Not much to report today with it being a bank holiday (for some!) but as it's the end of the month I'll use the quiet for the end of month accounts and paperwork ready for tomorrow when the office is open again, and the gilrs will tell me that everything I've done is wrong and will have to be re-done!!
I'll use the time to look at how we can move the brand forward and where to go next as we have (yet another) meeting pencilled in for tomorrow, although the growth that we have experienced has surpassed expectations, we still need to keep focussed on what happens next.......... It's a great time to be a keeper currently, and the selection of kit available means that no-one should be without anymore, and as much as we aim to cater for every goalkeeper at every level, we know that we can't please everyone. In as much as I would never buy certain brands of car, people still do and are very happy with them, it's the same with goalkeeper gloves i.e personal preference. What is fantastic though (and I'm sure that Glen etc will agree) is the emails and telephone calls that say "I used to only wear Uhlsport / Reusch / Selsport etc, but have now converted to your brand and will not wear anything else". This feedback makes everything worthwhile, the endless meetings, sleepless nights, development expense etc all pails into insignificance when the public believe in your product as passionately as what we do. Sure the big brands have a head start BUT I am confident in my prediction that you will see us "small fry brands" in the Top Flights and International Stages in the future , and you can take great pride from being on board at the very start!
Monday, 31 August 2009
Friday, 28 August 2009
Now's your chance!
Very hectic day (Friday) culminated with a visit to the accountant, and I tell you what, these boys know their stuff! I played football with the lad I'm using and he's a great help with budgets etc, it's nice when you can find someone you can trust! "Always trust the company whose named after the owner" was a piece of advice I received years ago in a totally unrelated matter, and I must have remembered it when I ventured into the world of Goalkeeper Gloves with WarbyGK, and now the same with the accountants and other business we associate with.
I have to say thank you for all the feedback we receive both via forums and also direct emails etc, especially pleasing for an egotist like me is the personal feedback. I have to modestly acknowldge that WarbyGK is more than just me and without the help of the staff then we maybe wouldn't have grown to where we are currently, although being the humble, shy and retiring character I will take all the praise I can get! I am old fashioned in many ways, and encourage those involved in WarbyGK to share the same ideals; customer service is and will always remain our priority and we aim to treat customers how we'd expect to be treated.
The launch of the Legend is getting closer, and the developments that we have planned for the future range is very exciting, however now's your chance to have your say. We invited any input for the development of the Legends via our Facebook group, and are opening the floor to your ideas, please contact me via http://www.warbygk.com/form.htm and share your ideas!!
Don't forget to join the Facebook group if you haven't already done so and once again thanks for all your feedback!
I have to say thank you for all the feedback we receive both via forums and also direct emails etc, especially pleasing for an egotist like me is the personal feedback. I have to modestly acknowldge that WarbyGK is more than just me and without the help of the staff then we maybe wouldn't have grown to where we are currently, although being the humble, shy and retiring character I will take all the praise I can get! I am old fashioned in many ways, and encourage those involved in WarbyGK to share the same ideals; customer service is and will always remain our priority and we aim to treat customers how we'd expect to be treated.
The launch of the Legend is getting closer, and the developments that we have planned for the future range is very exciting, however now's your chance to have your say. We invited any input for the development of the Legends via our Facebook group, and are opening the floor to your ideas, please contact me via http://www.warbygk.com/form.htm and share your ideas!!
Don't forget to join the Facebook group if you haven't already done so and once again thanks for all your feedback!
No rest for the wicked (or bald!)
I did it again, although not the business' fault this time! No sleep Tuesday night due because my youngest had one of those "moments" where once she's awake, she wasn't going back to bed! I'm sure all parents know what I mean at some stage? My girls are usually fantastic at bedtimes and this was a rareity so I gallantly volunteered to sleep with her on the sofa to give Mummy and Big Sis some peace. I turned on a fascinating documentary about reading chairman John Madejski on BBC Three and she soon fell asleep, so I cracked out the laptop to do some more research!
There's something invigorating about using tinternet forums at silly o clock, bit like shopping in Tesco at night time, where you actually feel as though you have the place (or forum) to yourself! Bizarrely I get almost double the work done than what I generally manage in daylight, with my little girl now soundly snoring next to me, so much so that I'm thinking of changing the office hours (though can't see the others agreeing with that!).
On top of WarbyGK I also run Pilgrim Goalkeeper Coaching (PGC), where I supply goalkeeper coaches to Football Clubs and Individuals. Got a phone call at 8 yesterday morning from one of my coaches to say that he's now out for two months with a broken ankle! He was making his long awaited club debut, pulled off some worldies (his words) and then in the 2nd minute of injury time......snap! That's taking injury time a bit too literally! So as well as staying on top of the goalkeeper gloves I've now got to re-assign his sessions amongst my other coaches, jeez no wonder I'm not sleeping...there's not enough hours left in the day!!
Final thought "Why do round pizzas come in square boxes?"
There's something invigorating about using tinternet forums at silly o clock, bit like shopping in Tesco at night time, where you actually feel as though you have the place (or forum) to yourself! Bizarrely I get almost double the work done than what I generally manage in daylight, with my little girl now soundly snoring next to me, so much so that I'm thinking of changing the office hours (though can't see the others agreeing with that!).
On top of WarbyGK I also run Pilgrim Goalkeeper Coaching (PGC), where I supply goalkeeper coaches to Football Clubs and Individuals. Got a phone call at 8 yesterday morning from one of my coaches to say that he's now out for two months with a broken ankle! He was making his long awaited club debut, pulled off some worldies (his words) and then in the 2nd minute of injury time......snap! That's taking injury time a bit too literally! So as well as staying on top of the goalkeeper gloves I've now got to re-assign his sessions amongst my other coaches, jeez no wonder I'm not sleeping...there's not enough hours left in the day!!
Final thought "Why do round pizzas come in square boxes?"
24th August 2009
Busy week planned as ever, started by the despatching of several bundles of endorsee gloves. I'm sure the Post Office love me, wandering in with parcels galore tucked under my arms, delicately balanced so that they fall to the floor just as I reach the counter! I couldn't hold on to much as a keeper, so I'm bound to struggle now!! In these bundles are a few more Legends to gather feedback from before we place the order, best to be sure!
My morning has been deployed by reading up on terminology used in web design - well I say morning I mean all weekend also. I had an hours sleep Friday night as I had things playing on my mind so spent the early hours of Saturday working (reading blogs, wiki etc) before I took my dogs out for their walk down the river at 0500 hours. Much as I try, WarbyGK never sleeps and it's often there's a text or email flying between the staff at ungodly hours as to how to move forward. Certainly not complaining though, I wouldn't change a thing! I need to know about websites so that any discussions with designers and developers etc mean that we won't get taken for a ride. If I don't understand then I will find out, or certainly get someone that does understand. My background is football, football, football so business is a new chapter and I'm loving the ride but spare a thought for an ageing goalkeeper currently recovering from knee surgery that's walking his dogs at 5 in the morning, toying with business ideas and terminology!!
My morning has been deployed by reading up on terminology used in web design - well I say morning I mean all weekend also. I had an hours sleep Friday night as I had things playing on my mind so spent the early hours of Saturday working (reading blogs, wiki etc) before I took my dogs out for their walk down the river at 0500 hours. Much as I try, WarbyGK never sleeps and it's often there's a text or email flying between the staff at ungodly hours as to how to move forward. Certainly not complaining though, I wouldn't change a thing! I need to know about websites so that any discussions with designers and developers etc mean that we won't get taken for a ride. If I don't understand then I will find out, or certainly get someone that does understand. My background is football, football, football so business is a new chapter and I'm loving the ride but spare a thought for an ageing goalkeeper currently recovering from knee surgery that's walking his dogs at 5 in the morning, toying with business ideas and terminology!!
Gutted
There I am, all set for a day out Saturday at Histon v Salisbury in the Blue Square Premier. It's my little girls birthday on Friday so I thought I'll have a great day Friday followed by a day out at footy on Saturday. Firstly, Danny Naisbitt gets a Red against Oxford last Saturday, that rules him out of this weekend, OK fair enough, at least Bitts (James Bittner) will still be playing for Salisbury...................what happens? He's flashed a Red on Tuesday night against AFC Wimbledon and now they're both ruled out of Saturdays clash! What are the chances eh?!
Don't tell the missus though as she still has plans for her friends coming round on Saturday....no way am I going to be in the house for that! Football anyone?
Don't tell the missus though as she still has plans for her friends coming round on Saturday....no way am I going to be in the house for that! Football anyone?
17 August 2009
As promised, my best effort at updating the happenings in our office (minus the endless coffee breaks!):
Designs for the 10/11 range have been received via email this morning, the intention is for the new design to compliment the existing Portierre range. Some designs work and some clearly don't (sorry designers, but we're paying you enough!). I can see we'll be busy with tweaks on these for a few days. We have recently also received samples of some designs and, much as it shouldn't, but work in the office stops whilst we play with the new gloves! The excitement the DHL driver causes when he brings that cardboard box into the office is unreal! My kids don't get this excited at Christmas! (Well, OK they do...but we're adults and they're 3 and 4!)
My business partner is in discussions with a couple more Pro's, they may come off, they may not - that's the nature of our business though to be honest we're happy with the lads we've recruited currently and each give us the feedback we need to grow and develop. All of our endorsees get the opportunity to have input into the features etc and we are just collating the feedback for the Legend samples we despatched late last month. Feedback is encouraging, as is early consumer interest but sadly we are going to make you all wait!
I'm going to have to crack on now, I've got glove bundles on my desk to be despatched to Canada, Germany and Austria in the morning so can't leave the office until I'm all FedExed out! Hmmmm, is that the kettle boiling...............?!
Designs for the 10/11 range have been received via email this morning, the intention is for the new design to compliment the existing Portierre range. Some designs work and some clearly don't (sorry designers, but we're paying you enough!). I can see we'll be busy with tweaks on these for a few days. We have recently also received samples of some designs and, much as it shouldn't, but work in the office stops whilst we play with the new gloves! The excitement the DHL driver causes when he brings that cardboard box into the office is unreal! My kids don't get this excited at Christmas! (Well, OK they do...but we're adults and they're 3 and 4!)
My business partner is in discussions with a couple more Pro's, they may come off, they may not - that's the nature of our business though to be honest we're happy with the lads we've recruited currently and each give us the feedback we need to grow and develop. All of our endorsees get the opportunity to have input into the features etc and we are just collating the feedback for the Legend samples we despatched late last month. Feedback is encouraging, as is early consumer interest but sadly we are going to make you all wait!
I'm going to have to crack on now, I've got glove bundles on my desk to be despatched to Canada, Germany and Austria in the morning so can't leave the office until I'm all FedExed out! Hmmmm, is that the kettle boiling...............?!
Welcome
We will endeavour to keep everyone updated on the happenings at WarbyGK as and when we can, or when we have things to announce! The work that our team does behind the scenes is fantastic and non-stop but more often than not there are few end products to announce as the majority of our work is involved with developing and negotiating - all of which is hardly a rivetting read!
Yes, we are trialling a new Legend but trialling and ordering are two very different things and until our boys on the training pitches provide positive feedback we can only carry on tweaking until we're all happy. Anticipated release is December 2009 for those that want to pre-warn Santa or by the Wife some nice jewellery to soften the blow!
Finally, something that's been bothering me: In a snowstorm, how does the bloke who drives the snowplough get to work?
Yes, we are trialling a new Legend but trialling and ordering are two very different things and until our boys on the training pitches provide positive feedback we can only carry on tweaking until we're all happy. Anticipated release is December 2009 for those that want to pre-warn Santa or by the Wife some nice jewellery to soften the blow!
Finally, something that's been bothering me: In a snowstorm, how does the bloke who drives the snowplough get to work?
Monday, 24 August 2009
Welcome to the world of WarbyGK
First Blog post, and I will endeavour to update as regularly as possible the activities of WarbyGK Goalkeeper Gloves. Our office is always busy at the minute as it is the start of the football season here in the UK, and we have recruited several professional goalkeepers to wear our gloves in both the Football League and also the Blue Square leagues.
We have a comprehensive range of goalkeeper gloves available to buy online, with features such as Finger Protection, Roll Finger, Negative Cuts, Aqua latex and Contact (Adesivo) Latex we cater for as many goalkeepers as possible.
This is the background to what we do, and future posts may make more sense when armed with this information!
We have a comprehensive range of goalkeeper gloves available to buy online, with features such as Finger Protection, Roll Finger, Negative Cuts, Aqua latex and Contact (Adesivo) Latex we cater for as many goalkeepers as possible.
This is the background to what we do, and future posts may make more sense when armed with this information!
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