Catching up with my own thoughts today

Day123
I’m going to catch up on some of my own thoughts today and then get back to another round of interviews tomorrow.

I have especially enjoyed reading the shop owner’s marketing ideas and have been taking notes. For instance, I had never heard of http://www.alibi.com/ before and now have three free classifieds on it.

I had my biggest sale yet on Sunday. Something like 6 t-shirts and 20 buttons. The possibly sad news is they were the “no cancer” ones and I am hoping someone didn’t just find out they or a member of their family has cancer. At any rate, I sent a prayer along for them – no extra charge!

It’s getting really close to Mother’s day and the great thing about online stores is how fast you can get your purchases. I’ve ordered a couple times from my store and even choosing the slowest, cheapest mail rate, I had my items in 5 days. So there is plenty of time if you want to get mom something from this site I really like:

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/store/justholidays/1198815?pid=4370506

School is almost out too and there are lots of CafePress shops with fun graduation gifts. Here’s a favorite

http://www.cafepress.com/mycoolgear/699113?pid=4370506

And if you are one of those nice parents who buy their children’s teachers gifts, you can do that right here:

http://www.cafepress.com/koncepts/733690?pid=4370506

Sending out hundreds of emails and online ads

Day25
Well it was time to send out some of the free classifieds again. I sent Valentine themed ads to all the states and this time decided to include some of the countries. After several hours I think I was getting a little punchy. I was very tempted to send one to Nigeria telling them for every t-shirt they ordered with “no spam” on it, one million dollars would be deposited in their bank account. Thought about creating and sending “no nukes” to North Korea and “no fighting” to Israel! I did send one to Saudi Arabia too. I can’t really picture them in t-shirts and baseball caps, but they do have a lot of money!

Day26
Saw an article today about vegetarians and it suggested a support group in the area with an email address. So I sent them my “no meat” link!

Day27Got an email back from the Eat for Life group that I sent my “no meat” link to. She invited me to their next meeting. No mention of my site….

Learning about free classified ads

Day16
My third sale! A “no coffee” mug from Illinois! Still working on press releases and tweaking site and learning about search engines and affiliates! Also sent out a ton of free classified ads! At one site I did every state individually! Am starting to get junk email to my givituprequests@yahoo.com address!