Life of an Online Business – My Pillow place

September ended up being our best month to date as far as sales go.  That is a good thing.  But our growth has been very minimal over August’s numbers.  Over the last few days, I’ve added a new product.  A new body pillow called the comfort U.  We noticed that we were ranked high for body pillow in Yahoo, so we wanted to add to our very small selection of body pillows.

One of the best things to happen recently is that we flew all the way up to the second page in yahoo for “bean bags“.  This is huge because it is a great traffic generator.  After seeing our traffic hover around the 4000 visitor per month mark for the last 3 months, I would like to see us have growth in our traffic.

October has been historically bad for us.  Not sure why.  Its probably the calm before the storm of the holiday shopping period which will ramp up soon.  I know the industry is slow right now because one of our drop shippers, who usually takes up to 3 weeks to ship out items, is getting stuff shipped within days right now.  That tells me that this must be a slow time and its not just us. 

I am hoping that the finally 3 months of 2007 can really be terrific for us in terms of sales, visitors and just general exposure to people in case they ever need something we are selling.  To help our October along, I’ve sent an email coupon code to our former customers who opted to be on our mailing list.  I hope a nice discount encourages them to come back and become repeat customers.  Our mailing list is short right now, but as time goes on it will grow.