Monday RPM

Week’s RPM

Get diaper bag refund – waiting to get complete file from Jay

Set up Forecastly – 70% there, just need data to be updated, and see if the inventory order projection is accurate

Prepare for Point Roberts trip. Prepare the Bliss 8 barcodes and ship labels. Go on Tuesday or Wednesday. (morning, before USPS closes)

Clean out my ring inventory (silver, warehouse ones, sell them or destroy them)

  • New rings arrive: stackable, more comfort fit, striped, bevel
    • Week 1: give Martin stackable package design
  • V Day Promos in place
    • Week 1: have a plan for rings and scarves
  • Decide what will be useful metrics reporting, and make use of Forecasting and Sellerboard
    • Build metrics or ask Jay to manually report for now
  • Add FBM inventory for all markets

Meal wrapped up at 6:45pm! Tomorrow start eating at 10:45am!

V Day Marketing Ideas for Rings

Audience

Married couples who want to buy for each other

Husband who wants to buy for wife

Wife who wants to buy for husband

Wife whose husbands are in hands-on work

Channels

Facebook groups

Pinterest groups

Manychat – cheap buyers – need to be creative – need incentive

Mom blogs, fashion blogs

Influencers

Facebook Ads – video, slide shwo

IG Ads – video

Our emails

Our IG

Our FB

Our Pinterest – better conversion than IG

Our blogs – first entry

Our website – better homepage, upselling, sales, more reviews

V Day gift idea websites

Latest trend websites who might have a V Day special

Ideas:

  1. Gift Card – 2 hours (for him, for her, for couple for weddings)
  2. Gift guide – 2 hours
    1. focusing on matching rings, as well as for him, for her specials (can re-use this too, for bloggers, other websites)
    2. can also categorize by price ($100 and under, $50 and under, $20 and under, and include scarves, bow ties)
    3. Ryan can make this. Will take me 2 hours to mock up content
  3. Update our homepage banners – 2 hours
    1. Creative Market or Ryan or both
  4. Update Amazon store front with the same graphics as homepage – 2 hours
    1. Creative Market or Ryan or both
  5. Email gift guide – 3 hours
    1. Need to consolidate mailchimp first (2h)
    2. Draft email (1h)
  6. Post gift guide on IG and Pinterest – 2 hours
    1. Jay can do this
    2. Need pinterest and IG friendly versions – Ryan or Jay or me
  7. 2 days to do the above
  8. Create a little V Day gift ideas video (2 days)
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27G46NyLnw0
  9. Contest – photos! (post V Day? Your romantic photos?)
  10. Contest – 1 hour
    1. stories! with photos? Ask your customers to submit their best (or worst) break-up story in 140 characters or less on Twitter. Pick the best break-up story and give them a shout out on social, and a (grand) prize for sharing their story.

      Or terrible date story
      Or vintage love story
      Pick 2 or 3 from above, and do one contest each week leading up to V Day

  11. BOGO or any V Day sale (sweetheart sale) plus free shipping! – 1 hour, 3 hours if making an email campaign (Ryan needed)
  12. Blog topics – 1 hour each article (Who will write it?)
    1. date night ideas
    2. V Day check list
    3. Make a dinner reservation
    4. Get a haircut/trim your beard
    5. Plan your Valentine’s Day outfit
    6. Buy gift cards
    7. Pick out a floral bouquet
    8. Get a box of your sweetheart’s favorite candy / silicone ring
    9. Find a babysitter and clear your schedule
  13. Cross promote with someone else? socks? nails? (opi, jamberry, metal rings)
  14. Also celebrate singles / self love
  15. Promote random acts of love (https://squareup.com/townsquare/7-adorable-valentines-day-marketing-ideas)

 

Saturday Night with John

Ah, a very nice night with John tonight :))

I’ve been wondering about how to cook for him at his place. Do I cook ahead of time? He doesn’t have a microwave to reheat the food! Do I bring a blanket because I’m on my period? So many parts for what seems to be an easy date night.

Thankfully, Masha’s brother’s birthday is tonight! Thank you! Masha took Bibi to her parents. Right away I asked John to come over, between 5pm and 8pm.

Bibi was crying and making a mess. Finally Masha left at 4:30. I got ready, started the purple yam, and went down to meet John wearing my Bambi dress, without a bra or panties!

He loved how I looked. He later said the moment he saw me he was turned on, and that he loved that I dressed up for him. I asked him what he liked, he said everything. I asked for more details, he said heels first!The tight dress. And the blonde hair, surprisingly. My body. My face. I wonder if it’s his order of importance. From the bottom up.

The purple yam in the oven made the house smell nice. I said we need to have sex first (because the longer we wait, more blood comes out). It’s nice to have the caya, which is a birth control normally, but on period days, it holds back the blood! And the gel helps solidifies the blood.

Sex was quite good! He was really turned on by me. I gave him a long blow job. And I think he is learning to pay more attention to my satisfaction in turn! We had quite a satisfying orgasm together.

Then I started cooking. the miso black cod that Mom made. I added ginger and green onions and it tasted even better! John really enjoyed it! And he liked the prawns too. And he like the oyster mushroom and brocollini too! And the purple yam with butter! The dessert was red bean sticky rice cake, which he thought was good but not his fave.

We stretched out on the living room floor. It was nice bonding. I taught him a bit of yoga stretches, so it made me look good too.

Then we had pomegranate juice with lemon. He added ACV to it which tasted alright!

Then we cuddled in bed. I was still horny so I asked if he wanted to watch me masturbate. I got a nice one…mmmm. Feeling very satisfied, I started giving him a blow job. He got so turned on, he turned me around and put his dick in me. Round 2! That’s rare. It was very nice. Most satisfying night yet!

We wrapped up at 8:30, 5 minutes before Masha came home! What a perfect night.

Oh I did tell him about how I didn’t like having Masha around me and him because she crosses the line. When she got home, she was like, you guys are finished already! And told me about how she would not be able to stand that. It was frankly a bit annoying.

I’m surprised though that he hasn’t said thank you for the night yet. He usually does! I hope he got home safe.

I was a little paranoid that he only spent 3.5 hours with me on a weekend. Is he dating someone else? But, that’s not unusual for him since the beginning. And I know Tanja moved in with someone and the guy cheated anyway!

I feel that he is just more of an introvert who needs more alone time. He doesn’t seem like the type to date more than one person at a time.

I like that he calls me more often now. And he is slightly more talkative now. And our sex is getting hotter. And he is sweet to me.

I think Masha is jealous. She can’t help it of course. It’s natural.

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!!

Omg, I’m so thrilled about 2019!!! Ah, a new year. What a fun new beginning! I think I’ll celebrate more often, like, in the book 4 month year, Or, every month!

What is my goal for this month!?

  1. Relationships: Forgiveness. See the good intentions in people. See the magic and opportunities in every situations. See the brilliance in myself.
    • How do I keep it up? I’ll recite this everyday! I’ll listen to myself say positive phrases every day:
      • Tanya you are so smart. You have creative ideas and you find opportunities. You think beyond the boxes!
      • Tanya you will increase your income by 20% this month! You will find many ways to accomplish this.
      • Tanya you see the love and good intentions in people around you.
      • Tanya you spot the magic and opportunities in every situation.
      • Tanya you are a brilliant, beautiful, world-class bright light. Your smile, laughs, sense of humour, and love shine bright and light up everyone around you!
    • How do I measure this? I’ll do a check-in at the end of each day!
      • How is my mood today?
      • Was I forgiving?
      • Was I loving?
      • Did I love myself?
  2. Health: HIIT, breathe, intermittent fasting
    • How do I keep it up?
      • 20 deep breaths in the morning, midday, and evening
      • fasting 5 days a week (start with 3)
      • HIIT sprint and swim every other day!
    • How do I measure this? Weekly check-in!
  3. Wealth: Keep the grand vision in mind. Have $2MM more cash by end of 2020. Build a dream house for mom ($1MM needed), give dad more money per year (Set aside $300K more for extra dividend income), and buy or rent a condo with gorgeous views for myself (Set aside $600K for dividend income for rent, or buy with downpayment)
    • How do I get there?
      • Recite and visualize this outcome daily
      • RPM, baby!
      • This month, focus on creating a dream team, building useful metrics, and creating more sales. Get the most out of Valentine’s Day!
    • How do I measure this?
      • By end of January
        • Have a new VA (for pinterest, PR outreach, admin) and a blogger
          • Week 2~3: interview
          • Week 4: hire and train
        • New rings arrive: stackable, more comfort fit, striped, bevel
          • Week 1: give Martin stackable package design
        • V Day Promos in place
          • Week 1: have a plan for rings and scarves
          • Week 2~4: out reach and execute (and delegate)
          • Include: consolidate mailchimp, make use of manychat
        • Build metrics or ask Jay to manually report for now
          • Week 1: decide what will be useful metrics reporting, and make use of Forecasting and Sellerboard
          • Week 2~4: test out if these reports are indeed helpful, improve and repeat!
          • Remember that inventory management will also help me make more money; get rid of old stock, get new stock in quickly.

After all day of silence, John finally messaged me and said he had a good day sleeping in and walking outside. He said he’ll go to Whistler for a couple of days and will look forward to seeing me when I’m back, and that he misses me.

I’m so hurt that he is so distant. Even though it’s about him not me. He is stressed out. Too stressed out to think about me. To be present in this relationship.

I’m going to take a wild guess that you are still stressed out about work these days.

I hope you are making progress in coming up with more than 2 options you can take action on. And writing them down 🙂

How I can best support you? I sent you some ideas in the hopes they’ll help you arrive at the best outcome for you. Are they helpful? If so, would you share with me? If not, are there other preferred ways I can support you?

I was really sad today from not hearing from you all day and there seemed little effort or desire to spend NYE with me. But, I tried my best to get out of my head and stop thinking that it has to do with how you feel about me.

I think in the past when you stopped communicating with me as often, I felt as though I was just not important enough to you to be on your mind as often. I’m starting to understand that it has more to do with your stress level.

This stress has been causing you a lot of pain. From going blind to abs cramps to me getting mad at you and wanting to break up a few times. Has this stress helped you in anyway? Or changed the course of anything for the better? Has this stress helped you be more creative at problem solving?

 

I’m not ok with it. I want to you be less stressed, to have a handle on the situation, to be more present in our relationship, and to be more communicative. But, I’ll do my best to be patient and understanding.

 

New Year New Plan 2019

I know what to do now!!!

I realized last night and this morning, 3 things:

  1. I really want to build a comfortable place to live in
  2. I need a lot of money to do this, because I’d like to first provide a new house for Mom and a nice place for Dad to live in, or at least at around the same time.
  3. I need to have a revenue of $1MM a year at least, so I can join the MDS group with Stan.

You see, I suddenly realized that, Baby Bibi will reach $1MM in sales so soon. 6 to 12 months. Once they do, I’ll be left on the outside. I need to hustle!!

And if I’m in the MDS group, I get so many benefits to help me get even further in business.

All I have to do, is to triple my sales!

I realized recently (omg so many realizations, I love it!) that adding comfort fit had really increased the sales I wouldn’t have had. I mean, I knew this with the colours that I had. I was smart to add so many colour the first, second year of my Amazon business. But I stopped, because my manufacturer’s MOQ was too high, and mold costs are high.

But now, with Martin, MOQ is lower. We have exclusivity. So, let’s re-evaluate!

I’m very excited about all the expansions we can do, at all the different levels. By this time next year, Knot Theory will be #1 in silicone wedding rings!!! Mark my words!!!

Amazon is a great place to increase sales, but not profit necessarily. Once you’ve found something that generates sales and profit, it’s time to focus on expanding that niche!

  1. Product Level
    1. Small batch laser engraved patterns to test out new designs without opening new moulds
      1. Hearts, equality, crossfit,
      2. Logo for sports teams, gyms, events (crossfit games)
      3. See-through engraving for holes
      4. More colors, especially pale gold, mermaid/peacock, and whichever is trending next (iPhone and Apple watch colors too)
      5. Customization – engraving on inside and outside, motivational or gift-friendly or wedding-friendly
    2. Also sell bracelets – very nice looking ones
      1. Also engraveable
      2. Classy unlike the current ones
      3. Beaded bracelets
      4. Motivational bracelets
      5. Road ID bracelets
      6. Teething bracelets
      7. Customizable words
      8. Adjustable length
    3. New Designs
      1. Step Edge
      2. Celtic and filigree
      3. Faceted
      4. Ask focus group
    4. Parallel Products
  2. B2B Sales Level
    1. Kent
    2. Stores
    3. Amazon B2B
    4. Hospitals
    5. Firefighters
    6. Police
    7. Army
    8. Mom groups
    9. Army Wife groups
    10. Wholesale on website
    11. Tradeshows
    12. Gym, sports teams – approach for collaborations and custom engraving
  3. B2C Sales Level
    1. Focus group / Many Chat
    2. Returning Customer – monthly new release and other reasons to come back. Easy birthday gift etc. Gift draws for people to win. Tell them recent buyers only?
    3. Number of purchases per transaction – Couple matching rings to encourage buying in set. Upsell tools.
    4. Frequency of purchase – more new releases, newsletters/manychat, sign people up for manychat in followup emails, know customer’s birthdays, know their taste so when a similar ring is released, we can promote to them.
    5. Making life time customers – membership and member forever discount
    6. Allow people to donate with rings to causes they believe in
    7. Allow people to buy in bulk for themselves too – especially engraving – 3 for $5 more. Save on shipping too.
    8. Allow people to buy for the whole (extended) family and loves ones
    9. Engrave different messages and dates for your loved ones
  4. Marketing Level
    1. IG, FB, Youtube, Google Shopping and Display Ads. What other places?
    2. Better photos and videos

Bracelet:

  1. great fundraiser
  2. ideally:
    1. has a story
    2. helps community
    3. cheap to make
    4. earth friendly – eco materials, recycled materials
    5. looks good on everyone
    6. adjustable in size
    7. easy to customize
    8. can have many colors

 

How do I want to live this life? What is the story of my life? Role models?

I want to live a life free of stress. But maybe just temporarily. Some stress is good.

I want to build dream houses.

I want to have a comfortable home to live in.

I don’t have a burning desire to live around the world.

But I do want very interesting friends.

I want to be a very interesting friend.

I want to make a positive impact to the world. Starting with alopecia.

IDEAS:

Recycled tire: http://www.itoproducts.com/recycled-tire-bracelets/bracelet-options/

Cool designs, sorta:

Fundraising On Your Wrist With Xbracelets


https://www.positivepromotions.com/friendship-bracelet/p/osa7242/
https://www.bravelets.com/

Very cool company: https://www.instagram.com/puravidabracelets/

Bracelets from ghost fish nets: https://bracenet.net/en/products/

Check most common fundraisers (cause and demographics) for ideas: https://www.gofundme.com/discover

Recycled sari fabrics: https://anindilyakwaarts.com.au/product/18-5139-fabric-and-ghost-net-disk-earrings-with-shell/

Today is a great day

Today is a great day, let me count the ways! 🙂

It’s Dec 19th. I’ve done all I can in promoting for Xmas. I’m sick now, but I can rest. I lay in bed all day and it was ok.

I felt more sick when I woke up, but started feeling better and better. Masha got us lots of lemons, so I had some lemon cayenne pepper juice 🙂 Brianna drew on my blender but Masha cleaned it up. Whew! I made a healthy juice for Artsy and I. I felt so much better after the juice!

I watched many episodes of Friends. Some are so relevant to now! I’m grateful for the show.

Sales rolled in like crazy! I love it. We sold 121 rings and 2 scarves on Amazon USA! Amazon Canada is doing well too. Almost $15K/month! We sold 3 scarves on Etsy too! Mom is so happy about this. So far we’ve sold 9 scarves, in just 3 days since launch! We make about $70/scarf, so with just the sales of 25 scarves we’ll break even.

Watched Joe Rogan’s interview of Elon Musk. So fun. Elon Musk is awesome!

Yesterday was great too. Bunny invited me to dinner at Chow. I didn’t like it too much. The food there is great, but the atmosphere is not great. He then suggested eating at his place! I loved that.

He made a super yummy meal with fresh cod from Whole Foods, spinach, purple yam, and walnuts. It was the best meal he’s cooked for me! The best part was, we started making out before the meal, and had a quickie in the kitchen! So sexy.

After the meal, we had sex on the kitchen counter! We hadn’t seen each other for almost 2 weeks, because I was at Date with Destiny, and then was sick. I just love it when we have so much passion. His body is the hottest. He almost has an 8 pack now! And his ass is cute. His proportions are perfect. His face is super cute.

I’m learning that I need to be proud of myself more often. Forgive myself and others more.

I’m proud of building Knot Theory to a business that generates about $70K USD this month! I did a great job with the scarves and they are selling!

I did a great job with the comfort fit rings and they are selling too! And the stackables did well too!

I’m surrounded by love. I have so many comforts. My biz is looking up. I’m expanding it. I have so many ideas. I’ve created such a positive shift within!

I feel very proud of myself, and very grateful 😀

 

 

 

 

 

Present feelings

It’s 3:44am, I’m sick with something. Like I was 2 years ago at UPW.

I feel….lucky.

Sales are good. 130 units sold yesterday. Not as good as last year, but still good. Mom and I estimated that I still profited about $25K the past 3o days.

Masha talks a lot, but at the same time she is always will to talk when I want to talk to her. She is absent minded sometimes, but the good thing about it is she doesn’t get pissed off over little things either.

 

Date with Destiny 2018

Wow. I’m blown away by DWD so far. I’m so glad I’m here and playing full out!

Day 1:

  1. Richard and Brenda from Ottawa. Too many rules. Love language – express it in a way that the other person wants.
  2. The reward of this life is directly proportional to the amount of uncertainly you are willing to live with. We are all achievers and want certainty and significance. He knows us so well and we are all so similar!
  3. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

So powerful.

I was thinking about forgiving my parents. And I was thinking about asking Norm’s forgiveness.

I imagined the pain from this as a build up in my kidney area for some reason. I imagined green gooey kidneys turning into green crystal clear kidneys.

I imagined the the build up in my right ovary too. It turned into a golden cryal clear energy too.

I imagined beam of pale blue light shining down through me.

2. What question do you ask yourself all the time?

  • What is not good enough about that experience?
  • What is not good enough about this person?
  • What is not good enough about me?

After:

How can I enjoy and appreciate even more the love and magic and divine beauty (or wabi sabi) of this person and our connection right now?

How can I appreciate the gift of this experience even more?
How can I appreciate even more the amazing woman I am right now?

Josephina sees that I will do life coaching even before I hold her that I have alopecia! She says there’s something about me. She feels that that’s my future.

Day 3:

Tony was so mean to this woman who used the word “emotional violence”. He was triggered. It shook me and probably many others.

 

Dream of 3 Souls; Manifesting Wealth and Greatness

I had a dream last night.

I dreamt that a friend showed me that she has found a way to see her soul on the big screen TV. She stood in front of the TV, and there were coloured dots forming an outline of a humanoid shape. It was pretty cool!

So I tried it. I stood in front of the TV, and to my total surprise and shock, there were 3 humanoid shapes! And they were loud! I wasn’t quite sure of the mood….it was like, they were screaming maybe?

I quickly pulled away, being scared shitless. My friend said the device was on the demon (?) mode and she needed to fix it. So I let her do her thing.

Meanwhile, some more people showed up. As my friend has fixed the device, we all stood in front of the TV to see our souls.

This time, we all looked like Batman, but with black bunny ears! Ahhahah

I wanted to see more detail, but that was when Brianna’s crying woke me up. This is the second time in a row that she woke me up in the morning with her crying!

I was very confused about this dream. Does it hold significance?

Then I realized that, my miniature worship stand with Guan Yin, God of Fortune, and God of Longevity, may have inspired the 3-soul idea. And the big screen TV in the house. And my black bunny ear mask. All these contribute to my dream. So maybe it’s not actually meaningful.

On the other hand, I feel closer to Guan Yin these days. And I believe that now is the time for me to manifest. Look at how I manifested the IKEA shelf! Still so stoked about it! 🙂

I’d like to manifest making a lot of money through my creative abilities. I want to do face massage wand with blue and red healing lights. I want this to be my claim to fame. A unique, effective, and high quality product that benefits people around the world.

I want to do good with the money I make.

I want the rings to do better and better! I want the stackables and the comfort fit to be homeruns! Total hits!