Friday, July 30, 2010

I'm Baaaaack

Ok, up early and what am I thinking about? The fact that I have not written in my blog in forever, just did the testing thing and Frank gave me a good laugh over that. So we have been on this crazy emotional roller coaster ride. My grandmother who I am most connected to is on her death bed and she lives 8 hrs away. We went and visited and it was hard for me, really hard. I have never experienced anything like seeing someone you love dying. Anyways the kids were amazing on that trip, being out of their element and hanging out with people that they did not want to hang out with before. The kids are just growing so fast and I can see more and more them becoming their own.
We have all been feeling quite stuck lately as we are STILL in the rv park and we STILL have NOT gotten our rv back. This was not part of the plan. We were also doing some wallowing, being upset with our RE "partner" he has let quite a few of our deals die after all the hard work Greg and I did on them. They should not have died. BUT we learned a huge lesson on who we do not want to work with. BUT this sets us back a bit on getting our rv. So after being pissed off and sad and upset, Greg says no more.
Greg and I had a nice chat the other day (hard to do, but nice) about getting out of this funk (because not only does this funk in our biz affect us but it affects the kids too). We have a new plan with a new goal and we are going all gun ho! Our goal is to have OUR RV by October 15th. There it is, it is written in stone, no, world wide web so there for we must achieve this goal!
I have been also working so hard at The Unschooler's Emporium, there is so much to learn and sometimes it just feels like a lot of blah, blah blah in my head. BUT it is something I must do, because I want to succeed. If I succeed, then that means I am helping so many unschoolers succeed! One of the biggies is getting everyone seen it is taking some creative thinking as my advertising budget is really low right now. One of the things I am doing is holding a drawing for free unschooling products and I hope that brings some attention to the store.
Anyways hopefully I won't be so neglectful of you blog, I really want to be able to look at you year's later and read all the wonderful things that we are doing.

4 comments:

Frank said...

Well, I'm always happy to provide a laugh. I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. I've seen too mcuh death and it doesn't seem to get any easier. I wish you the best. Also sorry to hear all your other woes adn I hope y'all get RVing as soon as possible. Good luck!

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Lydija Dahl said...

Did you think of advertising using google word search? Coming up on the top of their search lists when someone types in key words? It's not expensive and it works pretty well.


Good luck on your goal too :)

Wilson Family said...

Hi Lydija yeah I have some campaigns for google but have had to put them on hold for a few weeks. It is interesting I got more traffic and sales from facebook then google. And facebook is cheaper. so I am keeping track of what works best, since my advertising budget is so low. I am really hoping word of mouth will help, since we have so many creators! I really want to be in the organic search and I am hoping with the new promoting of the drawing to win products and adding blog posts will help with that ;) Thanks for helping! Let me know if you have more ideas, because I could use all the help I can get!