Life of an Online Business – My Pillow place

Super Slow Month

Every time I hear about how many people are out of work, it seems like it affects our sales.  Every week the jobless numbers grow higher and less and less people spend money.  Even the people who have jobs are sitting there with worry and uncertainty.  All I can do is work hard on our websites every day and hope that the sales start picking up.  We’re going for another record low month in July and I can only hope that August is much better than this.

I’ve been preparing to add new products to the site.  I did add the Palermo Foam Chair to My Bean Bag Place this week.  Which I had added to My Pillow Place recently.  I’ve also started to pick some new products for the site.  But, even though I work hard improving this site, we’re still not seeing the results we want. 

In the last few days, I’ve discovered the Like Button from Facebook.  I’ve gone and added it to a bunch of pages on our site.  I think I like how this can improve popularity of individual pages.  I like how this can help traffic grow virally when people simply click the Like Button.  And I like that it tells you how many people have clicked it.

Long term, I’m not sure if this will be a good or bad thing.  I hope good.  But since I hate Facebook so much, I feel hypocritical using this Like Button feature.