I am tired. The Easter holidays have left me with a bad head cold, congestion, sore throut, etc.... I am having to re-evaluate my marketing avenues and hope these changes work.

I have renewed energy today! Two reasons. The first one is that I got two nice sized orders today and the second one came late in the day. I posted in one of the message boards that I now belong to and I received a response. It was from someone starting off just like me only a few weeks earlier. She had me pegged in her email, sheer excitement and complete exhaustion, moving unto the mountain of marketing. It's nice to know others are out there. I hope to meet many more like yourself. We can all help each other in many ways.

I had a great conversation with my account rep at Feed The Children. Kaboodle Kids was approved today under their special projects program. This is an ongoing project to give a percentage of Kaboodle Kids sales to Feed The Children. What I liked about them is that Kaboodle Kids can give specifically to children in South Africa, so that we are helping the children from the country our products are manufactured.

I have the Monday blues. My first feature ad for Kaboodle Kids published on the Mommies with Style blogsite on Friday so I thought over the weekend people will view the site. I was right, over 1,500 people did view my site. However, not one order came in. :-(

So today, I spent all morning looking for other potential sites to put advertisements on. I believe the Mommies with Style blogsite does hit my target audience and will keep advertising there. I also like the exposure to new prouducts the site provides me personally. I just need many more webhits and having multiple advertisements out there is key. In my review today of other potential sites, I noticed the same ads over again. So I am not wrong in my assumption, as this is what everyone else is doing.

I need to remain persistent. I remember the first job I got as a teenager. Had it not been for my persistence, I probably wouldn't have gotten the job. I need that same energy I had back then.

Today my first on-line advertisement went public via mommieswithstyle blogsite. I checked the stats and see almost 400 hits to my website just today! My hopes are high.

My friends and family are really come through for me - they have forwarded to 93 new people that may be interested in Kaboodle Kids! What is wonderful is that it's even moving past just my friends - my friends' friends are even forwarding to their friends! This is awesome!