As the time flies....

There are three words to describe this week, busy, busy, and busy!

We have sent stock far and wide this week with Andrew seemingly spending his days down in the warehouse.

While the rest of the country was talking about the royal engagement, the Dovcor office was a mad house of paperwork and bubble wrap as we tried to get stock delivered within our 24 hour target. The record so far is a Tolima 600 white gloss unit plus basin delivered in under 20 hours from order point!

While the team focused on providing excellent service, Will took the opportunity to teach some uni students from Newcastle how to write a business plan and then talk to a group of business students from Framwellgate School about why he started Dovcor! If you would like will to do a speech or teach a class at any time of the day it seems he is only happy to say yes! 

Now apart from attending two very good muscle clubs and being privileged to see the Movember attempts of extraordinary photography and NEmoney, could our week have got more exciting?

YES!! On Thursday, Dovcor.com was hacked! Some miscreant took it upon themselves to hack the admin section of the website (not storage, as this is a third party) and change a few photos. Luckily we are back to normal, but website security has been beefed up!

That rounds off another week at Dovcor HQ, heres hoping for an even busier one next week.

You stay classy, Dovcor fans…

How The Time Flies...

As the first frosts of winder descend upon us, and we have our first tiny burst of snow, the Dovcor team were once again hard at work. Doing what they do best, saving bathroom standards everywhere!

Monday and Tuesday were pretty uneventful days, as the designs for the brochure were finalized and little Andy learned more about time management, and eating Will's Angel cakes without getting caught.

Wednesday, however, was a busy day for young Andy. He attended and assisted with the handing out of welcome packs for the North East Expo at Gosforth Racecourse, Newcastle. As well as getting loads of freebies, Andy said he thoroughly enjoyed his experience at the Expo, and cant wait until the next one.

Thursday was slightly more eventful again. We heard that our new Oena range baths had finally hit the shores of england!! This invasion of high quality baths is defiantly tipped to be more successful than previous invasions from people such as the Roman army, or the Vikings!!

Finally, Friday was the day the brochure was finally ready for printing! Exciting news for us indeed, and Andy finally got his pretty little Dovcor uniform (awwwwwwwwwwww!).

Well we hope youve enjoyed your visit, and for now, thats all from me (and thats all from him), see you next week!!

Week 3!!

The Sun was (partially) shining, and week 3 begins, and an average week at most for the working stiffs at Dovcor. However, Andy was a buzy bee this week, travelling too and fro!

Monday to Wednesday was mainly marketing and website work, as Andy recieved various different drafts of our brand new home page! each one more spectacular than the next.

Alex popped up from Red Maple, and aggreed to relieve Will of babysitting duty and take Andy to learn about marketing for Wedesday afternoon! She taught him some fantastic techniques, that can assist him with Dovcors marketing in the future (so she can do less work)!!

Thursday was a big day for Andy, as he sent out his first delivery by himself (well done Andy), and Will whent to another BNI meeting, and arranged to take Andy to one on Friday.

Finally Friday, Will took Andy to his first BNI meeting, of which Andy was incredibly nervous! friday as well as being a day of firsts, was also hopefully a day of lasts, last ammendments to projects that is. Howard dropped by to ammend the codes in the new Brochure plans, and Andy was sent the last draft of the website page, and it was given the go for launch!

Well thats all for this week, so in the words of Mr. Springer, 'Take care of yourselves, and each other' , see you next week!!!!

Week 2!!

So as the birds sang and the first frost in Newcastle thawed, the newly expanded Dovcor team made their way all over the reigon to Dovcor central, the mighty Sunderland, for another week of Bathroom filled joy.

Monday, Howard (the fourth member of the team AND part timer) was in, paying us a visit and enlightening us on whats going on with the sales front, and to continue Andy's education in all things wood based. Andy started learning more of ther fun stuff, this time, how to enter product codes onto the Sage system, a system that Andy will be using all the time, to quote inbetweeners, sage is his 'friend' and we got a new desk for Kendra!! So its starting to get a bit cramped here in the office, as you may imagine! we had to get rid of out Tolima display in the office so we could fit the desk in! one slight issue, we didnt get a chair so WIll had to give up his, and has complained all week about having to stand up!

On Tuesday Andy continued to catalogue items and furthered his knowledge into the invoice finance system, and, was proud as punch to be issued his own codes for HSBC invoice finance!! this is the Dovcor banking system, so anyone wanting free cash please feel free to jump him on the number 13 bus, at around 3pm!!! coupled with the sage system, it feels like Andy's christmas has came early!!

Wednesday was slightly more extitng, for Will in any case. Andy continued to make invoices, whilst will dressed in his smartest clothes, looking very smart as Kendra said, and trotted out to an IPN event at Hardwhick Hall! We also saw some of the sketches for our new brochure, created by a wonderfull company called Eye level!!

Thursday saw the start of the actual fitting of our lovely new Oena range into Boldon, a prestigious day!! Atrecad also paid us a little visit, and showed us some very cool graphics design software, this added to our current actutechtural drawrings could make Dovcor pretty credible!!

And, Finally,we come to Friday, where Andy was hard at work creating plans for the new scripts for the videos, and Will competed our instalations at Boldon (yaaaay!!) And on a side note, we checked our competition entries, and since monday weve had 1040 entries!!! so keep them coming please!!

Thank you very much for reading, we hope you enjoyed this weeks addition to our life here at Dovcor, and we shall see you all next week!!!!!

And so it begins...

Welcome to the Dovcor blog, our first ever blog! And a weekly one at that. So what did we get up to this week? Answer: A lot!

On Monday our new Apprentice, Andy, started work. This handsome young chap loves football and music, so much that by 9:01 am we had to enforce the no rubbish music policy (by 9:02am we had itunes find its way mysteriously onto our main computer!!). Andy is here to study Admin and Business and has immadiately seized control of our twitter/facebook accounts in one fell swoop. Issues with poor spelling and grammar should therefore be directed to amcguire@dovcor.com!

Tuesday was less exiting, we learnt we have reached Number one in the UK for Althea basins on google (500, 600 and 700's in stock now!) http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=althea+basins#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&q=althea+clever+baisin&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=9bc9fc41b169ed0c
Also, our bolt-on employee (sorry marketing consultant) Alex Purvis (http://twitter.com/alex_purvis) sropped by to give Andy a few tips. Oh!! and our brand new Oena range was put into its first store! Fantastic!

Wednesday was a day of firsts. Dovcor used http://barterangels.com/ system for the first time (who needs currency these days!), attended the IPN show at Newcastle Racecourse and launched our competition to win over £750 worth of goods! follow this link for more information www.dovcor.com/comp.asp .

Thursday, Will took some time out of his busy chedule to school me in some of the Dovcor arts, such as Invoicing and Delivery notes, you know, the exciting stuff! The masterplans were created for Twitter and Facebook too!

And finally, Friday, we packed our new Oena range into the Dovcor battleship and set sail for Boldon! We also recieved some amazing enw sketches for our brochure! We spent some time looking over these and came to some decisions that we feel will make our brochure the best one around!

Thanks very much for reading, we hope you enjoyed this insight into our inner workings, and hope we'l see you again next week. In the mean time, why not pay us a visit at http://www.dovcor.com/ !!