After 20 Years
They laughed when I started my gift business.
That’s right. They laughed. They said I didn’t know anything about business. Wouldn’t last through the year. But when I made a profit the first year I was in business, they stopped laughing. Instead they said it was just a fluke. Wouldn’t happen again.
That was 19 years ago. And they don’t laugh anymore.
Because my business has been recognized as one of the top 50 gift basket companies in the U.S. and I’ve received top awards as a designer. I have been a featured workshop speaker at gift basket conventions around the country, been a staff writer for the leading magazines in our industry, and now publish the most-read magazine in our industry today. I’ve been a SCORE small business counselor and teach other small businesses in my community how to grow their businesses through county small business classes.
20 Years Ago When It all Began!
But recognition is just frosting on the cake. What is much more important is that I MAKE MONEY with my gift business. I’ve never had a loss in the 19 years that I’ve operated a gift business. Instead, each year has just been more profitable–even in the midst of several economic downturns.
And I can help you learn how you can grow your own business.
Yeh, I know. You get emails every day from people offering to help you make money in all sorts of ways. You have to be careful–check these people out–and don’t believe everything they say. After all, anyone can create a whole new persona on the internet.
So I invite you to check me out. Check out my gift website at www.shopcreativegifts.com. Look through the site and read the “About Us” page. Check with the members of the gift basket directory that I operate at www.giftbasketnetwork.com. And check with the almost 300 members of the community that I operate at www.giftretailersconnection.ning.com.
And, no, I don’t do all this alone. Two other gift basket company owners, who are just as experienced as I am, play an important part in our online community and magazine. There would be neither without Pam Monroe and Sandee Overstreet.
What does this mean to you?
It’s simple. If your business hasn’t grown as fast as you would like; if you aren’t making as much money as you hoped; if you feel overwhelmed by just running your business day-by-day, then this is for you.
This blog and our GiftRetailersConnection Community are free. But as in life, free is good but free is usually supported by something much better that costs. After all, even the government has to be paid for. But we’ve been careful to make anything we offer to you affordable. We’ve been in the trenches. We know how tight that budget can be squeezed. And we know that value for the dollar is extremely important.
Our magazine, Gift Retailers Connection, is an online bi-monthly magazine that brings you the nitty-gritty, practical, down to earth information that you need to grow your business. The articles are written by people who have been in business for years, made their own mistakes and are willing to help prevent you from making the same ones. These are not professional writers who make a living writing for magazines. They are people who are still in the trenches, operating active money-making businesses themselves.
It’s not often that you find this kind of information for a price as low as it is right now. The cost of a one-year subscription is only $27.95. That’s $2.33 a month — less than a coffee at your favorite Starbucks. If you can’t afford that, your business is already in trouble and you have a lot of digging to do. In other words, you can’t afford not to take advantage of the best information you can get anywhere for the gift and gift basket industry.
I invite you to take that step towards growing your business by subscribing today. It’s easy and can be done online at www.giftretailersconnection.com.
And if you have a website and aren’t getting enough traffic to it, we provide one of the oldest and leading gift company directories on the web. It’s been around since 2001 and many of the members are those we started with way back then. They must be receiving value or they wouldn’t continue to pay to be a member year after year. The cost is affordable ($10 a month) and information is available at GiftBasketNetwork.
So, that’s who is behind this blog. Just another ordinary person who uses the money she makes in her gift basket company to provide all this information for you.
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