http://shastajunction.com Creating an online presense for our company Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:31:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been reading a lot of books about marketing. I want to see if I can apply what I have been reading to our new Woodworking/Craft business. I have come up with our first campaign. I am going to try it out of the recipients of the 20 Chicken ... http://shastajunction.com/2009/04/our-first-marketing-campaign/ For the first time, we had three projects going at once today. We glued up five frames for 12" x 24" mattes. We also put the finishing paint on the interior of an oak corner cabinet, and we continued the processing of the wood for the bird feeder.We were hoping ... http://shastajunction.com/2009/02/a-very-successful-multi-project-day/ We have modified the website to add blog functionality to it. This will allow customers, potential customers, and who are we kidding, family members to follow along with our activities.As you can see you can get to the blog from the navigation button above. If you want to actually follow ... http://shastajunction.com/2009/02/shasta-junction-has-a-blog/ We started working on US flags and bird feeders for the Spring show coming up in March. We will also be posting these items up on Etsy once they are completed. The flags are made of wood, and each stripe is an individual piece of wood. Each star has been cut ... http://shastajunction.com/2009/02/started-work-on-crafts-for-next-craft-show/ I have to say that this was the easiest upgrade I have ever done. Way to go WordPress! http://shastajunction.com/2009/02/successfully-upgraded-wordpress-to-version-27/ We added Google AdWords this evening to let more people across the country that we are available for producing the wood products for their seminars. While the word is started to spread via the instructors we are hoping to jump start the expansion by becoming familair to people who use ... http://shastajunction.com/2009/02/we-added-google-adwords-this-evening/ Shasta Junction will utilize Google Sketchup to standardize future woodworking designs. The primary reasons for this change are the costs, platform independence, and robust capabilities of the software. Clients can now get their furniture designs via Email from Shasta Junction.This change will allow us to continue improving our customer satisfaction ... http://shastajunction.com/2008/06/google-sketchup/ I'm setting up the website and needed to create some new categories. http://shastajunction.com/2008/06/created-the-woodworking-category/ I'm setting up the website and needed to create some new categories. http://shastajunction.com/2008/06/created-the-crafts-category/ I loaded Wordpress 2.5.1 to the web server and plan on creating a new theme for the company. In the meantime I can begin to add entries to develop a catalog. http://shastajunction.com/2008/06/first-personal-entry/