Today 2 years ago we got our first order in our shop! It seems such a long time ago and it’s hard to imagine that time now. We are at almost 2,000 orders now and we came so far since that day. I am very gratefull for the success of this business and we are very happy with our work. I enjoy my job every day and never feel any regret starting it. Our customers are great people who are very kind, friendly and also very patient when a package doesn’t arrive within days. Thank you soooo much for everything! We promise we will work very hard to make this business bigger and offer even more cute products to everyone around the world. Thank you!
Your modes4u-team (Sandra, Alan and Bonnie)

We received our first order of Japanese Lecien fabrics today. They are really adorable cute fabrics with very brilliant colours and prints. This is our first cooperation with Lecien and we plan to stock more of their Japanese fabrics in the future. Please let us know if we should stock a specific Lecien fabric. As we are working with Lecien directly together, we are only able to get the newest fabric collections, not 2 year old prints. Sorry. Below you can see some of the new Lecien fabrics available in our shop now:

black Japanese fabric with many donuts, cupcakes, ice cream, lollipops, macaroons and strawberries

pink Japanese fabric with many teddy bears, donuts, cupcakes and hearts

turquoise Japanese fabric with many white kitties, cherries, hearts and dots

black Japanese fabric with many strawberries, decoration and glitter

I have another update from Kokka: We sell the fabrics from our first order with Kokka crazily and therefore we decided to place a new order now to prevent running out of stock. We got one wholesale order from a shop in Germany and therefore we can combine the 2 orders, ship them together and save some shipping costs. We ordered over 35 bolts of Kokka fabrics! They will be shipped by ship. I am looking forward to get them, the expected arrival date is 21.10.2009. I will definitely post a blog post when the fabrics arrive. So keep coming back for news!

Sorry for not writing earlier but we were so busy the last weeks and we got our 400th order already! Our 400th order is from a customer in Preston in the UK. Thanks so much!

I will update you when we get our 500th order in. Can’t wait to get there

WOW, we received the 300th order earlier than expected. I expected to get to the 300th order around 30 days after our 250th order was confirmed. So it took only 17 days! YAY The 300th order is from an old customer of us from Bad Saulgau, Germany. Thank you so much!

I will write again when we get our 400th order. See ya soon

Today we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of our kawaii shop modes4u.com!!! YAY! Exactly one year ago we launched our new kawaii shop and it has happened a lot since then. The start was slow, as it is hard for every new online shop to get visitors, and more importantly CUSTOMERS. We invested a lot of time and effort into making our shop more “Google-friendly” and did a lot of internal SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to bring our shop to the top search results in Google. It was a good decision as our shop is now listed very well for important keywords we have. Therefore, the number of visitors and customers grew steadily since the beginning and we are almost at the 200th order mark now. Another very good decision was to allow our wholesale customers to order directly online instead of ordering from catalogs. This way, our wholesale customers are able to see what items we have in stock right now and can make their bulk orders and get the items fast. I expect a lot from our cute shop for the 2nd year: A lot more visitors, customers and of course ORDERS.

To a great, successful and fun 2nd year!!!

Your modes4u-Team

Today we got our 150th order in our online shop modes4u.com! That is really great! YAY! The 150th order is from a lady in Freiburg, Germany. Thank you!

The first 50 orders took almost 6 months, the next 50 orders almost 3 months, these last 50 orders took only 2 months and 3 days. I expect to get to the 200th order in around 1.5 months. I will keep you posted.

We decided to work with a different Credit Card Provider together as we had so many trouble with Moneybookers. Our first choice was Worldpay as they are worldwide well known and seem to be very professional, secure and reliable. We integrated it a few days ago and today we got our first 2 customers paying with Worldpay. Everything went smooth without any error messages or bugs so the Worldpay credit card payment module should work now. I am glad that this is finally installed and working. We had quite a few transaction errors and therefore lost customers and orders because of Moneybookers. This should not happen anymore now.

Today we got our 100th order in our online shop! YAY! That’s a reason to celebrate, don’t you agree? This order went to Düsseldorf in Germany. Thank you!

The first 50 orders took almost 6 months, the next 50 orders almost 3 months only. That’s really good progress and I expect the 150th order will be reached even faster.

We got our first order on Etsy already! Who would have thought we will get our first sale so fast? I added our items in the late evening yesterday and overnight we sold 2 stickers to a lady in the US. YAY! Keep the orders coming