Buzz #2: Enthral’s Craft Blog and Shop

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This is a buzz, the third in my series of buzz promotions. I’m highlighting Enthral’s blog AND online craft shop! 2-in-1! Nice touch! Anyway, Enthral’s blog can be found at http://enthral-enthral.blogspot.com/ and is a blog about crafts, the crafts business, features, etc.. The blog doesn’t have ‘categories’ so you can’t really check out the range of what is there! Still, click on a couple of months, see what you find! I found some nicely designed broaches on my search!

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In fact, that search led me to her online shop Enthral, and a whole new website for online retailing whose purpose is to sell handmade items! It’s an interesting ethos to support handmade items! I’ll be exploring that website, for sure. Enthrall makes jewelery items that are “unique accessories and jewelry made with vintage, reclaimed and recycled elements”.

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AIMpromote CRM: do your leads just vanish?

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crmIt’s Friday afternoon, we’re all maxed out on our busiest business day of the week! A new lead walks in. She’s picked up our leaflet, newsletter or other flyer outside on the sidewalk, and now she’s interested! Problem: we’re all flat out busy! Who can take care of her?

Aimpromote estimates that 80% of lost sales are due to simple lead neglect. In other words, the customer is biting, but there’s no one on the other end of the fishing rod to roll in the catch. In our business, I suspect we lose quite a few leads this way as we’re not open!

To solve this, we created a website and outside advertising that linked directly to our website. This way customers could go online and find our business 24-7.

lead attention 780x555Online sales are also lost this way. Why? For many reasons, including broken website that don’t display properly in a main browser; queries that are unanswered by your FAQ; lack of personal attention – there’s nowhere to answer a client question, etc.

So, to prevent this, crm software can help. AIMpromote lead management system allows you to see which open leads need attention, through theri Lead Attention Meter. With this you can easily tell which customer is needing attention. Once you know this, dealing with it is simply. The leads are coded in red, yellow or green to show their status. Additional information o nthe lead is available just by hovering your mouse over the lead.

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Cascades of Cash: Using Your Money to Make Money?

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Well, I have been blogging on InvestorBlogger since nearly October last year, during that time, I’ve learned a lot of great things, I’m transitioning to becoming a writer (aka blogger), learning more about blogging, …

Since then, I’ve accumulated a bit of cash in one account! This is all, for me, found (perhaps even free) money. Money that I would not have otherwise had… So, I’m now wondering what to do with that new found wealth. I checked tonight and found that it is close US$1200 stashed away in two accounts. This represents links sold on the website, Payperpost earnings, and one or two other incomes.

So, now given the amount of money, I’m starting to wonder what to do with it. I do have a number of options:

  • 1. keep in the regular account and earn 0.4% per annum;
  • 2. stick into a CD in NT$ and earn 2.1% p.a.;
  • 3. stick it into another currency (say US$) and earn nearly 5%;
  • 4. invest it in an ETF or Dividend paying stock, and earn 5-8% (if I’m lucky);
  • 5. or buy a stock like NCV or NCZ or similar, and earn a nice dividend at about 9%.

Of course, the return correlates with some risk, so some of GeniusTypes’ suggestions yesterday should help to mitigate your worries with strategies to protect your initial investment capital. He describes Cost Basis Recovery, 50/50 and Hands Off .

What would you do? Comment your answers! I’d love to hear from some good suggestions!