Christmas Destroyed My Online Business

Full disclosure:  Christmas didn't exactly destroy my online business forever, but it certainly wreaked havoc on any sales from our website at Christmas. (I didn't even sell one download of our adorable "Johnny Rock's Christmas" software matching game.  Why?  because I got caught up in stupid Emerson's quote once again:  "Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts.  The only true gift is a gift of thyself to others."  (I even wrote a whole essay on perils of embracing this quote.)

I do applaud my successful sisters who own profitible small online businesses and make enough money to hire help during the "happy" holiday season.  That subset of women, however, doesn't include me! 

I personally am TOTALLY grateful that Christmas and ALL the holidays are over what with the gift-buying and guests coming, and the cleaning - ohh such cleaning. 

Of course a woman in business is still a woman who, unless she is Michelle Obama or a Madame Secretary type still feels it is her god-given duty to make memories for the family.  So we set aside our blogging and our tweeting under four different names and sending out Constant Contact lovely emails to customers (that one, we shouldn't have stopped) to vacuum the floor and clear off our desktop while rushing to back Pecan fingers to send back East or West or wherever. I even sewed back the arms and legs of a doll I had made for my daughter some 30 years ago and updated her little doll outfit so that my now adult daughter would have a warm and wonderful feeling at Christmas. 
Meanwhile, I didn't blog, I didn't write the essay I wanted about our software, I didn't tweet, I didn't call School Specialty Catalog where we used to sell our software to present my children's book, "Lucky, the Left Pawed Puppy" in print form, I didn't do the press release I was going to.  All in all, I spent two weeks doing stuff I used to do when I was working merely 8 to 5 in areal job that paid me real money.  
New Year's Resolution for Women in Small Online Businesses   
  

Question for Marketers!

So, here's the app that anyone can download FREE for Android from the googleplay store. (RESIZABLE on the phone!!!) We're working on getting this little app into the Apple store, but we're having trouble. (Blog to follow).

Our next plan is to re-publish this app, but with a Christmas game. That app will have the OPTION TO PURCHASE our complete game app for children for $1.99. The upgrade will include "Sentence Scrambles" for developing reading skills, more memory matching games with niche themes, and Fill-in-the-Blank games that are now featured on "The Awesome Game Page" in the kids' secton of our website at languagerocks.com. 
Marketers: We could use any constructive ideas for our little company regarding our games for kids. We need to know if we should: A. Stop what we're doing? B. Keep on going in this direction? C.Go on to something else? We have been creating educational software and games and other products for 25 years and are at an impasse. Let us know YOUR thoughts the comment section below. 

Will a Custom Game App Rocket Your Small Business?

We at Language Rocks believe a custom game app can rocket
your small business to new heights, get customers to interact with your product line, and keep customers coming back.    That's why we created our newest app, a Halloween memory matching game for Android phones, tablets, online (soon to be in the Apple Store as well.) We called it "Concentration-Halloween Haunt". 

For ANY type of Business
The Halloween App makes sense for OUR educational website, but what about YOUR company? Does having a game make sense for YOUR products?  You might have heard of "The Secret" which was popular several years ago. A game on their website seemed to have made sense for The Secret. Playing the game reinforces concepts the book contains. Imagine the interactivity of a customized game on YOUR website or YOUR business app. (We would suggest fewer squares, of course, with YOUR product or content. You then can add sales banners, links, or affilitate information.)  But when you think how often a player would be interacting with your products, the benefits are obvious.
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What Will Your Custom Game App Look Like?

Our software division at Language Rocks has created a memory matching game for the Texas State Historical Museum in Austin, Texas.  This game features Texas state symbols and is in the children's section of the museum on a kiosk which plays interactive computer games.  The screen shot here illustrates the game according to color and other specifications of the museum.  A game such as this can easily be converted into an app as we did with our "Concentration-Halloween Haunt" app described previously. 

A completely different look to the classic memory game was designed for comedian Bethany Therese so audiences would interact with the name of famous and rising female comedy personalities.  Just click here to view the Comics Game. 

To promote our own publication of the children's book, "Lucky, the Left-Pawed Puppy" we created "Lucky's Match", a delightful game for children to play online which we can add to our Concentration Series app in the GooglePlayStore and Apple Store in the future.

What Will Your Custom Game Look Like

Whether you sell houses, jewelry, or power tools - whether you want to advertise your blog or your website, we can customize the memory game to match your specifications and promote your products, information, or concepts. We are able to deliver that game for your website and/or as an app submitted to Google Play Store or the Apple Store. Because we are a small business working with other small businesses, our prices are meant to accommodate modest budgets. 

How Can You Order A Game To Be Created for You

If you are not a software developer and need our services, we can deliver a game to you for your website for $79.95. If you are a software developer, you can purchase our copyrighted code for only $49.95 to use in your projects.  For details on how we can deliver and help create and load your app in the Applestore for Apple devices and Google Play Store for Android devices.  Call us at 763-442-0781 or email us at games@languagerocks.com for details.

Motivating Reading Game for Christmas

The goal of Windmill Works at www.languagerocks.com has always been to make reading and language development motivating.  What could be more motivating, we thought, than colorful Christmas images to improve reading skills?  Of course, being a teacher of the deaf, the focus of our products has always been visual and NON-phonetic.

We're hoping that our remarkable sale of the DOWNLOADABLE "Johnny Rock's Christmas" for only $3.99 will be a great holiday success.

We've focused on little blurbs in the parent groups, speech/language pathologists, teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, and special ed. teachers on linkedin.  Tonight, we're hoping to add an online sample of "Johnny Rock's Christmas" to promote our lovely Christmas sale.  Read more about the classic matching games with the exciting Christmas vocabulary at www.languagerocksproducts.com where you'll find great screen shots of content and testimonials.  We'd love to hear how your little wide-eyed reader does with matching "Johnny's" fun reading and language building games.  Happy Holidays!