The DailyCandy Effect

Over the years, we’ve helped a lot of little businesses go big time. What can being featured on DailyCandy do for you? Hear it straight from some of our favorites. Hint: We’ve helped crash websites, raise money for great causes, and even land one lucky chef date No. 2.

  • HookChasUp.com

    Chas McFeely

    Featured: March 16, 2011 HookChasUp.com
    “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.”

  • Sniff Pet Candles

    Jenn Mohr

    Featured: February 3, 2011 Sniff Pet Candles
    “We received 100 times more hits than we normally do on an average daily basis, and my sales were 30 times higher than average.”

  • Prudent Advice

    Jaime Morrison Curtis

    Featured: October 5, 2010 Prudent Advice
    “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.”

  • Hester Street Market

    Suchin Pak

    Featured: August 1, 2010 Hester Street Market
    “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.”

  • Vanessa Gade Jewelry Design

    Vanessa Gade

    Featured: May 3, 2010 Vanessa Gade Jewelry Design
    “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.”

  • Beekman 1802

    Brent Ridge

    Featured: February 2, 2010 Beekman 1802
    “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.”

  • Revision Home

    Katie Ernst

    Featured: October 30, 2009 Revision Home
    “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.”

  • Alice Supply Co.

    Raili Clasen and Maria Barnes

    Featured: July 10, 2009 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”

  • Bando Headbands

    Jen Gotch and Jaime Coulter

    Featured: August 19, 2008 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”

  • Lulu Organics

    Linda Aldredge

    Featured: February 11, 2008 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”

  • Bacon Salt

    Justin Esch & Dave Lefkow

    Featured: November 19, 2007 Bacon Salt
    “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.”

  • The Cookie Sandwich Co.

    Jennifer Daximillion & Rick Daximillion Seow

    Featured: November 5, 2007 The Cookie Sandwich Co.
    “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.”

  • MZ Wallace

    Monica Zwirner and Lucy Wallace

    Featured: July 18, 2007 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”

  • Joanna Vargas Salon

    Joanna Vargas

    Featured: March 7, 2007 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”

  • Bonbon Oiseau Designs

    Deborah Stein

    Featured: July 6, 2005 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”

  • Rachel Leigh Jewelry

    Rachel Leigh

    Featured: September 29, 2004 Rachel Leigh Jewelry
    “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.”

  • Hollywood Fashion Tape

    Marni Bumsted & Jane Dailey

    Featured: August 4, 2002 Hollywood Fashion Tape
    “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.”