I received a really good question from Fashion Staples today.
Heres what she asked:
FashionStaples said...Hi there!
You've provided great information on how to improve traffic and sales in a blogshop.Thanks!
However, despite placing my link down in various blog directories and classified ads, the traffic and sales still didnt improve as much. Why is that the case? Or maybe the kind of apparels on sale also matters?
Here's my website: http://fashionstaples.blogspot.com/
-Fashion Staples stated a really good example about the 'kind of apparels on sale', and I will be touching on that subject on my next blog post.
Guys, I would like to tell you one thing today and that is, building a successful business does not take a day or two to form, but months and sometimes even years! Popular bloggers like XiaXue or even Dawn Yang did not just achieve overnight success when they first started blogging. They had to go through the same bad times that everyone of us goes through! There are times whereby they have only 3 visitors to their blogs, while there are time whereby there are 300 visitors to their blogs. Yet they did not give up, and that was how they become popular.One thing is for sure, starting an online business is not a get-rich-quick scheme. If you want to achieve the status and earnings of popular blogs or blogshops, you must be willing to sacrifice time and energy to do whatever it takes to refine your own BlogShop . That means that when your other friends are spending their time playing MapleStory or going shopping, you have to be willing sacrifice those time and put it into constantly improve your blog and getting more visitors to it!
Many people think that earning money through blogs are really easy after reading about how much bloggers earn, but they fail to understand the pain and energy Bloggers have to take in order to make their site popular. Many of the strategies that I posted on this blog will help you improve traffic to your site, BUT just by applying one strategy that I teach would not I repeat WOULD NOT suddenly attract TONS of traffic to your website.
You have to combine various strategy that I teach you to slowly but constantly improve your blog, so that the traffic to your site will grow steadily bit by bit. Building traffic to a website is like what we normally learn in Maths Class: Exponential growth!

When you combine all the traffic building strategies that I teach you in this blog, you will get very minimal traffic at the start, yet as the time goes by, the traffic will increase MORE and MORE when people start realizing the existence of your blog. This is how popular blogs start up and become famous!
Heres one example of how it works. You list your BlogShop at one of the online directory and one person happens to visit your Blog (+1 visitor). This person is attracted by one of your skirts, and decided to buy one to try it out. If you provide good service and good quality product to her, she will be happy to buy the skirt from you and she will recommend your shop to 5 of her friends. All 5 of her friends come to your BlogShop to browse(+5visitors), and saw something that each of them like. All 5 of them buys a skirt from you, and you provide excellent service to all of them. This would in term cause them to recommend your shop to 5 of their friends each, which would bring 5x5=25 visitors to your blog!
If this continues, you will get 1->5->25->125->to infinity amount of visitors to your shop! Of course this cannot happen overnight, and will take time to slowly build up as everything does not happen according as plan. But I believe, you should understand how traffic to your site is slowly being built up.
If you are looking to earn instant money from your BlogShop, you should jolly well not create one! That is because creating a BlogShops will not make you rich OVERNIGHT! Only those who are determined and commited will be able to succeed in the market, of the ever increasing BlogShops!
Face it, there are new BlogShops created everyday in Singapore ( much less the world!). Yet only 20% of this BlogShops truly earn money, will the rest just slowly dwindle and die off.
I am going to devote my time to teach you guys how to truly master the art of setting up a successful blog/blogshop, but you guys have to be willing to learn and put in the effort into doing it.
However, you guys have to give me some time to slowly but surely incorporate all the strategies (that I have learn through the hard way) into this small little blog as I have a full time job as well as a BlogShop to manage. But I promise that I will at least post once a day so that you guys will be able to improve the sales in your blogshops!
I know that creating a blogshop is REAL hardwork, and the rewards a minimum at the very start. But if you are willing to put in the effort to truly build up your online business, I will be willing to mentor you guys on how to slowly BUT surely increase the money that you earn from your blogshops!
P/S: Do know that every single BlogShop owners out there will face the same problem of not having customers to their BlogShops! You are not the only person out there with this problem, so do not get discouraged or down!
As usual, do leave a comment if you feel that you have anything to comment about this article! I believe wholeheartedly that everybody should have the ability to speak their mind, so that we will be able to learn from each other =) Lets stand together and help improve each other, so that all of us will be able to earn our first million together!
If you have any other problems that you are facing in your BlogShops, do leave a comment also, so that the other BlogShop owners, or I maybe able to help you out with it!











Thanks Clemence!
This blog post was really helpful! It is definitely not easy but I'll strive on, bringing in more apparels for the people! (:
Definitely useful post! Thank you so much for helping the BlogShop community. You will be blessed!
Hope to read your next article soon!
Hi Clemence,
Came upon your blog and i thought that you give excellent advice. Indeed there are so much more to learn from each another and that lots of hardwork is needed.
In regards to fashionstaples.blogspot.com, in my opinion perhaps creating a feedback form for customers to fill in will be useful. While his/her customer fills in their shopping experience, at the same time other customers whom have yet to purchase from them will be able to see the feedbacks on their services/quality of products. In this way, people will be able to put their trust on you and naturally sales will increase.
One other method is to display a tagboard to allow other to be aware of your blogshop. As much as there are disadvantages to this, i believe that as long as your service is good,you bring good products and you take pride in delivering to your customers, they will always support you.
Just my 2 cents worth. ;o
Http://www.Dazzling-Santirina.blogspot.com
hi ,
i think that your advice were good and it allows others who may wanna open a blogshop just thinking that is easy money to think again and at the same time set it as a platform for they can get to understand what it takes to open a blogshop.
but personally , i think that what takes to attract people to your blog is that the items being sold in your blog must be unique.
because as we can see by clicking randomly at any blogshop , with 70%and above blogshops are actually selling similar things and what may make thing worst is that those items can easily be purchased in places like bugis. so being a consumer, why would i wanna wait and purchase online as since i can just simply get it within reach and even cheaper?
so if possible, blogshop owner should source stocks at different places. thus the items being sold in their blogs will be unique.
secondly. i think the price of the items is also another factor that blogshop owner should look into. as we must understand that online shopping has become a growing trend that as young as 13 years old are shopping online. so the price of the items should be set at afforable/reasonable price thus more people can affort and will think of buying :)
but ultimately, i believe opening blogshop is not all about earning big or small money, but also about the passion , attitude and the heart to serve :)
hopefully , my comment will help.
http://kittydaniel.blogspot.com/
Hi!thanks for this useful post! i will try to use ur tips to improve my blogshop too!:)
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Hi Clemence,
Your methods really do work!
I've got 4000 hits within 2 weeks
Hope you update for tips soon on how to get more sales coming in
Regards,
thehighergroundsnitch
http://thehighergroundsnitch.wordpress.com
Hey
I love your article. and yes..wat you said is right becuase it's working!
chels
room290.livejournal.com
thanks for your post!
hope to read more tips on creating a successful online blogshop soon! :)
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