Well, it's been a busy few weeks what with visits to sunny (no, it wasn't) Telford for an ingredients' suppliers exhibition and orders for Queen Sensiderma Renew & Refine, our super-duper new anti-wrinkle cream for sensitive skin (in case you didn't know!).
The exhibition was thankfully worthwhile as it was a fair old trek from Sussex and traipsing around exhibition halls is hell on the feet. We met a great supplier of organic and non-organic oils and hope to start experimenting with some of their organic fruit and seed blends soon to get our organic range up and running.
We met the manufacturer of the peptide for our anti-wrinkle cream there and had a good chat with him. His company is small but very hi-tech with a fantastic research arm and they are beginning to get some of their wonderful products out into the market, including sale of one of their peptides to a one of the premium brands. This company is marketing the cream which contains the peptide at 200 euros and the only active ingredient in the cream is the peptide. Our cream is a mere fraction of this at £35.25 (and it's currently on offer at £30.00!) so let's hope that, in this horrid economic climate we are all facing, people realise they can get a similar cream from Queen Cosmetics and save themselves a fortune. They won't go back to their old brand if they do!
In fact, we have just had a new customer on the telephone say as much:
"I am used to spending a lot of money on cosmetics," she said, "but I have found your Moisturiser rivals anything I have previously used and I can't believe what good value it is. I want to try the rest of the Queen range now!"
In fact, we have had quite a few new customers over the last couple of weeks which is great news, even if it's taken some of them a whole eight months to place an order after first having free samples! Either our samples are just too big or it is true what marketing experts say about people needing six or seven exposures (i.e. a letter, seeing advertising or an article, visiting a website, hearing about it from a friend etc etc) to something before taking the plunge of buying.
There's not really much to report his week. We are nearly completely out of Theatrical Cleansing Cream, our preservative-free cleanser for removing even stubborn (e.g theatre) make-up, and so that's on the manufacturing agenda for tomorrow. In fact, stocks of most products are looking quite low so we will hopefully have time over the quiet Christmas period to get the stirrers whirring.
See you soon
The Queen Team
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