08/25/2026
While we slept last night, we were gifted a new milestone...
Our Grinola profile has reached 2,000 followers! 🥳
What's cool about this is that we've seen a steady increase since we launched the business 23 months ago. We're just about on track for what we'd hoped for by this point, and we hope that more people will continue to join us as we go along. If you're inclined, please click the three dots at the top right on our main page and invite all your friends to join us as followers as well! 😃
We've tried to keep it real by sharing stories of what we're learning, the challenges we've faced, the ways in which we're growing, and how our family life has interacted with the process of starting and growing a small family business. Our goal has been to create and maintain a brand and products that make people smile, and to keep our voice clean, positive and uplifting...and you've responded to that with open arms. 🤗
And we've kept it as real as we can by writing our own posts and sharing our own photos, versus following an all-AI marketing model. We don't believe the algorithms and combined-source gathering of a computer program can effectively replicate our own voice to tell our story. 💬
Our mascot, Grinola Gus, has been generated using those tools because we don't have the artistic ability to render him as our mind's eye sees him (and our marketing budget doesn't allow for a real artist to draw him as often as we share his antics). The picture on this post is his first introduction, and he's had many adventures with us along the way. 🤠
Thank you so very much to every beautiful one of you who has joined us on this journey. A high proportion of you have liked, loved, and increasingly engaged with our posts. Each click counts. Every comment has encouraged us, promoted us, or given us new ideas. You've been so wonderful to share what you like about what we're doing here, and we love the feedback! 👍
We're terribly grateful for your support, Grinola fans! Stay with us and let's see what happens next with this experiment in home-grown small business! We can't do it without you! 👊
Because after all, Grinola is for regular folks...😁
