YoYo’s World

I have made the executive decision to stop having quotes of the day. I felt like I was spamming my own blog with unoriginal content. I don’t really care for how that approach is going.

There is hope if you like quotes!!

I am currently working on a new template for the blog and I think what I’ll do is write a program to have a quote of the day on the sidebar or something. I won’t constantly have to publish a waste of a post and we can all continue to enjoy amazing quotes!

Just covering my tracks with that…

Okay guys well hope your Memorial weekend is great!!!

-YoYo

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I’m trying a new method of promotion for Nerd’s Creations. I’ve been reading a bit about Web 2.0 and the Social Marketing concept. Since I have a personal Facebook page, I decided to Create a Page for Nerd’s Creations.

I made it yesterday and have been playing around with it since then. I really like the idea of it because there is so much you can do and play around with the possibilities are endless. When you go on www.Facebook.com, and click to see your pages, you’re sent directly to a page showing your page views. Just yesterday I had seven clicks and I didn’t send out announcements or anything. Facebook users just happened to find my Facebook Page.

On your page, you have default applications that you can use. For example, you have applications such as your Wall, Notes, Reviews, Photos and Videos. You are not limited to these either. You can also add other applications that were developed by Facebook and third party groups. Say for example you own a restaurant, you can add an application that allows customers to make orders online. I unfortunately have not been able to find any applications that deal with my industry, but this is only my second day so I’ll keep going. If you can’t find any that are helpful for you, Facebook allows you to upload your own application for use. I don’t know the process of submitting your own application, but I do know it’s possible.

They also offer Facebook Ads. It seems you can target your customers very well with all of the Facebook Ads options, but I have never put up an ad myself. Last year I had thought of putting up my own ad, but I do not feel that I am ready to put ads up. I want to learn more about marketing before I spend money for ads. I’m still trying to work with SEO techniques, so putting up ads will be something I do much later on.

So overall, I’d say it would be a good idea to just give it a go. I’ll be updating my progress to see if it is worth it or not. I’m convinced though that done the right way with enough persistence you will be able to find many new customers, so I’m just going to keep up with this.

Take it easy!

-YoYo

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I have completely revamped my T-Shirt business over the past week. The reason why I have is because I decided to turn my business into a niche business. This means, instead of having multiple kinds of shirts such as music, gaming, pop culture, etc. ones, I’ve decided to keep just one kind of shirt; gaming. I chose to do this for a few reasons. Through experimentation and monitoring my store’s progress, I was getting attention and sales only from my gaming shirts. To narrow down profit, I just decided to keep my gamer shirts and ditch my other designs for another day. (I don’t know yet what I’ll do with them. I’ll probably put them into a basic shop and see what happens.)

One of the biggest changes you’ll  notice is the name. I’ve changed it from YoYo’s Creations, to Gaming Creations. How more specific can you get? = P I’ve always created a logo this time that I’ve put up on www.DeviantArt.com, along with my T-Shirt designs. Look to the top of this post and you will see the logo I concocted. (If you don’t know what www.DeviantArt.com is, I’ll talk about it another day but to give a basic jist, it’s a website to post artwork for other artists to nice. It’s nice for graphic designers and whatnot so you can kind of ’spread the word’ on whatever you’re doing.)

I’ve also revamped some of my designs and made a new one today.

New Design for Saving the World This link (opens in new window) will show you the front and back for my new revamped design. I initially designed it for coloured shirts, but Cafepress only offers the front and back designs for white T-shirts. So I just have to make due with the white. Then again, if I put a front and back image on a coloured shirt, it would automatically go up $3 in price because it costs an extra $3 to add a back image, so maybe it’s a good thing considering my target market.

Here is my completely new design called Aim Here. (Opens in new window) I don’t completely care for how it looks on the coloured designs, but I know it has great potential so I’m keeping it how it is. If you do go on Gaming Creations, you will notice I’ve also tagged the design on a hat and long t-shirt. I don’t care for how it looks on the long t-shirt, but I think my ultimate solution will be to change the graphic background from grey to either a dark red, blue or even green. I haven’t decided yet.

As far as all of that goes, those are my only changes other than organizational and tempalte ones. Those are the most obvious if you’ve taken a look at my store a while back. Hopefully with all this revamping I will begin to make more profit than I am. Right now I’m in the negative in turns of profit covering expenses, but I am positive this will change once I start my poster marketing campaign. I am also thinking about putting adds on Facebook because that would narrow down to my target market even more.

To all, I say adeu and until next time, I will be a much richer person = P.
Take it easy!

-YoYo

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Well today I spent the day revamping and improving YoYo’s Creations. I am proud to say that I have added many new products to my collection!

Here goes!

But Mom! I’m saving the world…one nOOb at a time
Front                                                      Back
  

!Pwned

Beware!
T-Shirt                                                  Hoodie
 

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Yesterday I woke up and I could just feel this ‘thing’ in my chest and throat. I’m still feeling thing ‘this’ today so it’s official, I’m Sick. For the first time all semester I didn’t go to my Anatomy lecture. I’ll probably be paying for that at the end of the semester, but I just couldn’t get up. Instead, I just spent time finding random video clips about personal development and the law of attraction.

I have found this really great clip of deleted scenes from The Secret. Mind you, I haven’t seen the movie, but I really enjoyed this clip. (I had to post it as an embedded clip because for some reason the youtube.com coding didn’t want to cooperate. So sorry guys.)

Okay guys, so I hope you enjoy this video clip!! I thought it was quite interesting. Some good food for thought.Just remember, pass it on

-YoYo

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I’ve decided to expand my business a little more. Fundraisers are always fun and very helpful for non-profits and communities alike. I am always very supportive of Fundraisers; I always make sure I have change for UNICEF or St. Jude’s. What I want to do now is making it easier for organizations to raise money by being able to offer a Fundraiser discount.

Let me explain a little bit about the pricing process I use with CafePress.com. The company shows me what the T-Shirt design costs at a whole sale price. Now I take that whole sale price and multiply 15%. That’s my markup percentage. So for each shirt I’m making no more than about $2. CafePress.com offers an amazing discount for bulk items. The buyer receives a 35% off each individual item off their whole sale if they purchase at least 15 or more of the product. So take for example a very generic plain white T. Normally, whole sale is $14.99 (retail would be $16.99). Just multiply 14.99 by 35% and you get roughly $5.24. $14.99 - $5.24 = $9.75.

Of course, in addition to $9.75, the customer will have to pay for shipping, but with fundraisers I’ve seen the shirts go all the way up to $15. Depending on how well I know the foundation, I would be willing to pay $15. Usually, with the Breast Cancer Foundation, shirts on campus cost around $12. So not bad.

Unfortunately the organization has to have a bit of money in order to raise money. I have not yet resolved this situation other than actual donation, but I’m working on that. This works the same way with Krispy Kreme donuts too. You need to buy I think around $75 worth of donuts, minimum, and you just go out and sell the donuts at whatever additional markup percentage you want. It’s really a great way to raise money because those donuts are so darn good. = )

I remember in high school we would do Fay’s Barbeques. Fay’s BBQ was this company that went to organizations and bbq’ed for the basically. You would sell meal tickets for I think between $9-$12 and you would take these tickets on the night of the BBQ and you would redeem it for food. The food was always AMAZING so it brought it a lot of locals. A portion of the proceeds was also donated to the organization that was sponsoring it. That was always a great way to raise money where I’m from.

There are many other ways to raise money. Take for example you are apart of a soccer team trying to fix up your field. Let’s say you guys really need a new fence. Well, go around to businesses and say “We need money to build a new fence, so if you would like to contribute this much money we will give your advertisement space on our fence when it’s build.” You can open this offer up to multiple businesses if you want and it’s a really great way to get those important things like fences. You put no money down and you gain a fence. It’s a sweet deal.

I hope anyone trying to find ways to raise money have found this useful. I will try to help you in any way I can so drop me a line or leave a comment. Good luck!!

Just remember, pass it on.

-YoYo

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As many of you may know, but about a week ago I started an online business called YoYo’s Creations. Well today I’ve made my first sale!! Granted, I’ve set it up where I have a profit margin of about $2-$3 to keep the shirts cheap, but it’s a start.

So far I have four designs:

             

I know guys, I know, only one sale and I only made $2. Hey….it’s going in the right direction and I didn’t put any money into my business in the first place. It’s a start!!

Just remember, pass it on!

-YoYo

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To keep you guys updated on what I’ve been doing that has been keeping me away from writing posts, I’ll give you an overview.

If you guys have read my post, HB 1804, you should because what I’ve been doing is revolved around that bill. On Facebook, my friends and I have been forming a coalition with people in Oklahoma and in Texas who want to try and help reverse the bill. Some LULAC members in Texas saw what we were doing and immediately got into contact with us. They are 100% behind everything they do and they want to help us. They even drove all the way from Texas to OKC to meet with us.

Long story short, OU, OSU and their branches, will be founding LULAC councils here in Oklahoma. This would be the first time ever in Oklahoma that there would be actual LULAC councils in the college level. There have been attempts before but there was never enough support.

If you don’t know what LULAC is, it is the League of United Latin American Citizens. “The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United State.” This organization is not just open to hispanics either, there are many non-hispanic members that volunteer their time and talents to the organization.

Ever since this bill was passed on Nov. 1st, I’ve had this very interesting turn-around. I’ve realized that we really do have a powerful voice. Over the years, I have seen many people protest for this, or march for that and it never seemed like they accomplished much of anything. I’ve always had the impression that there wasn’t power in the people because most don’t actually take the initiative to do anything. After talking with the LULAC members I realized that there is so much power and more in numbers. You really can make a difference.

If you feel that something is wrong politically in your community, make the initiative to make change. You give others so much hope and drive when you yourself are driven to make change. It doesn’t matter what it is, with persistence you can do anything. This country is as much yours as it is mine and if you have problems with something, say it, LOUDLY. Make an impact on people. There are people in other countries that can’t do anything of what we do so accept your duty as a citizen to speak up.

Faces of the Present. Youth of America.

Just remember, pass it on.

-YoYo

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I have come to announce the opening of YoYo’s Creations!! An online web business where you can buy cool (of course I think they’re cool, I designed them = P) T-Shirt designs and/or make your own T-Shirts for your organization or club. I’ve started this company as a way try to build a means of passive income and exercise my creative abilities.

If you’d like to find out exactly what I’m doing, I’m going to write a post on the online T-Shirt Biz hopefully by the end of this weekend. Check it out though and get a feel for it yourself. I’ve opened up shop at absolutely no cost at all so this is true passive income for the time being.

-YoYo

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Hello All!!!!

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Hope you guys have a great time doing whatever you guys like to do best on this great holiday! If anyone has to wake up early tomorrow and can’t do anything, I feel your pain! I’m one of those. Well, I enjoyed seeing my professors in crazy funny costumes today, so that’s really all I need.

BE SAFE!! And don’t forget to pass it on!

-YoYo

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