10/06/2026
When I opened Valentines I made the decision to not do any formal advertising, no radio ads, no commercials, just flyers made by me and our social media to lead the way. I opened our doors with a tiny business loan and marketing just wasn’t in the budget, so I’ve worked really hard at our social presence to drive sales. I’ve been loosely following our analytics to compare to sales with a silly goal of one million total views all on our own in our first year opened, today I sat down to look at the numbers after 4 months open and holy cow was I blown away.
Since our store opening, we have gained (Facebook, insta, and TikTok combined) 9,174 followers, over 10,000 shares of our content, over 100k likes and a total of 1,770,000 views 🤯 almost two million people have seen our businesses name in 4 months..que the imposter syndrome.
As a brand new small business that absolutely shocked me in the best way possible, the support never ceases to amaze me.
Thank you Kalamazoo 😩🥹
