had deals open to all users too.) BUT the BIG thing I noticed is that they are mostly low priced items that have these huge sales.<br />
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These shoppers are not spending large sums of money. They are taking the deals that are around $10 dollars or less for vouchers. Some of the shops that are bath and body had HUGE sales but for 10 or 12 dollars you can get 1-3 items so the sales look big but they aren’t spending much money. And for me personally out of my 19 vouchers sold NONE bought over the voucher amount. 2-3 owed me a dollar or two for the shipping cost, but no one bought over the 36 dollar voucher amount of merchandise!! NO ONE. <br />
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So basically 19 people spent 16 dollars. That was it, not a single one spent more actually all but like 3 have a 2-3 dollar store credit with me now! I know quite a few people that had Heartsy deals and they said many of their buyers spent over the voucher amounts, I can’t speak for them… but from my experience they did not. <br />
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And as you can tell it was not a smooth transaction.<br />
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Make sure you are pricing retail before offering discounts like this, and if you have higher priced items it is more unlikely to have a huge surge of sales.<br />
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Sellers beware :(<br />
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I hope this helps put some of the inner workings from Heartsy in perspective. <br />
Thanks <br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/">http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a> - beading supplies<br />
<a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a> - Crafting and Business books/ebooks<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-2706220025508974562011-05-11T16:55:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:45:20.279-04:00Heartsy Feature 5/14 Saturday!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It is OFFICIAL. I got my votes on <a href="http://www.heartsy.me/">http://www.heartsy.me/</a> then we negotiated and came to an agreement.<br />
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NOW I have the date for the feature! <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The feature will be live for 48 hours (1 day for VIP early access and the second day for regular users). The VIP period starts at 12am PDT Friday morning and it will be available for all users on Saturday morning at 8am PDT. The feature will end on Saturday evening at 11:59pm. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So this is a ONE time thing, for an extreme deal on my jewelry shop. If you haven't tried my shop before this is a low risk way to give <a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> a try! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We think you will love your order with us, and hope to be able to do business with you this weekend!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Just go here to find my deal on Saturday, it will be out there for 48 hours, including the VIP time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://heartsy.me/deals">http://heartsy.me/deals</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">If you want a larger discount, or to be able to buy the deals early before they go live you can look into the VIP option that Heartsy offers. You get exclusive discounts and deals for a low monthly VIP membership fee!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Hope you guys will help support this event, please spread the word via Twitter, stumbleupon, facebook etc.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Thanks everyone for your support.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Janet</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/">http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a> - Beading supplies</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a> - Crafting Books and Ebooks</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-25504520118269660212011-05-03T23:39:00.000-04:002011-05-03T23:39:09.710-04:00Promotional Frenzy Team Newsletter!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We are moving up in the technology world! Our <a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team">Promotional Frenzy Team</a> on etsy is growing fast! We have close to 200 members now, and about 40 more waiting to be accepted. The limits of Etsy's team format make it extremely hard to keep everyone in the loop.<br />
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We all have vacations, and long work hours and things that make it hard for us to read 100 pages a day to know everything. We do try to highlight the important things at the top of each daily thread, but still if someone isn't around for a few days they even miss those. <br />
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So how can we all stay informed??<br />
Well I started a team newsletter! This will now be a REQUIREMENT to be on the team. The newsletter will be sent anytime we have changes, or upcoming events happening. For instance, we decided to have everyone add their shop items to the Promo Frenzy shop favorites.... we would send a newsletter to your e-mail address letting you know exactly how to do this, why we are doing it, and how long you have to get it done.<br />
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It will make it so much easier. Of course this doesn't mean you shouldn't come to the daily threads and support each other... interact and be positive, supportive teammates. But it will limit confusion and greatly help with time constraints!<br />
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To sign up go here:<br />
<a href="http://etsy.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=84a618ee566e2ee23e380fbe4&id=c2332d6745">http://etsy.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=84a618ee566e2ee23e380fbe4&id=c2332d6745</a><br />
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We will not be giving this list out to anyone, it is not for personal agendas and sales and such. Strictly for being able to <span style="font-family: inherit;">disseminate information efficiently and to have less confusion.</span><br />
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Also, on a very exciting 2nd note. I have also created a team newsletter for people to sign up to be notified of our team BNR's... or if we have other special events in the future.<br />
This way we don't have to convo people via the Etsy system. For now we still may need to do some convo's until our subscribers list grows.<br />
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Put this link on your blog, your facebook, tweet it, share it via convo to your friends.. help spread the word that will will deliver in their inbox our upcoming events!<br />
<a href="http://etsy.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=84a618ee566e2ee23e380fbe4&id=a0430a87b3">http://etsy.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=84a618ee566e2ee23e380fbe4&id=a0430a87b3</a><br />
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We should also repost this information for our BNR newsletter during our BNR's and throughout our daily threads!<br />
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I hope you guys are excited about this feature, it should improve our results, and minimize our efforts.<br />
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THANKS!<br />
Janet<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-13033403440709837852011-04-18T23:08:00.004-04:002011-04-20T00:07:11.615-04:00Let's DIGG!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So a really influential website is <a href="http://www.digg.com/">Digg</a>. Digg is a website where people share content. It is similar in concept to any other social networking site where you have followers and you follow others except it is strictly about content.<br />
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Here is Diggs about us page: <a href="http://about.digg.com/">http://about.digg.com/</a><br />
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The key is to provide content that is valuable, and interesting. The more interesting your content the more "diggs" you get. Just like stumbling on stumbleupon, only these are called DIGGS. <br />
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The more diggs an article gets the more popular it becomes, and it will be placed in more prominent places throughout the website. Some say a front page feature can results in hundreds of thousands of views! The site is quite popular and can be very helpful in solidifying you as an authority on a topic.<br />
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This is a quote from their about digg page: "Digg builds lists of popular stories being shared across the web. Every story has a digg button. Along with that button is a number that is the number of people from the Digg community who have said they like that like or digg that story.<br />
The amount of diggs a story collects over time can effect how that story spreads and gains more popularity as it spreads more.... News on Digg comes straight from the digg community! The best links found from around the web are shared on digg to gain traction and exposure as the link is shared virally.<br />
Find an interesting link on the internet? Digg is the best place to take that news further and spread it quickly amongst a vibrant community."<br />
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I think that Digg could be a very valuable tool to use for our blogging day. To dig each article for extra exposure AND precious backlinks to our content! But to be highly effective we have to try to make creative content, just posting a few pictures is fine but probably won't gain a lot of visibility with this type of site.<br />
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So take 5 minutes to sign up, you can sign in using facebook or twitter to make it fast and easy.<br />
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<div align="center">What to do After Signing Up</div>Once you are signed up at the very top left of the screen is a search bar you can search for friends or specific topics.<br />
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You will see the option on the top left to Submit a link, you can use that to copy and paste a link to a blog. OR you can download a button to your toolbar to make it quick and easy to submit content.<br />
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If you have internet explorer you should see a little blue wrench icon top left of your internet screen, if you click on there, then click on options, then on the left menu click on custom buttons, top of that page you should see add more buttons. If you click all of this you will be able to search for Digg and just add a button to your toolbar. This way you don't have to have multiple toolbars.<br />
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There are two main things that you can do on Digg. The first is to submit stories that you think the community will like and the second is to digg stories that you like.<br />
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Submitting<br />
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Thousands of stories are submitted to Digg on a daily basis on a variety of topics. There are currently 7 categories on Digg which include technology, science, world & business, sports, videos, entertainment, and gaming. If you come across any stories that you think are interesting, you can submit them for others to vote on.<br />
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Digging<br />
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If you like a story you have the option of “digging” it, which is basically voting on it and endorsing it. However, if you don’t like a story then you can bury it by marking it as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or even lame. If this is too simple and you’d like to say more, there is a comment section which gives you the opportunity to give your own two cents on the story and what you really think about it.<br />
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<div align="center">How to Make the Front Page</div><br />
There are two separate areas where stories are displayed, one is the upcoming section and the other is the popular stories section that begins on the front page. When a story is submitted, it has up to 24 hours to make it to the front page or longer if it has not been marked as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or lame. Digg’s complex algorithms take multiple factors into account in order to determine if a story should hit the front page. Some of the factors that the [algorithm](http://www.marketingshift.com/2006/9/diggs-kevin-rose-recent-indiggnation.cfm) uses are as follows:<br />
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* The number of diggs<br />
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* Amount of buries<br />
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* Identity of the voters<br />
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* Time<br />
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* IP addresses<br />
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* Category<br />
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Example: Stories submitted in the sports category generally require less diggs to reach the front page compared to stories submitted in the technology category. Overall, less people submit and digg sports stories compared to technology stories which is taken into account by Digg.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">DIGG Tools</div><div style="text-align: left;">At the moment, in the [Digg Tools](http://digg.com/tools) section, there are 6 features that help people get more involved with Digg.<br />
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1. [Digg badges](http://digg.com/tools/buttons) – badges can be placed on one’s website in order for visitors to digg the website.<br />
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2. [Digg news](http://digg.com/add-digg) – the latest digg stories can be added to ones website or blog with ease.<br />
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3. [Digg button](http://digg.com/tools/integrate) – for those who have a blog a “digg this” button can be added to each blog post.<br />
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4. [Google IG module](http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&url=http://digg.com/goog/ig.xml&q=&start=0) – view recent stories from Digg on your personalized Google homepage.<br />
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5. [Google Coop module](http://www.google.com/coop/profile?user=017771777217723414381) – see Digg stories at the top of your Google search results.<br />
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6. [Video thumbnails](http://digg.com/tools/thumbnails) – enables you to display Digg’s video thumbnails on your own website.<br />
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<div align="center">TIPS For Getting Started</div><div style="text-align: left;">Go to the front page and mark the top stories as favorites, make friends with those digging those top stories and those submitting the top stories. Go "digg" other people's submissions, it is like twitter most will reciprocate for you. Have fun and meet some new people and learn a lot!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>OK so back to your Digg account, top left... next to the submit a link option is "my news". Here it will give you articles that the digg website thinks will interest you based upon articles you have submitted to them. <br />
Then you can play around with the "top news" articles, which are articles that are popular and getting a lot of votes, or "diggs" and therefore they get extra features. That would be our goal to create a popular article to become top news!<br />
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Lastly, you should see near the search bar at the top right of the Digg homepage, a little icon for your account. Click on the down arrow and you will see an option for settings. Here you can play around with your profile, uploading a pic for your avi, you can connect your facebook and twitter to Digg to help you find everyone that is following you. Have fun. There is a lot of wonderful content on this site and it could be a valuable site for exposure to our blogs and etsy shops!!<br />
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Thanks.<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a> - Crystal, button and pearl jewelry!<br />
<a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/">http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a> - jewelry supplies<br />
<a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a> - Craft books and ebooks<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-81442530811073001552011-04-06T00:18:00.000-04:002011-04-06T00:18:35.845-04:00NEW Etsy Shop!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">At the end of 2010 I wrote out a blog post with my goals for 2011. One major goal was to open a 3rd Etsy shop.<br />
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I of course have my main shop, my jewelry shop: <a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">Trinkets N Whatnots</a><br />
But I also have my supply shop: <a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">Galla15whatnots</a><br />
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Now I want to unveil my latest! <a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">Artisan's Book Lounge</a><br />
I have worked very hard for years now to educate myself about the internet, marketing, SEO, the inner workings of Etsy, to offline promotions etc.<br />
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I have my Bachelor's degree in Business Management too. I try to help everyone when I can, and many people have expressed to me over the years how much help I have been. So all of this lead me to the idea that I could share my knowledge and experience on a bigger scale. The new shop I hope makes everyone feel warm and welcome, like they would like to curl up on a leather lounger with a cup of tea or coffee and relax and read!<br />
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I will be listing ebooks over the next few weeks that will cover many topics. One I am especially excited about is Craft shows! I have read so many times in forums online about people trying one show, not selling much and never doing them again. A lot of negative information and bad experiences are shared and I want to help people see how incredibly successful this type of venue can be for a business! I have done a lot of research over the years and personally have huge success with craft shows so I can not wait to share that!<br />
Several of our fellow Etsy shops will be featured in these ebooks too!!<br />
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Right now I am slowly listing different craft books in my shop to help provide inspiration to everyone. You will find books on polymer clay, to metal clay, wirework, basic bead, crocheted, sewing, knitting and more!<br />
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I am really so excited to hopefully help people and to share so please keep an eye on my new shop. More topics to look for are SEO help, google analytics help, facebook, twitter guides, social networking information and much more!!!<br />
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Thank you so much everyone for your support. Your kind words have been my inspiration for this shop :))<br />
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Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/">http://www.artisansbooklounge.etsy.com/</a><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11722889905070289021noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1019814718435380006.post-75933566009119970322011-03-22T23:38:00.006-04:002011-03-22T23:52:48.579-04:00Trinkets N Whatnots Workspace!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZQkyDKBxvFBNgUT6KSDyVf7C-nDdcuYrGprWI-UhbrLr9pJSA_vPC4d1QFHqHhsvrmma1GN00HsHc4ql3rR1Rwf7kr_r6gmu9Vysx2hARnf6Y6BVwQ-7VozCHK2BNHQREtRWpvLTmxVL/s1600/110319-222309.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZQkyDKBxvFBNgUT6KSDyVf7C-nDdcuYrGprWI-UhbrLr9pJSA_vPC4d1QFHqHhsvrmma1GN00HsHc4ql3rR1Rwf7kr_r6gmu9Vysx2hARnf6Y6BVwQ-7VozCHK2BNHQREtRWpvLTmxVL/s320/110319-222309.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A picture of me and one of my Italian Greyhound doggies :) Isn't she precious (the dog LOL)</div><br />
I am really excited to share with everyone where I work. So I just have my setup around my breakfast room/dining room. I have my kitchen table to create my jewelry and behind the table is a china cabinet. I use the china cabinet for all my mailing needs. I keep the jewelry boxes in the cabinet, my mailing envelopes, bubble wrap, my return address labels, business cards, pens, scissors and packaging tape all in that china cabinet behind where I work. This way I can quickly package things up, and I also file away the receipts for all my shipments.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHh6LVhwjiueCKykU_VBMwL1XfCzBAGxLZileZgVfPlt9Bv7NA1_JRqGXaI3_BHJqIl6-SAFmNfgX5ZmW77vxfthPrzJUmJtS1LmyTIepUelVgncBm0Thu_crnhnS7Ss6r5lzotjYyQ-7/s1600/DSC03617.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHh6LVhwjiueCKykU_VBMwL1XfCzBAGxLZileZgVfPlt9Bv7NA1_JRqGXaI3_BHJqIl6-SAFmNfgX5ZmW77vxfthPrzJUmJtS1LmyTIepUelVgncBm0Thu_crnhnS7Ss6r5lzotjYyQ-7/s320/DSC03617.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Then I have a TON of kitchen cabinets/pantry in the breakfast room. But I had WAY too much inventory to organize, so I had to get rid of my food and fill the cabinets with all my bead boxes. There are 3 huge cabinets all filled with bead boxes, and bags of buttons.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVXe5RsBuiRWLlxvC-s2WIuOFbbWDmiqUslYAhgtyfGFYrfTJUZNuLZCrx_MTdy2nXJ8AaYVUE0-SiJ4MT1LuqoHHEYfr5LtZ6pRhbhSHTVIEbXK3FTEhpdSKMBdjJCBCcy4V_MIQOODhK/s1600/DSC03611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVXe5RsBuiRWLlxvC-s2WIuOFbbWDmiqUslYAhgtyfGFYrfTJUZNuLZCrx_MTdy2nXJ8AaYVUE0-SiJ4MT1LuqoHHEYfr5LtZ6pRhbhSHTVIEbXK3FTEhpdSKMBdjJCBCcy4V_MIQOODhK/s320/DSC03611.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>And these bead boxes are 2 deep, meaning there are just as big of stacks BEHIND all of these. PHEW! I always joke I have my own personal bead store but I really do.<br />
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But even those cabinets weren't enough so then I bought some plastic organizers with like 10 drawers. Those drawers are organized by material. The top drawer has all my wire in it, the 2nd drawer is nothing but different types of glues, the 3rd drawer is filled with a boatload of seed beads etc. It makes things extremely efficient for me to know exactly where things are when I need them, and to have everything in one area.<br />
Check out my seed beads:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Each bead box I have is organized by the material. The box below is filled with all kinds of jump rings. Angela (http://www.angelaspaperart.etsy.com/) asked if I had one jump ring for a pendant she wanted. I had to laugh, I am not sure if I have one to spare :)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I have told many how many buttons I have. I have been lucky to have people give me their stashes and then I of course found a ton myself. Check out this small stash:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGWrv9mMzKWEzMpiL7Hsm_MDnkG8kg4Edn8tiRQrcVn0iqJmccxTRl338LGf53BpopGRr6hGjIb-cazTTpWPpO4Zb8HhjrHK3w8gTesLJRwsh1o7L1qCRT4QDRp69ORDLuzLkOO-Ulpp2/s1600/DSC03624.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGWrv9mMzKWEzMpiL7Hsm_MDnkG8kg4Edn8tiRQrcVn0iqJmccxTRl338LGf53BpopGRr6hGjIb-cazTTpWPpO4Zb8HhjrHK3w8gTesLJRwsh1o7L1qCRT4QDRp69ORDLuzLkOO-Ulpp2/s320/DSC03624.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
So that is how I work. I try to keep it organized, I kind of have to since there is such a large inventory to track. I hope you enjoyed seeing this. I can't wait to see what space you guys work in!!!<br />
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Have a good week.<br />
Janet<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15.etsy.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/">http://www.trinketsnwhatnots.com/</a><br />
I am listing a lot of these supplies in my supply shop to try to downgrade a little:<br />
<a href="http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/">http://www.galla15whatnots.etsy.com/</a><br />
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