Friday 13th
Oh I don't like Friday 13th! However I am very happy with everything this week (I know, that makes a change). I can't believe the difference in business since last week. I have been inundated with orders and nobody has been messing me about by ordering and then not sending the money. I have sent out loads of spiders, I even managed to sell a spider from my 'clearance offer'! (It's a long story) I have ordered some new spiderlings from a very reliable guy in Germany this morning, they should arrive by the end of next week. He has a wonderful selection but with the terrible exchange rate I have limited myself to buying only about a dozen new species. I am also hoping to get some new stock from a reptile dealer on Monday, he imports some lovely bugs and I can drive down and pick out the best ones! There is a huge bug and reptile show in Germany this weekend, I wish I could have gone. I think I might make the effort and go next year, there are very few good shows in the UK now.
Great excitement this week when I discovered a spider egg sac on a banana that I was about to eat. You always hear the stories about spiders coming in with bananas but I've never found anything before. It is only small and it has probably been sprayed, refrigerated or irradiated but I live in hope and have set it up in a little box 'just in case'!
My husband printed me off some sheets this week to show how many hits my site receives. It's all very complicated with graphs and facts and figures but I must sit down and have a proper look at it. I had a quick look and it is fascinating, it shows the peak times that people look at my site, as well as the numbers and which pages are most popular. It is amazing that thousands of people regularly look at my site - I only wish they all ordered from me! (I could fly back to Mauritius and rescue my dog - no I haven't forgotten him). It is obvious from the hits records that a lot of people go online in the early evenings and I am seriously looking at being available on the phone one evening a week, probably Tuesday (no Coronation Street), what do you think? If I ever reach the 21st century I might even get a web cam and MSM or something (probably a long way off). I did have a MySpace page but it was too complicated and people kept trying to become my 'friend', I didn't have a clue who most of them were. Face Book seems to be the thing, even my mother-in-law uses it!
Right well I had better get on, my Rat Bag daughter has persuaded me to drive her to college this morning (miles away) but she doesn't have any lessons until 10.30 on a Friday and I don't do any posting (no Special Delivery at the weekend).
I hope this week is as successful as the last, thanks for all your support in these difficult financial times. Have a good weekend.