The first weekend of holiday shopping is almost over, and we are quite pleased! Although I think Rachel may be a little overwhelmed with all of the packaging and mailing. We were really excited about Black Friday, but we expected sales to go down instead of up for the rest of the weekend. I'm thinking that Sunday really deserves its own shopping name because we got a surprising number of orders.
Also, we passed 100 sales this weekend, I wanted to have some kind of celebration, but it's already the big shopping weekend. Oh well, maybe at 200!
Here are some cake and cookies though,
All that being said, it's Cyber Monday today, so our sale continues on. We're hoping for some more great buyers today. All of our jewelry ships free and comes with a free lip balm. http://www.etsy.com/shop/ajoeynamedroo
Two sales so far today. I was a little afraid that despite all of the hype we wouldn't have any, so we're quite relieved. Both items were also black, so obviously the sale has been effective.
Here's hoping that the rest of the weekend matches Black Friday's success!!
For tomorrow's black friday extravaganza we thought it would be fun to have a sale on everything that's black in our store. That means plenty of lip balm, necklaces and earrings as well as a soap and bracelet. Stay tuned all weekend for more new and interesting discounts.
Free shipping on any black item, and a free lip balm of your choice!
So, Rachel and I went to our first craft show a few weeks ago. We started out a little late, unorganized and stressed, but we got our act together pretty quickly. For a good (or not so good) hour we had literally sold to one person, and she is my boyfriend's mother! We totally appreciated her purchase, but then after a while, we started to worry about our inability to attract customers.
Finally some strangers showed up at our table, the key however, was the samples. Once we started giving out samples people stopped and looked, and we ended up with a pretty good amount of sales.
One of the best things about the show was that I got a better idea of what real life people are attracted to, even if they didn't decide to purchase. I think that knowledge gained will be uber beneficial.
It was actually really funny because we were set up beside another set of sisters, who had awesome stuff and were pretty awesome themselves. The woman behind us also had beautiful stuff and Rachel got a purse from her.
This body butter is scrumptious. It's super thick, so it's perfect for the coming winter months.
I LOVE the scent too. I was afraid that it would be too sweet. The kind of thing where the smell of your own skin can give you a headache. It is not that way at all though.
Instead of being that really high almost shallow smell of icing, this birthday cake smells like the entire cake. There's also a slight scent of cocoa butter which is what gives the smell its depth. Because of the warm deep smell of cocoa butter it makes me think of a chocolate birthday cake, then the sugar and vanilla combine to smell just like the vanilla icing.
And there you have it. I made you a birthday cake out of words. Enjoy!
