Flea Craze

This is a promotion for a flea market in Singapore.

From: http://www.blogshopcity.com/flea-market-bazaar-carnival-garage-sales-singapore/5892-flock-shop-november-flea-craze-haji-lane-arab-street.html

Flock to Shop -November Flea Craze at Haji Lane & Arab Street

Cheewwy 10-28-2010, 04:18 AM

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‘Flea & Fun’ Raiser presented to you by “Flock-to Shop” and “Going OM Events”.
Supported by Freemasnland & Flea Titan



Venue: Haji Lane
Date: 27th - 28th November ( Sat & Sun)
Time: 2pm-8pm
After Party: 8pm-10pm
Facilities- Road closure , with Cisco security to ensure safety of all vendors and flea goers
Activities: Charitable activities with celebrities participation organized Going OM Events
Booking opening , mean while please check out the below
(Stalls rental - $50 per day Booking for 2 day- $90



To Register:

cheewwy@gmail.com

[ Subject: 27th-28th Nov Haji Lane ]
Name:
E-mail:
Contact no:
No.of stall:

Dates:
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FLOCK-TO-SHOP AT NABINS

Venue: NABINS, SULTAN GATE (Arab Street)
Date: 20th-21st November 2010 (Sat& Sun)
Time: 11am- 6pm
Guest DJs: DJs JUNK JUNKIES ( M'SIA)
“PROMO RATES" HURRY UP!

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Area 1
Directly after main entrance (spacious & exclusive to 11 stalls only )
Indoor, air-condition & private space
Private and comfortable space, with own sofa and table 4’ x 3’
1 rack space is allowed
Pricing
* 1 day - $105
* 2 days - $200

Area 2
Indoor/ air-conditioned ( 2nd Floor )
2 low table that combined size of 4’ x 2’ is provided & comfortable carpeted & cushion for vendors, nicely host 2 pax
1 rack space is allowed
Pricing
* 1 day - $65
* 2 days- $120

Area 2B
Outdoor / Sheltered
With sofa seats & 1 table of 4’x4’ is provided
- 1 rack space is allowed
Pricing
* 1 day - $55
* 2 days- $100


Area 3
Outdoor/Shethered
3’ x 3’ table is provided with 2 chairs
Pricing
* 1 day - $45
* 2days - $80

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To Register:

cheewwy@gmail.com

[ Subject: 20th-21st Nov Nabins ]
Name:
E-mail:
Contact no:
No.of stall:
Area:
Dates:
CLICK HERE ON FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR MORE INFO
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=125771730810347
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Blogsite: www.flocktoshop.wordpress.com
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How to get there: Map of Kampong Glam Shop Houses (S) 198480
Organizer: Flock to Shop
PAST WORK: FLEA TITAN www.fleatitan.com
Supported by: Dont Panic Singapore, Freemansland

This article is from Emmagem.com and it notes the evolution of many blogshops into e-shops:


From: http://www.emmagem.com/2010/09/04/online-shopping-bigger-and-better/

Online Shopping: Bigger and Better

By: lavender

September 4th, 2010

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Filed Under: Boutique • Fashion • Featured • Shop Online • Shopping

Tags: accessories • apparels • bags • Fashion • malaysia online fashion • malaysia online shopping • Malaysian Online Fashion Directory • mofsd • online shopping • Shopping

It never fails to amaze me how quickly the world of online shopping is expanding. What started off as scattered blogshops grew and formed a massive network with huge varieties. Our own MOFSD gets loads of action, too! With over 2000 blogshops listed, coming and going meant a lot of cleaning up all the time. And now, our lovely online entrepreneurs have even kicked it up a notch by bringing us sophisticated dot com e-boutiques!

What is the difference between a blogshop and an e-shop, you ask? Well first would be their lovely, easy to navigate websites! Nothing says professional quite like a well organized customer information database and a fully functional shopping cart. The products are also of much higher quality and, as they are often imported, you’ll be able to find something a little different.

There are a few e-shops out there, and many more are certainly coming up. But here are, in my opinion, some of the trendiest and most well established ones.

1. I Wear Sin

This e-boutique is fabulous for those looking for classy sophisticated pieces. From bodycon skirts to fitting blazers, this is the place to find wardrobe staples. Though the apparels are often in very neutral colors like beige, black, white and brown, they still come off looking absolutely gorgeous! You can even find work appropriate pieces here, which we all know is a bit of a challenge when shopping online. The best part about this website? Despite its high-end appearance, most of the pieces are actually surprisingly affordable!

2. The Pop Look

Another must-see would have to be The Pop Look. The overall style of this e-boutique leans more towards boho and vintage inspired. Expect to find cute prints, sweet lace and pretty frills. Aside form that, the owners of The Pop Look have even made an effort to take care of all of a woman’s fashion needs by providing us with staples such as Nu Bras. A one-stop shop, so convenient!

3. Ugly Duckling Closet

Despite its name, there is certainly nothing ugly about the Ugly Duckling Closet! Just like the two mentioned above, this e-boutique has its own unique sense of style. Here, you can find all things cute, quirky and sometimes even outrageous! The photographs are fabulous, too. Different pieces are often paired together, with hairstyles and accessories thrown in. The entire website is a fashion inspiration! Definitely worth a look.

4. Gin and Jacqie

This next one on the list is a little different because it’s an e-boutique that sells only bags! Not boring everyday handbags though! Gin and Jacqie’s exclusive designs are gorgeous, long lasting and extremely practical. Expect to find lovely laptop cases that in beautiful designs with padding for protection. Their best sellers? Bag organizers! I absolutely adore those. They’re designed in such sensible ways with compartments for just about anything you could possibly think of to keep in your handbag. Saves you the trouble of constantly rooting around in your handbag! Prices are a little high but definitely worth every penny.

5. Emma Shoppe

And finally, we have our very own Emma Shoppe, which truth be told is more of a web-mall than an e-boutique. Designed specially for your convenience, Emma Shoppe provides you with large varieties of apparels (for men and women), designer items, home decor products and even gifts! The clothing section features designers from both Malaysia and Hong Kong, so you have plenty to choose from. Many of our items are unique so you never have to worry about not standing out! Aside from that, you can also look forward to a large array of beautiful bouquets (delivery service provided!), super cute iPhone covers, practical storage solutions and all sorts of other awesome stuff!

I am absolutely loving this expansion of dot com boutiques. I simply find them so much more reliable! I hope you enjoy these gorgeous e-shops.

This article talks about the value of a blog to help make an online store more searchable.  This is within the context of an EC store (made from a store builder software).

The main idea is that blogs help with search engine rankings.  Well written and popular blogs housed on the same domain or subdomain with the EC site will help make a site found more easily so it makes sense to add a blog to an EC store.

For blogshops, the hosting on blog sites naturally helps the store in terms of searchability.

From: http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/adding-a-blog-to-your-online-shop-3535669.html

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Most store builder software today will help you create a blog that easily converts. That's just the start of having an effective online store. Choose a good niche to work with, find a reliable supplier, make your navigation easy to understand and voila! You've got a nice online shop going.

The good old adage of "build it and they will come" does not exactly work for online stores. You will be in competition with hundreds, if not thousands, of other web retailers. Each one has it's unique selling proposition.

Despite getting a good store builder, you will also need to focus on attracting the right visitors to your online shop and converting them into solid sales. Search engine optimization is one way to do this. Find the right keywords that your market is using to find the products you are selling and target these in your meta tags and in your content. You should also work on building links to your online shop.

If you're not exactly the techie store owner, but you do enjoy writing/talking, then there's one other alternative. You can do something as simple as writing a blog about the items that you are selling online. House this blog within the same domain - either as a subdomain or a subfolder. It should be related to your online store in some way. There are actually instances when blogs go viral and gain popularity online. If this happens to you, having your blog as part of your main domain will work well for your branding efforts.

Your tone should depend on the kind of audience you are targeting for your online store. We recommend keeping it light and casual, yet sticking to the rules of grammar and good writing. This will make you seem professional but approachable.

Don't be all about business and hard selling. Informative blogs are just as effective as sales blogs. Give your readers more information about the background of your online store, highlight your favorite customer testimonials, focus on some benefits of buying a particular product. Make people want to read your blog by creating content relevant to them.

Integrate social media elements into your online store's blog by adding plug-ins. Social plug-ins from Facebook can allow you to immediately add the "Like" button on your online shop. You can also add a way for your audience to Tweet about post or to add it to their social book marking accounts.

Last, but not the least, don't use it as a one-way marketing tool. Your blog should be both responsive and interactive. If you receive comments - whether negative ones or positive ones - you should always acknowledge and respond to it. The more it leans towards the neutral and negative comments, the better the opportunity for you to interact with your audience directly.

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Blogshop Wholesalers and Suppliers in Bangkok

Since I will taking a trip to Bangkok soon, I would like to look up some of these suppliers and see their operations.

Here are some sites/threads that have been helpful with these info:

http://www.thailandqa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7730
http://www.blogshopcity.com/wholesale-distributors-suppliers-b2b/1401-where-find-blogshop-suppliers-wholesaler-bangkok.html
http://www.platinumfashionmall.com/
http://blogshoplist.blogspot.com/


The known fashion suppliers in Bangkok can be found in:

• Platinum Mall- Petchaburi Road opposite Amari Hotel
• Pratunam 
• Bobae market (low end)- between Royal Princess Hotel and Social Welfare Department
• Chatuchat market (low end but good bargains), and JJ Mall located opposite the Queen Sirikit Park
• City Plaza

The conventional use of blogs to support EC is to create content that will help to attract readers and subsequently drive traffic to your EC website.

Of course, blogshops circumvent all this, and goes straight to hosting EC on the blog itself (hence blogshops).

This article gives advise to conventional EC site owners on how to accomplish this:

From http://www.ecommerceinboundmarketing.com/traffic-generation/how-to-blog-for-ecommerce-stores/

How to drive traffic to an eCommerce store is one of the most hottest topics for eCommerce store owners.   The more visitors to your store, the more conversions you will have.  So how do you drive more traffic to your store?  By creating unique, remarkable and valuable content that others (including search engines) will see and remark upon.  The most effective way to create this unique content on a regular basis is through a blog.

1.  What do I write about?
Developing a topic to write about on a consistent basis is an important decision.  You should not just write about your products, you should write about your industry.  If you sell widgets, write about how widgets are used, new features of widgets,and industry news about widgets.

2.  How do I make my content remarkable?
You make your content remarkable by creating unique, creative and valuable information.  Do not be afraid to experiment with other mediums like video and powerpoint presentations on your blog.  Video demonstrations are a spectacular way of both showcasing your products and creating remarkable content.

3.  How long should my blog posts be?
This varies, but I recommend that no post is shorter than 200 words.  You want to make sure that your content is worthy of someone recommending to a friend, and sometimes it is just really difficult to do that in under 200 words.

Of course some posts can have just a couple of sentences followed by a video or powerpoint presentation.

4.  Why does blogging even matter?  I sell items, not content.
Publishing regular content to your website will help drive more traffic to your site and store.  Afterall, the more traffic driven to a site, the more chances you have at conversions.

Lets say that you sell widgets and that you want to drive traffic to your site for people looking for “red square widgets” because you have the best “red square widgets” in the marketplace.  You could either pay for PPC campaigns on “red square widgets” or you could create unique content around “red square widgets” that gets shared and linked to organically.

So would you rather pay for each click to your website for someone looking for “red square widgets” or would you rather get that traffic organically and for free?

Try creating a couple of posts around “red square widgets”.  ex:

• 10 Ways Red Square Widgets are Better than Blue Round Widgets
• Red Square Widgets Make Your Life Easier
• Why Red Square Widgets Will Dominate Holiday Sales

Blogshop Cart

This appears to be an important application for any blogshop owners who want to build a sustainable business on their blog stores.  The reason many blogshop owners do not convert into an EC site is COST.

Now, here is a FREE application that allows blogshop users to install a shopping cart facility, together with credit card and PayPal provisions as well as inventory management and store administration management system.

The pieces are now available for blogshops to bring their business to another level.

From: http://www.blogshopcart.com/




This is more information about this software, from Hardwarezone which created this product:

From: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2959737

You can create your own blog shop in 3 simple steps! Start selling online with a proper shop front + Payment system.

Our software is created for YOU:

* Who seeks to enhance their shop-fronts
* Who desires to set-up a professional BlogShop that requires no hosting cost
* Who is a wholesaler, retailer or has an online company and is in search of an effective platform to increase brand and product awareness
* Who wants to be a cut above the rest of your competitors!

The long and overdue problems:

* Long waiting time for product images to be uploaded
* Lack of in-built shopping cart features
* Platform incompatibility that leads to limitation of enhancements
* Hassle of posting product details as Blog entries

BlogShopCart – Why should I use it?

* It is absolutely FREE!
* Fast and easy to setup, even with limited IT knowledge
* Simplified Shopping Cart For Online Shops
* Allows unlimited products uploads
* Paypal/Credit/Debit Cards Payment Module
* Customised Shipping Table Module
* Automated Calculations of Shipping Cost Upon Checkout
* System automatically email order when customer placed an order
* Advertisement Panels For Blogshop to advertise
* Professional Admin panel for easy editing and management
* Technical support available through email system...etc

What is a consignment shop?

This is a CONSIGNMENT SHOP format which operates in the US.

There are similarities with blogshops in terms of the selling items that are pre-loved and at lower prices.  They do not use a blog platform but a shopping cart site, but the ideas are pretty much the same as with blogshops in terms of cost cutting.

From: http://www.examiner.com/fashion-in-albany/what-are-consignment-shops

What is a consignment shop?

• October 11th, 2010 9:23 pm ET

Consignment shops are becoming extremely popular to the frugal yet fashionable. Often confused with thrift shops or goodwill due to selling second hand clothing, consignment shops differ in that the profits are split between two parties: consignment shops (consignor) and the people who bring the items in to be sold (consignee). Merchandise at thrift shops are mostly donated and purchased as is (you get what you pay for). Most merchandise is damaged in some way and may be extremely worn. On the other hand most consignment shops will not accept merchandise unless it looks new and the label is high-end, which affords them the ability to sell merchandise at a much higher price. Consignors and consignees split their profits and its usually a 50/50 or 60/40 split (the consignment shop receiving the higher percentage).
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tasha S. Robinson owner of Imperfect Concepts Boutique an online consignment shop. Read excerpts from my interview below:

Tell me a little about yourself:
I am a 25 year old. Graduated from Southern University A&M College in 2007 with a BA in Public Relations. I am a military brat and grew up overseas. I am Jamaican and love cooking Caribbean food. Creativity is how I thrive in life. Addicted to music, fashion and sports. I get no days off, I date my company. We have an excellent loving relationship

Please explain what Imperfect Concept is and how it works:Imperfect Concepts is a high end online resale boutique. Most people shop resale or consignment shops in their local state. Others use the means of EBay or craigslist or something of that nature. I am the middle woman. I provide a variety of amazing pieces at affordable prices for the public online or if you live in my state you can do the personal shopping at my place.

How long have you been in business?
I have been an Image Consultant since college and I launched Imperfect Concepts 7/11/2009. So my online store has been in business for over a year now.

What are the pros and cons of utilizing a consignment shop/boutique versus a major department store? I will start out with the pros because I am a positive person. The pro is always finding unique items. I feel when you are utilizing a consignment shop you will find vintage items. Vintage items have a better quality to me than clothes that are made now. The cons which would lead you to shop at your local department store is finding a particular item you need right here and right now. If you are looking for a jimmy Choo heel from this season a consignment or resale shop might not have it just yet. Another pro for resale boutiques is the fact that we are customer driven. I know personally that I try to make my customers feel as important as they truly are. Everyone is VIP with me because I cant thrive without my customers. With department stores millions of people shop them daily so they have lost their personal touch with the customers.

Where do you see the consignment shop/boutique business 5 years from now?
I am debating if I want to have a store front within the next 5 years. I do know I want to build my brand and use every step placed in front of me to its full potential. I am carefully building my brand and providing amazing and pre-loved pieces to women at affordable prices.

Shop online at ImperfectConcepts.com