As the year comes to a close, Darren has presented one more group writing challenge – to review the blog year and/or preview the upcoming year.
It all began on May 28th, 2006, with The Eternal Hunt for the Cell Phone, which received so many nice comments and links that I decided to create a blog about all of Lil’ Duck’s adventures. Shortly thereafter, I moved my photo card business over to the same domain, which was an excellent move and has done wonders for my business traffic.
We continued the ducky love as he embarked on such adventures as decorating my computer keyboard and dumping an entire container of vegetable oil all over my carpet, Ducky and himself. Traffic increased dramatically after hosting the Carnival of the Vanities (twice!) & playing along with the Thursday Thirteeners and it has only continued to increase at an amazing rate (who knew that the life of a little toddler was so interesting!). The business has taken off and has kept me very busy over the past few weeks with the many holiday card orders that I have filled.
I’m so excited to see what the next year will hold – for the business side of things, I’m adding many more wedding-themed products (not that I haven’t been doing some already, but they will be featured as official products now), including save the date cards, thank you cards, engagement and wedding announcements & even some photo wedding invitations.
For those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, you know that I can’t just leave the web design alone, I always have to be updating and tweaking it, so next year will be no exception! The tales of Lil’ Duck and his beloved stuffed ducks will continue, as well as building the toddler advice/ideas sections into greater resources for parents. I hope to have more time to review products and even some books next year, something about which I receive requests all the time but rarely actually have time to read, much less review on the blog.
What would you like to see from Lil’ Duck Duck next year?? What are your plans for your own blog?? Share them in comments or on your own blog and trackback here.
Loved the recap. I’ll post something like this on my own blog.
Your blog is always entertaining! I think the “duck” theme works wonderfully. I’ve been thinking of adding an animal theme to my marketing blog–but all I can think of is Grizzly Bear Marketing, and that seems to aggressive…Grizzly Duck? Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the comment on my project at http://dipnoi.org/ I am going to try and hook you up with my friend Kristi. I think that you both would have alot in common. Merry Christmas
wow, I really like what you’ve done with the place!! You have been busy!
You should really consider a Tales of Lil’ Duck Book to consolidate your stories…
It’s also neat that you are interested in whatever comes next for technology, you certainly are able to use it well…
http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/2007-prediction-blogs-will-be-replaced
Ah, site design. I’d drive myself completely nuts if I could. I’d *always* want to be tweaking the site, never satisfied. Sometimes I just have to tell myself to stop.
Merry Christmas, and all the best for 2007.
Hi! Thanks for dropping by my site! I just checked out your products and I think they are great! Your site will probably be a great resource for me when my baby arrives! Good luck for the ProBlogger Project!
I know this may sounds dumb but I reached this site from Problogger.
Who’s lil Duck?! Do you actually have a duck that decorates your computer keyboard and dumps an entire container of vegetable oil all over your carpet?
Btw I have participated also in Darren’s Group Writing Project. Your comments will be really appreciated.
Oh, Yan, that’s highly amusing to me, but so sweet. He is my little toddler – http://lilduckduck.com/about/ – who gets into these things
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So that’s how you got started. I’m still amazed at how much traffic you genereated in the short time since you have been blogging.
Aww. I love your site, Mama Duck. Good luck assisting your little peanut in new adventures.
I’ll be back to read how you’re surviving