May

6

Police Athletic League

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This is something that ticks me off because police charities are near and dear to my heart, given my husband works for the police, and often donates time to their endeavors.
I’ve had several phone calls in the past week from someone claiming to be from the Police Athletic League. Normally I joke around a […]

May

2

Ways of Promotion

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I’ve been looking into ways that I might be able to do promotions around some of the local businesses, but with a business like mine it’s not like I can just drop off a gift basket which makes things difficult.
Working with the local bead shop might not be too hard. I can make some […]

Apr

12

Back and Catching Up

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It’s going to be a bit rough for the next day or so because I’m playing catch-up on things and also the munchkin broke part of my laptop keyboard which means I have to cannibalize the two computer systems together in order to get things done right now.
I have been able to set up a […]

Apr

5

Cars and Business

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My husband has asked me several times if we could get a fleet card for getting gas given I have the business. As we’re such a small business it’s really not worth it, plus if we were doing that we’d have to change things around on our car insurance I would imagine so in the […]

Mar

28

Online Yellow Pages

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Sometimes I feel guilty about being mean to people over the phone, when they’re only doing their job. This morning I’m having a harder time with that, but I think it’s just because I’m physically exhausted.
When you have a business that’s actually registered with a license bureau you get a lot of people calling […]

Mar

25

Entertaining People

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I keep wondering how I should “entertain” people if they come to me to have a reading done. Should I offer drinks? I doubt it would be worth it to invest in a popcorn machines, but I wonder if I should have snack food, soda, tea, coffee, bottles of water. That’s polite, but it could […]

Mar

20

Things to look into

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I keep hearing adverts on the television for various directbuy showrooms that are good deals to buy things at. The people on the ads talk about saving a good 40% off the price of redoing the rooms in their house and I can’t say it doesn’t have it’s appeal especially when I think of the […]

Mar

14

New gemstones

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I’m very excited because a shipment of stones and boxes I ordered came in sooner than I expected. I needed to order gift boxes to ship my jewelry items in and while I was browsing Jewelry Supply I noticed they were having a sale on some of their semi-precious stones, so I ordered some of […]

Feb

26

Logos and Business Cards

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I’ve been trying to make some new business cards for a month or more now. Normally I do these sort of things myself using a combination of Photoshop, Word and Publisher but my printer has thwarted my efforts. Each time I try to print the cards it shamelessly chews up a good two hours worth […]

Feb

23

Selling Update

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I’m in the process of setting up an Etsy store, given the encouragement to sell the earrings and things that I’m working on. Right now I’m just browsing around etsy and doing some rudimentary things so that I can be sure I understand the process.
Etsy’s rates are a lot more reasonable than setting up […]

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