National Dog Week - means appreciate your dog!

With this last week being National Dog Week, Posh Puppy Boutique would like to take a moment and really spotlight the Dog.

The dog is truly what many call "man's best friend" and we find that out everyday when our dog is waiting on us to get home. The relationship with your dog is celebrated during National Dog Week.

This year marked the 74th National Dog Week and it just so happened that "Man's Best Friend" was the theme of this year. The phrase "man's best friend" is a well worn but accurate description of the depth of our relationship with dogs. It is that relationship which is celebrated during National Dog Week.

So... because Posh Puppy Boutique owes their success to the dog, we honor and celebrate the dog. What better way to celebrate our best friend that to give the real gift of friendship, great items for your dog!

The Loyalty and Friendship tee would be perfect for your pal or the true "BFF" dog tee!
How about create a Facebook page for your dog and have his default picture be him in the "Friend Me" dog T-Shirt.

What about a Best Buddies Dog Robe to wear before nighty night time? Or.. want to be near your dog try the great Doggie Side Sleeper and have him super close to you while you are snoozing.

A Posh Puppy Boutique favorite for love and friendship is the I Am Loved Handmade Handpainted Dog Collar. This special collar was created to reflect your pet's true love and friendship and touch all hearts when other's see your dog in this special dog collar.

What dog doesn't love to eat and loves to have treats? The I love my dog treats would be perfect to show the love. The cookies are handmade and healthy and guaranteed to be tasty and yummy to your pup!

Whatever way you decide to show your love to your dog - do it. Love your dog the way that your dog loves you - unconditional and at Posh Puppy Boutique we love our dogs!

Give a great Dog Gift..... a gift basket

What is a "gift basket" really?

A gift basket is a basket of different gifts delivered to a person at their home or workplace. Some different gift baskets contain fruit, other foods or drinks, frames or just generic gifts. Sometimes a "gift basket" can have a theme such as baby shower, or wedding. BUT...... at Doggie Couture Shop we like to:
SHAKE THINGS UP!

Why not give your pup a gift basket filled with lots of great dog items!!!

Doggie Couture Shop is excited to present Gift Baskets for Pets!! Got a friend with a new puppy? Now, you can just order a great doggie gift basket from Doggie Couture Shop.

We have gifts for new pups such as the:
Puppies in a Basket Gift Basket - pick your own breed type and have the breed shaped cookies in the basket. This great basket is packed with tissue and has a big bow and is great for party favors. These cookies are so yummy according to our clients.

Another great new puppy gift is the Itsy Bitsy Puppy Gift Basket -this includes 3 little puppy treats decorated in yogurt and you have a choice of 3 basket colors (purple, light blue, dark blue). Look closely!! You can see that each puppy face has a different expression....how adorable! What a great gift!

Got a new little boy? No snails for him, just a precious little boy dog gift basket. The New Puppy Gift Basket comes in blue or pink and has an assortment of different doggie items, such as dog treats, a dog blanket, soft plush dog toy, and tennis ball for fun and playing.

Do you need a holiday dog basket? Got those too.. the Spooky dog gift basket would be a great choice to take for a Halloween party or if going for the "family dinner", take pooch a precious Thanksgiving gift basket.

Gift baskets are the thing to take or send to a party or event especially since dogs cannot drink wine; gift baskets filled with dog treats and dog toys is the perfect gift! For a list of dog gifts, visit the gift section of our Doggie Couture Shop.

Let's get PLUSH with our TOYS!

TOYS TOYS TOYS! Posh Puppy Boutique has tons of Dog Toys to choose from! It seems that as dog owners we are always wanting to get our dog a new dog toy to play with - you know, we are just suckers for our furry little friends.

Posh Puppy Boutique has a large variety of dog toys to choose from, from plush toys to organic toys, you are sure to find one your little chewer will LOVE.

Some of our new and favorite plush toys are :

Knock back a few with the Greg Dogs Vodka Plush dog toy or maybe the Dog Julio Tequila Toy. Your girl a fan of champagne? How about the Cristail Champagne Toy or the Barkardi Toy - try one!

For the girly girls who like to chew too - the Roberto Pawvalli Bag Toy, Gucchewi Purse Toy or the Dolce Grrbone-a Bag will certainly do the trick!

For our "footwear" dogs - do they like the motorcycle boot dog toy or maybe your dog is a bit more delicate like the Barkentino Grrrravino Shoe Toy - whatever your dog's desire to tear up and chew up - we got it!

We have Food Inspired Plush Dog Toys too - ones that can make a human kinda hungry. Who doesn't love a Pop Tart - we mean Pup Tart.

If you want a dog toy that is just plain fun - Posh Puppy Boutique has a whole line of fun plush dog toys too. We have Halloween dog toys and especially like the new Fleecy Halloween Dog Toy.

It's fun to chew so get your dog one of our latest and greatest Plush Dog Toys - straight from Posh Puppy Boutique - the biggest online pet boutique!

Say CHHHEEESE this Halloween!

With Halloween just about a month away, Doggie Couture Shop has big things going on. We are having our annual Halloween Dog Photo Contest! We have done this in the years past and it has been a HUGE success with our dog owners and the Doggie Couture Shop Fans. You can win a 50.00 gift card to receive anything in the store and you know.. Doggie Couture Shop is one of the largest online pet boutiques with the latest dog items and upscale dog fashion!

We love our pets and know you do too and that is why Doggie Couture Shop strives to be the best in the pet business.

Doggie Couture Shop has the best and latest Halloween Dog Costumes around. We have pages and pages of Dog Costumes, dog treats, dog accessories - everything to make any dog bark BOO!

Sign up for the Doggie Couture Shop Newsletter and get the latest and greatest dog deals and sale updates!

Follow Doggie Couture Shop on Facebook and Twitter as well. You never know when a coupon code might just pop up, then you can get that wonderful dog dress, dog bed or dog carrier that you have wanted for soo long!

We have new arrivals on dog items everyday. Check out the New Arrivals section of our site and also have a KILLER sale item area.

Be a part of some fun stuff this fall season with great new items from Doggie Couture Shop and enter the Doggie Couture Shop Halloween Dog Photo Contest.

Submit photos to sales@doggicoutureshop.com by 10/31. Winner will be chosen 11/ 1!

WebsiteAlive Announces “Best Alive Chat Call To Action Medium-Size Ecommerce Business” Award Winner—Posh Puppy Boutique

“We established this award to recognize businesses who understand the importance of Alive Chat in their day-to-day operations. It’s obvious that Posh Puppy Boutique does,” explained Adam J. Stass, Managing Director of WebsiteAlive. “And, so do their customers.”

Posh Puppy Boutique has just been named “Best Alive Chat™ Call To Action Medium-Size Ecommerce Business” award winner, a new monthly award from WebsiteAlive®, a leader in Live Chat technology.

(PRWEB) September 10, 2010 -- Posh Puppy Boutique --www.poshpuppyboutique.com -- has just been named “Best Alive Chat Call To Action Medium-Size Ecommerce Business” award winner, a new monthly award from WebsiteAlive, a leader in Live Chat technology, it was announced today.

An upscale doggy boutique, Posh Puppy Boutique, caters to give dogs only the best in life. They are family owned and operated and pride themselves on giving only the best as their family would want, not just for pets, but for pet owners as well, and that includes exceptional online customer service. Part of their customer service efforts is Alive Chat, which has played an integral part of their success.

Customer comments include, “I really liked the live on-line chat that was offered. I was having a little trouble finding one of the items I wanted, but in less than 10 minutes with the on-line chat, all of my questions were answered and my problem was solved. As the mother of a very spoiled little puppy, I can assure you this is the first of many purchases I will be making. Thank you very much. I couldn't be more satisfied.” and “I spent many nights searching and looking at many online Pet Boutiques and wasn't satisfied until I found Posh Puppy Boutique. Was even able to communicate via 'chat' right away for my questions. Love the store, love the service and will definitely buy from you in the future and recommend very highly to all my friends that own pets here on the Island but also in the North East USA! 10 points for you guys!!”  

WebsiteAlive will recognize a medium-size ecommerce business each month and will feature that business on their website.

Alive Chat allows website visitors, email recipients or banner ad viewers to connect to company representatives and have their questions answered instantly by clicking on an Alive Chat button or link embedded on a website, email or ad. Alive Chat is fully hosted on WebsiteAlive’s secure servers, which means there is no equipment to buy and no software to install. If you have an Internet connection and a web browser, you can use Alive Chat. And, with Alive Chat Mobile, which is included at no extra charge in all versions of Alive Chat, you can take your chats on the road with Internet-based mobile phones and chat with your website visitors just as you would from your desktop.

Compatible with both PCs and Mac, Alive Chat is 100% customizable. Without any special programming knowledge, you can easily brand your Alive Chat chat windows with your logos and color schemes to match your company’s design, giving your customers a fully integrated experience.

“The popularity of Alive Chat speaks for itself as confirmed in the customer comments. Posh Puppy Boutique is a great example that Alive Chat works,” Stass concluded.

To add WebsiteAlive’s Alive Chat capability to your website or for more information, contact WebsiteAlive at 888-696-4513, email them at sales(at)websitealive(dot)com or visit them on the web at www.websitealive.com.

About WebsiteAlive — www.websitealive.com

Since 2004 Alive Chat software from WebsiteAlive has been the leader in cross-platform/cross-browser Live Chat support. Alive Chat software provides instant, real time chat between company support representatives and their customers. Cost effective for every market segment, Alive Chat software works on any computer with a standard web browser and Internet connection as well as Internet-based mobile phones, to reduce shopping cart abandonment, support costs and phone calls as well as increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Used and trusted by more than 10,000 businesses and companies including Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Blackhawks, The San Francisco 49ers, Bridgestone Golf, Gold’s Gym, Keller-Williams Realty and Seattle Coffee Gear to name a few, WebsiteAlive’s industry-leading Alive Chat technology platform provides one of the best online Live Chat solutions available today.

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Morrisa Zimmeth
888-696-4513http://www.poshpuppyboutique.com

No time to MONKEY around! Order your Halloween Costume today!

There truly isn't alot of time to Monkey around before the Halloween rush hits for costumes. At Posh Puppy Boutique we pride ourselves in having the latest and best selection of dog costumes and Halloween attire for your dog - but we do sell out fast!

Some of our new arrivals this year for Halloween include:

Our Vampire Dog Costume - a bit hit for you "Edward Cullen fans or Twilight fans".

What about the "Ed Hardy" look? Your dog can be a great Tattoo Dog with the Tattoo Dog Costume.

With the latest Shrek movie out - why not "Shrek out" your dog this year with out Shrek Dog Costume?

If none of those will make your dog Bark, there are many other Dog Costumes to choose from. At Posh Puppy Boutique, there is over 250 Halloween dog outfits and dog costumes to pick from - from the spookiest to the sweetest - Posh Puppy Boutique has it going on.

Let's not forget the:
BIGGEST PHOTO CONTEST OF THE YEAR!

How about a chance to win a 50.00 gift card from Posh Puppy Boutique? Sounds good huh? It is easy to do! Take a picture of your little Spookster and send to Posh Puppy Boutique for a chance to win a 50.00 gift card to the best online pet boutique ever!

For more information on our Halloween Dog Costume Contest visit Posh Puppy Boutique. Be one of the many contest winners and we will post your dog and a bit about him or her. It's fun and it's free! For a complete list of contest winners you can check out the Photo Contest page.

You may also sign up for a give-a-way at Posh Puppy Boutique. Win a chance to receive a $50.00 Gift Certificate when you sign up for the Posh Puppy Boutique Newsletter.

Posh Puppy Boutique loves dogs, Halloween and loves making your pups the best looking dogs they can be. Shop now and avoid the rush for Halloween!

From Small eBay Seller to Successful Entrepreneur

From Small eBay Seller to Successful Entrepreneur

More than 10 years ago Jennifer Kirk discovered eBay and realized she could make money on eBay by selling her children’s used brand-name clothes. For Kirk it was an easy decision to use eBay – she realized she could make more money selling the clothes online than she could at a garage sale.

As is the case with many successful eBay sellers, Kirk started out using eBay as a way to clean out items not being used in the home and earning a little extra spending money. Also , like many part-time eBay sellers, Kirk realized the novelty of listing on eBay to earn a small income tends to wear off eventually.

“I spent a lot of time learning how to use eBay”, Kirk said. “But after four years of selling my children’s used clothing on eBay I really started to get bored with it. ”

After watching her four daughters play dress-up with the family’s two pet Chihuahuas for hours on end, Kirk said she saw an opportunity for a new online business. With some initial market research and encouragement from her husband and family, she decided to start selling upscale dog clothing and accessories instead.

Outgrowing the Need for EBay

Kirk’s success story echoes the position of many eBay sellers. While eBay produces sales, it also leaves sellers paying too many fees to different sources, for example eBay and PayPal. The online marketplace also imposes a slew of restrictions on vendors using eBay as a selling channel.

She also said that running the eBay business on her own was time consuming and she felt that too much time was being spent in trying to get assistance through eBay support when she needed help.

In deciding to launch Posh Puppy Boutique, Kirk said that finding the right e-commerce platform and shopping cart was the most difficult task.

“I can’t recall how many hours I spent online searching for a cart – or the number of carts I downloaded, tried, and didn’t like,” she said.

The biggest issue Kirk stumbled upon while looking for an online shopping cart was that many cart providers, like eBay, wanted a percentage of every sale she made online. To her this meant daily fees racking up when she had wanted to invest more profit in new inventory.

In 2007, Kirk switched Posh Puppy Boutique from eBay to Volusion’s e-commerce platform simply because the company offered more support than anyone else. Not having a lot of technical experience and knowledge, Kirk found that with Volusion support she could make the transition from eBay to her own online store in a short amount of time.

The Challenges of Going Off-eBay

Kirk says one of the biggest challenges she faced in launching the new online store was doing market research. Another was learning how to run her own e-commerce website. As she researched, however, she realized that some e-commerce platforms were robust enough to guide her in other areas of running an ecommerce website, such as inventory management, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, live chat and other functions that are a must-have for any online business today.

Kirk said that when she found Volusion’s offering, she watched a couple of tutorials the company offered on its website and realized that this was a solution that would fit her online business needs. A big selling point for Kirk was in realizing she would retain all revenue and not need to pay transaction fees to the vendor.

Other challenges Kirk initially faced were finding wholesalers and suppliers for Posh Puppy Boutique.“This isn’t a problem now as we have people submitting requests for us to carry product, but in the beginning it was difficult to get those sources and I was constantly being turned down,” Kirk explained.

A Bright Future for Posh Puppy Boutique

Also, Posh Puppy Boutique was recently enlisted to help outfit characters for a major feature film due in 2011. While Kirk was unable to comment specifically on the film or the movie production company behind it, she did say this was something else that she wouldn’t have believed would ever happen to her when she first started out by selling on eBay as a hobby.

By Vangie Beal

Treats ..... no tricks!

Halloween is so much for the entire family, some people like to celebrate BIG and some like to celebrate a bit more conservative - whatever way your family celebrates, don't forget to include your little Ghost in your celebration.

Order your dog treats NOW to make sure you get our great dog treats by the fun day.

Many dogs do not like the whole Halloween costume thing, while many dogs love to strut their stuff in their outfits - and that is why Doggie Couture Shop has something for the non-partier. No tricks this year , just some great Halloween or Autumn Dog Treats.

You don't have to spend alot of money to include your dog. By "treating him" with healthy dog treats, he will know you love him and want to include him in the fun AND want to keep him healthy and fit.

These made fresh to order Ghost Sandwiches Dog Treat have Wheat-free Milk and Honey inside and these yogurt iced treats are made with Milk & Honey: Rye flour, oat flour, honey, water, canola oil, nonfat milk powder, and spices.

Wanna a Cookie? The Spooky Bat Dog Treats are precious iced bat shaped cookies, packaged two per decorative "pillow" box. Organic Wheat-free Peanut Butter & Honey Biscuit with tinted royal icing. There is no trans-fats in this product.

Give a Dog A Bone... Please.... Our Giant Happy Halloween Dog Bone is sure to make any tail wag in the spooky season. This is a big one - this dog treat is 7.5" and is made of Wheat-free Milk and Honey Bones with yogurt icing. A true organic dog treat.

How about some boxed dog treats? Doggie Couture Shop has a large selection of boxed dog treats to choose from, whatever your dog likes, we got it, like the Bone Yard Boxed Dog Treats. This is a cute little box with some super scary dog treats inside. A true Best Seller at Doggie Couture Shop.

For the true healthy dog treat, but keeping the cute theme - the Halloween Mini Paw Take Out Dog Treat or the Silly Pumpkin Treats are the healthiest dog treats out there. These healthy dog treats are made with Peanut Butter: Organic wheat flour, organic unbleached white flour, Organic flaxseed meal, organic wheat bran, peanut butter, egg, canola oil. WOW... your dog will be healthier than you!

You got some time to browse through our Dog Bakery but do it soon - our great seasonal dog treats sell out quick and we wouldn't want your dog to be left out in the paw licking experience.

Get thrifty with your DOGGIE

Finally! Can you believe it? A online consignment store for your pup.

No longer buy expensive items for your dog and get stuck with them when he or she turns up their nose because "she has worn it before".
Check out Doggie 360!

Doggie 360 is a brand new website for gently used dog items, no more of having the same old stuff.

For Consignment information and or Frequently asked questions, visit the Doggie 360 website.

Features for the Grand Opening of Doggie 360 are:

All Dressed Up With No Place To Go Pink Shirt by Designer I see Spot and available in XXS.

Get a start for the Holidays with the Puppy's First Christmas Tee-available in Small only.

Studded Skull and Cross Bone Black T- Shirt available for a short time only - 95% cotton 5% spandex Hand Wash this item and is in excellent condition. Designer is Pooch Outfitters and is available in a XXS only.

Join Doggie 360 on Facebook, Twitter and soon to be BLOG.

Doggie 360 is for gently 'recycled' upscale and overstock dog apparel and dog accessories. It's the new thing, be a part of it! Your dog will love you for trading in the old to get him some new!

No tricks right now just DOG TREATS!

We all know that Halloween is coming up and with that means - fun spooky decorations, lots of candy and of course, the Halloween dog costume! You gotta love the huge variety of Halloween dog costumes that Doggie Couture Shop carries.

What is super important too is the great dog treats we have for the Fall season and HALLOWEEN TIME. Since our dogs cannot participate in the yummy candy that we get and give, or the precious cupcakes taken up to school for the parties - Doggie Couture Shop has the perfect treat for your dog so that he is not left out!

We have an entire collection of Halloween Dog Treats - all items that are safe for your dog and affordable enough not to leave him out during the fun season of Fall.

The Ghost Sandwiches Dog Treat are a scrumptious display of love because they are freshly made and have safe ingredients that are good for your dog - iced with yogurt!

Want to see your dog wag? Get him the Spider Web dog treat or the Jack O Lantern dog cookies~ these are made of organic wheat and you get two in this order!

Doggie Couture Shop has great boxed dog treats to give as a little prize! Try our Spookies Boxed Dog Treats or the Itsy Bitsy Spider Treats or if you are feeling extra goolish - the Bone Yard Dog Treats.

So, no tricks right now, just yummy spooky dog treats straight from Doggie Couture Shop. We believe that our dog treats will make any dog lick their lips and wag their tails!