A Couple New Sources for you

22 followers now! Welcome to all!

I've started my catdishstore.com twitter account. I've changed my welcome message to ask people to submit cat pictures and dog pictures for the dogdishstore.com and have gotten quite a few responses. I'm very pleased with the level of response as a matter of fact.

If you need a company to provide you with forms for your website check out jotform.com. 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.

I continue to be very pleased with my Twitter accounts. It's bringing customers and now photos to my store.

I ordered my business cards from vistaprint.com 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.

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Cat Dish Store

Well I have officially started working on my next store. It is Cat Dish Store! 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 new twitter account. 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 Dog Dish Store up and running.

I've also been spending more time in The Selling Lounge 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 Selling Lounge.

I accept Credit Cards

Yes, 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.

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.

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.