tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90651674474159460332024-02-22T11:42:51.303-06:00Diary of a Working MomThis is my journey to become a stay at home mom facilitated by my internet business and my blog.
My business is starting with dogdishstore.com.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-5914359999594899532009-10-15T10:58:00.002-05:002009-10-15T11:14:04.351-05:00Fantastic Marketing Resource!<div style="background-color: white; width: 500px;">Another recent website I’ve come across is <a href="http://www.hubspot.com/" style="color: blue;">hubspot.com</a><span style="color: blue;">.</span> It is a fantastic educational website for people starting their own website. I’ve listened to a couple of webinars and read some articles. They are very helpful! They have products they sell to make life easier on a website developer, but they aren’t shoving it down your throat. They show you the long way around if you don’t want to go the easy rout with their product(s). It’s an exceptional website and is well known on the internet with thousands of references throughout the internet. <br />
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SOME of the topics that are gone through are:<br />
• Blogging. Why it’s important to your website.<br />
• Marketing analytics and how it can work for you.<br />
• SEO<br />
• List of other marketing tools available.<br />
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There is an excellent workshop that Hubspot did. <span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://pauljnelson.com/staticpages/index.php?page=IMW051309" style="color: blue;">It’s available for everyone</a> on-line actually. <br />
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<b>If you’ve worked with <a href="http://www.hubspot.com/" style="color: blue;">hubspot</a> or listen to the workshop, post a comment. I’d love to hear from you! <br />
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</div>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-22025717973378138322009-10-13T14:00:00.001-05:002009-10-13T22:08:19.939-05:00<div style="background-color:white;width:500px;">It's been a while since I've written. I've changed the name of the website to Your Pet Store With More. Now I can offer various pet supplies and don't cater to only dog lovers and their friends. I'm starting with adding cat supplies. I'm excited about the change!<br />
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Since I've written last I've been continuing to work on the website in the matter of marketing and adding new products. <br />
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I have found a few very helpful resources of late. The first is <a href="http://websitemagazine.com/">Website Magazine</a>. Only a few stories into my first issue and I love it. The issue has reminded me that I need to keep up on my network marketing to get my store noticed. <br />
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I've added a page to <a href="http://www.yourpetstorewithmore.com/pages/where-to-find-us.com">my website</a> that lists all the places I can be found on the internet. Helps me keep it all straight AND helps my customers find me.<br />
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I've started a lens on Squidoo. More on that tomorrow.<br />
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This update brought to you by our Savvy Tabby Cat Toy<br />
-Our Interactive Cat Toys by Savvy Tabby called Jungle Jabbers are creatively designed cat toys in fashionable animal prints.<br />
-Feathered balls make an enticing peeping sound.<br />
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You can create a blog here, but for now I'm treating it like all4webs and just creating a front page for people to click for my real website. Here's my <a href="http://dogdishstoreweebly.weebly.com/">Weebly page.</a><br /><br />All of these were very easy to use and just took a few minutes to set-up. Hopefully it will bring new visitors.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-2905887928597727592009-07-03T22:17:00.007-05:002009-07-03T22:32:58.178-05:00New ProductsI'm adding new products that I'm hoping will bring in new customers that are looking for a top quality dog dish. They are unique dog dishes hand crafted by a company called Melia. I received a phone order for a pair of dishes a few days ago and the customer was very surprised at the low cost compared to other sites offering the same dog dishes. They can be personalized or not. I'm very excited to be able to offer such a quality product! Check them out for yourself and let me know what you think. <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/137376/Melia-Personalized-Ceramic-Dog-Dishes-Set-of-2_845446.html">Luxury Ceramic Dog Dishes</a> <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/137376/Melia-Personalized-Dog-Bowls-2-Ceramic-Dishes_629348.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvE7Vv6ActMHX7umiDA6ax4p-K4KAiFKG3gkvz2rhzLRMvxbpGOcYYLxS9TNi-aU_HKD4hORJjLlCeD08ElhX_DUCaMh8DWzlnyHvwP9iGgrB61IMceMyDKkEYuiBRuheTvE22bMw_xQ/s200/blue-dog-dish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354440236822506706" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/137376/Melia-Personalized-Ceramic-Dog-Dishes-Set-of-2_845446.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg36Hu-XTW1-bhpOZ7x1pNGeXD00u_4_r4fqewyiscmH8Mmpyk4E4nk0ZKL6FgOPhQSZaoKq2Zg7nmoSwQDA4vKrTIERfzf3-0OW64cyx9jANnnkFErgdbPBphDMnfyN0RcSo1PSxmItWQ/s200/green-dog-dish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354441042776365378" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/137376/Personalized-Dog-Bowls-2-Ceramic-Dishes-Set_629343.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60QkYUtpBA1f2QOCJ42P3sR86n2qW5e9jZXaub-J5ty1VgKcXRGvPqi-n6Dr-QZEPkWVHN8FwdPFCvvA92svdJms4uJnBCmihZgm06ikbgbjKJRsv4-Zl7pCJ-MwBdkMeaPyvzYNn4Do/s200/black-dog-dish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354441343950086418" /></a>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-3942273271366748882009-07-03T16:22:00.004-05:002009-07-03T16:34:21.312-05:00BISI Down For a dayThis week was rough for Buy It Sell It account holders this week. Everything was lost up until the 26th for a full day and later restored. While the restoration was happening nobody had administrative access to their stores. This cause understandable fear and panic amongst store owners. BISI will lose many stores because of this outage. I myself am considering moving to zencart.com. I'm still trying to weigh the pros and cons. Everyone that has moved to zencart.org seem very happy with their stores. I'll have to search their community boards and see how many complaints there are. The cost of both are the same. However I did just sign up with propay a couple months ago for them to handle my credit card transactions and I can't use propay with Zen Cart. Luckily I wasn't impacted very much by the BISI outage, but who knows what will happen if there is a next time. In looking at the boards of BISI it appears that people are <a href="http://community.buyitsellit.com/Topic43168-9-1.aspx">still having problems</a> though. Check out these complaints from <a href="http://sellinglounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1801&view=unread#unread">The Selling Lounge</a>. Well I'm off to dinner and the park to relax and not think about this whole mess.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-22384432272621552022009-06-20T21:24:00.008-05:002009-06-21T21:30:27.761-05:00The weather is finally heating up around here. I can't say the same for the store sales. Because of that, and because it's been a few weeks I'm starting to think about another newsletter. I'll get one out in the next week or so. Haven't been doing much with the store in the last week or so. I wonder if that's why I haven't had many sales or because we're getting into summer full swing.<br /><br />I've also started sending out coupon codes in the form of a flyer and attached business cards to everyone on my mailing list. Hopefully that will bring in repeat business and hopefully people will refer friends.<br /><br />I've started to try entering more comments in blogs to see if I can get a higher ranking with my blog through google. I've actually found a few very interesting blogs in the process.<br /><br />Speaking of search engines... Microsoft has come out with a new search engine called <a href="http://www.bing.com/">Bing.com</a> so I've submitted my site there. We'll see if that increases my traffic. After a week or two of submission I don't see many people coming from there at all. As far as visibility of Bing.com... I've seen commercials for it. I had to be told by someone what it was though. Not really a good sign when you don't know what something is after seeing a commercial AND visiting the website. I haven't defaulted to using <a href="http://www.bing.com/">bing.com</a> for myself but Bill Gates does know how to market and produce a great product so who knows where bing.com will be in 6 months.<br /><br />This blog post brought to you by<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/122059/Dog-Carrier-Bike-Car-SeatBasket_805398.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 154px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKAkTbd5dRg7fdkYVskWLd14OPirMPfDg7frG6iPL70GxsrxuH3zEK9znnkY7QaDqMXDT_DmlenXPJhdo4Sk_uCigklsGRsk_MEPA73r67gM4s1YucxVTDhuegM_ThZP9rbMUO7JN6Do/s200/dog-carrier-all.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349972208487348754" border="0" /></a>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-10050009748798878562009-06-09T22:24:00.004-05:002009-06-09T22:35:42.062-05:00First newsletter was a success!I included a 15% off coupon and someone purchased a <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/129657/Guardian-Gear-Large-Dog-Pool_601017.html">dog pool</a>. These have become very popular in the store. Of the 28 emails I sent I'm including the responses below. I don't think they are too bad. I like that nobody opted out.<br /><br /><ul><li class="link-present first"> <span> 28</span> Sent </li><li class="link-present"> <span>12 Views </span></li><li class="link-present"> <span>16</span> Untraced </li><li class="link-present"><span>8 </span>Clicked</li><li class="link-present"> <span>0</span> Forwarded </li><li class="link-present"><span>0 </span>Bounced </li><li class="link-present">0 Unsubscribed</li></ul>On another note, I have begun to have an average of 1.5 sales per day. I'm very excited about that. The <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/129657/Guardian-Gear-Large-Dog-Pool_601017.html">dog pool</a> has been extremely popular. It is a terrific price with terrific quality so where could a person go wrong?<br /><br />I've begun printing my snail mail flyer to send out to customers. With the flyer I am including a coupon code for 10% off anything in the store for them and if they refer a friend them and the friend will receive 10% off. I'm just waiting for stamps from USPS and I'll mail them out. I'm hoping for some good word of mouth advertising.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-58866346090263460022009-05-29T21:30:00.004-05:002009-05-29T21:49:12.282-05:00NewslettersI have decided to sign up with a service called <a href="http://madmimi.com/r/9e1bf34472174eadec17fc5e1ccaafdb">Mad Mimi </a>that helps you create a newsletter for your business. For the long time I thought I needed to have lots of customers to justify this account. But even at 25 customers I can send out a newsletter. I mean they can forward these offers to friends, they can be reminded they purchased from me and remember the good experience they had with my store.<br /><br />I have created the mailing list and now I need to create the newsletter. They have quite a few tools on there so that should make it easier than starting from scratch with the limited tools I have on my computer.<br /><br />This post brought to you by our Dog Agility Training Course. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/142134/Dog-Agility-Starter-Kit-Agility-Equipment_659701.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uM0ttKyQFZZUpezlo3TFxrKs1gVLG6Re_NeD94vQvGS1l_jag3ldbqA_FKgdWTYxK87nVRVZxurLZC-lT-1eneyiTcYH8FUKK_IU85djHzi0d7bEsFGhdaVLijXYbC7xrc93C6Jbt1I/s200/agility-course.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341441974148642386" border="0" /></a>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-83872198728529699402009-05-27T08:01:00.005-05:002009-05-29T21:48:41.204-05:00So I've gotten 100 submissions with my forms using Jotform.com. I decided to become a paying member last night. It's $9 a month and there are discounts for signing up for a year. I'm not sure how long I'll be asking people through Twitter for their photos. Well, I guess it is a good way for people to look at the site. I was thinking it's time consuming to add the photos but I think in the end it's worth it. People enjoy seeing their pets on the website and it gives them a chance to browse the website while they're submitting. I signed up for the paid account last<br /><br />I've also been pointed to a resource that allows your website logo to show up in the address bar. It's called a fav icon. The site I went to to generate my code is <a href="http://www.iconj.com/" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">http://www.iconj.com/</a> . I'm excited about this little feature.<br /><br />I've also added a Share and a Bookmark icon to the site. Hopefully people will use the buttons.<br /><br />I'm in the process of working with Mad Mimi a service where you can create a newsletter and hold your newsletter subscribers. It's free up to 100 names. I'm nowhere near 100 names so I'll be good for a while unless I'm lucky and suddenly get a lot of new customers.<br /><br />1 day after I fixed the credit card with Propay I got 2 credit card orders. I hope it continues.<br /><br />This post brought to you by our popular Guardian Gear Large Pool . <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/129657/Guardian-Gear-Large-Dog-Pool_601017.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzO2ht-AyNymXI2K1XywtifRERk9f8OLKib02H4D4fT0p6NBx8mtwNYWJ0tRIAYL9VfRtSu66Ly_5ufF25722qbeyKjNaAUx81CWY3y1dvu9Q1yVqqVJl5Sxo_G2qUaSmXzDak1C5V6s/s200/dog-pool.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341443175347541250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-19327811476900759382009-05-22T20:47:00.004-05:002009-05-22T21:14:11.418-05:00I'm trying something different with <a href="http://www.catdishstore.com/">Cat Dish Store</a>. I'm charging $6.99 for shipping on all products. I don't want to do it with <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/">Dog Dish Store</a> just yet. That would mean updating hundreds of products. I don't have a lot of products on the <a href="http://www.catdishstore.com/">Cat Dish Store</a> yet so I'll see how it goes there first.<br /><br />Just added a book-mark button and share button to the my Dog Dish Store site to encourage people to bookmark my site or share with a friend. Even if they don't push the button it might get people to think about taking the long route in doing so.<br /><br />I checked my abandoned carts on Google on Friday and saw that I had 200+ in the last 30 days. Maybe that's average... not sure but to me it was alarming. I tried to process a transaction on the site for a penny to test it and found that that my credit card processing system wasn't working. I use Propay with Buy It Sell It. Looking through community threads in Buy It Sell It I was able to see that I needed to contact Propay. I apparently had some kind of restriction on my account at Propay that wasn't allowing credit card transactions to go through. So I charged a penny successfully. So we'll see if that change impacts my sales for the better.<br /><br />This blog entry brought to you by a Unique Kitty Hideaway<a href="http://www.catdishstore.com/product/143421/Unique-Kitty-Hideaway-Fish-Cat-Tunnel_675384.html"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDvafB3euZkLvHMn-Jjz1UPNWdI-NN35Uyno6wEzhZc0sYB2EZ6i9hwqOXSEzTMftZrAOZCJkTDQ08cypMPhFql8Sx28-3ycoNPnf9OtdIMdVoBfCngSoFbCt4FwJDJQMDsVu0Fx-DUE/s1600-h/cat-toy.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDvafB3euZkLvHMn-Jjz1UPNWdI-NN35Uyno6wEzhZc0sYB2EZ6i9hwqOXSEzTMftZrAOZCJkTDQ08cypMPhFql8Sx28-3ycoNPnf9OtdIMdVoBfCngSoFbCt4FwJDJQMDsVu0Fx-DUE/s200/cat-toy.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338832950568404322" border="0" /></a>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-91018385350106712752009-05-20T07:44:00.006-05:002009-05-20T07:57:47.491-05:00A Couple New Sources for you22 followers now! Welcome to all! <br /><br />I've started my <a href="http://www.catdishstore.com">catdishstore.com</a> twitter account. I've changed my welcome message to ask people to submit cat pictures and dog pictures for the <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com">dogdishstore.com</a> and have gotten quite a few responses. I'm very pleased with the level of response as a matter of fact.<br /><br />If you need a company to provide you with forms for your website check out <a href="http://www.jotform.com">jotform.com</a>. It's free up until I think 100 submissions. I'm hoping I don't reach that with how many photos are being submitted but it might be close. Whenever possible I ask people to email me the photos to avoid the form submission.<br /><br />I continue to be very pleased with my <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dogdishstore">Twitter</a> accounts. It's bringing customers and now photos to my store.<br /><br />I ordered my business cards from <a href="http://www.vistaprint.com">vistaprint.com</a> last week. The business cards are free and you just pay for shipping. I spent $11 and got 250 business cards being able to download my own design and I got an address stamp. I'll be sending these out to customers with a 10% off coupon code for them to use on their next purchase. I'll be providing them with 2 business cards. One of them is to pass along to a friend. If their friend makes a purchase, that friend gets 10% off their first purchase AND the referring friend gets 10% of their next purchase as well. I'm in the process of working on a flyer right now. I'm not impressed with my design skills, but it will get me by I suppose.<br /><br />This post brought to you by our welcome mats<a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/products/Dog-Gear-for-People_123575/?page1"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfLQzRErWPL8UkhOEIvtoimmWKrKfcFjxEnPpsywlr8-RQtY0Fj1GoHJXgyaiH9nUWpaAMNk3CvSEPZc3YTCCdaxY81Xtq9pwsYMAdbC-VNsnifteIv-NZZYgm1F6h4fEjpuWH-OXBd8/s1600-h/dog-welcome-mat.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfLQzRErWPL8UkhOEIvtoimmWKrKfcFjxEnPpsywlr8-RQtY0Fj1GoHJXgyaiH9nUWpaAMNk3CvSEPZc3YTCCdaxY81Xtq9pwsYMAdbC-VNsnifteIv-NZZYgm1F6h4fEjpuWH-OXBd8/s200/dog-welcome-mat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337888953065084882" /></a></a>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-24371479820101850082009-05-11T15:19:00.003-05:002009-05-11T15:35:21.696-05:00Cat Dish StoreWell I have officially started working on my next store. It is <a href="http://www.catdishstore.com/">Cat Dish Store</a>! I'm very excited about it. I'm working on stocking everything right now so it's still in its very beginning stages. I'm trying to decide if I should go with a scheme like Dog Dish Store or make it a blank canvas like it is right now. I've started building my followers on my <a href="http://www.twitter.com/catdishstore">new twitter account.</a> There are so many steps involved in getting this going. It's easy to forget all I've done in the last 5 months in getting <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/">Dog Dish Store</a> up and running.<br /><br />I've also been spending more time in <a href="http://sellinglounge.com/">The Selling Lounge</a> getting questions answered and chatting with a lot of helpful people. If you are interested in starting an online store or business I recommend the <a href="http://sellinglounge.com/">Selling Lounge</a>.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-17284619623014210482009-05-01T09:22:00.004-05:002009-05-12T20:44:21.660-05:00SEO tipsSomeone on Buy it Sell it was concerned about her traffic so I gave her some suggestions. I thought it maybe helpful for others.<br /><br />I'm no expert but I wanted to give you some input on your titles and stuff that might help you get more traffic. I have to admit I'm a bit bored at work and that's why I have time. :-)<br /><br />I recently optimized my pages and my Google percentages went up by 2% (according to the BISI stats on our Dashboard. I was at 25% until I started tweeting a lot so that brought me down for google percentage but not down in Google search quantity. I used <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">google adwords </a> to find the best words for me. After I was done I went to SEOCetro.com and used the keyword analyzer to be sure page title is in sink with my keywords and description. Also you want to have the keywords you find in google adwords to be the first words in your title.<br /><br />Let me give you an example.... You have this title for a product. Black and White silk/sheer hair clip. Double loop I would change to Girls Hair Clips Black & White Silk / Sheer I always put the spaces before and after the slash so the search engine sees the two words separately otherwise I think they are seen as one word. Most importantly the title I'm showing puts the Girls Hair Clips front and center. That's the keywords you're hoping people will search for. Why? Because in Google it shows people look for that phrase is 1,900 in a month AND there are 618,000 pages competing with you. Now if you change that to Hair Clip you get 301,000 searchers but you don't know if they are looking for women or girls. AND you are competing with 2.36 million other pages to get your page to the top of google AND to be clicked on by the customer. So with Girls Hair Clips you are targeting more of a niche group and they are more likely to be interested in sticking around. And take note when you go into Google that the S on the end of a word makes a huge difference. In your case, I would use the S exactly where I have them.<br /><br />I know some people on <a href="http://buyitsellit.com/">Buy It Sell It</a> think you don't have to add SEO attributes and they'll be added for you, but I think it's just added as whatever you have on your home page... that's not going to apply to all of your items. And when I see my percentage increase by 2% from optimizing I beg to differ with them that it's not necessary to add your own. I had always been adding to SEO, but I wasn't as diligent with my title.<br /><br />This update brought to you by<br /><a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com/product/129657/Outward-Hound-Life-Jacket-for-your-Dog_606833.html">Outward Hound Life Jacket for your Dog</a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNH5_X2QdApQ5DxSGhcSiGitFett3O2pK2RgKZW8-ZDLS5KmEi5SFQSqco0tYnyD05XZKKV7KiY5GmMHXFOtTge5_Uq7TuXB5_eWaxme-kOJ2UPZ9SzSdPlwZQqfh6IN2cZRaifR5l6A/s1600-h/dog-safety-vest.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNH5_X2QdApQ5DxSGhcSiGitFett3O2pK2RgKZW8-ZDLS5KmEi5SFQSqco0tYnyD05XZKKV7KiY5GmMHXFOtTge5_Uq7TuXB5_eWaxme-kOJ2UPZ9SzSdPlwZQqfh6IN2cZRaifR5l6A/s200/dog-safety-vest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335118219846248210" border="0" /></a>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-69448979238732174482009-04-28T08:31:00.004-05:002009-04-28T09:53:35.677-05:00Are you getting the most out of your Twitter account?I don’t pay for any twitter tools and I recommend you do not as well. There are plenty of free ones out there. I don’t claim to be a Twitter expert, but I wanted to write this after seeing that many of you don’t have a lot of Twitter followers. I consider that to be less than 200 for many and less than 50 for even more.<br /><br />If the only reason you use Twitter is to keep up with friends and fellow sellers that’s fine, but if you want to market yourself on Twitter that won’t work. My purpose in using Twitter is to get sales and market to people that might be interested in my products. To use Twitter as a marketing tool you MUST get MANY followers that are interested in your product line. As of right now I have 1,100+ followers. I’ve been with Twitter only about a month and I do not pay to get that many followers. A lot of people will ask if you want thousands of followers and they’ll want you to pay for a tool, but who knows if you’re targeting your niche market with those techniques.<br /><br />How have I gotten 1,100+ followers? <a href="http://www.twellow.com">Twellow.com</a> (and Search.twitter.com sometimes) and Tweetlater.com. Allow me to illustrate. I did post these two tools in another post but I wanted to post them here to encourage everyone to take full advantage of their tweets.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twellow.com">Twello</a><a href="http://www.twellow.com">w</a>:<br />• People fill out profiles on Twitter. Find the people that are interested in what you sell and start following them. If you’re lucky they will start following you. If they don’t follow after a few days or weeks (whatever time limit you set) UNFOLLOW. You don’t have space for that. I’ll revisit this topic further down. The interest I look for is pretty easy. I sell Dog Supplies so I just have to find people that are interested in dogs. If you have troubles figuring out what your customers may be interested in or who to direct, post here and I or someone else may be able to give you suggestions. If you sell antiques I bet there is an interest for antiques. If you sell rummage sale items you can probably find people interested in rummaging. Rummaging interest could probably also be for antique sellers. If you sell kids clothes look for moms.<br />• <a href="http://www.twellow.com">Twellow.com</a> is where I found most of my followers of late.<br /><br />I use twello in conjunction with <a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/">Tweetlater.com</a>. Some points about<a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/"> tweetlater.com</a>:<br />1. Unless you are really interest in what someone has to say (like for me it’s celebrity dish) don’t follow the person unless they follow you. Some people start following you just so you follow them then un-follow you once you are following them. You don’t have space on your account to follow people that aren’t following you. You have a max of 2,000 people you can follow before Twitter starts looking at the ratio of followers to following on your account. I don’t know what the ratio is but I hit 2,000 the other day and they wouldn’t let me follow anyone new so I knew it was time to clean out a bunch of people that were following me. I give people a few days to follow me before I will un-follow them. I try to keep the follow to followers ratio pretty close.<br />2. I don’t recommend un-following people that are following you just because you think you got ‘em. If you do that to someone like me I will un-follow you automatically.<br />3. <a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/"> Tweetlater</a> has sooooo many functions. One being to un-follow anyone that un-follows you AND to automatically follow anyone that follows you. This is such a time saver.<br />4. You can also keep your multiple twitter accounts here so you can tweet from one central location.<br />5. You can set it up to receive emails when people tweet about keywords like your store name, something you sell or whatever you think you need to watch out for. I should note this tool hasn’t worked for me as I only received one email from it.<br />6. <a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/">Tweetlater</a> also allows you to set up tweets when you’re away from your computer. If you want people to constantly get messages from you set it up here. Remember that MANY people that will be following you will be following 1,000 others. So you want to make sure they read something from you everyday. If you only tweet once or twice a day you are going to get lost in the shuffle. <br /><br />Don’t just post about your store on twitter. For me, that gets boring. If someone is following you that is only following 50 people they are going to get frustrated if all you put up all day is visit my store with a link. Frustration leads to an un-follow. Tell everyone about your day so you are seen as a real person. See what everyone else is tweeting about. It can be dumb stuff like “I just got the laundry out …. I hate laundry.” You might start a conversation with someone else that hates laundry. It makes you more personable.<br /><br />I hope this helps everyone! I want to see higher numbers out there from everyone… if you want to use Twitter as a marketing tool.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-51084601385858596122009-04-16T22:10:00.003-05:002009-04-25T14:23:39.581-05:00Great Twitter tips and tools<h3>Check out the tools I love on Twitter</h3><ol><li><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">http://search.twitter.com/search: </a>This allows you to search what people are talking about. For example if someone says "my dog" or has dog in their comment and sounds like the like or love dogs I add them as a follow. Then I hope they'll follow me and see my advertising.<br /></li><li>I also use this <a href="http://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">http://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter</a> to find people with "dog" in their name or profile. I add them and hope they add me. I currently have 600+ follows. </li><li>If you have multiple accounts on twitter you can use <a href="http://hootsuite.com/" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">http://hootsuite.com/</a> <span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span>Someone recommended this site the other day. I guess you don't have to log in and out of your accounts. That will come in handy when I start my next website.</li><li>Check this out.... this site lists all the <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-tools/" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">cool twitter tools.</a> I'll have to browse every now and then for stuff that isn't helpful today... might be helpful tomorrow.</li><li>I love the<a href="http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/"> Karma tool</a>. It even shows the last time the person tweeted so I drop them if it's past 100 days. I'm seriously considering 60 days. There are so many different accounts I log into that if I haven't updated one for even 30+ days for me it's not a very important account and I may never touch it again. In addition I've gone through the people I follow and if they haven't started following me within maybe a week or so I'll stop following them. I try to keep # of people I'm following and people following me pretty even so it's not so obvious that nobody wants to be my friend. LOL</li><li>The one I've been using the most lately is <a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/">Tweet Later</a>. You can schedule tweets. So I think of things (personal) that I might be thinking later. And I'll post products. Then I'll schedule them for 2-3-4 hours from now. I have 10 tweets set up for after I go to bed.... if I ever get off the computer. You can also shorten your URL that you include with your tweet when you create your message.</li><li>My new favorite tool is <a href="http://www.twellow.com">Twellow.com</a>. You can enter interests of people to find them and follow them right from that page. With Search.twitter.com you have to click on the person, be taken to Twitter then follow them, but you can follow very quickly and easily from this site. This might allow me to get to 1,000 followers by the end of the month. I'm running out of time.<br /><br />Another thing I love about this is that I can indicate preferences to follow people automatically if they follow me, I can set a preference to unfollow people that unfollow me (love that).<br /><br />And you can set up automation to send a message to people when they start following you. If twitter already has that as a main function I haven't found it.<br /><br />ANOTHER THING: If someone says my dog, dogdishstore, or dog dish store, or dog dishes, I will get an email with those people listed every 12 hours. <span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></li></ol><br />I'm building my list to have many people per day that I have in my advertising audience.<br /><br />I try to post at least 5 product links a day. It doesn't have to be something I JUST added. Just usually something I haven't posted on Twitter yet. That will get me about 25 views on that product in about 5 minutes. Pretty quick advertising!<br /><br />I also talk about my personal life on there so it doesn't seem like I'm just posting to get people to look at my site. It's a nice place to talk about what I want to talk about without wondering if people I know will here. I can remain anonymous kind of. Sure if someone investigated me they'd find I made comments about so-and-so, but I haven't done anything that will be investigated so I should be good. :-)<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span> Just some helpful hints I've come across in the few weeks I've been on Twitter. I'd love for everyone else to share any techniques they use on there to help their business. <span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-61809292642593337802009-04-15T14:59:00.002-05:002009-04-15T15:14:42.107-05:00I accept Credit CardsYes, you can accept credit cards from people through paypal even if they don't have a paypal account but soooo many people don't realize that that I'm sure it's hurt my business. SO today I signed up with Propay. For $40 a year I can accept credit cards and the charge is done right through my store. I don't have to risk customers getting confused about that process if they had to go through Paypal. I'm very excited. I've been promoting this on Twitter today. It's already looked like I accept straight up credit cards for a while now so I won't need to announce it on the site or anything.<br /><br />I've been adding more items to catdishstore.mybisi.com. I would like to be adding more more frequently but there isn't enough time in the day. I really need to set a plan in place for the following nights so I know what I want to get accomplished the next night. <br /><br />One thing I've been busy doing is adding friends on Twitter. You get quite a few views on your products that way so I highly recommend that. I'll post some Twitter sources for everyone soon.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-71047602638830002972009-04-06T12:36:00.003-05:002009-04-06T12:39:28.901-05:00I'm ranked on Google!!!I'm ranked 1 out of 10. I'm so excited! This is huge for anyone starting an online business in my opinion. You can see your own ranking by downloading the Google toolbar OR if you don't have the google tool bar downloaded you can go to <a href="http://www.googlerankings.com/">http://www.googlerankings.com/</a> or <a href="http://www.googlerankings.com/prindex.php">http://www.googlerankings.com/prindex.php<br /></a><br /> to see how your site ranks.<br /><br />Here's a blurb from Wikipedia to explain the importance of page rank. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank" target="_blank" class="SmlLinks">"a PageRank results from a "ballot" among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is."</a><br /><br />"Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; this PageRank denotes a site’s importance in the eyes of Google." From the way I understand it you'll end up in more searches the higher you are rank.<br /><br /> <span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-11018668954785212562009-04-03T10:25:00.002-05:002009-04-03T10:39:03.197-05:00Buy It Sell It has an affiliate program now!!!Exciting news! <a href="%3Ca%20href=%22http://app.buyitsellit.com/?ref=dogdishstore%22%3ECreate%20your%20own%20online%20store%20in%20minutes%21%3C/a%3E">Buy it Sell</a> It has a new affiliate program where if you recommend people to them you receive 25% revenue share on those referred accounts. So I've added a link to the left. You sign up, create your fab website and start recommending people to <a href="%3Ca%20href=%22http://app.buyitsellit.com/?ref=dogdishstore%22%3ECreate%20your%20own%20online%20store%20in%20minutes%21%3C/a%3E">Buy It Sell</a> It after you see what a great place it is to sell on.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-17201262006611093132009-04-01T12:50:00.002-05:002009-04-01T12:56:59.288-05:00Got my 1-888 number todayI finally bit the bullet and signed up for a 1-888 number. It's only $2/month with a $2 sign-up fee. Then it's something like $.06 /min if someone calls. I used <a href="http://www.kall8.com">kall8.com</a> for this and I get a referral credit if someone signs up under my number so keep me in mind when you sign up for your 1-888 number. I considered getting 1-888-dog-dish but it wasn't available on the site and it would have been $15 so I'll go without. It's not that important. So when you want to use me as a referral... or if you have product questions.... <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">1-888-219-0452</span>DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-89651011718380833572009-03-24T21:23:00.003-05:002009-03-24T21:26:43.979-05:00Link ExchangesYesterday I submitted my site for link exchanges with about 10 different companies. I had to give myself a pat on the back for that one. Tedious but necessary task. I was able to do it at work because I had some time on my hands so I didn't even have to take away from family time to do it.<br /><br />My new visitors was up to over 50 yesterday. That is GREAT for me. <br /><br />Well, I'm off to try and get more link exchanges.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-69225057139240074382009-03-20T20:53:00.002-05:002009-03-20T21:04:59.068-05:00Where did all that motivation go???It's funny how long I can be UN-Motivated and how briefly I can be motivated. I see that just a few days ago I was motivated enough to add some items to my store and I even got a sale yesterday, but somehow today I am just not feeling motivated. SO that's EXACTLY why I'm writing in my blog tonight. It will help me stay on track and MAKE me create a list of things to do. My goal tonight will be to contact 5 companies to see about a link exchange. It's kind of a tedious process, but it really is worth it because those incoming links are very important for a business's success on the internet. I should start Re-reviewing the SEO Class notes as well. There is so much to learn in the class that you can't possibly remember it all... well I can't at least. Off I go....DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-86455353152712435922009-03-16T21:32:00.003-05:002009-03-16T21:56:37.909-05:00Been a while<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbnssc3PxqYGYzgnYuYYU28j-MTRnnQ1FH8D70hX-jLxktjGLCvF07vN_YbSX51Ag-H1feje8CvLOyypGKINUGbwMkgKH308N4QQf1n1R7QH08uLVb2bzB5w2awwF2ERGAx4vj2Q8Wng/s1600-h/blue-dog-dish.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbnssc3PxqYGYzgnYuYYU28j-MTRnnQ1FH8D70hX-jLxktjGLCvF07vN_YbSX51Ag-H1feje8CvLOyypGKINUGbwMkgKH308N4QQf1n1R7QH08uLVb2bzB5w2awwF2ERGAx4vj2Q8Wng/s200/blue-dog-dish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313985100599320770" border="0" /></a><br />OK I'm motivated today! I just got a new ceramic dog dish supplier and I'm really excited because they are fantastic looking and of fantastic quality. I'm going to post a bunch tonight.<br /><br />I've been getting quite a lot of visitors from <a href="http://twitter.com/dogdishstore">Twitter</a> to my store which makes those quick posts worthwhile.<br /><br />There's quite the buzz on <a href="http://www.buyitsellit.com/">buyitsellit.com</a> today. Fees went up on the paid account from $4.95 to $9.95. Not too bad... actually a bargain based on other sites out there for hosting and having the tools for you to set up a great looking site with your own domain name. I think the problem is coming in for people that currently have free stores. With the new structure they'll be limited to 10 items in their store... that's not many at all. So many say they'll close their store. It's my understanding that this is all to curb fraudulant activity. I can see that working. People that are fraudulant aren't going to waste their time with a place where they can only post 10 items... most likely AND they don't want to spend $10 on a store if they are an ameture scammer. I was thinking about opening a new store, but I'll have to wait until my first store can pay for it.<br /><br />Off to add some <a href="http://dogdishstore.com/products/Ceramic-Dog-Dishes_96153/?page1">dog dishes</a> to the website....DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-23249134991305098452009-02-28T21:39:00.003-06:002009-02-28T21:52:13.837-06:00I signed up with <a href="http://twitter.com/dogdishstore">Twitter</a> a few days ago to use that as a source of advertising. I've gotten a few hits from there so far. It's easy enough to use so I figure I'll use it for a bit to see if it helps. Follow me!!!<br /><br />It was pointed out to me the other day by someone on <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com">Buy It Sell It</a> that I didn't have the information on my blog page for people to follow me on here. I'm thinking that made it difficult to gain followers so I've added that.<br /><br />I've been using <a href="http://www.sitemeter.com">sitemeter</a> to follow my stats for <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com">my store</a> because for ME it's more user friendly than Google stats. I'm sure google contains more information so I'll have to explore that more too. Well, I realized the other day that I didn't have the sitemeter code on ALL of my pages so I was only getting reads if someone came in through my home page. I've fixed that and now I see many more people visiting. I can see that they're coming in through google so I'm very excited about that. I also clicked on one of my items and noticed that when it appears in Google Base it shows my name rather than my store name. I'd MUCH rather it show my store name of course so I've made the adjustment that I think will correct that I just have to watch for it to change. I'm expecting it to take a day or so to take affect but I might have to do some investigating to figure out why it hasn't shown up as <a href="http://www.dogdishstore.com">DogDishStore</a> yet.<br /><br />I've been posting more in a <a href="http://www.petlovers.com">dog forum</a> to try and get customers. It's pretty nice. I've been adding input regularly on there. <br /><br />I've gotten a few places to link to me and I'm thrilled about that. I have to work on getting more of that going. It's kind of tedious but VERY necessary to rank high with google.<br /><br />I hadn't realized how much I've done until I wrote it all down. I think I need to give myself a pat on the back. :-)DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-16208034971239160352009-02-22T20:23:00.003-06:002009-02-22T20:32:29.505-06:00Need to FocusSo I've decided that prior to getting in front of the computer to work on my business I have to have a concrete plan in mind otherwise I don't think I'm accomplishing as much as I could otherwise. I feel like I spend half of the time needlessly trying to figure out what I want to do when I could already have that thought up and save so much time.<br /><br />I have a few things on my immediate to-do list.<br />1. Create Unique descriptions for all of my items in my store. The ones I'm using right now are from my supplier and Google is strongly apposed to<br />duplicate content. I need to tweak those.<br />2. Link Exchanging: I need to get more places to link to me to get my visibility increased on Google.<br />3. I need to add items to my store.<br /><br />There are many other things on my list of things-to-do:<br /><ul><li>market via posting to dog forums</li><li>getting a 1-800 number</li><li>getting signs from <a href="http://www.vistaprint.com/">vistaprint </a>for my car and maybe some other merchandise from them (I'll have to browse when I order the car sign)</li><li>making cosmetic changes to my site</li><li>go back to <a href="http://www.gnc-web-creations.com/web-training.htm">Cricket's Marketing and SEO class</a> to review for things I've forgotten about or overlooked the first time.<br /></li></ul><br />I started a <a href="http://twitter.com/dogdishstore">Twitter</a> account today. It feels kind of like <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> in terms of making small updates rather than a large blog like on here. Seems fun so far. We'll see if I get any hits from it.<br />Everyone seems to be opening an account with them so I thought I'd better jump on that band wagon to see if I can gain some hits from that venue. I'll keep everyone posted.<br /><br />I think I'll work on those unique descriptions tonight. It's been a long weekend so I should really turn in early. I'm starting early so I'm hopeful.DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065167447415946033.post-4164497945803246192009-02-17T13:57:00.003-06:002009-02-17T14:15:08.835-06:00UpdateLately I've been busy adding items to my store and of late, I am going back to all of my listings to edit them for duplicate content. There are so many listings that hardly differ from the next but to keep my items from being banned from Google I need to be sure they are on duplicate. I've gone to <a href="http://www.jpeterman.com">jpeterman.com</a> for inspiration. I can't believe how descriptive and poetic their product descriptions are. If you ever need motivation to write better content, check out <a href="http://www.jpeterman.com">jpeterman.com</a>.<br /><br />I see I have two followers to my blog now. YAY! Welcome! Feel free to send your friends. :-) <br /><br />What has changed via <a href="http://www.buyitsellit.com">Buy It Sell It</a> of late:<br />* They have come out with a new template as of yesterday and everyone is buzzing about it. I love it myself. It's really making me want to come out with a cat dish store, but I should really do more with the dog store before I focus on two sites at once. At least that's my current thought. There are still so many items to post in the dog store and so many things to better about the store. Although I know there are always things I can make better about the store so that part won't keep me from moving onto creating a new store. <br />*Statistics on our stores has also been added to Buy It Sell It so that will be helpful. Google Analytics is great, but it seems that stats from Buy It Sell It will include more visits than Google includes. I always feel like I'm shorted by Google in looking at my page views in Buy It Sell It so hopefully this will help me analyze what I can/should change about the store. <br />* I was able to add more featured items to my home page so now it's at 9. You really can fumble through html and get buy with a Buy It Sell It store. You may have questions now and then if you want to get a little fancier, but there is always someone there to help. I know people have been scared away from custom templates on there because they think they need to know html, but if you look at it often enough you can figure out how to make minor adjustments to do something that an unpaid user wouldn't be able to do. <br /><br />This past week I got 2 sales in 1 day that I'm very excited about. What's even more exciting is that it looks like they found me through Google. VERY key to being successful on the internet is ranking high with Google. Hopefully there are many more sales to come. I'll keep ya posted!DNA_Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17604698465903005906noreply@blogger.com0