On 22 Jun 2005 13:10:10 -0700, "SonomaProducts.com"
wrote:

FYI, I have had at least a dozen people (probably more) take my card
and swear they would contact me with some variation of a custom
request. The few who's numbers I took are non-responsive when I call
and the rest have never followed up. So I wouldn't bank on this as a
very viable model without some serious sales follow-up; which is why I
am going a different direction. I'd rathet sell to business that are
buying on a regualar basis and get them to buy from me too.

I recently put some stuff on up on ebay and I had one woman contact me
about a custom order, and she'd tracked down my webpage even though I
hadn't quite gotten my act together yet and put a link to it from ebay
(I assume she checked the links for my pictures and got it from
there). At any rate, I ended up with a $100 order, and she offered
some opinions on what specifically she didn't like about other designs
which was just as valuable to me at this point as the order. So they
are out there, and they're very worthwhile finding. I didn't hear
from her until a week after the listings had ended either.


-Leuf