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Smaller Runs- help from the crowd!

January 16, 2015Uncategorized

So my new concept is to create smaller runs of some specialty baseballs. I have created the Captain ball, and now a SF Giants 3 world series win ball.

Both I painted and posted as I created them on Facebook and Instagram.. It really helps to get fans of the particular teams looking at the baseball and giving suggestions of what’s important.

This pictured SF ball I posted as you see here- and I had several people ask why there was the blue on the ball (it actually is the KC Royals crowd b/c that is where the last win took place) but the SF fans wanted their ball to be more orange and black, so I was able to modify this before going to print! Very helpful b/c when you work alone it’s hard- sometimes it’s nice to step back and get other feedback! So thank you all! And if you don’t follow on FB or IG please do- could use your thoughts!

Love when samples come in!

December 12, 2014Uncategorized

Here is my Captain ball- printed so nicely! I love getting to see the ball for the first time once it is totally printed and sewn together! I was thinking about what to paint next- maybe some other stadiums would be fun. Once the Christmas rush is done- I’m excited to paint some more designs. Funny I like painting, then I paint too much and am happy to do business work-then I miss painting again… 🙂

How many times I can call FedEx

December 5, 2014Uncategorized

So I am waiting on all my preorder baseballs- and calling Fedex about 4 times a day. My baseballs have been ready to ship for the last week, but I have had such a hard time getting info on where the shipment is, why it is taking so long to get picked up and brought to my ship warehouse- etc. Why is it that you can’t speak to the same Fedex person twice? Each time you start from scratch with a new person! Next year maybe we have preorders not coming in quite so close to holiday time…

Can Facebook ads really help you?

November 28, 2014Uncategorized

So I decided to take the good advise my nephew Toby suggested and try boosting one of my Facebook posts. Now I have tried this before, but only for $5 at a time. He worked with a company that would boost posts for a few 100 dollars (maybe out of my league here) but that they reached Thousands of people!! So decided to try it today and see what happens.

My holiday sale is to offer people a free wood base stand with each baseball they purchase (now thru Monday night 12/1) Just add the wood base to your cart and enter coupon code HOLIDAY

Let’s see how it goes! 🙂

Black Friday- what to offer as a small business?

November 26, 2014Uncategorized

So every year I struggle with what to offer for Black Friday/ cyber Monday- b/c here’s my dilemma- this time of year I sell a lot of baseballs to customers for holiday gifts, etc for the baseball fan. But I have a hard time Read More

Throwback to 1995

November 21, 2014Uncategorized

So here was my first big break- Hammacher Schlemmer put my baseballs on the cover of their catalog in 1995. I think my mom ordered like 10 catalogs! It was my first real lesson in the ways of the world- not 3 months before this happened I had contacted HS myself to see if they were interested in my baseballs… Read More

Preordering – how it’s helping my small business

November 14, 2014Uncategorized

Ok, so who thought that preordering was such a great idea for my little business?! I have never done it before b/c I didn’t have a good system of holding people’s orders, and didn’t have a way to show people the gift baseball designs I make before they are ready for sale. But that has all changed now for 2 main reasons: Read More

Pinterest Anyone?

November 7, 2014Uncategorized

Love how I jump on the bandwagon for the latest social media campaign only when I’m like 4 yrs late to the party. But here is what I figure- Pinterest is a really good platform for my business because it is such a visually driven medium and my products can take great pictures (especially when I’m not the one taking them!) So here goes- I’m diving in- could be a great Read More

What a week this has been!

October 31, 2014Uncategorized

Congrats to the WS champs SFGiants! What a great world series- for the Royals too- everyone played their hearts out and should be proud. Offering my Kauffman Stadium ball for presale (should be ready to ship Read More

Painting the KC Royals Stadium Ball

October 24, 2014Uncategorized

Kauffman Stadium

I was in a mad rush to paint the Royals stadium baseball knowing that they are in the World series- and all the fans would be so excited since the last WS win was 1985. Funny how some stadiums are just a breeze to paint, while others get tricky. The tricky part of this stadium was that I want to paint the name as it appears on the building, as the ‘outer panel’ on the ball. But for Read More