Tell Us A Little Bit About What Your Company Does And What Services You Provide:
If modern kitchen design and sustainable materials had a baby, it would be EcoModernism. We design, assemble and install residential kitchens. We start with IKEA cabinet components – because they are extremely affordable – and finish them out with as many green materials as possible. Some of those materials include quartz countertops, bamboo shelving, cork flooring, recycled glass tile, and zero VOC paints. Green building materials haven’t become mainstream enough yet to get the price down. By using IKEA to save on the boxes, we’re able to shift the budget toward the more expensive finishes, and still come out cheaper than a fully custom kitchen. We design the kitchen to meet the client’s needs and goals, functionally and aesthetically. Once we lock in on that, we compile the order and help them place it.
The average IKEA kitchen comes in about 150 flat packed boxes. We offer an assembly and installation service, which starts with verifying the order’s completion when it gets there. Then we assemble it all, install it and help coordinate the countertop templating. We also dispose of all recyclable packing materials at a local facility.
How Did You Get Started?
I grew up in neighborhoods that had houses under construction, so the smell of wood and sound of saws and hammers has never gotten out of my blood. I started in commercial architectural design in 1986. Did that for 10 years, then moved into space planning and management for a dot com company. Got laid off from there in 2001 and have basically been on my own since. I find the project size & lifespan of residential design a lot more enjoyable than commercial projects. I’ll always be involved in design in some capacity.
Tell us a little bit about what your company does and what services you provide.Gourmet Ads is a global vertical advertising network with offices in America, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Gourmet Ads represents quality food, wine and beer websites throughout the world, aggregating and managing advertising across these highly relevant websites and blogs. We focus on delivering branding campaigns which drive sales and customer acquisition.
How did you get started? We started originally in Australia, but demand from both advertisers and publishers in North America allowed us to start international operations. Now we have solid businesses in four countries (America, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia) and growing rapidly into new countries.
How long have you been in business? We started in May 2007.
Who is your target audience? Our clients vary greatly, in terms of the industries that they are from. We work with all sorts of food and wine companies, plus additionally we work with financial, automotive, travel companies and many more. The common goal for all our clients is they want to reach our unique online audience of female 27-55 years old who are commonly the the household grocery buyer.
How does your company stay connected with clients and your business community? We stay connected with clients mostly via email and phone. The ability for BatchBook to sit in between our email server tracking all incoming and outgoing email communications is essential for client communication. Being able to look at client cards and see previous discussions has been one of the reasons we switched to BatchBook from our previous CRM provider.
Editor’s note: One of the things we’re most grateful for is our awesome and amazing customers. To celebrate, we’re kicking off a new monthly series where we profile some of these folks and their cool companies. If you are a BatchBook customer and you’d like to be featured, drop us a line – we’d love to share your story! — MRR
Tell us a little bit about what your company does and what services you provide: WeJustGotBack.com is a family trip-planning resource. We provide in-depth reviews of family-friendly hotels and resorts, reader-contributed tips and recommendations, consumeristic travel advice, and the latest family travel deals. We also provide consulting and spokesperson services to businesses that want a bigger piece of the lucrative family-travel pie.
Inspired by Chris Brogan’s Rockstar badges and by the special request of some of our more ardent admirers, we’re pleased to announce BatchBadges! These are little badges you can post to your website or blog that will display not only your love for BatchBook, but also how smart and well-organized you are. Nothing says “I’m a savvy business professional” like a well-organized contact network!
Please feel free to choose your favorite from the ones below. And thanks so much for being a part of the BatchBlue community.
We love Twitter. And we love user feedback. So we figured, why not marry the two? So, starting today, we have asked our Twitter networks to take part in our very first usability test via Twitter! The form is below. Even if you didn’t hear about this on Twitter, you can still take part!
Update: The usability test has ended. Thanks to everyone who helped out!
Thanks! You can now get back to your tweeting workday!
Name: Becky Shankle
