Our First Shipment of Yarn
We just got our first shipment of yarn. This is part of our attempt to diversify a bit. We're going to get a bunch of yarns in, then knitting neadles and patterns, then we'll work on other things. In the new year we're going to work on making both the office and shop look better and more proffessional. I'm working on a new meathods of advertising. We're going to see if we can get adds in at the surrounding schools; they give out packets at student events that have a few adverts and coupons in. And with the company that gets us the most customers we;re going to have monthly promotional sales on select groups of things, showing a nice big picture of whatever it is we particularly want to sell. So this January it'll probably be those yarns. Especialy as that's what people kept asking us about and we kept having to say, sorry, we don't have that stuff yet.

It's harder to run a business that people think. Most people have visions of having their own small company with lots of happy regular customers. Being able to take off any time they want with on boss to answer to. Making tones of money while abiding no stupid company rules. But I know enough bussiness owners of small companies personaly to be able to say that it never works out as great as peole hope. There's always dissapointment in some area or another. You don't get to spend more time with your family, you don't immediatly start getting tones of money and very often you don't even survive the first year without having to just go ahead and shut down with tones of brand new debt sitting on your shoulders. We've managed to stay open, we've aquired new customers, but the problem is keeping the customers, getting more, selling durring bad economical times. I'm hoping that by carefully balancing out money to add different inventory and improving appearances will help to improve our flow of customers. Fingers crossed.