Has it only been 5 days since I last posted???
It feels like a LIFETIME ago. There have been milestones and setbacks, and proud moments and gut wrenching issues…. MAN… it’s only been 5 days??!!!
Later on Nov 1, I made an awful discovery. I friend emailed me out of the blue and just said “hey, I just signed up for your waiting list”. I thought to myself… “That’s funny… I haven’t received any notification she signed up”, so I tested that feature myself on my website and lo and behold, NOTHING! Come to find out, the feature has not been working for what we now figured out to be 3 weeks!!! It acted like the information was sent, but WASN’T!!! During that time, as you know, I had an article in the paper, an interview after Race for the Cure, the Mompreneurs getaway… I was (and still am) just SICK that people have signed up, and I’ll never know. It’s hard for me to think about. I have had my web guy, the server people, the domain people, you name it, on this issue to try to find those names and email addresses somewhere in cyber space and they are just GONE! Oh no… I’m getting depressed again… can’t think too much about it. My web guys is supposed to put a statement on my site apologizing and asking everyone to sign up again if they signed up in the past few weeks. You and I both know however that a lot of those people won’t be back to the site any time soon.
On to other, happier issues, we had a friend come over Friday night and Saturday morning and we put ALL 100 boxes together!!! I must say, it was a lot of fun and I got a real sense of accomplishment from seeing those stacks off Grill Charms on my dining room table. (We took lots of pictures)
Saturday afternoon we went to my mom’s house for a Grill Charms photo shoot. Now that I have my product to sell, I need pictures! I went to the best meat department in town and bought about $100.00 worth of groceries. My sister dabbles in photography just for fun, so I thought; why not let her take a stab at it. We grilled out in my parent’s backyard and I must say, I was/am completely impressed with the pictures. They look FANTASTIC! I am sooo happy! That will save TONS of money. Also this weekend I purchased one of those light tent thingies on eBay so I could do my pictures for my shopping page. The “lifestyle” artsy ones my sister did were for the other parts of the website and advertising, brochures etc… I can do catalogue type ones (I think) myself. So now I have my web guy working at warp speed to try to get my ecommerce site up and running by early next week so I can tell all of the people I actually DO have on my waiting list, that Grill Charms are really really FINALLY available!
THEN… yep, more stuff… (See… I can’t believe it’s only been 5 days) Yesterday while the girls where at ballet I went into that store that wanted to buy some sets (see October 10, 2007 Blog), to visit the owner and show her my pretty pretty packaging. She had said to come back once I had a complete set, so of course, I did. She LOVED it! She wants them ASAP! I had told her last time we talked that wholesale orders would be available after the first of the year. I have to take care of the customers I have already promised sets to for Christmas. (And again… that makes me think about all the people that THINK they will get a notification and won’t!) Aaaaagggghhhhhh!!! Head-spinning, stomach-turning…want to throw up!!!
I think you are now up to speed. I’m sure the next 5 days will be just as crazy. Yep, I just looked ahead on my calendar. It’s gonna be another whirlwind week! I’ll be in touch soon!
Leslie Haywood, Founder and President of Charmed Life Products, Inventor of Grill Charms™ www.grillcharms.com
