Rainbow Designs

a blog in the life of an online gift shop and its owner

Archive for May, 2007

Sunday was the first time I ventured into the world of myspace and this is what I found:
Loving this…. http://www.myspace.com/powderfinger , I’m in love with their music. I think I have had their Vulture St and Bernards, Tea & Sympathy playing continuously in my car since I moved, which was about 18months ago! Actually this […]

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Flying Solo is Australia’s online magazine for solo business owners.
If you are one of Australia’s million soloists or have dreams to strike out on your own, you are sure to find inspiration and advice amongst Flying Solo’s 300+ articles, which have been written with you in mind.
Fresh entries by our team of experts are published […]

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… is another one of the many sites I have bookmarked! www.streetdirectory.com.au
It is an easy and very convenient way of finding an address and exactly where it is. I’ve also found it very helpful in confirming a delivery address for orders we receive as occasionally customers only put the major city i.e. Brisbane when in […]

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www.SmartCompany.com.au is a relatively new information website to hit the Australian world wide web. If you sign up (it’s free) you will receive a daily email notifying you of new content which as added constantly - hard to keep up sometimes!
It has many and varied categories to help everyone from the newbies in business to […]

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Finally I have added some new sweet treats to the range. They include:
Hop To It - $34.95 which is a box full of yummy Freddo Frogs and Caramello Koalas
and
Sugar Coat It - $29.95 this is a noodle box filled with sugar coated lollies such as: jubes, spearmint leaves and sour worms. Jubes have to be […]

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Trying to get your new business known? Join the very long queue! It is one of the hardest parts of running an online business, how do you let people know you exist? One type of marketing I found, that doesn’t cost the earth, is Affiliate Marketing. This entails other websites promoting and advertising your business […]

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… there have been 5000 The Bold and The Beautiful episodes and Ron Moss (Ridge), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke), John McCook (Eric) and Susan Flannery (Stephanie) have been in it from the very beginning!

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When I first began Rainbow Designs I came across a fabulous online networking site (MYB - sadly it no longer exists) that helped me so much. I met many other new online business owners (some of which I still see around the net!) in the same position as me - looking for help, suggestions, ideas […]

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This is a task I have been finding very difficult of late, staying focused on my business and where it is heading. The first year I was so caught up in the ‘newness’ of running my own business that I was totally focused on Rainbow Designs and the days just flew by - I never […]

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well to me anyway! Blog Whammy - this was introduced to me through the She-Essence website a few weeks ago and what a great idea! It involves blogging (obviously!) and improving the rankings and profiles of your blog and the other blogs also participating in the ‘Whammy’. The idea is to refer back to post/blogs […]

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