HappyDays Shop – Krissy Ng
Story by Krissy Ng – HappyDays Shop
Just like many others Mompreneurs, work at home while looking after their kids. After quitted by 2 years sales job at Nokia shop in Year 2005. I decided to be a stay at home mom waiting for the arrival for my first baby girl.
As my parents-in-law have their own fashion industry business, they inspire me to have my own business too but instead of retail, I choose to work through the online network. Many others do not agree with my decisions.
Firstly, I was only 18years old at that time. Having my own business is definitely not easy for me especially I’ve no experience in it. Worst of all, having a baby at such a young age is like a big “no-no” to me. That’s what others think of me. They discourage me to do online business while looking after my baby. Although hubby wasn’t really happy with it but I’m glad that he still willing to give me some capitals to order goods for my online business.
I went ahead with my decisions and build up my first online blog-shop in Nov 2005. Business at that time wasn’t good as there’s still not much people trust in online shopping. These hanging for quite sometime until I finally decide to own a domain and ecommerce instead.
Finding hard for a cheap ecommerce web designer to help me out. At that time, my budget was only S$100. It wasn’t easy or infact, nobody is willing to take up this project as the market rate was around $1k. Many webdesigner must be cursing me and think I’m insane! So I spent 2 months to learn on ecommerce designing. Finally, I did my first ever ecommerce design using cubecart in Nov 2006. Have a look at http://happydays-shop.com/store !
generic amoxil style=”text-align: justify;”>Until now, my business wasn’t that good. But at least, I wasn’t lazy and tried my best to do lots of advertising. Such as, mass-emailing friends, exchanging links with other shop owners and more. I even joined flea markets to sell and promote my online store with my kids tagging along.
Now I’m not only having online business, I can even do ecommerce design to others who wish to start up an online business. I’m most willing to share on the procedure to start up, marketing and other helps.
I’ve just gave birth to my 2nd baby and I’m 21years old now. I’m still able to handle my 2 kids and continue with my online shop. I need more exposure, I need more free advertising. So I need your help! You’re most welcome to give me suggestions!
Krissy Ng
http://happydays-shop.com/store
http://happydays-shop.com/blog
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Comments on HappyDays Shop – Krissy Ng
Hi Krissy,
You are so young and I would say that you are actually doing good in your online business. Firstly, you have your own domain name and self host blogshop and also you have done the list capture.
Here’s some of my suggestions:
1) To have customers’ testimonial.
2) Encourage impulse buys. You have 3 ways to encourge the impulse buys,
a. Suggest related products
b. Associate linked products
c. Limited time offer
3) Forum. Participate in some forums and increase your exposure.
4) Social network. Social networking is one of the powerful tool to interact with your visitors. Social networks such as Facebook, MyBlogLog or Twitter are very popular and widely used nowadays. Participate in some social networks and let people easily get you and interact with you.
5) Some other internet marketing strategies such as article marketing, social media, social bookmarking and also search engine optimization (SEO) help to attract free traffic to your site. You could also use Google Adwords to advertise and get more sales. You can visit my site at http://MoonLoh.com for more info about internet marketing strategies.
Hope the above help.
Hi Krissy,
I fully agree with what Moon says. In fact, I admire you for your ‘never say die’ attitude and willing to put your best foot forward no matter how tough & difficult times may be. With this mindset, nothing is out of your reach.
Just to add on to what Moon has written, you might like to consider having a monthly promotional item. Send the information out to your email list as well as blast it out to the sites listed by Moon.
Wishing you massive success
Veronica Tan BK
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