Work your business!!!

I've always heard that the effort you put into your business you will get the results from in a year. You can't expect to get immediate results all the time. I've had an online Etsy business for awhile (over four years!), but once I was working Full Time I let the business go to the side and didn't market myself or post on my blog! Now that I am a stay at home Mom to Adeline again I am looking at ways to help my family up financially. I signed up to be an Independent Demonstrator with Stampin' Up and I've started working my Crafty Weeks business more.

Tuesday I woke up covered in Hives, which hasn't happened in as far back as I can remember. So I had to get my husband and daughter out of bed early to take me to the hospital. I have allergy induced asthma, so I can't take any chances especially since the day before I was wheezing. Well all they could do is give me a shot of Steroids and send me on my way. I was thankful to have Alan home with me to help with Adeline all day. I spent most of the day zoned out in Steroid limbo, but by the end of the day I was feeling really good with a lot of energy and started working my businesses and searching for ways to market my Stampin' Up business in a new area.

Facebook has lots of group pages set up for locals and they are great to market yourself, however most of the "yard sale" pages do not allow business marketing! It is selling a good, so I don't see how it is different. So since they don't allow us to post I created my own group on Facebook JUST for advertising your Work from Home or Small Business. If you are in the Bristol area I welcome you to join our little group, I'm slowly getting it built up! At this point I am an Admin of 5 separate groups and run 2 pages, and I may start Administrating a group for Moms here in Bristol soon. You have to get yourself out there if you expect to get you and your business noticed!

Next I decided to set up a separate Page for my Stampin' Up side instead of incorporating it into my Crafty Weeks page. The separate businesses don't necessarily attract the same customers, so it made sense. So if you get a chance please check out my new page and like it!

My Results: By the end of the night Tuesday I had one friend offer to host a Stampin' Up Workshop for me next month, one contact on my Crafty Weeks Facebook page with a custom order of two items (long time follower), one contact through Etsy with 3rd relation acquaintance for a customer order of two items. Then by the time I woke the next morning a customer ordered four of my Scrapbook Flairs off my Etsy site! I don't think me working my business Tuesday directly affected each of the above results - but it had me excited! I don't know about you, but it was awesome.

I came across this picture on a Stampin' Up Demo page and it fits perfectly!