Bright sunny Sunday and a few minutes to update the blog - last month was crazy with lots of shows and craft fairs to attend, lots of telephone orders to process and lots of Christmas stuff to do on a personal front!
Tomorrow work starts again in earnest, but in the meantime, blog hits are up to 582 and my new year's resolution is to keep this blog up to date and hopefully interesting!
Prize winners for 2009 have been notified and I am waiting for them to get back to me with which free Trails they want sent out to them - more on that in a later blog.
Marketing plans for 2010 are being developed and we have some interesting data to share on last year's metrics - again more on that later.
Watch this space!!
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Guilty
Feel very guilty that I haven't updated this blog for over a month and notice that we have had 537 hits which is 216 more than a month ago and so I must get to it!
Later though..... !!
Later though..... !!
Friday, 23 October 2009
Hit Counter
The last time I looked at the hit counter was Sept 23 - one whole month ago. The blog was registering as having had 321 hits then and now the number is 448 - which is about 4 hits a day - not great, but not terrible either!
Where does the Time Go?
I can't believe its been so long since I last wrote a blog entry and when I look to see what I've been doing it feels like a lot of time spent doing nothing particularly productive.
One success however, is my Twitter account. I now have 140 followers and the number rises every day. Sometimes I spend a couple of minutes at a time reading other people's tweets and retweeting some of them and at other times I can spend half an hour to an hour messing about going to the different links and reading stuff on line.
Is it productive or not? Hard to say, because I don't think any of my tweets have translated into direct sales BUT I am building a network of on line contacts some of whom will one day think about buying a Treasure Trail maybe - meantime, I am on the word of mouth marketing mission!
One success however, is my Twitter account. I now have 140 followers and the number rises every day. Sometimes I spend a couple of minutes at a time reading other people's tweets and retweeting some of them and at other times I can spend half an hour to an hour messing about going to the different links and reading stuff on line.
Is it productive or not? Hard to say, because I don't think any of my tweets have translated into direct sales BUT I am building a network of on line contacts some of whom will one day think about buying a Treasure Trail maybe - meantime, I am on the word of mouth marketing mission!
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A - Z of Treasure Trails
The things that amuse........
A - Aaron - our fabulous designer!
B - Bewdley - one of the nicest places we have in our catalogue of Trails : http://bit.ly/33OzdR
C is for craft fairs - one of the outlets we use when selling our Trails direct - here is where we plan to go next: http://bit.ly/OFhOn
And D is for David, my wonderful husband who works with me in the business x
E is for Everyone - our Trails really are suitable for all ages and abilities, many are pushchair and wheelchair friendly too!
F is for Friends and Family - our brochure says - do you like playing games with Friends and Family ??!!
G is for the Golden Valley - one of 4 Driving Trails in our catalogue http://bit.ly/vmvdG
H is for Herefordshire, the county we are based in http://bit.ly/40ZBk
I is for Icecream - one of the things you can do along the way is to have one! Local is best :-)
J is for January, the month that Treasure Trails has its annual conference and all the licensees get together! This year in Bournemouth!
K is for Kidderminster - a much nicer place than I first thought - it needs exploring! Use a Trail - http://bit.ly/wiCWJ
L is for Ludlow which is out of our area, we need a new licensee to take on Treasure Trails Shropshire - know anyone? Please RT
M is for Monmouth - which is out of our area, we need a new licensee to take on Treasure Trails South Wales - know anyone? Please RT
N is for Newsletter, Blog, Twitter and all the other marketing stuff I try and do to encourage repeat biz ! http://bit.ly/4dqDK
O is for Organised Events - a Treasure Trails specialism - drawing on my HR background! http://bit.ly/4yyJnF
P is for Personalised Gifts - we do a fab line in personalising the Trails to make them unique to the individual. http://bit.ly/1OvM0a
Q, always a hard one and the best I can think of is Q is for Quirky - all our licensees are quirky, & the quirkiest of the lot is our MD!
R is for Ross on Wye and Redditch - both at the extremities of our patch! http://bit.ly/2jRSBR
S is for Spy Trail - our newest format and the easiest of the lot to write! Try our Malvern Hills one! http://bit.ly/7BN0A
T is easy, its T for Treasure Trails! http://bit.ly/ggtBW
U is for Upside Down - our posters feature an upside down man! Told you about the quirky didn't I !
V = 5 (as in the roman numeral) & the amount U pay 4 a Treasure Trail - just £5 per Trail - gr8 value 4 a day out with friends & family!
W is for wheelchairs 14 of our Trails are written to suit wheelchair users and further 6 are pushchair friendly as well!
X is for Xray (how original), but Megasight, our TT Superhero is so called because of his xray vision - he can see clues, others can't .....
Y is for Youth Hostels - one of the outlets that stock our Trails thanks to the Leominster YHA http://bit.ly/sDqo7
I've decided Z is for Zaycation, what they said everyone would be doing this year in a french accent - & therefore great for TT biz!!
A - Aaron - our fabulous designer!
B - Bewdley - one of the nicest places we have in our catalogue of Trails : http://bit.ly/33OzdR
C is for craft fairs - one of the outlets we use when selling our Trails direct - here is where we plan to go next: http://bit.ly/OFhOn
And D is for David, my wonderful husband who works with me in the business x
E is for Everyone - our Trails really are suitable for all ages and abilities, many are pushchair and wheelchair friendly too!
F is for Friends and Family - our brochure says - do you like playing games with Friends and Family ??!!
G is for the Golden Valley - one of 4 Driving Trails in our catalogue http://bit.ly/vmvdG
H is for Herefordshire, the county we are based in http://bit.ly/40ZBk
I is for Icecream - one of the things you can do along the way is to have one! Local is best :-)
J is for January, the month that Treasure Trails has its annual conference and all the licensees get together! This year in Bournemouth!
K is for Kidderminster - a much nicer place than I first thought - it needs exploring! Use a Trail - http://bit.ly/wiCWJ
L is for Ludlow which is out of our area, we need a new licensee to take on Treasure Trails Shropshire - know anyone? Please RT
M is for Monmouth - which is out of our area, we need a new licensee to take on Treasure Trails South Wales - know anyone? Please RT
N is for Newsletter, Blog, Twitter and all the other marketing stuff I try and do to encourage repeat biz ! http://bit.ly/4dqDK
O is for Organised Events - a Treasure Trails specialism - drawing on my HR background! http://bit.ly/4yyJnF
P is for Personalised Gifts - we do a fab line in personalising the Trails to make them unique to the individual. http://bit.ly/1OvM0a
Q, always a hard one and the best I can think of is Q is for Quirky - all our licensees are quirky, & the quirkiest of the lot is our MD!
R is for Ross on Wye and Redditch - both at the extremities of our patch! http://bit.ly/2jRSBR
S is for Spy Trail - our newest format and the easiest of the lot to write! Try our Malvern Hills one! http://bit.ly/7BN0A
T is easy, its T for Treasure Trails! http://bit.ly/ggtBW
U is for Upside Down - our posters feature an upside down man! Told you about the quirky didn't I !
V = 5 (as in the roman numeral) & the amount U pay 4 a Treasure Trail - just £5 per Trail - gr8 value 4 a day out with friends & family!
W is for wheelchairs 14 of our Trails are written to suit wheelchair users and further 6 are pushchair friendly as well!
X is for Xray (how original), but Megasight, our TT Superhero is so called because of his xray vision - he can see clues, others can't .....
Y is for Youth Hostels - one of the outlets that stock our Trails thanks to the Leominster YHA http://bit.ly/sDqo7
I've decided Z is for Zaycation, what they said everyone would be doing this year in a french accent - & therefore great for TT biz!!
Surveys
I created a survey and am really pleased with it - have had 8 responses so far - please do it and make my day!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MtJhb_2bChcNA3wrytmYC_2frw_3d_3d
Thanks!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MtJhb_2bChcNA3wrytmYC_2frw_3d_3d
Thanks!
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