What’s the Damage from 2011
January 20, 2012 at 8:05 pm | Posted in Graphic Novel, Internet Business | Leave a commentTags: affiliate site, internet business, online retail, passive income
Well, were deep into January 2012 now. Lots of changes coming. 2011 turned out to give us about a 5% decrease in sales from the previous years. I feel like we’re holding steady, but I want to grow every year. But some interesting things happened that made us have to change direction. We said goodbye to our biggest vendor because their product quality had diminished to a degree that I was embarrassed to sell their products. Every other order had some sort of mistake attached to it including shipping the wrong products to customers, charging us wrong, inserting the wrong address and much, much more.
Also big changes coming…I think we will be saying good bye to My Bean Bag Place. That was an experiment in building a store and trying to maximize exposure of our product lines. But it has been unsuccessful. On top of that it costs money to run the site and well…I just don’t want to do it anymore. I’m focusing my energies on My Pillow Place. And I also want to pursue some other business ideas that will bring a more passive income.
We’ve also brought on a new vendor of Kid Products called KidKraft. We will be spending the next few months reviewing their products and adding them in a new kid furniture section on My Pillow Place.
I will also be promoting the comic book/graphic novel I created called SPECTRE: A Dark Matter which is available in paperback and recently added a kindle addition on Amazon. With this I will be creating an eBook on how to make & publish your own comic book. So I will be tying all of this stuff, on the comic book side of the business, with my Comic Book promoting website Tibari Outpost.
This is really exciting for me because I have been drawing and creating the characters in my book for many years. And now their getting exposure to other people. And maybe someday, someone important will notice my work. But even if they don’t, I love the idea of being able to put my work out there. Tibari Outpost is more of an information site on the characters, locations and other things involved with the universe I’ve created. But it is also an opportunity to promote my book and upcoming books, teach people how to create their own and expose them to the tools I use to do the work that I do. Things like photoshop and other software products.
Finally, we still have our affiliate site, turned adsense site called YourHomescape.com. I want to expand this site with more information and remove the affiliate part of it and just post useful articles that can help people with information on things around the home and make a few extra bucks with adsense ads too.
That is about it for now. I want to pursue some other online businesses in the future. But I’ve got a lot on my plate right now and I want to finish these current projects before I move on to the next.
Rolling towards the Holidays.
September 4, 2011 at 3:48 am | Posted in online retailing | Leave a commentWell, I’ve been adding products like a mad man to my pillow place. I’ve been constantly replacing old, unavailable products with new and fun items that will hopefully sell really well. In the last week I’ve added 2 new Bean Bag Products. The Jaxx Solo Bean Bag Chair and the Jaxx Solo Jr. Bean Bag. A really neat take on the bean bag. It offers flexibility with several different sitting configurations.
Next, we’ve added the Jaxx Critter Foam Bean Bag Chair. Chair to My Pillow Place. This is a really fun bean bag chair and I think kids will love it. If I was a kid, I would want one…or two. The cool thing is that our manufacturer only released this product to a few retailers and I’m pretty sure we’re the first to post it. Check it out below.
New My Pillow Place
August 13, 2011 at 8:30 am | Posted in online retailing | Leave a commentIt’s been quite awhile since I have posted here and in the last few months, My Pillow Place has gone through a slew of changes. The thing that prompted this change has been a major change by one of our biggest suppliers. For a long time we put almost all of our eggs in the basket of one company. We knew that if something ever happened to this company, we would be screwed.
Now, we think they’ve screwed themselves. They’ve basically pared down their product line to a few crappy pieces that are expensive to ship. They’ve taken their fabric selection from over 50 to less than 10 choices. And the worst thing, all of the helpful people who we worked with over there, have either been fired, or quit. And that means the customer service is suffering so badly that we’re having problems with almost every order and no one to help us fix it.
So, we are basically removing their products one by one and replacing them with items we can actually sell that are high quality. That reminds me, another thing that got worse with this wonderful company that supplied us product for the last 4 years…the quality of their product has greatly diminished. And we just could no long justify selling products that we wouldn’t buy ourselves.
With this change in our site, we’ve added a few areas of focus…new categories of product if you will….First we added a frame furniture section which includes items like Scroll Chairs and End Tables. These items don’t necessary fit into what My Pillow Place started as, but we like the idea of expanding into other markets.
We also added an Outdoor Patio Furniture Section. This is because we seem to have a lot of people calling and asking if some of our products could be used outside and we wanted to fill that request. Your potential customers can really give you insight to what you should be selling.
Lastly, we added a section called accessory furniture. These are items that can act as accessories to your existing furniture or compliment the furniture you buy from us. This includes things like accent pillows, Block furniture and more.
Check out the multitude of new products at My Pillow Place. We’re adding a few new products every week with the goal of expanding our site and finding a whole new group of customers to please. We’ve even added a whole new group of quality Decorative Accent Pillows…
Jaxx Club Cocoon
May 9, 2011 at 7:54 am | Posted in bean bags | Leave a commentWe’ve been selling the Cocoon Foam Chair for a long time now…probably about 3 or 4 years. Its been a good seller and I even own one myself. But it has one problem, its pretty big. If you don’t have the space, you’re going to have to move out to accomodate it. Well, the manufacturer has just introduced a slightly smaller version of this great piece. It’s called the Jaxx Club Cocoon.
The Jaxx Cocoon, for those who don’t know, is a very large (6 ft diameter) Round Foam Pillow. It is around 12 inches thick. It can best be described as a large round crash pad. But if you turn it on its edge, it becomes a Foam Chair large enough for two.
Like I said, this thing is great, if you have the space. Many people don’t. My sister is one who bought the big one and has no room for it. I’ve been asking for a mid-Sized Cocoon for a long time and the manufacturer finally has listened to me. I’m not saying that I am the reason they made the 5 Ft diameter Foam Cocoon, but I did ask for them too a while back. I’m also pushing for a Mid-Sized Pillow Sac, another one of their products that remains a top seller.
Any-hoooo, here it is….the Jaxx Club Cocoon…and we welcome it to My Pillow Place, and before long will bring to to My Bean Bag Place.
Transitions
May 8, 2011 at 9:22 am | Posted in online retailing, pillows | Leave a commentFor reasons I cannot divulge in a public forum such as this, I have to make some changes to our websites. This will include removing some products from one site and adding them to the other site. So, you will now see new categories on My Bean Bag Place. Today I created a Body Pillows Splash Page and a Read in Bed Pillows Splash Page.
I also started adding new product to the site. In the Read in Bed Pillow section, I’ve introduced the Bedlounge to My Bean Bag Place. The Bedlounge should be a great addition to My Bean Bag Place and I hope it does well there. I actually would have added this product awhile ago, but there was an issue with the company that makes it. They had been out of fabric that they make their covers out of for the last 4 months. So we basic have only had about 1 or 2 fabrics to offer our customers. Well, today, they must have gotten a huge supply in because we were able to re-post the fabrics on our site. Thankfully…I can’t imagine how many sales we’ve lost for this product over the past several months. Maybe they’ll all come back now.
In the next several days I will be adding more reading pillows and a few more body pillows….This is another opportunity to cast a wide net and get more visitors/possible customers to our Sites.
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