Today's helpful comment of the day is posted by Kitty Daniel

The following is what she commented:

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/


Kitty Daniel pointed out one of the most important factor that MAKES or BREAKS a BlogShop, we will elaborate more on that later after we go through some of the other points she has talked about.

Kitty Daniel mentioned was that BlogShop should try their best to sell unique and different products from the other BlogShops. She pointed out that many people actually bought their stocks from the same supplier, which results in all the different BlogShops selling the same thing.

This results in the market from being over saturated and thus the competition of selling this products would be really high. Fighting in highly competitive market is difficult really difficult for BlogShop owners because it would lead to price wars, whereby everyone is trying to cut the retail price so as to attract more customers.

Most of the time, price war would lead to the BlogShop owners to earn REALLY pathetic profits after taking into consideration the cost of postage and the transport fee to the post office. In the end, the BlogShop owners would be left with a profit of a few cents per piece sold =(

Getting a unique product to sell is a much better idea because you are able to earn a alot more profit from selling it. For example, If I was the only person selling mini skirt in the market right now, I can charge my mini skirt at at any price I want (As long as it is reasonable) and there will still be people willing to buy it from me. This is because if customers do not buy the mini skirt from me, they are unable to get it anywhere else!

One good way to find unique products is to actually take a walk down to wholesale places whereby wholesalers sell a whole range of stuff. You can find all kinds of wierd stuff from electronic clocks all the way to female clothings. Hillstreet Road and Cityplaza(near palar lebar mrt) are pretty good places for you to find unique stuff to sell.

DO NOT, I REPEAT do not try to buy stuff from online wholesalers because you do not know how many people they are supplying their stuff too! You would be in big trouble if the wholesaler of yours is supplying to 5-10 other different BlogShops!

Remember that in the earlier part of the post, i mentioned that Kitty Daniel pointed out one of the most important factor of owning a successful BlogShop? Well scroll up to read the message left by Kitty Daniel again and try to figure out which is the phrase that impacted me the most..

Can you guess it correctly?

I can bet that most of you successful Blogshop owners out there would be able to point out the sentence..

"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"

Tons of people out there started their Blogs/ BlogShop as a passion, just something that they would like to do in their spare time. At the start, it doesn't matter whether many people read their blog or whether anybody buys anything from their BlogShop. It was all about the fun factor initially.

It doesn't matter whether they had to spend the whole day advertising for their BlogShop, or whether they have to burn the midnight oil to type out a really interesting BlogPost. To them, it was something that they liked doing, and they would not mind doing it. I bet most of you guys have been through this stage before. It was a wonderful feeling, owning an online business, being your own boss.

However, as time goes by and they become slightly more popular blogging (or they start earning a little more money in their blogshops) successes starts to mess around in their head. They start think of ways whereby they can start earning more money through their blogs. Whenever they update their blog or blogshop, they no longer felt the thrill that they use to have. Instead, they are constantly thinking of ways they can gain more traffic, earn more money from their products or how they can earn more money from their advertisers.

The fun-filled activity of updating your Blog/BlogShop, suddenly becomes dreaded work instead.

The love and passion for their blog is no longer there. All the blog/blogshop means to them now is just a mere cash making machine that churns out cash for them and they will see it as a chore to actually update their Blog/BlogShop.

Once you reach this stage, you maybe highly successful in terms of income wise, but right in your heart, you would start feeling that you detest the tedious job of constantly updating your blog. As your passion for your blog/blogshop becomes more and more faint, you would start hating your blog/blogshop..more and more..

I hope that you guys do not let this happen to you, and always remember the reason why you first started your BlogShop. Money maybe a indication of success for your BlogShop, but without passion, your Blog/BlogShop would not last for long.

I sincerely believe in the following quote I watched on the Apprentice:

"The only way to become truly rich, is to help others become rich"
-Donald Trump

Therefore if you feel that the content in this Blog can help your Friends and Families earn more money through the internet, I sincerely hope that you can will be kind enough and share this with them by linking http://www.BlogShopHelp.com to your blog!

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 =)

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!