It's 12:04 a.m.. Do you know where your website business woman is? I swear, I am working for a dime an hour, though I don't mean to complain. I enjoy this, I just wish somebody was paying me!
Spent several hours working on the main web page, not ready to upload any corrections yet. The FAQ page is updated, as is the section that answers questions about problems on the site.
But trying to lay out the bookplates and work with the Miva software in a way to make the whole thing more palatable for customers is taking me years! I'd rather be making new stuff!
Tried to find a way to allow customers to type in their name and test run the fonts, but it just isn't feasible for me -- I know my competitors have it but I don't have the money or the techie knowledge. Perhaps I should put a little jar out on the store front for donations and ideas. It would be cool, but...
Inviting customers and others to read my Blog - and mixing business and personal life on Facebook and Twitter - is an odd feeling. Pleasant in some ways, it has a feeling as though a small business inworld can be something like a local shop you go to, where you know the shopkeeper and they know you, at least a little bit. That kind of business setting suits me more than the impersonal, behind the scenes type of business that I think has been on the internet for sometime. We are going back to a friendlier way, more like it was when I first "discovered" the web in 1993.
Facebook, especially, is like a big small family. I like the way I can see my sons' lives, their friends and comments and find out what's going on with them, without being intrusive or being left out. I posted baby pictures of them on my photo album there, titled "Why You Don't want your Parents on Facebook" - only viewable to friends, but they were well received. Though I wonder, as us elder folks start logging onto Facebook, will the younger ones find another place to hang out? I hope not.
I'm really enjoying the way the internet feels these days. I hope it continues.
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