Why A Website?
Greetings! and welcome to our small corner of the internet. Those of you who know us will be thinking right now, “Why a website now??”
Well, as I sit with the prospect of having to start adding products to this page i’m beginning to ask myself the same question!
For this of you who don’t know us, we are a family run independent music shop. For many years, we have concentrated on what we do best… an individual service to the customers who come into our store. We embraced social media around ten years ago and have since built a healthy following on Facebook and more recently Instagram. We’ve also embraced online selling tools like Reverb and Ebay.
One of the core beliefs of our business is “If you haven’t got it, you can’t sell it”, and as such we are well known for keeping a huge stockpile of stock in store. In the wake of the Covid 19 outbreak I found myself in quite a new position…. Where many of the big online stores were out of stock, I in fact had great stock levels. Not only did I have the stock, but I also had it available at cheaper prices than online too. However as the shops were allowed to re-open, it felt like no amount of social media posting could make up for the loss of the browsers and people just popping by for quick look. My stock, although varied, plentiful and well priced.. was going unnoticed by the world, and that upset me.
I’ve never wanted to run an online shop. The thought of packing boxes and sending them off into the world wondering if the buyer will be pleased with their purchase is not a role I want to fulfil. Maintaining a website of thousands of products and having a USP of simply being the cheapest around is not what I want for my life. However the thought occurred to me… What if I could make a website that just featured the most interesting and sought after guitars? What if I could still offer the service I love to in store on a small range of a stock on a great looking website? Well it’s time to give it a go! Please consider this website as a window into our shop, a window showing you a choice selection of our favourite things. Do you want to know more about what else we might have? What we do? What our favourite biscuits are? Then get in touch!