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"Coffee" by Carol Marshall
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Carol Marshall has many unique pieces of jewelry inspired by nature! Her pieces are truly handcrafted one of a kind treasures found on GoZabo.com

Around the office-we have been having fun with riddles.

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Horse Hair PlatterVisit Diana Wittliff's Gallery to see other works created by Diana!

This Week I have decided to start out by giving you all a riddle! The answer to the riddle will be at the bottom of the newsletter but see if you can figure it out before you scroll down!

What is greater than God?
The Poor have it
The wealthy need it
It is more evil than the devil
If you eat it you would die!

This week I want to go over a few nuts and bolts about GoZabo!The site is really starting to get the feeder traffic that we have been waiting for which is generated by 1000's of search engines. We are seeing an increase in traffic to the site every day and are excited about the progress!

In October there is a "handmade" show in Tulsa, Oklahoma that we are sponsoring!Check out their website. Let them know that GoZaboists are interested in supporting their show by viewing their site!

Another exciting development-Kathy Hutson, a writer for the Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Michigan, is doing a featured article on GoZabo.com. As soon as I have a copy I will send it to all of you!

Please make sure that once an item is sold on GoZabo.com that you go into your account and under "Manage my products" delete them. This ensures that buyers do not get frustrated when they want to purchase a product and find that they can't!

TIP: When you add your biography or description of a product, GoZabo.com provides the ability to spell check your descriptions. Please spell check all of your gallery wording as there is nothing worst than seeing "misspelled" words (One of our major pet peeves here in the office)!

Our events calendar is being updated with new events continuously! If you know of an event please add it to our calendar under your artists navigation bar where it says "Add GoZabo Event".

Once you add an event, Gozabo staff reviews it and then we "Publish" it to the calendar. Until we "Publish" it you will not see it listed. This ensures GoZabo.com the ability to screen all events before they are added to the calendar to make sure they are relevant to the site!

As a new artist- if you do NOT add your biography to your gallery, you will not see your gallery show up under your state or city listings! Please make sure that you complete this!

We have added another person to our team - Patrick Stasko from Ohio. Patrick has been working at optimizing our site and making sure our keywords and search engine placement are "on the right Track". Thanks for everything Patrick! You're doing a great job!

I hope this newsletter finds you all well and if any of you are like me- time is a major commodity right now! There seems to be more to do than what can possibly get done but we are pleased with the sites growth and the caliber of artists that are joining us!

As always, we wish you much success in all you do and remember CHRISTMAS is only 4 months away! Be thinking about how you can advertise to your existing clients and direct them to your online gallery to increase your sales!

Cheers,
Julia Thomas
President/Founder
& The GoZabo Gang
Answer to Riddle: "Nothing"




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Cheers to all our GoZaboists!
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Apricot Drusy Pendant



Visit Artist Julie Claire DeVoe's online Gallery!

August - The last days of summer are upon us!
As I sat outside on my Aunt's porch a couple of days ago, I realized summer was on its way out. Her once vibrant and full pots of geraniums, pansies, tomato plants and daisies that lined her walkways and hung from her porch railings were looking "tired"~I know my Aunt diligently and daily waters her plants so they weren't looking sparse because of neglect! Their "naturalogical" time clock was telling them the end of summer was upon us~. As my thoughts turned to the future I couldn't believe that in just 3 short weeks my "baby" would be starting her Senior Year in High School and my oldest would be starting her 3rd year in college! Wow, how time flies!
So to all of you that may be reflecting and wondering where your summer has gone - try to schedule a break in all of your hectic lives and take a little extra time to enjoy what we have left of our long summer days as fall is knocking ever so gently on our back door!

Congratulations
to Helen Van Essendelft for winning our profile picture contest that ended on August 2nd! Check out Helen's creative profile picture submission! Helen has won a free GoZabo t-shirt and mug! Congratulations Helen!

For a limited time only
GoZabo has implemented the new "GoZabo Guarantee" to all of our new artists! When an artist signs up for a 6 month or 1 year subscription on GoZabo.com if they don't sell any of their works, we will extend the time of their originally purchased subscription FOR FREE!!! As a new site we wanted to give artists a "your satisfaction guaranteed" reason to Join GoZabo and show how confidant we are that GoZabo IS the site for artists to sell their works!

Last but not least -
My husband and I had an opportunity to meet one of the artists on GoZabo.com at a reception given in his honor in Grand Haven, Michigan. Rick Wienecke and his wife Daphna live in Israel about 1 hour north of Jerusalem. We had a wonderful visit with Rick and Daphna and the joy of not only seeing Rick's sculptures and pictures but also hearing about Rick's God inspired life during his presentation! Although Rick is a sculptor of bronze, stone and other media - his American liaisons sell Photos of his works on Gozabo. View Rick's personal site here where I would encourage you all to view his project the "Fountain of Tears" bringing the Holocaust and Christ's crucifiction together through art. His project which is erected in his backyard is becoming a well known tourist attraction in Israel!

Until Next week May all of you stay safe and have Much success in all you do!

Cheers,
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