Thank you for being part of Cloth Pad Shop by having a store here with us. Together we can make a fantastic community of small businesses all working together to give women lovely alternative menstrual products, while supporting eachother as fellow business women.   You'll see a menu up the top - this contains some of the important links for CPS sellers. If you need to know how to do something, chances are it's in the "FAQ/Help" guide. If not, feel free to e-mail me and I can help you out. Don't forget to join the yahoogroup (and make sure you're receiving messages), as this is the way I let everyone know what's happening on the site, so it's important you're a member.   While you will benefit from the promotion Cloth Pad Shop already has, don't rely on it being the only promotion you need. You should still promote yourself. Get your brand out there, make people aware of it, and remind them it's there! You are in business, and your competitors (other pad sellers) will probably be promoting themselves, so make sure you're helping yourself by promoting too. It's not hard to do... we have several outlets for you to use.   Use our blog and twitter to promote yourself. We also have a yahoogroup newsletter for customers that you can use to inform customers of your latest news. The links to these are shown above (those W, F and T buttons). More information on how to use those can be found on the "Getting the most out of Cloth Pad Shop" page. The more you promote yourself, the more customers will come to the site, and the more chance you'll have of sales.   Remember that this store front is like a real shop front - it's how you sell your goods. Because customers can't come in and physically look at the products, your photos and descriptions need to let them know all about the product. Everything you'd like to know about the product if you were buying it should be there... including what the pad is made of, how long it is, how wide it is when snapped, if it's got waterproofing or not etc. Make sure that when you have your product listing, that it contains html if you need to add breaks. More info on how you set products up is on the seller help page.   Also, the more stock you have, the more chance you'll have of making a sale.... and the more stock gets changed (as old things are replaced with new), the better your sales will tend to be, as customers have something new to buy and know you're selling well so feel confident with your products. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that if you're not selling anything you won't bother making any more until you sell what you have. Sales (in any industry) rarely work that way... people who come to the site often and see old stock will most likely be waiting for new stock to take their fancy.   Every time you add new products or images, please go in and check your store page (Find your store page by clicking your name on the side menu of the website) and check everything is as it should be. Check your "about me" stuff is displaying properly. Check you have your policies listed (at the bottom of your "about" page - you're supposed to have info there like if you'll ship internationally) Check that product titles aren't massively long and taking up too much space, check your store logo isn't too wide for the page and check your product listings look as you intend them to. If you're having troubles with something, please let me know.   Also... check out other people's stuff... there are little heart icons on each listing. Those are to say you like the product. Click on them to add a count to another seller's product you like.