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.
Thanks for leaving a comment on my entry. I always love reading your entries to the group writing projects and your other posts are fun to read as well.
All the best in 2007.
hhmmm…maybe it’s time to dress up a duck for The Garage!
Wow you got some ideas of business.Looks like i got one more blog i have to feed.
thx
Ashish
Saw your comment on my blog and decided to check your site, I must confess you are doing a pretty good job here. I will definitely call back.:)
Hi, I discovered your blog via Darren’s group writing project. I’m glad I stopped by. Thank you for sharing all these things with us. I’ll come back for more.
Merry Christmas!
I like Josh Mayer’s idea of the book. With all the self-publishing sites out there (such as Lulu.com, CafePress.com, etc) you could have a lot of fun putting it together!
And thanks for commenting on my posting!
wow ..you got some great plans for the next year…
Yes, tweaking…an insane habit of pleasure I must say! Your blog looks great and I have added your feed to Bloglines!
Hehehe, that’s a good story!
I do like the look and feel of your site and I enjoy stopping by. I’m going to have to go through your archives in more detail though!
I see you are a problogger prediction/review participant.
Good luck,
Writing Aspirations
Great work, sounds like a successful year. I’ll be sure to pop by in 2007