Day 20 What Happened

[PillowThrowDecor]

Allright ... how was your day?  Tell us all, big or small.

[GalleriaLinda]

I cloned, I tweeted. :-)

[Sirocco]

Is there some easy way to clone a listing? The only way I know how to clone a listing is to just make another listing and reenter all of the information. Am I doing that correctly? I did not tweet anything today but I did start looking at the boot camper’s Icraft stores. Of the twenty five or so that I reviewed, none had any sales at all, most (I did not count) had no listings, a few had websites or blogs or both, and three had posted twitter accounts on their blog. I am following the blogs and twitter accounts where I was able. That is about all I did today. And, I am constantly looking back over  GalleriaLinda’s various posts.

[PillowThrowDecor]

When you are in the edit mode got to the bottom of the page, a little to the right and you will see "clone this item".  It makes a total copy with the word"clone" in the subject line which of course you have to remove beforw  that copy is effective.

[PillowThrowDecor]

GalleriaLinda is definately a great person to follow around. Besides making awesome jewelry she has lots of good experience and direction in business planning.Her business blog is  http://indieceo.blogspot.com/ and is definately worth reading and watching for! There are lots of really strong sellers with great wisdom and encouragement here.  You will see them posting in the forum here

There are a number of sellers that signed up in bootcamp with good intentions but are not participating  in the daily exersizes.  Unfortunately I can't keep track of those  sellers and have had to drop some of our activitites involving cross promotion, free advertising and sponsor giveaways. For subsequent bootcamps I will be eliminating the sellers that don't participate so it makes for a better experience for those that do. I just need to figure out how and I really encourage any comments or suggestings on the forum here on by a Prvate Mesaage.

Sales will come for sellers that work to promote their shop and their product. Lots of sellers open stores in different venues and just "park it" hoping that buyers "fall through the front door" and buy something.  I have had a  seller express some real nastiness when I envited them to participate. Unfortunately they believe they have a right to park their butt in an empty store. ... we're working on changing this.

LOL... I thought it was that easy too, but it is not.  Sales happen not by accident but by working.  You are doing all the right things in that you are following people that you will learn lots from such as GalleriaLinda and all the other bootcampers!  You are reaching out and trying so I know good things will follow!!!

You observations are very astute. I think I can speak for all  sellers on the forums ... any time you need to reach out with a question your answer will come here or at least we will all learn the answer together.

You have achieved much already  Jump in where you can as some activities are a bit more advanced.  I think in the fall in our next  bootcamp the activities will be a little more defined as novice or advanced.

Cheers

Christine

[Zs Knees]

I cloned and tweeted, and now I'm pooped :wink:

It's been so hot here I'm thinking of moving to Canada?

[PillowThrowDecor]

Lol... right now it is very hot here also.  I think you need to be heading for New zealand or somewhere where they are having their winter.  

[designsbydebra]

Well I cloned and updated several items in my shop.

Spent a lot time tonight Tweeting and RTing.
 
I made a good friend on twitter and got her on to TweetDeck and RTing. We viewed each others shops and it was great.

I just have to find some time to get better photos of a few of my items.

And I already have more than ten business cards in my purse. I just have to remember to give them out.

I'm off to ride my exercise bike and then off to bed it's been a long day!
Deb
icraftgifts.com/designsbydebra

[PillowThrowDecor]

Way to go Deb! Gawwwwd where do you get your late night energy to peddle a bike???

[Zs Knees]

But the only thing worse than summer is winter! :lol:  Just kiddin