Day 7 Tuesday July 7 2009 What happened at school Today?

[PillowThrowDecor]

Lots of stuff happening... tell us everything

[CanadianRockiesArt]

Good morning

Here's what I've got for today:

1)Follow 50 of these potential customers on Twitter. - Done!

2)Send at least 3 Tweets today about you or your own stuff. - Done!

3)Got to 3 other bootcampers sites and send 3 tweets about something remarkable about their stuff.


I tried to select a variety of pieces to Tweet about, so these are the 3 bootcampers that I promoted this morning on my Twitter:

Petrified Wood Necklace by Jewelry Without Borders

Barn Yard Tags by Mostly Sundays

Country Cutie Goat's Milk Soap by neatTreats



4)List one new item on icraft or refresh a listing. - Listed a new item, Done!

5)Free Local advertising on google Here is where you can get yourself on the map in your community.


Ok, here I have to say that I have a problem with this, as it's a matter of 'SAFETY'. It sounds like you have a B&M store? That's awesome and good for you if you can advertise your physical address.

However, for those of us who only have our home, it is *not* advisable to list your home address EVER if you run a small business from your home (especially for jewelry makers). I have easily well over $15,000 in gemstones and precious metals in inventory, never mind the thousands of dollars in tools as well (I'm a metalsmith & lampwork artist) so listing your own home address anywhere online is inviting trouble.

It is simply not safe in this day and age. Home invasions, theft, etc, are rampant everywhere. It's very unfortunate, but unless these sites allow us to list just a weblink and an email address, I'm not willing to put that info online.

I tried to list my business on the Google page you gave us, and they make it mandatory to fill-in the address field complete with postal code and phone number. I don't even put that information on my business card or on the envelopes that I use to ship out my orders (I use our commercial mail box address/PO Box address on my return labels).

So I would really advise against this unless a person has a commercial 'real' Brick & Mortar shop.


6) Optional Download Hubspot whitepaper on marketing - Going to download it now

Have a super day!
Nathalie

[PillowThrowDecor]

Hey  CanadianRockiesArt...
I totally agree with your comment...

"It is simply not safe in this day and age. Home invasions, theft, etc, are rampant everywhere. It's very unfortunate, but unless these sites allow us to list just a weblink and an email address, I'm not willing to put that info online. "

Thank you for raising the point. I don't put my address down either.  On that map you can move the balloon around.  I just put My community name down BC Canada and use the postal code for the post office. I don't use any of my private numbers either...cell. Anyone looking for me from a Google map can leave a message.

I am so impressed that you have so much done so early!

Cheers
Christine

[CanadianRockiesArt]

One of my dogs woke me up at 5 AM... ain't nothing better to do than be at the computer and start doing my bootcamp stuff LOL

[mountaindreamers]

Hello all,


I am the spamanator, so far I am being spammed by people from Craigslist , ick, I will leave my ad for a few more days, My business email is a bit sacred and I don't like garbage in .

Tweets three on twitter:

Annikadegroot
Aradesi
Impawsible

Tweets three for Me, ( sorry I am rhyming)

joined google local

downloaded the hub pub

no listings as the paying job expected me to be there too.

lost  a weekend of jewelry making to car wreck recovery , hit by a teen missle on 7/1/09 . Note to self, quit getting concussions, not a good past time.

looking forward to tomorrow

Nathalie your pictures are great!  Laura

http://www.mountaindreamers.blogspot.com

[Northern Girl Jewelry]

Nathalie, thanks for tweeting about my necklace!  What a pleasant surprise!

I'm behind already, was working on yesterday's and Friday's assignment.  I'll have to catch up on today's assignment tomorrow.  I always love checking out other people's shops to find great items, so it should be fun.  Plus I will feel more comfortable tweeting about someone else's items before I start tweeting about my own.  

Still trying hard to like twitter.  Would not try if it wasn't for bootcamp.

Oh, and when I went to load a personalized twitter background with photos, it would have cost $5.  Would that $5 have allowed me to change it in future?  It didn't seem like it would.  I went with a pre-made one instead since I'm not yet convinced twitter will win my love...

[Northern Girl Jewelry]

OMG, the item Nathalie tweeted about has a much larger number of views than it had yesterday (don't know exactly how much, wasn't paying that much attention), but maybe 30 to 60 more...  Wow!  People actually went and looked...

[Mostly Sundays]

Here are some of the exciting things I did today:

Tweeted about:
Canadian Rockies Art - sterling silver hoop earrings

Neat Treats - Matilda Goat's Milk Soap

Lime Freckle - my daughter loves the Bella bracelet - inspired by Twilight!!
I hope you will take custom order on this.
all of these may be gifts very soon.

I registered on indiepublic.com

Woo hoo - I sold another item on etsy!!!
I updated some items.

Nathalie - thanks for checking out my profile and messaging me!!
Pam @ Neat Treats - did you get what I sent??

off to work tomorrow - karen

[Mostly Sundays]

Nathalie - also Thanks so much for tweeting about my new barnyard tags - I just posted them the other day!!!

Karen @mostlysundays

[CanadianRockiesArt]

[quote="Jewelry Without Borders"...

Oh, and when I went to load a personalized twitter background with photos, it would have cost $5.  Would that $5 have allowed me to change it in future?  It didn't seem like it would.  I went with a pre-made one instead since I'm not yet convinced twitter will win my love...[/quote]


Oh wow! They started charging for it now! It was free just a couple of days ago. Guess they were running a special to get some users to put it up on their twitter pages, and now they are charging for it.

Sorry you didn't get in when it was still free. I just checked and you're right, they are charging for it now.

[CanadianRockiesArt]

Here are some of the exciting things I did today:

Tweeted about:
Canadian Rockies Art - sterling silver hoop earrings

Neat Treats - Matilda Goat's Milk Soap

Lime Freckle - my daughter loves the Bella bracelet - inspired by Twilight!!
I hope you will take custom order on this.
all of these may be gifts very soon.

I registered on indiepublic.com

Woo hoo - I sold another item on etsy!!!
I updated some items.

Nathalie - thanks for checking out my profile and messaging me!!
Pam @ Neat Treats - did you get what I sent??

off to work tomorrow - karen

Hi Karen

Glad I could help

I most certainly take custom orders/requests on the hoops. Feel free to PM me anytime

Cheers!
Nathalie

[CanadianRockiesArt]

Nathalie - also Thanks so much for tweeting about my new barnyard tags - I just posted them the other day!!!

Karen @mostlysundays

They are just adorable - I had to tweet about them for sure!

[Unique Creations 2 C]

I am so behind in my SBC homework. I have done a few things.  
I just want to caution everyone regarding directories.  I have discovered some directories are useless.  Out of curiosity, I clicked on a few shops under different categories in some directories and found that "website links of products and stores" goes nowhere. (It says try google).  So before you share your information make sure the directories are valid and some require payment to be on their directories.

Word of caution: visit a few websites on that directory before you register with them.

[designsbydebra]

What I did today:

Made several topic replacementes(handmade,jewelry and crafters) on Twitter for people I'd like to follow. My inbox was loaded with over 100 people following me because I'm following them!

Tweeted 4 items in iCraft shops Trish's card,PillowThrowDecor's Geek Pillow and Brilliant Bead's Lampwork Beads and FiveForty's Spiral Waves Earrings.

Relisted 3 bracelets which were retweeted Thank you!

I too am a little concerned about giving my address out so passed on the local advertising with Google.

I will be checking out the HubSpot after I leave here.

Can't wait to see what you have in the works for tomorrow!

Deb
icraftgifts.com/designsbydebra

[PillowThrowDecor]

Hey Debra... you don't have to give out an address.... you just move that little map over your community and plunk it down.  I don't use my home address either.  I often just give my city and the post office address or postal code.

Debra you have an impressive list of accomplishments today!!!!

[PillowThrowDecor]

[quote="Jewelry Without Borders"...

Oh, and when I went to load a personalized twitter background with photos, it would have cost $5. Would that $5 have allowed me to change it in future? It didn't seem like it would. I went with a pre-made one instead since I'm not yet convinced twitter will win my love...[/quote]

Wow I can't believe they cahnged it in just a few days.

There are so many" free twitter apps"... replacement google.

Any ways just to let you all know... any of these opportunities have to be free or they don't make my list so if you see something with its hand out for money, back away from it.... I will always try and infomr you if there is a cost to something.

Way to go everyone.  Ya done good!!!!

I don't know why my notifications don't seem to be delivering all of your messages to me during the day.  I'll try and keep a better eye on it all.

[PillowThrowDecor]

When I go to check some of these things out for homework assignements I always look at my Alexa toolbar and my Google pagerank buttons to see how well the site is doing. Some sites talk a good game but when you look closely they are newbies on the web... or just ignored by the world.

Also I wanted to let you all know that we are doing really well improving our sites ranking. ... not that we can take all the credit for it

But it is so cool to see that we are creeping up and up getting closer to the Big E (which is suffering dogfights and street riots due to bad SEO ).

Good stuff... Off to bed