| Hi, My name is Art Atkinson. I spent most
of my life in construction as a carpenter and when it became to hard for me to climb
over roofs and the heavy lifting, my wife Shirley and I decided to go into the craft
business. So in 1988 we started Designs by Rainbow. We built mostly wooden toy's,
doll furniture and home decor and taking them to craft shows.
It was very successful, but after a
few years with the rising cost of craft shows and the time spent there, we
discovered the Internet was the way to go. I went and got a book on web designing
and started studying.
We put our first wed site
"Atkinson's Woodproducts" on in 1994 and it looked pretty good but as I look
back it wasn't very good. But that is another story.
Ok, we have our web site on so were
are all those millions of people that are on the Internet? Surprise! It
doesn't matter how good your site is if no one knows it is there.
Well back to the drawing
board. After studying more books and searching the Internet we run across Cory
Rodel, a man that has mastered the art of web promotion.
We got a lot of tips and information on promoting our site at his web at Markingtips.com. He also puts out a free newsletter with a
lot of good articles. And since then our web traffic has continued to grow.
For the last several years
Shirley is designing
custom T-Shirts where she can express her artistic talent
in a broader way.
And from the old saying If you don't grow
you go. So in 2000 we opened our newest site A1
Custom Jewelry featuring
Hand Crafted Jewelry and in the mean time the Designs by Rainbow site has evolved into a full
online shopping mall.
Now you know where we came from and
where we are going.
Thank you for your time and if you have any
comments or question or if we can be of any help to you please drop us a line at Designs by Rainbow
Thank you Art &
Shirley Atkinson |
