Friday, September 30, 2011

Shopping Locally...and it's benefits

A majority of today's consumers are online shoppers in one way or another.  I have been known to shop in bed in my jammies from time to time.  But is this costing our community when we eliminate shopping locally?  Here are a few benefits I can think of, that we eliminate, when we stop supporting our local shops:

1.  Eye contact - you may not want to believe it, but eye contact is just good for you.  Eye contact keeps people a little more honest.  There isn't a computer screen to hide behind.  Sometimes eye contact comes with a smile, too, that can make anyone's day better.

2.  Personal service - you may get personal service.  Immediate, personal, service.  What?  What is this 'service' I speak of?  It's when someone helps you find the right product(s) for you and your personal situation, right then and right there.  There's no waiting for an email reply, phone message that may or may not be returned.  This 'service' may come with eye contact and a smile, so be forewarned!


3.  Paying sales tax - yes, paying your sales tax on items you buy are a big plus!  You have children that may be going in to school in the next few years...their teachers and schools are paid for by taxes.  Many of those funds come from sales tax.  Read on...

"By far the largest areas of state spending, on average, are education (both K-12 and higher education) and health care. But states also fund a wide variety of other services, including transportation, corrections, pension and health benefits for public employees, care for persons with mental illness and developmental disabilities, assistance to low-income families, economic development, environmental projects, state police, parks and recreation, housing, and aid to local governments."  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April, 12, 2011)

When we choose to shop online to avoid paying sales tax, you can bet your bippy it is going to affect what services get cut at the state budget meetings!  OH wait - you NEEDED that police officer to protect you from a villain...start paying sales tax!  You NEEDED that fireman to put out that fire in the kitchen before your house burned down?  PAY. YOUR. SALES. TAX!

4.  Supporting a business...that supports YOU - that's right.  Support a business that will be there when you need help with your purchase.  Small businesses are the best for this type of support.  They WANT and NEED your business, so 9 times out of 10 they are there for you when you need them.  Not only in support of each other, you may be supporting a job or two.  Here are a few stats from the SBA website:

  • Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
  • Employ just over half of all private sector employees.
  • Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
  • Have generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years.
  • Create more than half of the nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
  • Hire 40 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer programmers).
  • Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
So, just those few stats show how important small business is to the United States, and it's recovery.

Now I understand that sometimes your local shopping options may not have what you NEED right then and there.  But I'd bet they'd do their best to find it for you in order to make a local customer happy.  And if they can't, they could steer you towards maybe another local retailer that does.  Heck, that retailer may not even know there is a desire for a certain product - UNTIL SOMEONE ASKS FOR IT!   So ask, with a smile, and eye contact. 

Just going back a few notches about businesses being there when you need help with your purchase; have you gone back to Target, Walmart or even online thru Amazon and asked for help on how to make your product work?  Yah, not so easy huh?  They don't have time for you.  They got your money, they don't feel the need to actually HELP you!  When you shop thru a local, small business - maybe family owned, most likely you will feel confident walking in and getting the help you need.

Now, this all may seem odd coming from an ONLINE business owner.  But I AM still a LOCAL!  And who knows...maybe I'll have my own shop one day...and you can come in and get all the eye contact, smiles, and personal service your heart desires - all the while helping to support your local community by paying sales tax!  <3

Much love~
Rachel & Family

Thursday, September 29, 2011

FREE SHIPPING FRIDAY + CURRENT SALES

Orders placed from 10am - 10pm Pacific, ship completely FREE to US addresses! Use code FSF093011 to eliminate your shipping charges FRIDAY 9/30 ONLY!  

Otherwise, Keep It Simple Shipping: $5 flat rate US shipping on orders $49.99 and under.  Free US Shipping at $50!

Current sales:
 

  • bumGenius 4.0 diapers BUY 5 GET 1 FREE in effect again!  Order must include at least one Sweet, Bubble or Artist Series diaper.  Get your free Sweet or Bubble using code BFGO911 or get your free Artist Series diaper using code BFGO911AS.   Expires 10/31/11  (If I do not have what you need, please contact me, I may be able to get it quickly for you!)
  • Orders $50+ will receive a free GroVia drawstring wetbag!  Limited to supply in stock, Vanilla only.  No substitutions.  Just mention you'd like one in checkout comments.
Head on over to our rockin' Facebook page at RockEasyDiaperCompany, and follow or subscribe to this blog for random giveaways!  We have some mama cloth from Charlie Banana and The Willow Store to giveaway, as well as some liquid EcoNuts Soap!  
Also, follow us on Twitter, too: @_Rock_Easy_  We have some exciting ideas that involve tweeting and we could use everyone's help to make it successful.

We look forward to bringing you the ROCK STAR service that you deserve! 
Check out our 5 star reviews, right on DiaperPin.com.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

FREE SHIPPING FRIDAY + CURRENT SALES

Orders placed from 10am - 10pm Pacific, ship completely FREE to US addresses! Use code FSF092311 to eliminate your shipping charges FRIDAY 9/23 ONLY!  

Otherwise, Keep It Simple Shipping: $5 flat rate US shipping on orders $49.99 and under.  Free US Shipping at $50!

Current sales:
 
  • bumGenius 4.0 diapers BUY 5 GET 1 FREE in effect again!  Order must include at least one Sweet, Bubble or Artist Series diaper.  Get your free Sweet or Bubble using code BFGO911 or get your free Artist Series diaper using code BFGO911AS.   Expires 10/31/11
  • Orders $50+ will receive a free GroVia drawstring wetbag!  Limited to supply in stock, Vanilla only.  No substitutions.  Just mention you'd like one in checkout comments.
Head on over to our rockin' Facebook page at RockEasyDiaperCompany, and follow or subscribe to this blog for random giveaways!  We have some mama cloth from Charlie Banana and The Willow Store to giveaway, as well as some liquid EcoNuts Soap!  
 
Also, follow us on Twitter, too: @_Rock_Easy_  We have some exciting ideas that involve tweeting and we could use everyone's help to make it successful.

We look forward to bringing you the ROCK STAR service that you deserve! 
Check out our 5 star reviews, right on DiaperPin.com.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

FREE SHIPPING FRIDAY + CURRENT SALES

Orders placed from 10am - 10pm Pacific, ship completely FREE to US addresses! Use code FSF91611 to eliminate your shipping charges FRIDAY 9/16 ONLY!  

Otherwise, Keep It Simple Shipping: $5 flat rate US shipping on orders $49.99 and under.  Free US Shipping at $50!

Current sales:
 

  • bumGenius 4.0 diapers BUY 5 GET 1 FREE in effect again!  Order must include at least one Sweet, Bubble or Artist Series diaper.  Get your free Sweet or Bubble using code BFGO911 or get your free Artist Series diaper using code BFGO911AS.   Expires 10/31/11
  • Orders $50+ will receive a free GroVia drawstring wetbag!  Limited to supply in stock, Vanilla only.  No substitutions.  Just mention you'd like one in checkout comments.
Head on over to our rockin' Facebook page at facebook.com/RockEasyDiaperCompany, and follow our blog for random giveaways!  Also, follow us on Twitter, too: @_Rock_Easy_

We look forward to bringing you the ROCK STAR service that you deserve! 
Check out our 5 star reviews, right on DiaperPin.com.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Haute Green Winner #3

To finish up our first round of the Haute Green Social Giveaways, I'm announcing the winner of #3, for the GoGreen Champ Diaper in Blanc.







Random.org chose #51:





And that person is:





Congratulations Julie Ghrist!!

Please send an mail to me at rachel@rockeasydiapercompany.com, with your mailing address!  Then go give us a shout out that you WON with REDC!  : )

Much Love
Rachel
Beginning our 3rd year bringing cloth diapers to your family, and lovin' every minute of it!

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Haute Green Winners #1 & #2

So here it is!  The first two winners for our Haute Green Swag Bag giveaways!

Haute Green Swag Bag Giveaway #1

The winner for the Thirsties Snap Duo Wrap, Size 2, in Warm Stripes w/snaps is....







76. KarilynAley said...
Dirty Diaper Laundry https://www.facebook.com/DirtyDiaperLaundry/posts/258945114132855 Kari Meeker karilynaley at yahoo
Haute Green Swag Bag Giveaway #2

The winner of the 10 load sample of EcoNuts Laundry Detergent is...



29. Holly Wilson said...
I tweeted about this giveaway http://twitter.com/#!/hollywilson82/status/106038247242731521 hollywilson82 at hotmail dot com
CONGRATULATIONS KARILYN & HOLLY!  Please contact me at rachel@rockeasydiapercompany.com with your mailing address!