VacancyComics.com Turns One Year Old!

Okay, so this is a little late (see my post about business requires a lot of writing). I have my excuses, but they are pathetic.

Anyway, yes VacancyComics.com turned one in early October. To celebrate I posted the very first comic that I ever drew (the one with the psychologists). I also posted some interesting facts about VacancyComics.com including I started drawing comics over three years ago. When I started drawing them I thought I’d run out of jokes quickly, but now I have other 500 comics and even more ideas.

As for business goals achieved – zilch. I was kind of hoping to get out of the red, or even better make enough profit to have to file taxes (in Utah I heard it’s something like $200), but no such luck. I did sell one shirt this year. It was a commissioned piece with an LDS theme (if anyone is interested I can easily make another one . Well, better luck this year.

I hope to do a lot on the site this upcoming year including a new site design, some SEO, and perhaps even some advertising. We’ll have to see, but in the meantime I’m handing out even more business cards than ever and traffic to my site is slowly rising (very incredibly slowly, but still rising).

Business Requires A Lot of Writing

Well, I’m sure starting out right – not! Yes business requires a ton of writing, and not just business plans and financial statements. Let’s do an example: let’s say that you are taking a class (perhaps an English class). Being a student means writing a lot of stuff, right? You have to write things like papers and other homework. Well, now imagine that you are the teacher. You have to write the tests, grade the papers, and give reports and not just to the students but also to the school and parents. (Being a teacher includes even more paperwork, but we’ll skip that part for brevity.) Well, now imagine that you own the school! Send letters to parents; city, state, and other officials; donors; the community; etc. Keep paperwork and records. And then if you are a state school there are the billions of forms and legal stuff. Yep, running a business is like that. Not can, but is.

Now for that sad part: I haven’t been doing it. (As evidenced by how recently I’ve posted to this blog.) They say that if a goal isn’t written down then it’s only a dream, so this past week I started writing down some ideas for another business venture that I dream of one day doing. No, not my comics (although I should start writing my ideas for that), but an event hall. What a minute. Where did that idea come from? Simple. I’ve always enjoyed fantasy (dragons, princesses, fairies, etc.) and it dawn on me that there was no place in Utah for fairy-tale events. In other words there wasn’t a castle. Yes folks, one day I hope to build my very own castle. Every other little girl’s dream of a lifetime. So, if anyone has any great ideas for a castle (no evil or scary stuff please) then feel free to email me. Thanks.

Now I’ve got to get writing (including being better at posting to my blog).

Web Statistics

It took me a while, but I finally added Web Statistics to my Web Site. Which means that I can now see how many people are coming to my site, and other information (like where my visitors are from). I now know that I’ve received 21 visits since August 20th, or 13 different visitors (including myself). On September 7th I broke my own record by getting 4 visits in one day (previously I had only gotten 2 in one day). Plus, one of my visitors was in Canada (I wouldn’t be surprised if it was my friend who just went up to Canada for a family member’s wedding). I’ve gone International! (However small it may be.)

Yep, this Web Statistics stuff is pretty neat, but be careful who you use. I found one free service that I had been considering until after I signed up and discovered that they wanted me to put a link to an online casino (which I am ethically opposed to) on my site! Of course I was very cautious about signing up for any more free services, but at the same time I didn’t have the money to pay for a service. Finally a friend introduced me to Google Analytics, which I’ve obviously been thoroughly enjoying.

Welcome to Entrepreneurial Adventures!

This is a blog chronicling my various activities and adventures as I strive to become a successful entrepreneur.

The purpose of this blog are two-fold:

1. To aid me as a budding entrepreneur. As I continue my adventures I will need plenty of help. Some of which I’m hoping will come from you – my readers.
2. To aid others who are like me – budding entrepreneurs who have little or no clue what they are doing and are very nervous about this whole thing.

That said, I hope to add a new post about once a week, and/or at least whenever something interesting or perplexing occurs.

I hope you will check back often and join me in my adventures by reading my posts and adding your comments and suggestions. Thank you.

About my Business – VacancyComics.com

 

I’ve always wanted to start a business. My Mom still laughs about my little boxes filled with something I was pretending to sell. Now in my mid-twenties, I have one. Yippee!

VacancyComics.com really started in the summer of 2003. I was enjoying doodling in my spare time and I was currently experimenting with various cartoon characters. Someone (I think it was my sister) suggested I try drawing a comic strip. I’ve always enjoyed comics, but I was afraid that I would run out of jokes very quickly (I’m better at making jokes while in the middle of a conversation – but then again, it depends on who you ask). Now I have over 500 comics drawn and I still have a little paper stuffed with ideas for other comics.

Shortly after I began drawing my comics others began suggesting I start a business with them. I’ve never started a business, and I’ve never been the most confident person, so I was rather nervous about the whole idea. Then in the fall of 2006 I took a business class in which I was required to start a business, so I did.

Now it’s almost a year old. So go ahead and take a look at VacancyComics.com!