Life of an Online Business – My Pillow place

What’s the Damage from 2011

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.