From Trash to Cash: the £100 to 10K Dribble thread

moneymabel

Wayne- websites looking good! Well done you you're getting there :-)

HopeAndDriftWood

moneymabel wrote: »

Yep- you can make me a pretty cash book :-) I'm officially placing my order...er dunno what I want tho...um I like black and silver and pink, no scary butterflies! Is that ok?

Aww, thank you I'm just finishing the cat themed one to show Joey, and I'll start yours tonight, and send you some piccies to see what you like.

OH said he'd put the new ones on the site tonight, but I don't know if he's remembered the Chelsea game...maybe I should accidently turn the TV off? :rotfl:

Cagne, you make me feel bad for moaning. I hope you are feeling okay.

cagneuk

Saucy,

They are ornamental pigs, with different expressions. Example

http://xystos.co.uk/piggin/?skin=piggin_skin

moneymabel

Yay!! Thankyou Saucy :-) there's no hurry hun just whenever you feel like doing it, concentrate on your ones for the website first if you need to.

cagneuk

Got to cope really, nothing I can do about them, and there not really the bad ones, the ones in my lung are the life threatening ones (pulmonary embolisms they're called apparently) - I guess the way I look at it is it's just like finding out I've got diabetes or something similar, it's a lifelong lifestyle change where I need to take daily medication and as long as I do I shouldn't have any more problems. MY only real worry is I can't get life insurance so my wife and kids would be in a tricky spot if anything was to happen.
Luckily where I work, I am covered for 4 times my annual salary if I die while employed. This would cover all secured and unsecured debt and pay off around 65/70% of the mortgage, on top of that I've came through the recent redundancies and survived (at least this set) so my job is pretty secure.
Always look on the bright side of life, de do, de do, de de de de de do.

babymoo

Hi all

I have some serious reading up to do but can I please join in aswell? 10K would be brilliant towards a house deposit.

I have shoved a lot of stuff on ebay as im decluttering at the moment in the wait of a spring clean next month

I am now going to start this thread from scratch lol

JoeyGrey

SaucySecrets wrote: »

Aww, thank you I'm just finishing the cat themed one to show Joey, and I'll start yours tonight, and send you some piccies to see what you like.

Woohoo :j
Can't wait to see it!

Babymoo wrote:

I am now going to start this thread from scratch lol

Wow Babymoo, you're brave. We may see you sometime in 2011 :rotfl:

mambury

moneymabel wrote: »

Blimey Cagne- scary stuff! You seem to be coping very well with it , can't be easy.

Mambury- I've got 76 listings to do- all different...urgh

well then you'd best get busy!!!

I have manged 69 so far this week with one box to go with probably another 40 items in..... then another five boxes the same :eek:

Wayne....

Can I offer some advice? Please don;t be offended, it is constructive criticism.....

You site would put me off as the wording seems amateurish, the font is too big, spelling errors (recieved should be received....) and I really struggle with the colour clash between the blue and green....

If you reduce the font size then you should be able to fit all your text on the screen with pics without people having to scroll down....at the moment I have to scroll down to see the product... the product should be one of the first things i see to tempt me....

Do some testing and use the pics of tshirts already printed (with disclaimers, and non copy write/trademark images) to show the customer what can be done....

Take out your yahoo address.... as dedicated email addresses are so cheap to buy (few quid a year) it also makes the site look unprofessional... you don't need them there anyway as you can a contact page, just point the customer towards that instead....
Also soon we hope to be offering sweaters and hoodies so check back soon! you need to look at the grammar and sentence construction

. No minimum orders
. Paypal accepted
. We aim to despatch items has soon as payments recieved.
.Postage to overseas can be obtained by contacting us at @@@
all of this needs to be on a different page.... use the first page as you shop window.... this can be added to a FAQ page.... you also need to have T&C and returns details too....

For any other queries contact us at
@@@

Please don't take it the wrong way..... I don't mean to offend....

Have a look at other sites you like.... don't have to be competitors.... just other sites to see where they place their info, how they present it etc....

Oh, and the About us section..... you are a company, unless you are a builder plumber. etc there is no advantage to telling people you are just a sole trader.... most small sites probably are sole traders but they keep that fact to themselves to add a sense of prefessionality to their business.... I know my mum does for one (wedding business)

HTH Mambury

cally6008

if i start a blog, can i change the name if i dont like it ?

HopeAndDriftWood

Good advice
Cally, you around?