Obsession: Google Analytics

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Are any of you other Bloggers/Shop Owners as obsessed with Google Analytics as I am?  I admit... I check it every day.

So this evening when I noticed that my shop had some hits from a new source, I thought I should check it out.  It was a blog that  I do not advertise on... so I thought, Oh how nice!  She must have talked about my shop.

She did.  But it was not as nice as I had hoped.

It started out well, and at first I was really excited.  I mean the title was good:  The post about where I died and went to heaven

Wow, she must really like my calendars!

The beginning sounded great:

There is this lady, she started a business. A successful business. She MAKES CUSTOM PERSONALIZED CALENDERS. Like planners. Like just how you need then. And they're cute. And OH EM GEE I think I might die. Of course the OCD Type A in me was whipping out my debit card and ready to lay down the dineros for a personalized planner. How FREAKING PERFECT would this be?!?! 

Then I read the rest:

But, hold the phone Betty....48 bucks! And then I got a little sad. I refuse to pay $48 just on principle since I have a perfectly good planner right now that is pretty similar inside, just not decorated all pretty. And it's color coded. Yes, COLOR coded. Work days are in red pen, Colts games are in blue pen, birthdays are in black, payday is green, etc.

And then I started thinking of how I could decorate my already perfect on the inside calendar...

Now I am sad.  I guess she doesn't realize that handmade products are very difficult to make a profit on.  Or that we make these calendars from start to finish in my little office.  Or that at Staples you can pay $25 for a plain, plastic, cheap, ugly, non-personalized, horribly laid-out calendar.  Or that last year over 400 customers didn't think $48 was too much to pay.  Or that a local retail shop sells them for over $60... that would blow her mind!

They say any publicity is good publicity, right?  That is what I am going to tell myself tonight.

*UPDATE*

In case you don't look at comments, I woke up this morning to my husband cracking up at this one:

I'm so sad right now! This is totally NOT how I meant it to come across. The calendar is ABSOLUTELY worth the price. I meant, and maybe didn't come across as saying so well, that I refuse to spend money on a planner BECAUSE I have a perfectly good one I just filled out with all my information. Granted, it is in fact a generic one that I have ripped out pages and tabbed pages. It's still kind of messy and not perfect which is why the OCD in me screamed when I stumbled upon your site AHHH GOODNESS GRACIOUS I MUST HAVE!! But then frugal, single mamma on a budget in me went "hold on there crazy YOU HAVE A PLANNER".

I'm going to post a follow up on my blog explaining my foot in mouth (keyboard in mouth?) so to speak and you will be getting an order from me soon.

I'm so sorry!

He said to me, "Now you have had your first hater and your first blog war."

I informed him that this is not a blog war.
Just the opposite
I have a new friend now, same as with my "hater".

Welcome Jen... now I am going to give you a free calendar because I didn't mean to make you feel bad, and I certainly don't want people thinking we are in a blog war.

P.S.  I love people.  There was also a comment from Linsie of Munchkin Things and Strings saying that she was going to send me a credit towards Jen's purchase.  And she did.  Thank you for your generosity Linsie, but I will send it back since I am going to give Jen a free calendar.

P.P.S.  Don't go getting any ideas that if you blog a complaint about my shop I will send you a free calendar.  I'm not made of money here people!