Our New Site!

Hey, we really love blogging about our adventures on www.hundreddollarbusiness.wordpress.com!
But we also want to include things on our site, like our our video, and… maybe some other fun things we come up with. So we’re switching to our new domain at www.hundreddollarbusiness.com.
Thanks to the amazing tech support of local Utah blogger Ryan Byrd, we got [...]

The Hundred Dollar Business Video

A big thanks to our friends Cammon & Lorri Randle at CopperRain! They did an excellent job interviewing & filming us, and have really provided a great way for us to share how The Hundred Dollar Business got started.
Cammon & Lorri found us through our friend Janet’s blog site, Newspapergrl, and offered to [...]

December 18: Leave The Binder In The Car

The Update
Hey! So, things are going better… Rachelle was at the kiosk this afternoon, and I vegged a bit & took care of small fires that have been adding up into big blazes. And I even managed to get a short nap.
The Biggest Problem… The One You’re Letting Slide
Isn’t it amazing how quickly [...]

December 17: Zero In On The Problem

Ok, so I wrote about how I’m struggling/the project is struggling because we’re working too hard & not resting enough.
So, I’m still not sure how to solve that, but I’ve at least come up with some ideas as to why it’s even a problem, which must be the first step to getting past it.
The Why [...]

December 16: From The Shadows of the Everlasting Kiosk

Mall Marathon
I just have to throw it out there– today, I survived a 17 hour shift. On a Saturday, at the mall, 9 days before Christmas.
Yeah… and I never want to have that experience again. I got here at 7 a.m., and around 2 p.m., was already beginning to feel a loss of identity. [...]

December 15: Halfway There!

Is It The 15th Already?

So… we’re at the halfway mark. Only 15 more days of The Hundred Dollar Business, and each day is just as valuable as when we started, maybe even more so. I think really, that the limited time is more difficult than the limited budget. There are so many more things I [...]

December 14: Becoming Stingy, Failing My Class, & Return of The Treo!!

I just realized I haven’t been writing as many anecdotes lately, which is definitely one of the highlights of being in the experiment– the random nature of it all. So here goes.
Becoming Stingy
Rachelle and I decided to beef up our display with a winter-ish theme. It all sounded great until after closing the kiosk at [...]

Internet Options Part 2: Thoughts And Reservations

My Thoughts & Reservations About Viral Marketing Tools
I think most of these reservations result from a lack of experience using these tools, combined with my sense of wanting the experiment to be taken as a serious effort, not a hype campaign. So here they are:
1. How Will Monetizing The Site Affect Readers?
In applying anything [...]

Internet Options Part 1: Think Virally

Internet Options
Even though we went *off-line* to start the kiosk, there are a lot of really valuable ways to use technology and the Internet to build opportunities for our business. The ones we are currently working with include:
1. Commission Junction
2. CafePress
3. Lulu.com
4. Yourep.com/Flickr
5. Google Video/YouTube
6. Facebook/MySpace
7. Our vendors’ sites.
8. Copper Rain
9. AdSense
10. Word of Mouth [...]

If It’s Not Selling, Do Something.

We just realized that some of our products aren’t selling well. And frankly, some aren’t selling at all.
On one hand, I could let it ride out for the month, and just blame it on those products, or the market, or the time of year, or whatever.
But the reality is, that if the products aren’t selling, [...]