Promoting my online shop

Here I am again, creating an online buzz about my online shop that sells fashion accessories. Sales these past few months are kind of slow. Maybe because competition is stiff nowadays with a lot of online shops sprouting not only in Multiply but also in Facebook. I still refuse to migrate selling in Facebook because Facebook for me, is more of a personal account and I reckon this is also the case for others. So I’m happy with my current online shop in Multiply and swore to myself that I will not tag my friends in Facebook about my wares. I’ll just find other ways in increasing my sales without being too pushy and with a code of ethics in mind.

One way to promote my online shop, Pink Fortune, is through classifieds. Just like including our blogs in link directories, listing our online shops in different classifieds and directories will make it more visible to prospective customers and buyers. It’s also free so there’s nothing to lose, just hardwork and patience because creating and posting classifieds can be quite tedious especially when manually entering the details. But I promise, you’ll gain a sale/s from these listings. I once read that in sales, one must not stop marketing his/her products.

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Pink Fortune’s new look and new uploads

It’s been a more than a year since I changed my online shop’s layout, Pink Fortune. Maybe one of the reasons of my online selling hiatus for a few months is because I got tired of the new layout. I asked Ann of Design.Create.Art to revamp my site last April, but she got busy until now. Finally, my Multiply online shop has a fab new look and I love it to bits!

Pink Fortune

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A holiday update

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays everyone! I’ve been MIA for quite some time, I’m sorry for the lack of updates. I should include on my New Year’s Resolution to update my blog regularly next year. As much as I would like to write and posts all my food-related posts, I just can’t find the time because orders from my online shop, Pink Fortune, kept pouring and I can’t turn them down. And I’m really thankful for my sales this year, yey!

Aside from my shop, I’ve been busy with our Christmas presentation in the office, we have to make a music video instead of the usual group presentation of a sing/dance number on the day of our party. I thought a music video is cool and less time-consuming but I was wrong. It took away all my December weekends because we have to go to location shoots, hehe. But all our hardwork and embarassment paid off, we bested the four groups with our Honey by Mariah Carey. Kudos to our director Alvin and our beautiful lead star whose name I won’t reveal, hehe… Geeesh, I don’t know why I’m posting this but anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy our amateur music video… look for me in that vid =)

Multiply supports online sellers!

It has been an issue since last year that Multiply deletes online shops since it’s a violation of their terms of service. Well, online sellers have a reason to rejoice because Multiply now supports online sellers. On your account info, you can now choose the account whether it’s personal or online shop so that you can properly identify your site. Below is Multiply’s official statement:

Until now, running a shop on Multiply has technically been a violation of our terms of service. As long as you didn’t spam anyone though, we simply looked the other way and let you go about your business. I know that this policy didn’t exactly give you all a lot of comfort, so I’m happy to announce that we’ve updated our terms of service to reflect the fact that running a shop on Multiply is now an officially endorsed activity.

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I will never miss a sale again

Aside from being a blogger, I’m also an online seller at Multiply, in fact, I’m enjoying this sideline for 2 years now. I get to do things I love which is to shop and do crafts like beading. Earning from it is just an added bonus as well as gaining friends along the way. Maintaining an online shop is quite a task, I have to check everyday for inquiries, post blogs and ads about new products, update my clients for the status of their orders, checking if they have received the items in good condition, etc… Aside from the online inquiries, I also get inquiries and orders thru text messages even in the wee hours of the morning. That’s the beauty of online shopping, you can shop 24/7 at the convenience of your own home and with only just a few clicks.

So how can the buyers inform me with their orders? Well, it’s with the use of Online Order Forms that makes things easier. There are free HTML generators out there such as Wufoo.com or Freedback.com which I currently use that automatically sends an order form to my email address whenever a buyer submits one. The Order Forms I receive looks like the photo below:

order forms sent to my email
order forms sent to my email

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My uber cute business card and product tags

If you’re a blogger or a shop owner who wants to market your site, then you already know that giving out business cards is one great way to increase exposure with your site. Your card’s design can also make or break a possible visitor at your site or a possible buyer from your online shop. So having a well-designed business card and product tag is a must. If you’re giving out a rather dull and boring plain-text business card, chances are people might just forget about it or worse, throw them away. Now, if you’re card are cute and colorful, people have a tendency to keep it and therefore, they can have a recall of your blog or shop site.

Have you ever visited a candy store and felt so much joy just looking at the colorful candies? That’s how you’ll feel when visiting Sugarprints’ Multiply site. I first ordered product tags for my online shop from Ethel, next are stickers, then business cards for my blog. Come to think of it, sometimes I’m only trying to make an excuse to have another round of orders just so I can have my dose of cute stickers.

product tags for Pink Fortune
product tags for Pink Fortune

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