Diana, the phone was ringing, I had people here chattering and distracting me, and I just don't multi-task well. I know that and yet I tried and failed once again. LOL
Judy,
Yes, the website was responsible in large part for the sales I made this weekend. People are spending longer and longer on the site and I have some that have returned many times, which is a good sign. (Gotta love that stat counter!) It takes time to start drawing people to a site, and as I said, the search engines don't always start to recognize a site right away either, so those don't help much at first. But in the past 7 days I have over 1000 page views, so that's encouraging!
Several of my buyers are 3-4 hrs away, so didn't want to drive here twice... they've ended up picking pups based on pictures on the site and emails I've exchanged with them. Without the site it wouldn't be nearly as successful. I have 3 paid ads coming out this week, and made sure to list the site addy in each... that way people can look before they contact me. I've gotten a couple of very nice compliments on the site from buyers, so they do like using it.
It's at
www.tinkerdoodle.net for anyone who hasn't seen it and would like to.