We launched our new affiliate program today and are super excited about it. Guys, this is for you!!! All you bloggers and people with a website who enjoy our cute products, now you can make money with us. Team up with us through our affiliate program, which enables you to earn commission on every sale referred to modes4u by using specially tracked links from your personal websites. We provide you with custom links and banners that you can post on your website. Therefore, when a referring visitor from your site makes a purchase, we will record it and give you a commission of 5% on the sale. You get an additional performance bonus of EUR 50 on every accumulated sale of EUR 1,000.

A lot of you guys have been mentioning us in your blogs already (thanks so much for that and keep it up), but now you also have the opportunity to become a professional partner. We have been working on this program for the last weeks and are so happy that it started now. Everybody who likes what we sell can basically take part. So if you are a blogger or have a website connected to the themes of sewing, quilting, handmade crafts, scrapbooking, cooking, preparing bento lunch boxes, deco-den, cute stationery, Sanrio & San-X Japanese cartoon characters and so on, you might be the right one. We really hope that a lot of people will join.

The banners that we made are really cute, so they should fit well to your blogs and websites. We now have an extra page for our affiliate program, where you find more information, but you can also join now via ShareASale.

our new affiliate program has started

some of the our banners with cute products

We draw 30 random winners for our giveaway:

1) carmel: carmelita@xxx

2) Angelika: s_angelika3@xxx

3) Jingle: jinglesells@xxx

4) Ivonne: ivonne.h@xxx

5) Ionie Thomas: ionie_thomas@xxx

6) emily: emilyfinch32@xxx

7) Simone Münstermann: mone@xxx

8 ) HoopBunny: hoopbunny@xxx

9) Sonia: sonia.solci@xxx

10) Paw-paw: paugalang@xxx

11) Aliyah: aliyahhr@xxx

12) janita: janitalatifa@xxx

13) Alexa Thun und Hohenstein: alexakuepper@xxx

14) SuperLuna: decoradarling@xxx

15) Sarah: sarahzevenbergen@xxx

16) samira yussuf: superstarsammy@xxx

17) Marina: isollea@xxx

18) Amira Savoy: hellosaranghae@xxx

19) Felicity: tvr28lz@xxx

20) trixx: trixpixel@xxx

21) chuchoo: dboulette@xxx

22) Tania: tania.enokibara@xxx

23) Juli Drappeldrey: morgaine1999@xxx

24) Tiffany: aozora.sanpo@xxx

25) Kasia Kawczynski: princess.rei@xxx

26) steph: jrseniors@xxx

27) hiiime: pandaboer@xxx

28) Frances: mirrorandmoon@xxx

29) Ruriyuki: ruriyuki@xxx

30) Ingrid: homocore@xxx

We removed the end of every email address, to protect their privacy. We will contact everyone by email directly.

Congrats to the 30 lucky winners!

To celebrate our 17,400 fans on our Facebook Fansite we finally have a new giveaway here on our blog. We chose 30 awesome cute prizes for you guys.

You can win one of these kawaii prizes:

cutlery, tissues, tapes and more

1 green frog chopsticks + box

1 yellow bear chopsticks + box

1 pink/purple Hello Kitty tissue (4 prizes available)

1 cute deco tape (4 prizes available)

1 penguin jewelry holder

1 Rilakkuma travel tag for suitcase

1 blue bear cutlery set (2 prizes available)

1 ChooChoo cat tissue (2 prizes available)

1 deer memo pad

Re-Ments and cute jewelry

1 out of 6 Re-Ments (6 prizes available)

1 matryoshka-flower earring set (3 earrings included)

1 cherry earrings set

1 giraffe earrings set

1 pink cloverleaf ring

1 cute golden grandpad wristband

cute backpack and bag

1 Tenshi Neko backpack

1 cute black handbag with golden ribbon

For a chance to win one of the 30 prizes, you must:

1) Go to our kawaii shop modes4u, and comment below this blog post what would be your favorite Christmas gift from our shop! (1 entry)

For additional chances to win (leave a separate comment for each entry):

2) “Like” modes4u’s Facebook page. Leave FB name with comment. (1 extra entry)

3) Follow us on Twitter here. Leave Twitter name with comment. (1 extra entry)

4) Add one of our banners to your blog, website etc. You can find the banners here. Post a link to your blog in the comments below. (5 extra entries!!!)

5) Tweet about this giveaway and post your tweet URL in the comments below. You can tweet once a day until the deadline! Just copy the words below and paste it on your twitter. (1 extra entry)

WIN cute goodies from @modes4u! HUGE kawaii Giveaway with 30 prizes! Enter here -> http://tinyurl.com/3sutgnq #giveaway www.modes4u.com

6) Blog about this giveaway and post a link to your blog post in the comments below. (2 extra entries)

7) Subscribe to our blog via Google Friend Connector on the right sidebar. (2 extra entries)

Entries will be accepted until Monday, September 26, 2011, Midnight GMT. We will notify the winners the following day! You will have 48 hours to claim your prize or we will have to pick another winner.

OPEN WORLDWIDE!

Winners will be chosen through random.org, so the more entries you have, the more chances of winning!

We worked on a new slide show for our front page in our shop during the last few days and we finally finished it today. I am very happy with the result because it shows very nicely why a customer should buy in our shop and what benefits he/she has. We also included some really nice and fun pictures of our business. The 5 main benefits are:
1) Safe Shopping
We provide safe shopping by using SSL encryption in cooperation with secure payment providers like PayPal, VISA and MasterCard. We do not store any sensitive information on our servers. The payment process is done on a secure, encrypted website directly provided by our bank and PayPal.
2) Free Shipping
We offer the lowest international shipping costs possible, so you can enjoy shopping with us even more! Buy items worth 60€ (US$78, £54) and we ship your order worldwide FOR FREE!
3) Big Community
We have a big community fan base on Facebook with over 16,000 fans! Get the latest news, giveaways and gifts and “like” our Facebook Page now!
4) Import from Japan & USA
We import the latest high quality products directly from Japan, USA, Korea… and offer them for a very attractive price.
5) Ready to Dispatch
All our products are in stock. When we get your order, we will ship it within 24 hours and every order comes with a FREE GIFT!

our new front page

We just set up a really cute Christmas Countdown in our shop so everyone can get more and more excited about Christmas coming soon We just love Christmas, don’t you too? Here is our super cute kawaii Christmas Countdown:

I get continuously emails from customers asking if we ship to this country or that country. We had a worldwide shipping logo placed on every page of our online shop and also explain in our shipping details that we do ship worldwide. However, people still seemed to be unsure if we ship to their country. We changed the Worldwide Shipping logo to a much bigger one now which is very easy to see on every page of our shop. I hope this will help our customers to see quickly, that we do ship worldwide and even offer free shipping for orders above 60 Euro / US$78 / £54. If anyone has any further recommendations for us, please let us know by email.

our new worldwide shipping logo

the new logo integrated on our website (on the right side)

We have another blog giveaway anouncement: Sweet Tidings is hosting a modes4u giveaway on their blog! Sweet Tidings is a blog talking about all things handmade and as we are selling lots of supplies for making handmade goodies, we thought we team up and do a giveaway together. You can win a fabulous prize: a handmade deer stamp, 10 suprise handmade fabric buttons, a cute iron-on patch, a letter set and DIY donut felt set. This giveaway ends October 11, 2010. You can get more entries by following us on Facebook, Twitter and/or write a blog post about this giveaway. Now, go to Sweet Tidings’ giveaway blog post and join this cute giveaway!

Blog Giveaway on Sweet Tidings

Jaebumfangirl is hosting a modes4u giveaway on her blog. She writes about fashion and interesting accessories and hosts also a lot of giveaways. We decided to do a Tenshi Neko bag giveaway together with her. So go to her blog, comment below the kawaii giveaway and you may win a cute pink Tenshi Neko schoolgirl bag! Giveaway ends on 9th of October 2010. Good luck everyone!

you can win this cute Tenshi Neko bag

From today on, we have a new category in our shop ‘On SALE‘. Here we are selling items that are very limited in quantity and once they are sold out they will not come back. If you like one of those items on sale, be quick and order fast to make sure you get your favorite items! We usually don’t do any sales, so this is your only chance to get one of our items with special price.

We have another giveaway, this time we teamed up with Hawaii Kawaii (http://hawaiikawaii.blogspot.com/) and give away another super cute prize. You can win a bento box, letter set, deco tape, earrings and a necklace from us. The rules are the same as before, go to our kawaii shop, post a comment below their blog post and tell them your favorite item in our shop. Extra entries for Twitter followers, Facebook Fans and blog posts. This blog giveaway will end on Monday September 27th.

you can win this cute animals bento box

and a matryoshka letter set

and a cute deco tape

and some cute earrings

and a pretty owl necklace