A Soap Give-away!

I have been inspired by my recent win of some super essential oils from Supplies by Hello, and decided to have my own give-away!

Free Soap!

The winner will receive TWO BARS of soap of YOUR CHOICE gratis, no-charge, postage-paid, FREE! There are lots of ways to enter: enter as many ways as you would like and you will get an entry for each one.


How to earn entries in the drawing:

1. Go to Sirona Springs online store and browse all of the available soap. Then leave a comment here telling which of the soaps you would like if you win. You have to at least do this in order to be in the drawing.

2. Follow my blog. If you already "follow" me (all three of you, ha!) and leave a comment with your choice of soap, I'll give you two entries.

3. Post about my give-away on your own blog. Comment here and leave me a link to your post.

4. Become a fan on our Facebook fan page.

5. Tweet about the giveaway on Twitter. Include our user name @SironaSprings so that I will see the tweet.

Be sure that I have some way to contact you (through your Blogger account or in your comments) in case YOU win!

Get all your entries in by midnight PDT May 31, 2009 and we will pick a winner June 1 using Random.org.

Good luck! And consider subscribing to our newsletter so we can let you know about our next give-away!

In order to spread the word about the benefits of handmade soap (and to grow our list of newsletter subscribers) we are having a Spread the Word! promotion. First, if you haven't already signed up to receive our newsletter, sign up now! (right over there ->) After your sign-up is confirmed, invite a friend to visit our website and also sign up for our newsletter. As soon as that's done, we will email both you and your friend a 15%-off coupon code. Use it to save on everything in our store!

The important details:
Invite as many friends as you'd like (who doesn't like a coupon?). Remind them to include your name in the "Referred by" field so that we know where to send your coupon code. You will get a coupon for each referral until the end of the promotion on 4/30/09, but only one coupon code can be used per order.

If you already love handmade soap, this a great reason to talk it up to your friends. And if you haven't experienced handmade soap, check out our Soap FAQs on the Sirona Springs website and take advantage of this great opportunity to save on your first order!

Open for Business

Well, here we go!
The Sirona Springs website has a working cart as of yesterday, and today I sent out a mass emailing to friends and family announcing the grand opening. And I almost immediately got two orders! I have to admit, that felt nice. It definitely feels real now.

Time to start planning more soap!

And just in case you missed it, there's a sale going on! Until February 15, use the discount code GRNDOPNG to get 10% off your entire order.

Soap Teasers

I've started loading up my website with pictures and descriptions of some items today - teasers, if you will. (Click on the picture of the soap on the sidebar to go there now...go on...you know you'll have to sooner or later). This has pushed me into learning a little bit about HTML coding (which is a lot more than I ever thought I would learn about HTML coding). But it's working and I'm happy with all of my "customizing". I even got myself a favicon! (That's the little picture that shows up next to the web address up at the top of the browser window.) I'll be taking more photos and loading more pics in the coming days, so stay tuned.

Any day now...

Well, it's still in the works, but a functioning retail website for the new soap business is coming! (yes, really) I'm excited about my brand new logo (the wavy one, ^ up there), soap is curing, packaging is coming, and the website is ready for all of the pictures and descriptions. As soon as I get some labels printed and gather up the shipping supplies, I'll finally have to take the plunge and do it already! Even I am getting annoyed with myself as I continue to dither and hesitate (so you know something has got to change soon...)