THE DAILYCANDY EFFECT

“Partnering with DailyCandy has been a huge success for our website. The day our deal launched, traffic spiked more than 3,200 percent, and sales of our love coupon books were 50 times that of a typical day. Thank you, DailyCandy, for helping our small family business grow.”

“Thank you, DailyCandy, for featuring Brooklyn Junior's wrench T-shirt as one of your favorite shirts for sunny days. Not only did your post significantly increased hits and sales on our website, but we continue to see steady traffic coming our way from the DailyCandy website. It was great to hear back from old customers and gain two new wholesale accounts. DailyCandy is sweet.”

“The day DailyCandy Kids featured Baby Mash teething biscuits was a truly exciting one. The impact on sales was immediate. As the creator of a start-up business, what's better than every time you refresh your email seeing new orders? Let me answer for you - nothing. And this went on for days. I also had subsequent media and retail opportunities as a result of the wide net DailyCandy casts with its friendly, approachable format. Thanks so much.”

“Being that Owen is a new store, I was amazed with all the press coverage it was receiving and the response shoppers were having by seeing the feature on DailyCandy.com. Even three weeks after the opening, people continued to say, "I saw you on DailyCandy," and ask for the clothing and about the designers mentioned in the story. My friends, from New York to California, were texting me that they saw Owen featured on DailyCandy. The write-up summed up my vision for Owen and the clothing features I wanted readers to know about.”

“Being interviewed by DailyCandy has been an absolute blessing for my business. During the first week the story ran, my daily website hits jumped more than 100 times their normal level. I’ve also had requests from designers to use my work in international fashion shows. Thank you, DailyCandy.”

“We were shocked with the amount of attention and sales we received from our feature on the DailyCandy website. In one week, we sold 845 displays and 10,140 bars - our largest sales week to date. DailyCandy went above and beyond our expectations. We’ve had our products featured on similar sites and didn’t see nearly as much traffic as we did from DailyCandy.”

“When we were featured on DailyCandy, our traffic jumped more than 1,500 percent over the next week, and we continued to receive a large increase in site visits throughout the following weeks. DailyCandy’s coverage led to inquiries from well-known businesses wanting to carry our product in their stores, sales, and requests to be added to our mailing list. We were thrilled with the positive response we received from DailyCandy's loyal fans.”

“Oh, wow, do we ever love DailyCandy. With less than one year in business, we were on the brink of making a name for ourselves when our article ran. Now doors open before the doorbell finishes ringing. We saw a huge uptick in online and retail sales and an immediate deluge of press inquiries. An endorsement from DailyCandy is, to use another beloved candy reference, the Golden Ticket. Yes.”

“ We were totally thrilled to be written up in DailyCandy Kids. From a personal standpoint, I have been a DailyCandy reader forever, and I was super excited to be featured. From a professional standpoint, DailyCandy Kids delivered very meaningful and highly targeted traffic. The traffic conversion rate was impressive, and we ended up with a significant number of new customers. Moreover, our story caught the attention of a venture capital firm that became one of our major investors. ”

“ When Den.m bar was featured on DailyCandy, we noticed significant increase in visitors on our website, more users on our social media websites, and increased foot traffic at our store. Not only did DailyCandy help us increase our brand awareness, it did a fantastic job on our feature. ”

“ When I launched my new company, I was extremely eager to pitch DailyCandy. Not only have I always enjoyed what it has to say, my friends and acquaintances -- both personally and professionally -- love it, too. I was ecstatic with the response I received the day my company and products were highlighted. The reaction was immediate, with orders and inquiries from New York to San Francisco. My company was buzzing with interest from customers, retailers, and the media. Soon after I was receiving reorders and referrals from people who loved my products. I always knew people would be thrilled with my line of teas, superfoods, and skin care products once they tried them, but I needed the opportunity to start the buzz, and DailyCandy is how it began. ”

“ When DailyCandy Deals featured our Magnetic Woodlands wallpaper, our online traffic increased by 300 percent, and sales followed immediately afterward. Thanks for featuring us. ”

“DailyCandy is literally the reason Uplift, our women-only fitness studio here in NYC, was created. The coverage sparked a meeting between Uplift's three now partners and co-founders, in addition to providing us with hundreds of new clients. The pieces on Uplift also encouraged other press outlets to cover our studio. We're the biggest DailyCandy fans in the world.”

“Sweeter than sweet. Coverage on DailyCandy has always been spot on. We've seen the full spectrum of results over the years - new clients, increased awareness, or simply being the right partner to launch a new body treatment. Our DailyCandy features always go the distance. Thank you, DailyCandy.”

“Working with DailyCandy was an all-around excellent experience. So far, all of our clients from DC are exactly the types of people we were trying to reach. At the start, it was tough to decide what type of deal we were looking to offer. The DC staff worked with us by providing ideas and suggestions that were all very helpful. Since our outdoor adventure deal ran, we have filled nearly all of our trips for the summer.”

“When DailyCandy’s story about my site ran, traffic jumped over 2,700 percent. DailyCandy’s coverage was the proverbial domino that led to more than 100 interview requests and various unexpected opportunities in the book and film worlds.”

“We received 100 times more hits than we normally do on an average daily basis, and my sales were 30 times higher than average.”

“The morning my book was on DailyCandy, its sales ranking on Amazon went from 286,378 to 250, and it unseated What to Expect as No. 1 in the parenting category. The mention led to many other press inquiries and opportunities for me and the book. It’s since stayed in the top 20,000 and gone on to sell more than 10,000 copies. This even helped me snag a second book deal for a Prudent Advice fill-in journal.”

“Whenever Hester Street Fair is mentioned on the DailyCandy site, overall attendance spikes and, more importantly, we see visitors from all over come to the fair, from different boroughs to across the country. It’s more than a publicity outlet, there’s a real correlation between DailyCandy coverage and bottom-line sales. Additionally, for us, the DailyCandy reader is one of the most powerful agents a new business can hope for — she’s savvy, well connected, and knows a good thing when she sees it.”

“Our website traffic increased between 50 and 75 percent the week of DailyCandy’s mention, and we saw a steady increase of 30 to 50 percent for months thereafter — not to mention, I still have people contacting me from the original DailyCandy post.”

“We dreamed up our Bug Bar as an ancillary product that we liked but didn’t think would have much market. You guys plucked the bar out of obscurity. Yesterday we had a total of 51,517 page views on our site and sold just over $20,000 worth of Bug Bars and other soaps. This is probably more than we’ll make the whole rest of the year.”

“We began our business with a pledge to give back — and we were able to give $10,000 to charity last year. I credit that success in large part to DailyCandy. I can’t adequately articulate how much you have helped grow our business.”

“As a start-up brand specializing in hip housewares, we greatly anticipated being featured on our own personal fave, DailyCandy, but had no idea how impactful the experience would be. We had more than 20,000 hits in one day; the orders were streaming in for a week. And in the year following, the feature was picked up by bloggers, press, and even our dream retailers.”

“Whether it’s loaning a piece out for a spot on the Today show, participating in DailyCandy Deals (sales skyrocketed the last time we did that), or just tellin’ DC how much we love em’ (like right now), we are forever grateful for every fantastic thing that has come from this partnership and can’t wait to see what the future brings.”

“Being featured on DailyCandy was a blessing as a new small business. We were still processing the meaning of the word ‘bandwidth’ when thousands of orders started to pour in. DailyCandy was an integral part of establishing our brand and helped us forge vendor relationships that we rely on to this day.”

“We really appreciate DailyCandy helping Bacon Salt get into its Everywhere edition. It’s only halfway through the day, so I will give you the brief highlights: By 11 a.m., we had received four times more online orders than we had ever received in a single day. Plus, The Washington Post, two radio stations, three magazines, and four food bloggers called for interviews.”

“We were out of work, going broke, and found out we were pregnant. Not knowing what to do, my husband convinced me he could turn my cookie sandwiches into a business. We took all of our savings and credit cards and started The Cookie Sandwich Co. Fast-forward to November 2, 2007. We had just returned home from the San Diego wildfires after being evacuated. Our baby, Kingston, was 6 weeks old, and the smoke was taking its toll. Plus, we knew we had no money to make our mortgage payment, due November 10. On November 5, our DailyCandy article hit, and we woke up to more than $5,000 in sales and hundreds and hundreds of orders. It was incredible.”

“A DailyCandy piece on our Jane bag immediately boosted it to the best-selling bag online for us. For years now, customers have referenced the DailyCandy write-up, and to this day, Jane remains one of our best-sellers.”

“Up until the morning I was on DailyCandy, I was averaging new clients per week in single digits. That morning, I got 50 new clients. My website received thousands of unique visitors for months. But better than the increased traffic was the fact that all the clients who came because of that article that day are still my clients. DailyCandy has a smart, hip audience who really are great clients. That’s why being a part of DailyCandy has been so special for me.”

“I would say, honestly, that my business really began when DailyCandy wrote us up. The editors discovered my work in my friend’s shop in (young) Williamsburg in 2005, and it took me two years to catch up and become a real business. After that first write-up, there were so many orders and inquiries that they froze my then server, and I actually had to advance to a larger one and figure the rest out from there. It was really great. Each time DailyCandy has mentioned us since, I have been flooded with orders and press inquiries. Also, the staff is so sweet, even going so far as to buy raffle tickets for our yearly designer fund drive for the Food Bank for New York City. I am really indebted to the DailyCandy staff for discovering my collections and pushing me into a new life with my business.”

“After my DailyCandy mention, I remember sitting at my desk at my then-full-time job, just watching the emails pour into my inbox, wondering how I was going to possibly respond to all of them. It was like something straight out of a movie.”

“DailyCandy gave Hollywood Fashion Tape nationwide exposure. Suddenly, demand for this product increased in stores across the country, including some of the hottest retailers on both coasts like Nordstrom, Searle, Fred Segal, Kitson, BCBG, and Patricia Field. Our DailyCandy post even reached a distributor in Australia who saw our spotlight on a friend’s phone. This opened the first door for our international business.”