I'm Camping!

Even us hard working mompreneurs need a break! I'm camping with a big group of friends and will be back on Monday. I'll see you all on Wednesday, June 24th! I hope you are doing something fun, too!

I Call It The "RLF"

I missed a day this week. For all best efforts planning, I found myself buried in tasks that on average, all took more than twice the amount of time I had planned. When I look at my list and what's still not done, I have to attribute it to the "RLF," or the Real Life Factor. It's the stuff in your real life, that interrupts the life we really want to be living. You know what I mean, actually calling the friends you truly want to get together with and researching the classes you want to take at the local college this summer.

I followed through yesterday and called a friend who our family loves to hang out with. We haven't seen each other since last September because the RLF has been in the way for both our families. If not school schedules, work schedules, out of town visits with family, or realizing a press kit is much more information than originally thought, it's something else that must take precedence.

I'm giving myself a break and not feeling like I need to publish a post just so Wednesday isn't left bare. Whatever! Laughing. Real life is that some days blogs don't get updated, and that's okay. Now that's the RLF!

Another Sale!

I made another sale yesterday and a sales call that I'm hopeful will result in an order today. My count is now 456 pairs and I have three more days to sell.

ZipperBack Gloves. On store shelves Fall 2009!

There are people that say, "I can't believe my product is actually going to be on store shelves!" To that I reply, "Why not? What was the point of all this hard work and money spent if you didn't really think it was going to be in stores?" Sheesh, I've believed all along that ours was going to be in stores. On April 1st, I'll post the list of stores that will be carrying ZBG.

You may have lots of money, and not know how or where to spend it. You may not have a dime, and a mentor who can tell you how much ($) you need to accrue. You may have both of those things but no faith in yourself to sell your product.

Of all the things you have or don't have, you absolutely have to have belief in yourself and your product. With those two things, the other stuff will come. If your not sure where to start, let me recommend an excellent read; The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. If that doesn't do it for you, I don't know what will.

Promises, Promises!

I know I promised to post a picture of the little thermometer graph showing sales progress. I didn't do it because I haven't made the time to make it. I should put Mason on it! Laughing!

So as of this minute, we have sold 420 pair of gloves. I have four other really great leads that I hope come through on their promises, promises to buy (order actually, but it's buying one way or the other!). I'm feeling really great that we have even one pair of gloves sold. Truth be told, all retailers had their orders place for the coming season in January. We got our saleable gloves on March 13th. With that understood, we've made enough of an impression on the people we've been able to reach to have them actually place an order with us...that's on top of an order they already placed in January with someone else!

Finally, I set my mind to having these gloves available to be on little hands fall 2009. I was told by nearly everyone on my team that I better brace myself for the "reality" (I love it when people bring up "reality") that we may not be in a position to show & sell in time to make that happen. I just couldn't bring myself to agree and here I am, certain I will have 420 pairs of WarmEase ZipperBack Gloves on store shelves in November of this year, 2009! That my friends, is something to be proud of!