marv golland

Commerce

On Line Personalized Gift

My wife is an artist, and has been in business for 5 years. She provides personalized gifts for all occasions such as graduation, mothers day, fathers day. This year, for the first time we have received ZERO orders in these categories for the past few month. A true sign of our hard economic times.

On the plus side she has recently added a new product, Troops in Touch post cards for children of military parents as a way for families to stay in touch. This has received significant interest.

[Editors' Note: You can learn more about the author and artist Melissa Seligman by visiting her listing on our Uncommon Economics Indicators bulletin board. http://issues.wnyc.org/wiki/index.php/Bulletin_board]