This may take several blog posts to get through our story, but for those who are interested, here goes. Everyone knows how expensive colllege can be. I have three children, the oldest entering high school back in 1996 and I was trying to think of what I could do to raise up money to put him through college. My yougest had just started kindergarden.
I started selling birh announcements and little pink and blue pencils with a newborn’s name and birthdate imprinted on them to be passed out instead of candy or cigars. I went around to OBGYN offices and asked if I could leave brochures in their waiting room. Upon encouragement from friends I started selling personalized stationery, wedding invitations and Christmas cards from my home. I acquired a list of trade and other professional organizations in Washington DC (I live in Norther VA) and had a friend who would set up appointments for me to show my Christmas cards. I would get two or three appointment every day, drive or take the metro into DC and usually would close most orders with a decent sale. I felt pretty good abou the money I made and was rather pleased.
My son, a freshman in high school said, Mom you need to have a presence online to sell your Christmas cards. I said, "That would be great but how do I do that?" He said, "I’ll build you a website." And he did. We bought a domian name, set up a webhost account and uploaded a rather crude website. That was June of 1996. The rest is history. More next time.
