Help create our T-shirt

Now that our name and logo are trademarked, we are ready to proceed to the toughest part of our business dream: raising funds. Our dream is to build a family recreation attraction featuring a ropes course, an obstacle course and a children's play area. Our research for our business plan came up with a figure of approximately $315,000 to build this dream, not including the land on which to build it.

We decided to try to raise money on the Internet after we read a story on CNBC in early January about a comedian who sold his latest comedy "album" on his website and made $1,000,000 in 10 days. We've read other stories of people raising money on the Internet, so we thought we would give it a try. We will gladly take donations, but we are going to sell T-shirts featuring our wonderful logo.

As you hopefully know, we are using our blog and our Facebook page to give people an opportunity to help develop our business dream. Your next opportunity is to help us decide what message to print above our logo on T-shirts.

For example, we could print "Follow me to the..." above our logo. Or "I can't wait to play at the..." Our good friend Kerry in Atlanta suggested, "I got ICED at..." We don't know what that means, but it may be exactly the message we need. Let us know what message you think would help sell more T-shirts.

Please share your suggestions on our Facebook page or by sending us an e-mail to info@arkansasdiamondmineadventure.com. If you really like what someone has already suggested, let us know that too. We will determine a winner in a few weeks. Then we can start printing T-shirts and selling them on our website and Facebook page. We are excited, and we hope you are too. Thank you for following us and for your encouragement.