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News
Not really sure what will go here.. perhaps some
thoughts about what I am planning to do with the website, how the
product launch is going, what I had for lunch, that kind of stuff.
about any of this if you want to.
2009 January Congratulations Kerry!
Kerry will be taking some time off from her work here to be with her
baby boy, due in a couple of weeks. She'll be coming back on a
part time basis in a few months.
2008 December Snorer's Friend number 8,000 sold
off this website!
The 8,000th Snorer's Friend was shipped to a customer in Taree, NSW, on
December 16. w00t!
2008 December Farwell Andrea!
Andrea has left to pursue a career in pharmaceutical marketing, and we
wish her all the best!
2008 October Snorer's Friend number 7,000 sold
off this website!
The 7,000th Snorer's Friend was shipped to a customer in Frankston,
Victoria on October 26th. Hooray!
2008 August New employee!
Welcome to Jane! Jane will be helping out on a casual basis,
around her study commitments.
2008 August Snorer's Friend number 6,000 sold
off this website!
The 6,000th Snorer's Friend was shipped to a customer in Sutherland, NSW on
August 25th. Hooray!
2008 July New employee!
Welcome to Andrea! Andrea has a PhD and experience in a medical
research field, but has decided it's time for a major career change.
She'll be helping out with customer service, marketing, and regulatory
requirements as we expand distribution outside Australia. She has
recently returned to Australia after many years working in the USA, so
please don't laugh at her accent if you speak to her on the phone.
She can't help it, and is getting better slowly.
2008 July New employee!
Welcome to Mostyn! Mostyn will be helping out two days a week,
Wednesday and Friday. He has used a Snorer's Friend himself, much
to his wife's delight, so he can answer questions about the Snorer's
Friend from personal experience. He is also the most organised
person I have ever met.
2008 June Snorer's Friend number 5,000 sold
off this website!
The 5,000th Snorer's Friend was shipped to a customer in West
Pennant Hills, NSW on June 16th. Hooray!
2008 April New employee!
Welcome to Kerry! Kerry will be helping out with basically
everything until I work out which bits she can do better than me, and
then that will become her role. So you'll probably get to speak
with her if you phone, or meet her if you pop in to the warehouse.
2008 March Snorer's Friend number 4,000 sold
off this website!
The 4,000th Snorer's Friend was shipped to a customer in Burleigh
Heads, QLD on March 13th. Yay! It sure has taken a lot of
emails and phone calls but I've really enjoyed helping everyone.
Keep it coming!
2008 January Advertising on Facebook
I've started advertising on a website called facebook.com, which is a
pretty cool site that helps you stay in touch with your friends.
It's a bit like myspace, but, well, a fair bit cooler. Welcome all
Facebookers!
2007 November Snorer's Friend number 3,000 sold
off this website!
The 3,000th Snorer's Friend was shipped to a customer in WA on
November 30th. Yay!
I've sold a few more through various wholesale channels but that was the
3,000th retail sale.
2007 October New warehouse!
Have moved most of my business to 19 West St, Brompton, SA 5007.
Not a very pretty building, but it's great to be able
to walk around in my house without falling over boxes!
2007 August rsvp.com.au
Had some problems with RSVP, basically they changed their ad system
and suddenly were just charging me for almost twice
as many visitors as they were actually sending to my site. Tried to sort it out but
they just weren't interested in listening :( If you want to advertise on RSVP I can tell you a
few things to watch out for.
2007 July 20 rsvp.com.au
Just started another campaign with RSVP, so welcome again to all
RSVP members! Hopefully this one will be a bit better than the
last. The last one started OK, but fizzled out fairly quickly. 2007 May 15 Google Adwords
I've just increased the amount of money I give Google to $1700 per
month. Sheesh that's a lot! Most people don't know this but
every time you click on one of those "sponsored results" in a google
search the website operator gets charged. The charge varies a bit
depending on the keyword, but it's generally around 50c to to $1.50
Amazing what goes on behind the scenes, hey?
2007 April 12 Welcome to members from
rsvp.com.au
RSVP is a cool dating website where people of all ages can find
someone fun to hang out with. I've teamed up with RSVP to put some
information on their website, to help snorers find out a bit more about
snoring (and of course to introduce the idea of the Snorer's Friend)
So far the results are pretty good, with a definite jump in visitor
rates to this website. Welcome to all RSVP members!
2007 March 23 Recent service problems fixed
This website and my email have been off the air for the last 46
hours.... from approx 3am on March 21 until about half an hour ago, 1am
March 23. This was due to a server meltdown at the company that
hosts this website. Obviously I'll be changing hosting companies
sometime in the next few days (that process is now complete). Just wanted to let you know what
happened, and apologise to those of you who sent email to me which
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