State of Daring Digits: A Letter to my clients

Hello All,

I wrote out this long rambling blog post explaining my shipping delays and orders mix ups....but you know I thought I wouldn't waste time with a long explanation and just get down to the nitty gritty.

First of all:

Thank you! For supporting Daring Digits!

Secondly:

I know that I have been shipping slowly. Here is the reason. I still work full time, and do all my orders at night once I get home. DD isn't in the position where it can support me, so I won''t be leaving my job anytime soon. So here is my typical weekday:

 I leave for work at about 7a each day and get home around 6p. I pre-make all my bottles on the weekends (Usually 8-10 hours on Saturday). During the week I print, prepare and pack up all the orders for the next  day from about 7:30pm (after getting home and eating dinner) to around 12am. Sometimes I have time to drop orders off at the post office on my lunch break, but I have meetings a lot at lunch also. So I usually drop the orders off on my way home from work.

The long and the short of my "Sob Story" is that Sunday is usually the only day of the week that I don't work at Daring Digits and work my day job. 

Don't get me wrong. This is an amazing problem to have! I thank my lucky stars to be this busy. I am just telling you all this because I want to bring the subject into light. Believe me, I am not twiddling my thumbs and keeping your orders for the fun of it.

I have thought long and hard about what I can do to make this situation better.  As I mentioned above DD just isn't able to support me right now. I have even thought about closing Daring Digits, but I can't. I just can't. This is my dream. My baby. I can't even think about stopping. My life would be empty. I would miss you all so much. Even with all the challenges I have been through, I would be lost without DD

So until I can work out some sort of deal with a supplier, or online store, here is the plan.  

As of 5/5/2013 I will be discontinuing most of my polishes. I am going to have a reboot. I will be launching some new colors and styles, but the biggest change to DD will be my restocking inventory and schedule. 

1. DD will be Restocked only every 2 weeks (see  below)  
2. At each restock I will have about half the number I usually do (Between 10-15 bottles of each color)
3. I will be lowering the number of different types of polish that will be available. ( I am aiming for 10 different colors. This does not include Donation Polishes. I currently carry more than 25 different colors)  

Daring Digits 2013 Restock Schedule.

May 10th 2013

May 24th 2013

June 7th 2013

June 21st 2013

July 5th 2013

July 19th 2013

August 2nd 2013

August 16th 2013

August 30th 2013

September 13th 2013

September 27th 2013

October 11th 2013

October 25th 2013

November 8th 2013

November 22nd 2013

December 6th 2013

December 20th 2013

My hope is that this change will help me get more organized, make more time for me to make new colors, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, to get orders out MUCH QUICKER! Also now you never have to guess when the next restock is :)

Any ideas or comments you all have would be awesome. You know I appreciate you all so much!

<3 Ash

Pricing and Shipping Changes

Hello Lovelies!

First of all thank you all for such a GREAT celebration of my anniversary.

Words cannot express how much I appreciate my clients!! Thank you THANK YOU!

Now for the meat...Effective tomorrow 3/1/2013 I will be increasing my polish prices slightly. The costs have been rising for most of my materials and shipping costs, and unfortunately this makes it so I have to increase the price of my polishes.

I think I have done this in a way that has the least impact.

My prices will be going from $6.50 + $2.50 shipping (and an additional charge per item)  to $8.00 per 16.5ML bottle  but everything is now SHIPPED FOR FREE TO THE USA and FLAT RATE $3.00 SHIPPING TO CANADA! 

Mini 9ml Bottles are changing from $3.75 + 2.50 shipping (and an additional charge per item) to $4.15 with the same shipping deal as above.

You know they say to always give bad news with a little good news, so I hope this seems fair!!

Thank you all!

<3

Ash

Anniversary Giveaway! Extended to 3/3/2013

Hi All!

I have set up a Rafflecopter for my giveaway! There are 3 Prizes (Gift Certificates to my store)

The giveaway starts today and ends at Noon Mt time on 2/28/2013 Enter below :-) <3 You can earn 2 entries. One by tweeting and one by commenting below :-) I have Extended to Giveaway for just a few days! With the launch of a new lone on 3/1/2013 I want to make sure I set aside time to pick winners and send out notices! Thanks everyone!

Please note that shipping is still only available to the US and Canada, so unfortunately this giveaway is closed to all other countries :-( a Rafflecopter giveaway

Anniversary Polishes and Sale Announcement!

Hello Everyone! Hope you are having a lovely week so far. Below is a preview of 2 very special polishes coming to my store on 2/1. They are called Daring and Digits. They both are a mixed matte glitter polish. One has a black base and one has a white base.

I made these polishes to celebrate my anniversary on 2/1. They are really fun. Shown below 2 coats over a white cream and 2 coats over a black cream, and 3 coats on my ring finger on each mani!

This scheme represents my original labels, and logo. I think it is good to remember where you started and this is my tribute to that!

 

 

Also starting 2/1 I will be restocking and starting my Anniversary Celebration!  All full Size bottles will be marked down by .50c making them $6.00 each, and with each purchase everyone will receive one free mini (9ml) bottle of a very special polish that will only be available as a free gift with purchase during the month of Feb! I will post pics of this special polish later tonight and tomorrow!

More deals, giveaways and fun coming next week! Keep your eyes peeled for my giveaways and coupon codes!!

Stay tuned Ladies!

~Ash

More Dots!

Hey All! A few people have asked about my WoW polish More Dots! and how it's a World of Warcraft polish. Well my pretties I think if you watch this video you will most likely laugh and see how I got the inspiration for this polish :)

Thanks to Tamara for asking about this, and encouraging me to show this video!

My Polish- More Dots!

The awesome video inspiration! O..and sound is required! Oh and there is A TON of cursing...so if you are offended by that please don't watch!

<3 Ash

So Long 2012 Giveaway!

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Hello Polish Fans!

 

Can you believe it's already December 5^th!? Wow where did all this time go? It seems like it was just summer! Well I will ponder the mysteries of time some other day! Right now I have something so much more important to announce!

 

A giveaway!!!! I know that this is like the 300^th giveaway you all have seen in the last few weeks, but I still want to do something for the holidays/new year! Here are the details!

 

3 lucky winners will be chosen and will receive 2 full size polishes chosen from my collection and 1 full size one-of-a-kind polish that I will make to each winners preference , free shipping  and a 50% off coupon for my new store! Yippie! This contest is open to everyone with shipping addresses in the following countries (if you live in a country not listed below please contact me to see if I can ship before entering)

 

US

Canada

Australia

New Zealand

UK/Great Britain

Ireland

Mexico

Norway

Sweden

France

Germany

Spain  

**Portugal**   <<Just added

**Argentina** << Just added
**Netherlands**<<Just Added
**Malaysia**<<Just added!

 

So how do I enter to win, you ask? Simple!

 

Go to my website www.ddpolish.com at the bottom of the page you will see a place to subscribe to my mailing list . Enter your email address and hit enter. After you hit enter you will be sent an email to verify that you want to be on our Mailing List. Please make sure you verify this in your email, or you won't be added to the giveaway list.

 

I NEVER send spam and you can unsubscribe at any time! By signing up you will get the occasional email from me regarding sales, new lines of polish and coupon codes!

 

This is  a great way to get the latest news about Daring Digits in your inbox! No more mysteries about restocks or new lines of polish!

 

Below is a quick picture of how to sign up!

 

The Giveaway Runs from 12/5/2012 – 12/15/2012 (Midnight Pacific Time). Winners will be picked by a random name selector that contains all the names on the mailing list. If you have already signed up to the mailing list you are automatically entered for the giveaway!

 

Good Luck and Happy Polishing!

 

In case you missed it above...here are the prizes

 

3 winners will recieve

 

• 2 Polishes of your choice from my shop selection
• 1 one-of-a-kind polish made to each winners' wishes
• Free Shipping
• a 50% off coupon to use in my store (50% off applies to entire purchase excluding shipping)

 

 

 

 #giveaway #nailpolish #daringdigits #frankenpolish #nails

Etsy Closing/Confessions of a Nerd

Hello Polish Lovers.

Hope everyone is doing well. This is a dual post, so let's break it down.

• So it's time. With the last restock I have realized that there is just no possible way I can keep up with two stores. Things are going unlisted as I miss them or forget to update one site or another. So my www.daringdigits.etsy.com store will be closing on this Friday. I will keep the store (as a place marker) around for nostalgia and a way to feed traffic back to my site. Since posting a redirect to another store is against the etsy rules I will post a redirect to my Facebook page and will be updating my Facebook Banner to reflect my www.ddpolish.com site. On that note, my ddpolish.com site will be down for a few hours this weekend as I update with a new look that I think will be easier to navigate and enjoy. I am going to try and do it late late at night, but you if you see a "down for maintenance" place holder please come back to the sight again in a few hours.

•  I have been debating for a while now about making my next set of polishes. I have had this idea rolling around in my mind since I    started making nail polish. I even have sketched out plans for this collection twice before, but I shelved it to work on first my fall collection and then my holiday  polishes. Now that my holiday/winter polishes are in full production I have finally decided to cave to my inner nerd! I am actually going to do this debut the right way, since it means so much to me. I will have the polishes pre reviewed and announced by a few blogger friends BEFORE they are available in my shop. And I will be posting swtached on my own nails as I work on the colors!   Okay Okay....I have decided to make a complete line of World of Warcraft polishes. I have always and will always make nail polishes close to my heart...and I can tell you WoW is something that I love so much. I have an incredible amount of memories in the game, and I still play it to this day (I have a Lvl 80 Night Elf Hunter Lvl 85 Human Paladin, and I am working on getting them to 90 while leveling a Pandaren Priest)  Whoa! I just went off into nerd land for a moment. Sorry about that. Anyway! Back to nail polish! I have 13 planned right now, but will be working on more soon.  I am not going to list yet their descriptions as I am still working on the formulas...so this is a teaser of a teaser post!  I will have pictures/descriptions up very soon!

Well that is the DD news for now.

Thank you all so much for your support of my business!

Polish On!