My name is Steve Thomson and I am
a professional juggler and retailer. I have been
juggling since 1993 and this juggling equipment
and novelty item mail order store began life in
July 2002.
Although my store is very much online
and catalogue based, and his store was “bricks
and mortar” there were still plenty of principles
to learn from Stock Management to Dealing With
Customers. My Grandad was always prepared to go
the extra mile to help someone and I aim to do
exactly the same for my customers!
July
2002 |
Store and Catalogue launched
online and offline. |
January 2003 |
Online store able to accept online payments
through use of PAYPAL and NOCHEX. |
April 2003 |
Product line doubles from 30 to over 60
due to some large sales made in first quarter
of the year. Beanbags/Scarves,
Poi, Yo-yo,
Games, Gadgets
and Magic
sections all added to the store. |
August
2003 |
Creative,
Novelty
Items, Puzzles,
Juggling
Kits and Surprise
Gift Bag sections added to the store. |
| January
2004 |
Online Credit/Debit Card Transactions facility
added to the store when I gained my Internet
Merchant Account from Royal Bank of Scotland. |
February
2004 |
My first book published! Yo-yo,
Published by Mini Maestro. |
April
2004 |
Product Range increases to 85 with addition
of Workshop
Packs, Books
and Luminous
sections, and additions throughout the store. |
August
/ Sept 2004 |
500th sale! Woohoo! Most
sales have came since adding credit/debit
card payment system to the store. Store continues
to expand with new range of Poi and Yo-yo's
coming soon.
Paypal Shopping Cart
Button added.
First Major Sale throughout the store! |
| February
- April 2005 |
New Gift Sets
and Juggling
Kits created. Juggling
Misc Products and Juggling
Books pages added along with 11 new products. |
| August
/ September 2005 |
Store now accepts VISA Electron cards.
Several new pages created.
Juggling store moved to a new and ten
times bigger location. Much more room, so
I was able to expand my product range, and
approx 25 products were added. |
| October
2005 |
Mailing
List page added (link opens in new window).
First newsletter sent out to 150 subscribers.
SIGN UP PLEASE! |
November
2005 |
Price Search Facility
added
|
February
2006 |
Moved the store to bigger premises again!
Unicycles
and Balancing
Ladders pages and products added. 4
new Workshop Packs created. |
June
- August 2006 |
Added an FAQ page to replace the How
To Buy page. Introduced another 45 items
of stock throughout the store.
- Glow
- I have finally got a range of glow props
(rechargeable and battery operated!)
- Walking
Ladder/Walking Globe
- Stilts
- Powerizer stilts coming soon, but 2
other products available in the meantime!
- Yoho Products
- New to the UK Market, these 5 awesome
juggling products each come with their
own CD-ROM full of tricks, plus many other
additional features.
- Christian
Juggling Resources - Props coming
soon...
Marvin's Magic become my latest supplier
and I introduce 4 of their products onto
my revamped Magic
Page! |
October
- December 2007 |
Over 330 products now in stock. Fire
section finally added! Navigation completely
revamped. Diabolo
and Clubs
range of products vastly expanded!
Phasing out of most of the Novelty Items
section of the website. Large
sale with dramatic cuts to over 90 products!
Christian
Resources page continues to grow as
I source more American authors to supply
their books to me for sale throughout the
UK!
4000th Sale! Biggest ever CHRISTmas turnover
- thank you very much! |
