Lifes Like That

So I’ve mentioned before that I am going to try something new to try to advertise my small home crafting business. So last week I ordered some customized magnets to be able to give out to family and friends. The order will take anywhere from four to six weeks to come in but they should be here just in time for the holiday craft season. Up until now I haven’t spent a dollar on advertising, but my sales aren’t as high as I would like them to be so I have decided that it may be worth it to spend a few dollars in advertising to get my message out there. Hopefully this works. If it does, then I will have no problem spending any other money on different advertising methods. I have to do something, I have to start selling more than I have been.

Now that I’ve started making a few sales from my home crafted jewelry, I have been thinking about what I want to buy with this extra money. Yeah, I know I should probably save it or use it to buy stuff for the kids, but what I really want is some new office furniture. I know it will take me quite a while to save up enough money for some good pieces, but I’m willing to wait until I get all the money I need even before thinking about making any purchases. I look at any income that comes from the sale of jewelry as extra money so I wouldn’t be taking any “regular income” out of our pockets to make these purchases. Oh well, now I need money so I need to get off this computer and get creating.

If you scroll down on the right sidebar of this blog, you will see a paypal widget displaying some of my handcrafted jewelry that I have for sale. I have tried several methods of selling my jewelry, but so far I haven’t been having too much success. So instead of giving up, I have decided to try something different. Hopefully I will see a few sales through this method. But since it doesn’t cost anything for me to display this widget, it certainly won’t hurt anything if it doesn’t work out.

But having said this, I am optimistic that this just may work. So scroll on down and see what I have to offer and if anything peeks your interest, just let me know and I’m pretty sure that we can do business together.

Although I have been busy trying to get a small home crafting business up and running. My efforts don’t seem to be paying off very well. So I’m thinking that I’m going to have to make some changes in the way I do things. The first thing I need to do is get a better budgeting and planning schedule worked out. I think this may be a big reason why things are not going the way I want to. Right now I have no clue what my budget should be and forget about having a proper planning schedule. I think if I tackle these two concepts in a more professional manner, I may start to see the results that I’m looking for.

I’ll let you all know how I make out this.

Well I’ve finally got off my backside and started my quilting again. I really do need to get this quilting done as the work I’m suppose to complete is for a lady that wants three quilts by this Christmas. You would think that knowing this project is going to make me some money, that I would be quickly pumping out these quilts, but no, that isn’t the way it’s working out. But I have convinced myself that this work needs to be completed. So I have hauled out my sewing machine, safety cutters, and all the fabric and I am good to go.

Well it’s been a little over two years since I bought my first laptop and tried to find ways of earning a little extra income online.  It’s been a struggle to say the least as I have found that there are a lot scams and scammers out there who are going to try to take your money.

I have pretty much tried everything on the Internet and have to say that there are only a couple of ways to earn income  that I have found that have been worth my time and have costed me no money up front.  The two avenues of income that I am talking about is paid blogging and freelance writing of articles.  Any other program that I tried usually ended up costing me money or a waste of valuable time.

If you’ve found success with any other avenue of earning income online, I would love to hear from you.