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This month flew by at an incredible pace… already June 1st and so many cool things happened! One of the biggest things to happen for the site is the 1 000 000 video views milestone. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to hit 2 000 000 total video views! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of May? Got some great new designs out the door including ZeusCannon’s Bulldozer Lamp, my Physics Trophy, Had [...]

The WoodMarvels.com brand keeps growing on a global basis…. from international sales to designers sending me some impressive work! Consider this, the past four month of sales are equivalent to 75% of all of 2010 sales on the site and this is normally a dead time sales wise! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of April? I designed and released some new models including: Easter Island Secret Storage Head Bookend, Spring Basket and Rusk Straf Dual-Ramjet Stealth [...]

March blew by at great speed… April already! Wow! I designed a few new things that will see the light of day in April but until then, I launched a few other projects in March. Things are usually dead sales wise this time of year but oddly enough, this year, things are just going up with international sales picking-up steam! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of March? Tom joined the ranks of WoodMarvels.com designers selling their [...]

February was surprisingly busy with some great models coming into the limelight with some others within days of release due to a long rendering queue. So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of February? I released a Mars Explorer vehicle and a massive Medieval Castle Had the huge Medieval Castle shown in a Nurberg, Germany International Toy Fair at the Trotec Laser booth! I released ‘behind the scenes’ design process for both the Mars Explorer and Medieval Castle [...]

The first month in the year is usually a dozer… meaning lots of sleep and a slowed pace of life. I must say, I took this opportunity to relax a bit… but not too much! I have a bunch of little projects and took time to reflect how I’ll promote WoodMarvels.com in the coming year, thinking of shortcomings and what can be improved. So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of January? I released a new model, a [...]

WoodMarvels.com 2010: The year that was amazing! I really believe that it’s important to set a number of goals for a company as well as your personal life in order to not only track progress but to set new milestones for new levels of achievement. I’ve luckily blogged about WoodMarvels.com from the very beginning and thanks to this good habit, I can easily track how things have evolved over time. Looking back at where WoodMarvels.com was at the end of [...]

Before I realized it, almost a quarter of December had passed and I hadn’t even done a November review! November was an amazing month, highest traffic, payouts and sales… EVER! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of November? Stephane, our newest designer, designed an amazing Farmer Junior Tractor WoodMarvels.com became an official Vector Clip 3D Reseller I wrote about the importance of designing stuff for WoodMarvels.com myself after realizing I hadn’t designed anything for a while and [...]

I thought September was nuts, well, October was nuts on steroids! Wow… so much happened and I don’t even remember half of it! This is why I do these public monthly reviews at WoodMarvels.com, it’s a way for me to evaluate my business and seek new opportunities. I had a few problems with uploading videos since I moved to China, hopefully those will get sorted out sooner than later but this month, total video views grew by a healthy 108%. [...]

This month involved more work than I could have ever imagined! I don’t think there’s been a month where I’ve been as busy as I was, not only in new projects but also in trade shows and starting a new sister company! Although my goal was to hit a total of 700K video views this month, the video views were down a bit but I’ll hit 700K for sure by November 1st! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the month [...]

I just completed the video stats for the month… over 60 000 video views! Wow! It means that WoodMarvels.com videos have now blew past the 600K mark in total views, I’m sure it’s much higher but I only keep track of a handful of them. From the month of July to the month of August, video growth is north of 111% in TOTAL VIEWS! What’s astonishing is that the summer months are our slowest months… September just hit and now [...]