Articles & copy writing
The Shout Magazine - 'What's Hot' article
‘Signature Drinks Rewards gives your more. More Deals, More Margin, More Wholesalers.’
Looking to get more out of your weekly liquor order? By simply buying stock for your venue, you could qualify for bonus stock. That means the possibility of making 100% margin... not a bad deal?
By participating in Signature Drinks, your venue will gain access to our loyalty program ‘Rewards’.
It’s as simple as Buy, Accrue & Receive.
By filling your venue via Rewards, your Deals will accrue every time you buy them.
Once the bonus level is reached, you’ll receive the bonus stock for that deal. It’s the easiest way to receive free stock.
Think Rewards is for you? With 35+ deals on offer there are brands to fit every drink menu and back bar offering. You don’t need to purchase the full deal on a single invoice, each purchase accumulates until the bonus level is reached. We track of your purchases and let you know when you are close to reaching your acquittal level.
Becoming a Signature Drinks Customer includes your venue into our exclusive Customer Buying Group. Wondering what the benefit is?
Our Customer Buying Group is nation-wide who’s joint buying power creates negotiation power. We use our national footprint to acquire custom discounts and promotional programs from our partnered suppliers. Our growing network of customer venues across Australia allows Signature Drinks to continually improve and renegotiate our terms.
Available via our Wholesalers Gateway Liquor, Rivercity Liquor, Bidfood & Festival Beer Wine Spirits. For more information and to find your local wholesaler, get in contact today.
The hoarder in apartment 310 article
The hoarder in apartment 310 (Hoarder might be a bit of an overstep, but shopaholic without a doubt) spends more of her wage then she brings home, but like the idea of not being able to afford food has ever stopped anyone from their next purchase. For her there is no ‘poison of choice’, rather anything ranging from homewares, “hair growing supplements” that actually burn your stomachs lining (that was a fun doctors trip), and more often than not, shoes.
Now I’m not trying to claim innocence here. I myself have parted many hundreds for these leather jewels but not quite at the rate of Maddison. She’s my best friend over 15 years, so I feel as though I have earned the right to comment. And just so we are on common ground, if your wardrobe door is unable to close due to the amount stashed inside, you’ve got two options moving forward:
1. Get a bigger wardrobe, but considering the cost home renovations might be a out of a 23-year-olds league.
2. Throw out Thursday (Not necessarily required to be partaken on a Thursday, but for the sake alliteration and Thursday being today, I’m sticking with it)
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Sixty-eight. Now for purposes of keeping this in the reasonable numbers (yes, 68 is reasonable) I excluded all sneakers, thongs, slippers, sandals (which are a whole other topic), boots without boxes, and so called “memory heels” which at a whole would have pushed me into the mid 100s, a number both of us were not willing to acknowledge.
So 68 pairs of shoes it is.
After braving the non-existent floor, once actually reaching the wardrobe, it’s a sight one can only marvel. Only a breath bigger than a meter wide with its doors pushed wide on it hinges, the volume of clothing which is so gracefully crammed inside would make anyone who took pride in ironing, folding or order, shutter.
The newest addition to her collection, a leather jacket pushing the upper limits of $700 was unable to even make the squeeze, instead a now trendy accessory for the floor in which I stand on. But none of the less, today I will only attempt to peruse the not so small shoe shop that is overtaking in this one bedroom apartment.
“You never know, what if I need it one day”.
For anyone dealing with a shopping addict in their own home, they too will admit almost immediate defeat after this sentence is uttered. For the sake of a written record, I’d like to acknowledge that Maddison is a size 10, sometimes 9 depending on availability and sheer desperation for the shoe.
I gained the above remark when questioning the need to continue to store a size 7 heel from 2009 in her overflowing wardrobe, or at all for that matter? Let the record reflect the true size of this girls foot: a 10.
I too admittedly struggle with the irreversible chuck, but perhaps not with a 10-year-old, hot pink stiletto, that is approximately 2 sizes too small and caked in mud. These beauties however fell under the ‘memory shoes’, and how could you argue with that.?
The intervention (if you can even call it that) continued like such for close to 2 hours. About the time it took for her to empty the entire content of the wardrobe and jam it all back in, in an almost exact fashion.
But my attempt to declutter was in in vain, I believe a small step forward with her shoe hoarding was made.
Two pairs were relegated to the bin, a small but tiresome win that took almost 10 minutes of assuring her they were in fact broken, and out-of-date at that. All that work, and 66 pairs still remained.
The muddy pink stiletto remains, and I think they will haunt me until I’m thirty. But at least there has been a small reduction of 100+ shoes consuming that bedroom.
Although, the EOFY sale starts this weekend, and I have just helped the hoarder clear two spots now begging to be filled.
Could my timing have been any worse?
Meet Signature Drinks Newcastle - Brochure
I was responsible for the copy of the launch brochure of 'Signature Drinks Newcastle'. This document includes sensitive business information, so I have only included an excerpt from the introduction page on the right.
