Cinn Daz Blog

It’s been way too long since I last posted to our blog.  Now Madeleine and I are taking a month off from weekend vending and I want to update you on our activities.

We have vended at belly dance, SCA, Pagan, Gypsy and Gay events since February first. On the business side, our sales are down about 10%. Everyone, who asks me about 2009 sales, comments that we are lucky they are only down 10%.

Several people have visited our home-store (which you can locate on Mapquest). It is easier for us to sell from our house, and everyone has paid less there than they would have at our weekend booth.

We have had some web sales, and again for the umpteenth time, we plan to increase our web presence. Finding a suitable promotion company is not easy. We get all sorts of commercial spam from people claiming to do SEO, but they have vague email addresses and no listings of their company’s webpage.  Not a reliable source, I think.

If I had more time, or made more time, I could gradually learn the SEO game using keywords derived from using commercial sources. However, after vending all weekend, I am just too tired to put in the extra hours learning SEO. That’s been my decision, but it may change as I age.

This July I turn 64 and it is getting physically harder to vend at events as much as I would like. Maybe it’s a good time for me to stop, before I get too personal. My life has been good, and early retirement freed me up to do a vending business I love.

I promise to post again soon.

Jim Heyser

Cinnamon Dazzle

www.cinnamondazzle.com