This past week, we have been visiting IIUM near Gombak and we were able to stock up our goat milk soaps in 7 out of their 14 convenience stores scattered all over the university ground.
Some of the c-store owners were very receptive of us promoting our goat milk soap. Some were very sceptical. But alhamdulillah, all in all, 7 outlets acquired was a very good outcome.
Convenience stores which now sell our goat milk soaps in IIUM are :
1) Mahalla Asma'
2) Mahalla Aminah
3) Mahalla Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi
4) Mahalla Ali
5) Mahalla Zubair
6) Mahalla Uthman Ibn Affan
7) Mahalla Bilal
We had put 10 soaps in Mahalla Nusaibah last 6th November 2011 during our 1st visit to IIUM. After a day, all soaps were sold off. However, Nusaibah's convenience store owner advised us to come back in February 2012, after the holidays. We got to know that the students are facing their Final exams in a few weeks' time and then the holidays. Sale would understandably be low during the hols but it is already great enough that we have been given the opportunity to market our soaps in this amazing campus.
There were some of the c-store owners that we had called and approached at the university namely in Mahalla Asiah and Mahalla Ruqayyah rejected our requests outright to market our soaps at their outlets. This is part and parcel of sales & rejection of it. You win some, lose some. Oh well, maybe we could try again if sales at the other c-stores within the campus are good and promising.
We gather that some of the c-store owners were either family related or are friends from one another. Hope that they will have good things to say about us to each other after using our sample soaps that have been given to them during our sales pitch :-).
Also a special thank you to brothers Nor Asree An-Nahwi Al-Basri and Mohd Fairul (of Mahalla Bilal) both from IIUM for assisting us locating these convenience stores the other day. We couldn't have done it without them. May Allah bless both of you.
Some of the c-store owners were very receptive of us promoting our goat milk soap. Some were very sceptical. But alhamdulillah, all in all, 7 outlets acquired was a very good outcome.
Convenience stores which now sell our goat milk soaps in IIUM are :
1) Mahalla Asma'
2) Mahalla Aminah
3) Mahalla Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi
4) Mahalla Ali
5) Mahalla Zubair
6) Mahalla Uthman Ibn Affan
7) Mahalla Bilal
We had put 10 soaps in Mahalla Nusaibah last 6th November 2011 during our 1st visit to IIUM. After a day, all soaps were sold off. However, Nusaibah's convenience store owner advised us to come back in February 2012, after the holidays. We got to know that the students are facing their Final exams in a few weeks' time and then the holidays. Sale would understandably be low during the hols but it is already great enough that we have been given the opportunity to market our soaps in this amazing campus.
There were some of the c-store owners that we had called and approached at the university namely in Mahalla Asiah and Mahalla Ruqayyah rejected our requests outright to market our soaps at their outlets. This is part and parcel of sales & rejection of it. You win some, lose some. Oh well, maybe we could try again if sales at the other c-stores within the campus are good and promising.
We gather that some of the c-store owners were either family related or are friends from one another. Hope that they will have good things to say about us to each other after using our sample soaps that have been given to them during our sales pitch :-).
Also a special thank you to brothers Nor Asree An-Nahwi Al-Basri and Mohd Fairul (of Mahalla Bilal) both from IIUM for assisting us locating these convenience stores the other day. We couldn't have done it without them. May Allah bless both of you.
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