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May 2005 - Posts

  • Happy Memorial Weekend!

    We hope you had a great Memorial Weekend!

    Our little family did our favorite weekend activity - a beautiful hike in the nearby Ritter Farm Park - a vast, underused beauty where we love to hike. We took our new beautiful brocade AngelPacks - and posted them to our Baby Carrier database. AngelPacks are one of the latest carriers brought on at Attached to Baby - you can see them at the shop now. We've gotten lots of interest already since posting our pictures today - and had a few sales! I think I'll have to order more soon!

    I made another Hotsling order - I have a severe Hotslings addiction and I honestly love buying all kinds of Hotslings multiple times a week. Hopefully soon our Hotslings sales will pick up, but for now, I'm building up our inventory for when we "go all out" on advertising.

    Are you curious as to what our best selling items are? This week I had someone ask me, so I ran a sales report. I thought that two of our products were head to head, but after running the report - FreeHands is in the lead with a wide, comfortable margin! ERGOs is second up, and then lots of other products tied for third place. I ordered a big batch of FreeHands recently, and yes, there will be a new Amy Butler print, but I also am getting a few FreeHand Onbuhimos in, in addition to the FH Mei Tais. The month of June we will be placing HUGE orders on the new ERGOs and Patapums, we already have people lined up for those!

    As we examine our business goals, it is hard to imagine where we'll be at in a year. Tomorrow will be the start of our third month online. David (DH) and I are planning on increasing our inventory tons this summer. So please let us know what you'd like to see more of, and which fabric prints you like, because we'll be focusing on exclusive prints for our store.

  • Time for a blog post!

    I'm making myself to sit down and add a post to my blog. :) Things are hectic-crazy around here, and as always my top priority is sweet Satori (I say over and over thank heavens for baby carriers). Other top priorities are customer service and fast shipping. I guess another priority is my sanity too, lol. I always want to do a million things at once...

    This is now the start of our third month in business. I want to thank you all so much for helping my little business get up off its feet and the word of mouth and support you've shown me is unbelievable! I want to continue to help you all find the perfect carriers, etc... to help your families as much as babywearing has helped ours.

    I was going to list off all the new products in stock, but each time I sit down and do it, I think, maybe I should wait until this afternoon to see if such-and-such will arrive and I can list that too. Well, with shipments arriving everyday, that's not feasible. And I'm afraid I'll forget something. So this post is mostly an update.

    Sales are at a record this week. And I ran out of shipping labels in my handy printer, so I have to print them on my regular printer, cut and tape each one to the package. Not very efficient, lol. But I ordered a faster Shipping Label printer that should save me loads of time.

    Thanks once again for the support you've shown in both the community and in the store. You ladies (and men) are such a bunch of wonderful people!!! Thanks also for the kind feedback at theBabywearer. Let me know if there's anything I can carry that you'd like to see, or just give me feedback on suggestions, advice, or anything.

    Have a great Memorial weekend this weekend!

     

  • Pouch Prints!

    Some new Hotslings arrived today! I have Blue Lily Sateen Stretch Padded in every size, and just a few of the Manchester in stock. I also placed an order today for the new Laurel Reversible print! The Laurel should be arriving on Wednesday - and we'll have all sizes stocked!

     

    Also arriving at the same time will be the new Peanut Shell Beach Babies Solarveil Pouch - 2 layers of Solarveil plus the handy Peanut Shell pocket.

    I'm anxiously awaiting (possibly this week) the Gypsy Mama Water Wrap, Boopa Pakka Solarveil Mei Tais and AngelPack Mei Tais in two gorgeous brocade prints.

  • Restocking inventory - busy week ordering more slings!

    Here's a quick recap of what's new or re-stocked at Attached to Baby this week:

    • ERGO Baby Carriers are now back in stock!
    • Ordered three batches of Hotslings - the Thao Reversible, Solarveil Pool Pouches, Bebe Luv, and Flame sateen are now in stock... Coming early next week will be Blue Lily Stretch Sateen and a few Manchester Stretch Padded - both the latest Hotslings fabrics
    • Way high-end, ultra posh, the cxd baby Jewelled Silk slings! Custom made just for you!
    • New sling! - Bundles of Luv - elegant double-sided reversible slings and the elite line of slings in gorgeous comfortable fabrics

    Ordered and on the way:

    • Oopa Baby Silk Shantung and Pique slings!
    • cxd baby silk Fashion Mavens and Hand-Beaded slings
    • Hug-a-bub wraps in all colors
    • Gypsy Mama Water wraps in black, pewter, and antique gold
    • AngelPack Mei Tais in beautiful brocades
    • Sachi Carriers in a few different brocades and cotton prints

    Lastly, CuddlyWraps are in the works, these are super soft wraps coming to us from Canada!

     

  • Happy Mother's Day!

    Mother's Day week kept me quite busy with the 5% off sale for all you wonderful mothers! I was happy to see some repeat customers already, and also thrilled to see so many positive reviews at TheBabywearer.com! Thank you all so much!

    As a result of such a busy week, I completely sold out of ERGOs and Hug-a-bubs are getting low in stock. I'll be ordering more of both tomorrow. I should have the new ERGOs very soon, but the Hug-a-bubs come from Australia, so I hope they are in by the end of the month. I do have four left, but they're one of my most popular items so they may go fast. Both these products always enjoy free shipping, as well as any order above $75.

    I've added quite a few pictures to the new Attached to Baby - Baby Carrier Photo Database. Since I'm a programmer, I intend to write a baby carrier search engine in the future. If anyone has any cool ideas for other site features, just let me know and I can start planning for it!

    Hope you all had a great Mother's Day - this was my first and it was very special. :)

  • Peanut Shell Red Yoko Flips are in

    Just added these today - I wore mine yesterday at a family event and it was a hit! Loved the colors, the comfort, the fit!

    http://store.attachedtobaby.com/detail.aspx?ID=86&Name=Peanut-Shell---Cotton-Flip

    I also ordered another batch of Hotslings reversibles - the new Thao reversible, this is absolutely gorgeous.

    Check the Baby Carrier Photo Database for pictures of both of these new reversible pouches!

    https://www.attachedtobaby.com/photos/babywearing/category1025.aspx

    For the month of May, I ordered lots of new pouches in all sizes and colors (reversibles, Solarveil, new prints) - so we'll be ready to go for summer for all your pouch needs!

  • More Hotslings, Peanut Shells, various slings, etc... coming in this month

    Thanks to Cooper updating me that Hotslings Solarveil Pool Pouches were in stock, I finally got to order a bunch! I also refreshed my inventory and got more Bebe Luv and Flame - both Sateen Stretch Padded pouches. Similarly, for those of you who like pockets with your pouches, I have some Red Yoko Flip pouches with Beach Babies coming in later this month.

    Let's see what else... For slings we'll be introducing a reversible sling from Boopa Rapture with pocket and trim in what sounds to be a gorgeous combo in my favorite colors! Also an update on the Boopa Pakka Solarveil Mei Tais - they'll be shipping to me next week. Nelly from AngelPack has picked up some exclusive brocades for some AngelPack Mei Tais - also in my favorite colors.

    Finally, I will be posting pictures tomorrow of another brand new sling I'd like to try out! I couldn't resist the colors and fabric combinations.

     

  • Lots of techy changes to Attached to Baby this week

    Over this week I'll be moving this site to its very own dedicated server. We'll have practically unlimited space for your precious photos and unlimited bandwidth to view them! I'm really planning for the future here.

    I'll also be updating the community with a new software update. I've had a report from a friend who registered that she couldn't post to the forums. I hope this update will fix that. It will fix some other bugs we may or may not have run into, as well as improve performance.

    Finally, I'm making changes to the Attached to Baby shop so when it comes time to submitting my site to the search engines, it should rank high and hopefully eventually on the first page for many of my products. I'm sure that will take lots of work, so I'm happy I'm starting in early on this. I am hoping by the end of May that the site will be ready for advertising for the store. If that goes well, then I'll start advertising for the community. Remember, as soon as we hit 500 members, the sooner one of you will win a gorgeous Oopa Baby sling of your choice! The more you participate in the community, the more you increase your odds.

    Also remember our April Member sale has extended to the end of May. A few of you have taken advantage of this, and I can't have big sales like this often due to manufacturer agreements, but I consider this my "Opening Site Sale".

    Finally, I have a Live Person support installed on the site and I have one of the members lined up to help out with Customer Service with this. I can't announce who it is yet until we're ready though. I am just testing this out and not ready to actually use it, I am leaning towards a less expensive option - the one on the site now costs $50 per month per person and I hope to have up at least 2-3 people on support to start out and up to 5 later on. So obviously that's too expensive, so as soon as I can get a hold of the cheaper Live Support software I'll use that. But this feature is one that will set Attached to Baby apart from other babywearing shops - personalized babywearing consultants on hand to answer questions on choosing the right baby carrier, how to wear your carrier and so on. If you're interested in becoming a babywearing consultant, simply email me using my Contact page. You make commission off your sales, as well as get a discount off products in the store. I'll give you your own business cards to pass around to people locally if they like your carriers so you can make money if they come to the store too and list you as a referral. More to come on this...

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