A Genuine Question for You
The inventory loaded into Gwyn’s car
Hello Crafty Friends, I have a genuine question. But I know it's hard to prioritize responding to businesses, even nice micro businesses like mine, so I've decided to make it a contest to help inspire you.
The question: Should I continue to operate the website?
The backstory: My college bestie and I decided to open a small zero-waste bead subscription company in January of 2020. We designed it specifically so we would make sure we spent time together regularly because we are both moms and it's hard to make time for friends. We thought our combined expertise and would help us earn a little and have some fun. It worked, we loved building the collections getting creative with the packaging and connection with our customers. But as it happens, life changes. When I moved away it became more difficult and the fun was slowly becoming drudgery. Larissa decided she was done, and so I bought her out of the business.
As I have been assessing and inventorying and figuring out what next I keep coming back to this one question. Should I keep the website? We needed it when we began to do subscriptions, but now that isn't a thing. Since January I haven't gotten any orders from there, but I could give it a make-over and try and drive more traffic that way.
If I close the website I also lose the email address, and the occasional person who finds HeyBeads! from past YouTube videos on our channel and others.
So I'm genuinely asking, what do you think? I will do whatever the majority of folks choose.
Contest Details:
Responding to the Question Gets you 1 Entry - you can only answer once
You may simply respond via email, but better is following us and:
Reposting the Contest on Facebook, IG or TT gets 2 entries plus another 2 for every person you tag (be sure to tag us, so we know)
Posting a project you have made with our beads gets 10 entries (you must tag us)
Making any purchase between now and the contest end gets 1 entry for every dollar spent (rounded to the the nearest dollar)
3 winners will be chosen at random and will receive a gift code for $60, $30 or $15.
Contest closes March 21 11:59pm Eastern
Winners will be notified by March 23
