Word of mouth recommendation really works!

The effect of word-of-mouth recommendation is often the strongest form of marketing your business. This has certainly been the case for us recently, when an accountant we knew realized that his client was a victim of her own success and struggling to cope with all the new business she was getting.

During maternity leave she started to design knitwear and was incredibly successful at having her designs accepted by a very high profile fashion chain. This entailed sourcing a knitwear manufacturer in China to create her product for her and ship them to the U.K.

A small family home is just about able to cope with the arrival of the new range for each season, as they are shipped out quickly to the retailer, but when they have been launched into an e-commerce site as well and there are then potentially hundreds of new clients to be shipped to, her family home is literally bursting at the seams.

This is where we have been able to come in. Each new range is now being shipped direct to us from China, we check it and put it into store. We then deliver out the wholesale stock to the retailers, along with all the smaller orders for the individual customers. We are even coping with any of the returns that come back.

Our client can now concentrate on her core business of designing the knitwear, along with its marketing – the part that she enjoys and leave the humdrum pick, pack and dispatch side to us – the part that we have the expertise in. Everyone’s a winner!

Not just social networking

Learning about social networking, how to check if your website is user-friendly and make hats were some of the things in store for us when we recently attended and had a stand at the 'Build a Better Business Event' hosted by ‘The Late Breakfast’ at the Milton Park Innovation Centre. Phil Heard from 1 Stop Insurance Consultants Ltd. had an even better time, as he was the lucky winner of our competition and he won a £50 voucher for a meal and drinks at The Jam Factory in Oxford – ‘What a wonderful surprise’ he said. If you don’t like surprises, but would like to be treated to something wonderful, just take out six months’ storage with us (see blog entry below) and we will have a voucher sent out to you by return post – so simple! Call us for further details on: 01865 891406

Eat out on Barretts Storage

It’s sometimes difficult to justify giving yourself a treat, especially as we are still being told that we are not out of the woods yet with this recession. We have all been lead to believe that the ‘dining in’ is the new ‘dining out’, but there is nothing like the real thing, being able to chose a meal, a good wine and been waited upon. So, we thought that this should be available to our customers!

We are now offering the opportunity to have a free meal and drink voucher worth £50 at the Jam Factory in Oxford for any customers who pay for six months’ storage in advance (on midi vaults and above). That’s all there is to it, there are no hidden clauses and we hope that you will drink a toast to your goods being held in our store! There is no reason, with the offer still open, why you can’t go out for another meal in six months’ time too! Contact: info@barretts-selfstorage.co.uk for more information