Tonight, lyss and I had dinner at Pinocchio's in Harvard Square. Great pizza and cheesesteaks. Then we walked home--about 20 min. What a beautiful day. Honestly, I'm not a huge walker. I love to drive a car, boat, plane, jet ski, bike, train. Recently lyss started walking to work. It takes her about an hour each way. That's two hours of walking each day. On our walk tonight she mentioned that if everyone who could reasonably walk to work did, how much carbon emissions would be reduced. Think about it? All of our customers, college students, walk every single day to their jobs (classes, studying). Then they graduate, live somewhere, and start driving everywhere.
For me, I can't walk to work unless I got up at 5am so I'm going to go the bike route.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Demand the Best
Every move-out season, I take the chance on this blog to invite prospective customers to use our service. This year, I wanted to tell you why now, more then ever, Collegeboxes is a great choice:
1. Improved Service -- For seven years, all we've done is provide shipping and storage for college students. This winter, more then ever, we've made a ton of tweaks, improvements, and changes to give you (the customer) the best possible service. This includes a much larger call center (less hold time), expanded operations department, and vastly improved website functionality.
2. The best can always get better -- We service over 60 colleges and universities. We're very proud of that. We also know that staying ahead of the pack means that we must constantly be improving our game. With seven years of learning and improving we can promise the highest, most reliable level of service of anyone else out there.
3. We know what we're doing -- We service thousands of customers each year, BUT we treat each pickup and delivery like you are the only customer. Our business is built on a one box a time philosophy. When I was in college, a few short years ago, myself and Scott (President/CFO of Collegeboxes) handled nearly every box ourselves. In four years of running a student business at WashU I pulled my back out six times--my mother was not happy. To this day, we maintain the same strategy. Treat each customer well and they will continue to patronize your business.
4. Put your money where your mouth is -- At Collegeboxes we market our service (of course, we have to, we need customers too), but this past year we spent a record amount on service related expansion and improvement. This means only one thing--the best quality of service.
Give us a shot, and we think you'll be very happy you choose Collegeboxes.
We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Josh
1. Improved Service -- For seven years, all we've done is provide shipping and storage for college students. This winter, more then ever, we've made a ton of tweaks, improvements, and changes to give you (the customer) the best possible service. This includes a much larger call center (less hold time), expanded operations department, and vastly improved website functionality.
2. The best can always get better -- We service over 60 colleges and universities. We're very proud of that. We also know that staying ahead of the pack means that we must constantly be improving our game. With seven years of learning and improving we can promise the highest, most reliable level of service of anyone else out there.
3. We know what we're doing -- We service thousands of customers each year, BUT we treat each pickup and delivery like you are the only customer. Our business is built on a one box a time philosophy. When I was in college, a few short years ago, myself and Scott (President/CFO of Collegeboxes) handled nearly every box ourselves. In four years of running a student business at WashU I pulled my back out six times--my mother was not happy. To this day, we maintain the same strategy. Treat each customer well and they will continue to patronize your business.
4. Put your money where your mouth is -- At Collegeboxes we market our service (of course, we have to, we need customers too), but this past year we spent a record amount on service related expansion and improvement. This means only one thing--the best quality of service.
Give us a shot, and we think you'll be very happy you choose Collegeboxes.
We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Josh
Friday, April 13, 2007
Double Fish Fillet
My great grandma cissie loved McDonalds (or at least that's what my mom tells me, I was 8 when she passed). Turns out she not only loved Mickey D's fries but she loves the fish sandwich. Check out this great post from NY magazine about a double fish fillet from the golden arches. Just delicious (thanks david) --Josh
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Bostonians, Check Us Out On The T!
If you live in or around Boston then there is a good chance you get the joy of riding the T around town, at least occasionally. If you're a student at BU, BC, Northeastern, Brandeis, Tufts, Babson and so on... you are probably all too familiar with the painfully slow Green line. Yes, we all know and love the Green line and its long chock-full-of-stops ride.That's why we thought, hey! We should advertise on the T! You know, to brighten up the day of those forced to carry on their daily routine of T riding. It's for this reason that we created colorful, informational ad's that you can read for your pleasure throughout the entire month of April (and some of May too).
So, check it out! And let us know what you think by writing a comment to this blog.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Highschool friends doing good things
Now that the creative juices are flowing, I remembered a post I wanted to put up after I decided to take the blog a bit more personal. In particular, two good friends from high school were due for a mention...
Jason Barg/Adam Nachmani--Old buddies from high school who buy and sell plots of land out west. Doesn't sound that exciting at first, but wait...you can buy a 1/2 acre plot to build the family homestead for $3,200!!!! What a simple and great idea. Their website is www.redskyranches.com.
Darin and Greg Bresnitz -- These identical twins were my next door neighbors growing up. I never thought we'd ever be friends after my dad caught them smoking in 10th grade. Now that we're friends again, these guys are producing a cooking show called "Dinner with the Band." To make it even sweeter, the show just got picked up by www.onfood.tv.
Jason Barg/Adam Nachmani--Old buddies from high school who buy and sell plots of land out west. Doesn't sound that exciting at first, but wait...you can buy a 1/2 acre plot to build the family homestead for $3,200!!!! What a simple and great idea. Their website is www.redskyranches.com.
Darin and Greg Bresnitz -- These identical twins were my next door neighbors growing up. I never thought we'd ever be friends after my dad caught them smoking in 10th grade. Now that we're friends again, these guys are producing a cooking show called "Dinner with the Band." To make it even sweeter, the show just got picked up by www.onfood.tv.
For the record
I'm going to go a little off topic (e.g. not talk about collegeboxes) and tell you a little bit more about myself in this blog post. In fact, one of the reasons I haven't posted as much this Spring is because I've gotten a bit dismayed with the fact that most companies use a blog for blantent advertising--that is what your website is for! Inside the Box, occupies an awkward space between corporate and personal blog. I started the blog almost two years ago when bored in a hotel room traveling to some school--Tulane, I think. If you're reading this, you can probably tell that Collegeboxes has come a long way since last year. New website, new schools, new staff, better service, etc. All of this is available for you to see at www.collegeboxes.com and via our official press releases.
From now on, though, it's time to go personal. In fact, you're probably reading this NOT because you want to hear the latest sale we're promoting, but rather, because you want to see inside the personal side of myself and my company.
Here goes...
Every morning when I get up I do two things. First, I open my firefox browser which defaults to my personalized google homepage. This is a fantastic site that you can populate with blogs/rss feeds you like to read. My favorites are:
1. www.gizmodo.com
2. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/
3. http://blog.ruhlman.com/
4. http://www.chow.com/grinder/
Second, I check our site to see how are sales numbers are.
A good morning, for me, includes two real elements. Anothony Bourdain, probably the most obnoxious yet awesome celebrity chefs posting a guest post on Ruhlman's blog slamming the lame chefs of the food channel (except of course Ina Rosengarden, Mario Batali, and Alton Brown) AND a ton of customers signing up for collegeboxes services. I'm not sure which one is better, one puts food on the table and the other just talks about food.
Part of my morning routine also includes reading dealbook (business deals courtesy of the nytimes) and chow hound. Chowhound, more cooking of course, is a library of frank restaurant and cooking advice. For example, if you want to know the best New England Clam Chowder in Cambridge, MA (where I live) just type it in and you're all set.
From now on, though, it's time to go personal. In fact, you're probably reading this NOT because you want to hear the latest sale we're promoting, but rather, because you want to see inside the personal side of myself and my company.
Here goes...
Every morning when I get up I do two things. First, I open my firefox browser which defaults to my personalized google homepage. This is a fantastic site that you can populate with blogs/rss feeds you like to read. My favorites are:
1. www.gizmodo.com
2. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/
3. http://blog.ruhlman.com/
4. http://www.chow.com/grinder/
Second, I check our site to see how are sales numbers are.
A good morning, for me, includes two real elements. Anothony Bourdain, probably the most obnoxious yet awesome celebrity chefs posting a guest post on Ruhlman's blog slamming the lame chefs of the food channel (except of course Ina Rosengarden, Mario Batali, and Alton Brown) AND a ton of customers signing up for collegeboxes services. I'm not sure which one is better, one puts food on the table and the other just talks about food.
Part of my morning routine also includes reading dealbook (business deals courtesy of the nytimes) and chow hound. Chowhound, more cooking of course, is a library of frank restaurant and cooking advice. For example, if you want to know the best New England Clam Chowder in Cambridge, MA (where I live) just type it in and you're all set.
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