Business is Booming! We are breaking our own records.

Historically, from Christmas until now is the slowest time of our year.  This year we sold more than $16,000 worth of items during this period.  And gave it all away!!  Because we don’t compete we give all of our sales to our builders. To be able to give $16,000 in orders away in 4 weeks feels great!!!!!!!  

And that’s just the orders that we took in.  We also referred out many, many  request-for-quotes and inquiries to our PFBs.  So who knows how much business that all turned into, not to mention all the business that went to our PFBs directly.

Our Commercial Business is growing

Although we never explicitly set out to be a commercial supplier the quality of our products has certainly been catching a lot of attention lately. We have always been popular with interior designers and bathroom remodelers but we have recently been increasingly popular among architects, home builders, and commercial builders.

Recent orders and RFQs include:

7 medicine cabinets for a home being built in Florida
36 medicine cabinets in Cincinnati, Ohio
4 bathroom vanities in Washington state vacation rental units

And our regular home business has picked up too.  This is looking to be a banner year!!

We need more craftsmen, especially from Cincinnati, Ohio east to North Carolina and from Florida across to Texas.

What a great way to end the year !!!!!!!

Historically, our slowest time of the year is usually between Dec 15 and Jan 7, with almost nothing happening between Christmas and New Years.

But not this year!!

We took orders totaling almost $7,000 in just the past week. And we were on vacation for 90% of the week. I love our new Online Business Solution, on vacation and still taking orders. Does it get any better?

Watch the week of Jan 30th for the biggest announcement we have ever made!  Hint – It’s about our new Online Business Solution.  You won’t believe how much capability this system has.

I think 2012 is going to be a great year.  HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who needs Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

I’m not saying that they aren’t both good days but we just had a fantastic Green (as in the color of money) Weekend.

My wife and I spent most of the weekend Christmas shopping and to make things even better we received five e-commerce orders totaling $1,939.30 and we didn’t have to be in the office or pick up a phone to get them. I love these kind of weekends!

And today we gave the orders away to our PFBs.

Los Angeles woodworker needed

In just the last six months, orders from the LA area have been averaging over $700 per month, with NO advertising, from back here in New Hampshire. These are orders that have come to us with ZERO effort on our part.

Just imagine how much business you could do if you live in the area, don’t have to ship coast to coast, and advertise. AND we would give you all the business that comes our way from this territory!

Currently the hottest areas in the U.S.

These are the hottest metro areas in the country where we don’t have a Pro Furniture Builder yet.  Houston TX, Austin TX, Northern FL, Southeastern FL, Southwestern FL, Los Angeles CA, Cleveland OH, and Atlanta GA.

Our Pro Furniture Builder in Ontario Canada has been very busy

On Aug. 19 he posted this on Facebook: Busy week for orders. Oak vanity, 2 wardrobes, loft bed with desk surface, storage unit and 2 golf ball display racks. Can always tell when I am almost off for vacation, all the orders roll in.

Any craftsmen in the South ?!

We continue to get requests for furniture from the South; especially from Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia.  Are there any woodworking craftsmen in these states or are they all too busy too?

I can’t believe we are still in our “slow” season considering how busy it’s been.

Nice Order !!

One of our Pro Furniture Builders just got an order totaling $5,695 !!  There is enough profit in this one order to cover the PFB payments for an entire year.

Too much business ?!

Is it possible to have too much business?  Nice problem to have right?  We have one Pro Furniture Builder that has had a lead time of 14 – 16 weeks since early June.  We have another PFB that has so much work he is subcontracting some of it out !! And another PFB from the mid-west that says his lead time is now out until mid-October. He even told us not to hurry on developing his new eCommerce web site because he doesn’t want to be any busier than he already is.