Well, we missed one. The May newsletter was a casualty of the season this year. On a personal note, both of my sons are graduating this year – my eldest from high school, my youngest from 8th grade. That has created a whirlwind of ceremonies, events and assorted celebrations. We’ve had a fabulous time, but things do manage to slip.For BasketWorks, May was crazy busy, more so this year than ever before. Mother’s Day and attending the Sweets and Snacks show keeps me busy most years, but this year we also changed the hosting service for our website (no more downtime, hurray!), added new designs to the site, cleared out excess inventory and had our first survey on our Facebook page.
I hope that your spring has been as much fun as mine has been, and that your summer is full of fun, family and friends. Lise |
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![]() Every week I order product. Generally, I am simply reordering those products that we use all the time – containers, shred, ribbon, etc. No big deal, no significant decisions or choices to make. But often I am selecting something new and trying to guess what my clients will prefer. Sour Jelly Bellys or the traditional 49 flavor assortment? Ginger cookies or Lemon snaps? Snickerdoodle coffee or hazelnut? Or just a morning blend? With that in mind, we held a survey on ourFacebook page, where we asked for YOUR input on what our next Bath and Body scent should be as we expand our line. The winning scent in our survey was Lemon Cream, with 31.9% of the vote. We are sending a $50 gift certificate to Petra S. as a thank you for participating. I am planning on asking your opinion monthly and giving one respondent a $50 gift certificate – one more way we’re listening to our customers. We will be posting our next survey next week and it will run for two weeks – be sure to watch for it! |
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![]() Clearance SaleWe like to keep all of our inventory fresh (not just the food!) and we realized we have been carrying some of these items for a while. So we decided to discount them to make space for new items. We have mugs, glass houses, art kits, dog bowls, holiday ornaments, gel gems – the list goes on. We have about a dozen items up now, adding more daily! Check out our Clearance Page here for all our discounted items!
Remember that after we receive your order we will manually combine all clearance items going to a single address and reduce shpping prices to reflect the actual weight of the complete order.
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
We’re Hiring!
Know someone in the Northbrook area looking for a flexible part-time job? We are looking for a self-directed, hands-on individual to build, package and ship gift packages for our growing business.
The position is for 20-25 hours per week, and includes stocking product, managing inventory (receive, track, organize), shipping packages, building some standard packages, local deliveries, filing, light cleaning and the occasional personal assistant duty. The primary requirement is a willingness to work and follow the directions – I can teach the rest!
We run a serious business, but I am flexible with employee’s hours and days – I will work around college schedules, school schedules, volunteer schedules…..lets talk. We are looking for a permanent employee, so folks home for the summer from college are not a good match.
Caveats – the job is standing 95% of the day, going up and down stairs multiple times a day. We carry around boxes – usually around 15 lbs, but can be as heavy as 30 lbs. There are 2 dogs and a cat on premises, as well as teenagers.
Interested? Call me at 847-559-9379 or pop me an email at info@basketworks.biz. Please forward, share and otherwise distribute this to those you know!
Smiles!
Lise
Been awol….
So it was pointed out to me that I have been awol from this blog for almost a month. Not the way this is supposed to work. My apologies (not that I really believe that I have an audience of folks waiting with baited breath for these posts, but I can hope…). So what has been keeping me away? What are you going to hear all about in the coming days and weeks (which is really what that question means)? My calendar was stuffed in full in May – my birthday (we’ve already covered that), moving my servers, running surveys, Mother’s Day, Sweets & Snacks show, a holiday party(delayed because the 4th quarter is so insane), an anniversary party, a memorial service, working on an Eagle Scout project, prom, Senior awards, graduations, family parties celebrating said graduations….I’m exhausted just looking back at my calendar! But no excuses. I simply dropped the ball. OK. Happens. Picking myself up and moving right along… First and foremost, new items in! We found some fabulous new items at the Sweets and Snacks show that we are bringing in and I will be introducing in the the next few days. Some retro (intro?) spective thoughts on the end of the school year, and moving forward. Glad to be back…. smiles! Lise