Etsy Front Page!

Was so excited to see that my wrist warmers made it to the front page of Etsy yesterday!  Thankful for my fifteen minutes of fame.  If only my shop was a little more full and that it wasn't full of mittens and scarves when we are on the cusp of spring and summer, I may have actually sold something!  Still great and fun to be recognized.

Make Your Website Work

Thinking about re-designing your website in the new year? This was an interesting webinar by hubspot - slides are here:
http://www.hubspot.com/webinar-website-redesign-strategy-for-2010-archive

Here is what I gleaned from the presentation:

Design is nice, but content is better.

Re-design to drive more traffic, not to improve your corporate "look"

Don't recreate the wheel w/ web design


Create SEO content. Use social media to talk about content. Content should lead back to website, generating traffic, leads, and customers.

Definitely check this out if you're planning on re-doing your website to improve on design.

Flavor Me

Found this new site where I can put my whole online life in one place. I still need to figure out if I can get an etsy feed or not.

Presenting This Year's Office Christmas Poem

Each year my office sends out a gift to our clients, and I am the lucky girl who gets to compose the Christmas poem that adorns the package and gives hints as to what might be inside. This year's gift is a mini gift box of Penzey's spices.

More Signage

For Lease

Company signage I designed

Kirkwood Pioneers Ad

Ad I did for the Kirkwood Pioneers Boosters Athletic Program

Note to Self: Be Smart, Be Funny

So, I got this forward today. The sigificant thing about it is that I actually read it. Usually as soon as I see FW:, I delete it without a second thought. But my friend had taken the time to put "Read this, this is funny" in the subject line.

"Okay friend," I thought, "I will read this. Just because you specifically recommended it."

So I read the forward. The thing is, it was truly funny in a sarcastic and relevent way. What it actualy said really isn't my point though. My point is, at the bottom of the forward was this guy's digital signature. Grant Thorton: Tax. Audit...blah blah blah. But you know what, I was so impressed by the forward (I had to restrain myself from laughing outloud - at work) that I had to check this guy out.

"This guy gets me. He knows what is going down around here," I thought.

I mean, I actually googled him. And, okay, Grant Thorton isn't a guy - it's the company.
Brilliant marketing strategy. I sooo wish I would have thought of it first. Viral marketing.