America’s Future Blog

America’s Future was proud to release our very first newsletter on Tuesday, April 22, 2008.   Customers can now choose to be updated regularly on new products, publishers and sales by adding their email addresses to the subscribe box on our home page, or by clicking subscribe when creating an account. 

We will also be adding RSS feeds to our website so that customers can get instant feedback on hot new products, limited time specials, and clearance merchandise immediately.  These new capabilities will give our customers the opportunity to stretch their education budgets even further, as they will be able to act quickly on hot items, or hard-to-get titles. 

 America’s Future is excited to be able to add these two new features to our business, and will continue to upgrade our customer experience.  We want to make America’s Future your first choice in homeschool curriculum and educational products!

We are once again facing a USPS postal increase as of May 12, 2008.  I was unaware that when negotiating the increase of May 2007, the USPS will now have the ability to increase rates each and every year, which means like everything else, we will see inflation affecting shipping costs across the board. 

America’s Future will have to eventually raise our shipping costs as well, due to the fact that all three of the shippers we work with have raised their prices.  As much as we try to absorb increases, it would be impossible for us to keep the business afloat if we ignored the continued increases. 

Unfortunately, even education will see inflation affecting prices for millions of families across the world.  America’s Future will continue to keep shipping as low as possible, and in many cases, work with customers individually on large or heavy orders to provide the best service for the most economical price.  It never hurts to ask us in advance what options there may be, and it could even help you stretch your budget even further.

While doing a search for companies that sell live ants for our ant habitats, I ran across a very fun website.  I knew many of your children would enjoy learning about Ant Lions (or doodlebugs…), so I wanted to get the link to you.

Have fun visiting the Ant Lion’s Den!

http://www.antlionfarms.com/

Love butterflies and ladybugs?  So do our kids!

America’s Future is now carrying the Butterfly Garden and Ladybug Land from Insect Lore in our catalog.  In addition to these award winning science kits, you will find the refill butterfly larvae certificates, butterfly curriculum, butterfly feeders, bug jar and habitats. 

There is no better way to welcome spring than to watch the miraculous changes that occur in an insects life cycle.  Help your child learn to love nature by giving them an experience they will never forget!

Last weekend our hosting company moved our site to a new server, with promises that our site will now be running faster and more smoothly than ever.  We are impressed with the speed in which our website was back up - less than 48 hours from start to finish.  Pretty good rate for a company that was moving thousands of accounts over a weekend!

We are continuing to add product to the catalog, encompassing product from a wide variety of publishers and manufacturers.  America’s Future has established accounts with three new distributors in the last few months, which will expand our resources to include hundreds of new publishers from those three alone. 

New server and more publishers mean that you will find what you need faster than ever!