I Want YOUR Product Reviews!

How important are product reviews to you when making your buying decisions? They are very important to me. Sometimes I am just not sure about a product that I am unfamiliar with, but after reading a few customer reviews I feel like I can better make the decision whether or not a product is right for me. Not that the customer reviews are 100% of my decision, but it is a valuable tool to help me know what others think about a particular product. Sometimes I can read even a negative review and decide that although this product wasn't right for that person, their information helped me decide that perhaps it is still right for me.
For this reason I have decided to add product ratings & reviews to all of the products listed in our store and I want YOU to help me rate & review the products. I want to hear what your personal experience's have been with any of the products currently listed in my store. I have created a Product Rating & Review Submission Form that you can use to submit your thoughts & opinions for any product listed in my store. I will ask for you to rate the product on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being 'Hated it' and 5 being 'Loved It!' This is your chance to help fellow shoppers by sharing your experiences.

Because I love Blogging Mama's, I have a special plan just for you. If you have previously posted a blog review for any product that you find in our store, then you can include the URL of your blog post in the Product Rating & Review Submission Form, and I will include a mention of your blog post and a link back to your blog right in the review! It's a Great 'no cost' way to bring extra exposure to your blog!

So please feel free to browse our online store. If you find a product that you have personal experience with, just click the "Rate & Review This Item" Icon to be taken to our Product Rating & Review submission form. This is a Win-Win situation because You get to help other shoppers with their purchasing decisions, and we get to provide our shoppers with the most valuable information about the products -right there with the product listing. Plus, if you have previously posted a blog review of this product, we will give your blog a little extra attention!

To get things started, and to thank you for taking the time to share this valuable information with our customers, from now until September 30, 2010, I will send anyone who's Product Rating & Review is accepted (regardless of the rating), a special discount code for 10% Off their next purchase. Each code can only be used once, so with each accepted submission you get another discount code for a future purchase. If you are wondering why I said "accepted submission" see the submission guidelines below, and on the submission form itself.

Browse our online store to see what products you would like to submit a rating & review on, and/or see what products you have done a blog review on in the past. To get to our Product Rating & Review Submission form just click on this Icon:
If you don't see it there yet, see our home page.

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Submission Guidelines: I will accept all submissions regardless of the rating, however there are some submissions that will not be accepted. We will reject a submission for any of the following reasons: 1) Use of vulgar language in your review; 2) spelling and/or grammatical errors to the degree that we cannot understand what you are saying; 3) It appears that you have not actually used the product yourself, such as you mention features that are not related to this product; 4) SPAM in your submission, such as trying to promote yourself, a website, or another business in the review (no urls permitted other than one from your own blog review); 5) Submissions with an invalid email address (we verify the authenticity of your email address before posting your review).

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I Love Entering and Especially Winning Giveaways!

I love Giveaways, both hosting them and entering them. But especially Winning Them! Sometimes the host thinks its a little strange that The Baby Store Plus is entering their giveaways (I have actually had a few say that to me), but I am a real person too. I have grandchildren that I like to win things for and I also like to read reviews about new products that I might consider putting in my store. So if I win, I get to test the product out myself before ordering 12 cases of them to discover that the product quality is only so-so...or on the flip side, if I Love, Love, Love a product that I win, then I feel confident in buy 12 cases to put in my store and share with other mama's & grandmama's.

Here are a few that I have won recently and a little follow up to each prize:

I won a Bum Essentials Bumbino All In 2 Cloth Diaper from Dirty Diaper Laundry blog. I have been on a cloth diaper mission recently. Trying to figure our what cloth diaper brands I want to carry in my store. To qualify as a product that I will carry, first it has to be a quality product, and second, the company has to have people running it that I enjoy working with. So the best way for me to determine what cloth diaper brands I will stock in my store is to actually use the product myself. I had not tied the Bum Essentials diapers yet, although I was hearing a lot about them in blogs and on twitter so I really wanted to try one. I entered Kims giveaway and Won! The diaper arrived so fast, I wasn't even expecting it for a few more days at least. I took it home and went through the pre-washing process and eagerly used it on my grandson the next day at work...and I Loved It! So much so that I am now going to carry them in my store! Look for them to arrive Very Soon! Thank you Dirty Diaper Laundry and Bum Essentials!


I entered a Review/Giveaway for Rockin Green Soap hosted by Our Life blog. I had already tried a sample size packet of Rockin Green Soap that I received with a purchase of Cloth Mama pads from Talulah Bean, and I really loved the smell of my laundry after. I used it on some sheets that my dog bleed ALL over when he cut is paw. Rockin Green removed every last drop of blood! I knew that I wanted more of this product, so for fun I entered the giveaway and won. Before the bag even arrived, (which is did right away) I decided that I wanted this product for my store. So you can look for it to arrive this week at The Baby Store Plus. Also expect to receive a Free Sample with all future purchases of cloth diapers from us! Thank you Rockin Green Soap and Our Life blog!


I entered a review/giveaway for a Loop-2-Loop buckle-less belt for toddlers made by an Etsy mom, hosted by Toddler Mama's blog. I thought these were a very neat idea for toddlers who are tall and slim like my granddaughter Sydney. If she finds pants that fit in the waist they are so short they look like capri pants, so we have to get them long enough and use something to gather up the waist so they are not saggin and baggin all day. We love the Dapper Snappers that we currently use (and carry in our store), but we thought we'd try the Loop-2-Loop too. I chose the pink with white snaps since Sydney loves anything pink. They arrived pretty fast and we tried them out the very day they arrived. I loved them. I really wanted to carry them in my store along with the Dapper Snappers, however there are so many crazy federal requirements for lead and other toxins that I cannot carry anything that doesn't have certificates of testing compliance. Since she is small business she doesn't have any testing done on her products yet....but she should contact me once she does...I love them!


I won a Freckles Galore Crayon Roll-up (another great Etsy mom) hosted in a review/giveaway by Twee Poppets blog. My granddaughter chose the Ladybug Garden print...once again because it is really 'pink' and has ladybugs. As soon as it arrived Sydney opened it up and we happily discovered that she had included brand new crayons too! I did not expect that. Sydney was just oohing and awwing at it for quite a while. We were going on a long drive the next day so we took the Crayon Roll up with us and Sydney had a ball using the crayons and putting them back in the little pockets then rolling it up for me to tie it for her. I think this is such a nice simple product for little ones. You should check out Freckles Galore on Etsy because she makes lots of other sweetly simple products too.

There are more prizes, but these are the ones that really stand out in my mind right now. I hope you enjoyed reading about them and will visit the blogs that hosted such great giveaways, as well as the companies that were generous enough to offer their products as giveaways.

I do have one other prize that I won that I will actually be giving away in turn. It was a Gift Certificate for Ecomom that I won in a review/giveaway hosted by Children Teaching Mama blog. I used the gift certificate to purchase a bunch of Plum Organics Baby Food Pouches that use the new Boon Dispensing Spoons. I will be giving away 1 free pouch with each order of 2 or more dispensing spoons from our website. Cool way of giving back...which is especially fun because I LOVE Plum Organics Baby Food so much! Look for a post all about that later this week!

Thanks for visiting my blog and taking the time to read all the way down to this point :) I would love it if you shared your thoughts, as well as your personal entering and winning experiences. If you are a blogger hosting a giveaway, feel free to add a link in your comment too!

UPDATE (July 13, 2010): Just today I Won something else! I won the Little Looster Booster! This will be perfect to use in my baby store since we have lots of little people that need to use the potty, and since it doesn't have to be moved for adults to use the potty, it can just stay there. What a Very Cool device. I won it from Los Angeles Mama Blog.


Anna ~ aka: the Baby Store Lady

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It's Friday! Bloghop Day!

It's Friday! Bloghop Day!

I look forward to Fridays, not just because it's the end of the week but because I get to enter all of the Friday Bloghops. I have been participating in them for several weeks now and I have met so many wonderful women (and a daddy blogger too).

This week I am highlighting my newest bloghop find that fits me like a comfy slipper...the Over 40 Bloggers group. I love chatting with the young mama's but sometimes its nice to chat with a woman who understand being a grandma, having hot flashes, and the feelings associated with growing older...gracefully I might add.



I have fun in these other blog hops & follow Friday's too:

So please browse around, read some posts, and if you like my blog please become a follower, or better yet, subscribe to my blog via email (link just below). Be sure to include a link back to your blog in your comment so I can visit your blog and follow you back too!


Anna ~ aka: the Baby Store Lady

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A Special Page for "My Favorite Bloggers!"

I've created a Special page just for My Favorite Bloggers! This new page has a few categories to help organize the blog buttons.

The first category is for Blogging Events. It will contain buttons to different events that you might want to participate in. One example is the recent 'Cover the Booty Cloth Diapering Event' that was hosted by Home Grown Families blog where she had a month long event filled with cloth diapers reviews & giveaways as well as some great informational posts to help you educate yourself all about cloth diapers.

Second category is for Buttons from blogs that have posted reviews, giveaways, or other articles about us. When you click on the button you will be taken to the specific blog post about us.

Third category is for Buttons from some of my Favorite Blogs that I personally enjoy and follow. As well as buttons from blogs that are hosting our button on their blog too. Regardless of whether or not they have our button on their blog...ONLY blogs that are baby, kids, mama, daddy, grandparents, cloth diapers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, parenting, and family related will be allowed to be posted here.

So, take a look at the wonderful blogs that are on our new "My Favorite Blogs" page. When you visit the blogs, please feel free to leave a comment and let them know that you heard about their blog from Anna @ The Baby Store Plus!

If you would really like to see your blog button on our page, read the requirements at the bottom of that page and contact me. I would love to hear from you as I am always interested in meeting new mama (and daddy) bloggers.

Anna ~ aka: the Baby Store Lady

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