OK, here's the simple explanation for the lack of activity on your blog. Wow! the reception for our beads was amazing. Even now we are just filling orders for Caribbean customers whose season commences soon. An interesting sidebar is that Troll's booth was across the aisle from ours and they seemed to spend more time watching our slide show and steady flow of customers than serving their own customers.
Until recently, we found it necessary to work overtime, doing at least 5 1/2 days a week and sometimes more. The demand put a heavy burden on your small crew, but we managed to weather the wonderful storm and have added many new customers.
If there is any drop-off in the demand for bead we are not witnessing it. Most of your in-season customers are adding inventory in anticipation of their Labor Day Weekend. Several customers are promoting their custom beads as Christmas presents by adding online purchasing, flyers in bags and email lists. The price point and variety of beads seems to be keeping them as a viable purchase. We chose to maintain our pricing despite Silver's increased cost. This pleased customers and it seems like it was the right thing to do considering the current economic outlooks.
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