The Week In Review

Another week...

So what do I do with this week as I wasted more time that can never be recaptured?

I worked on building my small intent business which is Chinese herbals for dogs and cats.

Here is my herb room;




Okay so I'm not going to make my fortune at it...right now I'm getting about 10 orders a week.

What I love about it is when I get the happy thank you notes or calls from the pet owners that are ecstatic that the herbs helped their dog or cat, and generally these are very sick pets. People seek out me as a last resort, which is too bad, because if we can get the pets taking the right herbs early on during the illness....then it really really works. (same with people)

Along with this comes new Internet friends that I'm making along the way. Many of the people I sell my formula to become people who stay in touch and it seems we get to know one another. Not only do they trust me with their pet's health, but many of these people become customer's them selfs!

I've been working on the marketing of the business...and the Internet is a tough market to crack. Google AdWords are $.50 to up to a $1.00 a click...that's just crazy, I remember the days when $.20 was high.

So this week I have been obsessing on doing search engine optimization so that I can garner organic clicks as opposed to payed for clicks. This too is very difficult because it takes experts do this type of thing...and once again they want thousands of dollars to optimize a website.

I continue to pursue this because it is a great hobby but also because I'm thinking of when I get out of school that I will continue on and practice animal acupuncture...I'm kinda developing an idea for something along the lines of;

"Affordable Holistic Health Care For Pets"....

I'm thinking of trying to set up small clinics where people can, at any time, bring in their dog or cat for herbal consultations, as well as dietary counseling. Pet health care is getting to be unfordable for many pet owners.

Just tossing it around..we'll see.