Check out the new blog and a few other notes…

First off, for those of you who don’t frequent the forums, we’re excited to announce that we’ve hired a PR firm, JW Public Relations! We are working with Jennifer to build awareness for HC and put us top-of-mind for anyone looking for eco-friendly handmade products.

We have a few things in the works, including:

• We issued a press release and will continue to release more ongoing
• We’ve started a blog for shoppers here. We’ll be featuring articles on green living and also on our lovely sellers. If you’re interested in being featured, please contact Jennifer at jennifer [at] jwpublicrelations.com. Also, if you have any ideas for future articles, please post here.
• Jennifer is collecting samples to send to bloggers, etc. for exposure and reviews. Again, if you’re interested in sending any samples for this purpose, please contact Jennifer.
• We’ve integrated the forums into the rest of the site more closely. There’s now one single log-in for shopping the site and forums

A few other notes:

• Emails were slow this week. Sorry about that! A few emails got stuck because of invalid email addresses and it backed up all other emails. Things should be back to normal now.
• High-traffic stockings: we’ve been doing a lot of work lately to minimize errors during high-traffic stockings. We’ve gotten to a fairly good place now, but if you are still experiencing slowdowns, the following will help: please try not to have too many items go live simultaneously. If you can stagger your stocking, even by a few seconds, so items go live in batches of 5 or so, that should make the stockings much smoother. Thanks!