2014 – A Good Year
November 2014 and many things have changed and I have made many adjustments and introduced 4 new designs this year.
Amazon thankfully is promoting and selling my products quite well and they make up more than 95% of my total overall sales.
Just a few months ago I adjusted my selling online. I am currently selling on Amazon, Etsy, Ebay and Angelynns.com.
I redesigned my website and I love it.
In March we started building me a small warehouse in the country. Since 2005, my warehouse has been my garage, living room, dining room, game room and every inch of my house where you could see the floor, plus this year I had to rent a space from Cube Smart to handle my stock. I am hoping to get my house back in 2015!
My New Little Warehouse
The recession has gotten worse this year and sales growth month to month seemed to have hit a plateau. My business is doing well in spite of it all. No great strides, just unpredictable highs and lows, but they are averaging out okay.
Several of my products have been knocked off, by foreign manufacturers and they are selling them online and in stores, which does not make me very happy. Some are identical and some are versions of mine. Some have even taken my photographs and used them as their own. All I can do is pray to God that they go away because I do believe they have impacted my sales growth along with the recession. I can’t sue a foreign manufacturer plus there is more than one of them. Shoot, Nike and Apple have tried to sue to no end or benefit. The good news is that I do have an advocate and His name is Jesus aka Yeshua aka The King of Kings and I put my trust in Him. I also have an issue with people selling my products online for up to double my pricing. Which can be a problem if they purchase from Ebay (not me), Sears (not me) and pay $378 for something, then that seller buys on Amazon or one of my other sales sites to the customer they sold to. Then once the customer gets it and perhaps realizes they might have over paid, do some research and then they return it and I end up taking not only the return as a hit but the shipping too in many cases. I have researched this and it is indeed happening. I pray to God this does not get out of hand and that it stops. I am the only current legitimate seller of Angelynn’s Products, everyone else is illegitimate.
This year I phased out a few designs, production costs have gone up and were too high to be able to sell them good profit margins with the capacities they had. My profit margins have greatly narrowed and this economy has not supported higher selling prices right now.
I sell nationwide and worldwide and even the worldwide sales have changed, I use to get a lot of sales from the UK, Canada, Brazil and Australia but not nearly as much in the past year. Most of my US sales come from Los Angeles & San Diego California, Dallas, Houston & Austin Texas, Chicago and New York City, thankfully people who live in larger population cities are telling their friends.
For the most part I am merely found by people who search in the search engines for “earring holder”, “necklace holder”, “jewelry organizer” and so on and word of mouth. I am no social media darling and I do not even have a smart phone. I know and continue to hope that there are customers out there who will continue to love my products and let others know. Yes, I do have a Facebook Page, Twitter 2 blogs and of course the sites I sell on, but I really don’t have the time or knowledge on how to use them all to their potential, they make my head spin.
Basically, things are good, no complaints, but sales could always be better. Perhaps one year soon we will finally be able to take a vacation and get away from it all for a week or two? God only knows.
Introducing my new “Nichole Earring Angel” (my sister) will be an extra large wall mount earring holder for hoops and extra long dangle earrings. It will hold up to 105 pairs of large and long earrings.
2014 New Products
Nichole Earring Angel – Wall Mount Hoop and Long Dangle Earring Holder
Amy Jewelry Tree – Bracelet Holder
Gianna Jewelry Tree – Necklace Holder
Isabel Jewelry Tree – Hoop and Long Chandelier Earring Holder
I am working on a few other products that have just completed the prototype.
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