The office has no AirCon, and no opening windows, I've lost 4 pounds in a week.
Everywhere else, people must be out enjoying the weather, because sales are down for the week :( I guess that they are making hay while the sun shines, instead of being inside and tweeking electronic circuits.
The sales being lower, has given me the opportunity needed to make some long overdue tweeks to our online standing.
Ebay
Our ebay shop now has a spanky new bespoke theme designed for us by the team at the bay web design and as time progresses I will be adding the theme to our listings. Want a sneaky peek? here is the link mallinson-electrical ebay shop
Amazon
Our Starter Kit became the 3rd best selling item in its category this week, up from 25th. I put this down to revising our images, and offering free shipping. Its now also available on Amazon.de
On wednesday, for the first time, we sold more volume on Amazon than ebay, I'm hoping its not a one off.
We had a disaster with a shipment to Ireland,
8 weeks ago, we sent a couple of laptop batteries to a company in Ireland. 4 weeks ago, they told me they had not received them. A not so quick call to Royal Mail customer services, and I discovered that
- The batteries had been wrongly destroyed because they thought they were LiIon (they were NiCad)
- The report had been filed under the wrong name (A hairdresser in Essex! of all things)
- The batteries were designated for destruction!
- RM then decided that they would return to sender instead
- RM didn't get as far as Returning, before someone decided to forward them to Ireland. This time by road and ship
Mallinson-electrical.com
There has also been some big changes on our website www.mallinson-electrical.com
I have finally managed to configure the international taxes, non-EU customers can now buy VAT free.
I have also managed to install the currency bar, so you can see your products in your own currency. (as long as it is Euros, US dollars, Au Dollars or GB pounds), but now I have understood how to do it, I can add other currencies if needed.
In and amongst all this, I have got on with two new projects.
The first new project
I have it in mind to create an animated short film, using components as actors, I have made a very short sample here ( no sound, and low quality, but you get the idea)
The second new project
Based on the original "Electronic Project Starter Kit" I am working on an upgrade, with a few more components, a more involved booklet (including 10 projects) and this time the kit will be Boxed
Here is the draft of the design
Note the new company name on the box "creatronics" which will be our site just for this kit.
I hope to sell these to retail outlets as well as via our own store.
As you can see, its not all stuffing envelopes here, it would almost be work if I wasn't having so much fun (note of sarcasm? maybe)
