We often take time here at HDD Towers to reflect... look back on what works, what doesn't and how we ended up doing what we love doing! We love making hampers, we love all the drinks, we love making people happy, we love the thoughts and messages you send in your gifts, we love the 'ping' when an order comes through and we love great feedback.
When we first started back in 2018, we would never have envisaged where we would have got to. We remember our first event we went to which was a complete wash out and the rain was so heavy, it broke our gazebo! And we remember the early starts to set up at market stalls on Sunday mornings!
It was at one of these market events where somebody in the pitch next to us suggested setting up a website. We had no clue what to do but thought it would make sense for sure - so we hired a website designer (my husband!!) who had to learn on the job how to create a website! He had never done it before but had to learn how to load up new products, new collections and how the hell to navigate Google search algorithms!
We grew up fast, we created almost 350 individual products, each with add-on variants and we were so happy when we made our first sale through our very own website just over five years ago in October 2019. A lot has happened since then - a global pandemic, two new babies added to the HDD family, our regular day jobs, a re-brand and website re-design in 2022 and we launched all our product range on Amazon, Etsy and eBay...
And we sit here today feeling proud. Very proud.
Today is the day we celebrate our 10,000th order through our website. Forget our other sales channels, this is the website we created and we work on every day.
TEN THOUSAND.
A milestone we didn't even consider when we first thought about a website. Incredible.
Our 10,000th customer ordered a Premium Italian lager hamper - incidentally one of the first products we loaded to our website! They have received an extra special gift in addition to their order as a way of saying thank you.
It has been hard work but we owe a lot of thanks to each and every customer - thank you for checking out our website, placing an order and supporting our small business - it is appreciated every single day.
Here is to the next 10,000!!
Cheers