An Amazing Transformation

We recently started carrying a new product on WatchNBuy.com called Body Shaping Garments. The idea behind the product is it enhances your figure and corrects your posture without the cost of surgery.

Now for those of you that might be skeptical, we saw the difference it made for our model Ruth while we were making the video. She’s a very attractive woman, and the change in her posture and body language was dramatic. Her confidence went up and you could tell just by watching her that the garment made a tremendous difference in how she felt about herself.

There are a lot of stores on-line that are selling “Compression Garments” or “Body Reshaping Garments”, but make sure you really take a look at them before making your purchase. The brand we sell on our site is the highest quality, and we’ve seen first hand what a difference it makes. Check out the video and judge for yourself. (Watch the video).

The garment Ruth wore in the video is called the Integrity. All the Body Shaping Garments we sell on the website include FREE shipping.

There’s no quick fix for actually losing extra pounds, but the garments we sell on WatchNBuy.com will make an immediate difference.
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George Siegal is the C.E.O. and co-founder of Watchnbuy.com. You can email him at george@watchnbuy.com.

Unique Holiday Gift Idea (Better Hurry)

It’s tough to come up with an original gift every year for someone special in your life. That’s what intrigued me when we had the chance to work with a vendor that makes watches in Switzerland.

They have a website where you can make a watch from scratch step by step. You get to choose every element of the watch, from the hands to the bezel, the band, and everything in between. And for the grand finale you get to give it a personal engraving.

We have a video on our site that shows how everything works from ordering to arrival. The whole process takes about two weeks.

So if you are struggling to come up with something unique this year, give something that will buy you extra relationship points throughout the year. Make someone special a personalized watch.
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George Siegal is one of the founders of Watchnbuy.com. You can email him at george@watchnbuy.com.

Send A Delicious Gourmet Meal for the Holidays

The holidays can be a rough time of year if you aren’t able to be with loved ones in other parts of the country. At WatchNbuy.com we are excited about being able to help send delicious gourmet meals directly to those you can’t share the holidays with. WatchNbuy.com’s innovative technology makes it fun and easy to do. For people receiving these holiday meals, it’s an experience they’ll never forget.

What better way to deliver a holiday greeting than with a freshly prepared and quickly delivered gourmet meal? Shoppers can see the meal they’re sending by watching a beautiful interactive video at www.watchnbuy.com.

This Thanksgiving and Christmas, millions of people are spending the holiday alone. But some smart shoppers are finding the best way to say “I’m thinking of you” is by sending a gourmet meal. If the cost of travel is keeping you from spending the holidays with a loved one, this is a great alternative that really makes an impact on the person you’re sending it to. And the interactive video on our website makes it a fun and convenient way to do it.

No detail is spared in preparing a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner gift that will make a lasting impression. Delicious cuisine is accompanied by gifts to make the dinner complete: table décor, dessert and even organic tea. These are gourmet meals, prepared by great chefs and sent fresh right to your parents, grandparents or friends. Here’s how it works: meals are delivered directly to the front door by UPS. 30 minutes is all that’s required for the recipient to prepare the delicious meal in the kitchen. What this means is that your loved one will know you were thinking of them on the holiday. And the fact that it’s so easy to prepare makes it that much better.

We had a chance to sample the food in our studio when we produced the video, and it was delicious. I’m putting together a list of people I want to send one to, I hope you will check it out and send some as well. Watch the video and see for yourself.
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George Siegal is one of the founders of Watchnbuy.com. You can email him at george@watchnbuy.com.

What We Are Cooking On WatchNBuy.com

One of the things we’re trying to do on WatchNBuy.com is come up with really interesting food items for you to buy. When we feature a product in video it’s something we’ve actually tasted and like. There are a couple of items on the website we are very excited about, Grass-fed beef, and Quail.

I had never tried Grass-fed beef until we were shooting our video. The Company sent us some New York Strip Steaks. Normally I use a fair amount of sauce on mine, but we made these with no sauce, and you know what, they didn’t need it. The taste was amazing. I liked it so much that I ordered flank steak from the same company. A few extra people were coming over for dinner and I didn’t order enough, so I had to buy one from our local supermarket chain.

There was a dramatic difference in the taste, so much so that the local bought steak tasted like shoe leather next to the grass-fed steak. So when you are on our website, watch the beef video and order some. I'm confident you’ll agree it was well worth it.

The next thing I tried was Quail. I’m a pretty conservative eater and the thought of eating Quail didn’t really appeal to me, but since they sent it to us I tried it anyway. Once again, amazing, so good in fact that I bought some right after we made the video. My business partner Luis recently threw a wedding for his daughter, and one of the main courses was Quail.

If you are interested in giving Quail a try, just click here to place an order.

Now I know what some of you are thinking, this guy is just trying to make a buck by pitching something on his website. I’ve been in advertising for a long time, and when a client hires you, you do your job whether you like the product or not. But when I step up and personally recommend something it’s because I really think it’s great. That’s why I’m so excited about the Beef and Quail.

We also have some interesting recipes on the site for preparing Beef and Quail. All I can ask you to do is give it a try. I think you’ll like it as much as I do.
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George Siegal is one of the founders of Watchnbuy.com. You can email him at george@watchnbuy.com.

Whatever Happened To The Customer Is Always Right?

I think one of the greatest reasons for the boom in on-line shopping is not having to deal with the people who run businesses we actually still walk in to. In many cases it’s like they are doing us a favor by being there and that’s it.

I’m sorry, if I walk in to your business to spend my money I think you have to live up to your end of the bargain, and that’s providing good service. It’s also nice if you actually act like you are glad to have a customer in your store.

Bad service example: I was in a large home improvement store looking for something. They paged for help and I waiting for help for over 20 minutes. I could have been lying on the floor bleeding and they wouldn’t have noticed, let alone offered any help.

Good service example: My wife and I were at the car dealership today and in the span of 10 minutes at least half a dozen people came up to us and asked if someone was helping us or if we needed anything.

That’s one of the goals of our website watchbuy.com. We are striving to offer great customer service. If you love it, let us know, if not, we need to hear about that too.

The customer has so many choices these days. Even on the Internet it’s possible to get bad service. Many of us buy things that don’t show up, or when they do they aren’t what we expected. I like to deal with companies that actually care about the customer. When a business gets to big sometimes they lose sight of that. And we all know that there isn’t much we can do about it, except take our business elsewhere.

Maybe it’s unrealistic to expect the guy or gal making minimum wage to breath the corporate message that the customer is important, but when I go to a business where I’m treated poorly, and six months later the door is locked and the "for lease" sign is in the window I wonder if that had something to do with it.
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George Siegal is the co-creator of watchnbuy.com. You can contact George at george@watchnbuy.com.

Am I Out Of Line Here?

One of my goals in designing a site like WatchNBuy is to eliminate the regular frustration I have when I’m out places and have to wait in line.

If the name of the game is to choose the line that will move the fastest, then I need to find a new game to play.

It was a day of making the wrong line choice like no other. It started at Starbucks at 7:30 am. I was faced with a choice, the walk-in or the drive-thru. There were about 10 cars in the drive through, so I figured I’ll park and go in. That was my first mistake of the day. When I got inside there were only two people ahead of me. The first lady must have been experiencing her first time in the coffee shop, she wasn’t quite sure what to get. So between the sweets and the lattes and all the various sizes she took about 6 minutes. The second guy was picking up breakfast for the office, 5 drinks and enough sweets to feed the band, another 8-minutes. By the time I got up there I got to experience the rare morning coffee moment, they needed to brew more. “Sorry sir, it’ll be about five minutes”. When I finally left with my coffee the drive through was empty.

Now it was off to the office for a few hours, then a drive over to the bank. The bank had 8 lines; only four were open, two were just for us commercial bank users. Two cars on the left, one on the right, this one was easy. No it wasn’t. The guy in front of me was doing some type of payroll deposit, and I sat there for 20 minutes. Meanwhile fresh cars whizzed in and out in the other three lines. Now you say, why don’t you switch lines? Great question until a car behind you boxes you in.

Later that day I stopped by the market on the way home. My mission: to grab a gallon of milk. Easy choice here, the express line 10 items or less. With only one person in front of me, this will be fast. Except this guy had 20 items, a slow checker, and no box person helping. Meanwhile the regular lines around me were humming right along. After they were finished with the guy who couldn’t count to ten, it was my turn, but wait, it was time for the dreaded checker switch. That’s when one checker gets off duty and the new person comes on. They have to rearrange the drawer and get settled in. If I had chosen the regular line I’d be home by now. I get up there and try to buy my one item; unfortunately since I just went to the bank all I had was a hundred dollar bill. The nice young lady who had just checked in for the day says, “I don’t have any twenties, I’ll have to give you fives and ones.” I said, “No thanks, could you please get some larger bills?” She had to go all the way to the back and get change, another five minutes, and she tried to make me feel bad about it in the process.

My day ended at the movie theater. If you think the post office can be slow, they take the people who failed the postal test, and any other test, and put them behind the food lines at the movie theater. My wife gets in one line, I get in the other. We’re both crawling along in our two dud lines while the other lines speed along. Finally we choose her line, and as the person in front of us gets Nachos, candy, a pickle, popcorn and three drinks, all the other lines are seeing fresh people. Ten minutes later, we got our popcorn (hold the grease) and went to find our seats.

It would be too simple to say the moral of this story was to “just shop on-line”, but that’s one of the reasons on-line shopping is becoming so popular. Staying home and using my computer would have kept me from feeling so out of line.
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George Siegal and Luis Ramirez are the creators of watchnbuy.com. You can contact George at george@watchnbuy.com or Luis at Luis@watchnbuy.com.

Why Is Online Shopping Becoming So Popular?

Statistics don’t lie, on-line shopping is booming, and by the year 2012 some experts predict it will be a 61 billion dollar business. So what are the reasons for this?

Convenience is one, you can sit in the comfort of your home or office and just buy stuff. It doesn’t matter what you are wearing, or how you look. No long lines with rude sweaty people all fighting to get in the shortest line. The line in your house is as long as the number of people waiting to use the computer, and you can usually control that.

I for one am sick of playing the guessing game of which line will move the fastest. I always get stuck with “new cashier” who has to look up every price, or annoying customer who when asked “Did you find everything you need” says no, so someone goes to get stuff they didn’t get while the rest of us wait. How about the person who realizes they actually need money when they finally get to the front of the line and they wait til then to start looking for it. What were they doing the last 10 minutes while they were waiting? I’ve had a strange throwback phenomena happening to me lately, people writing checks. Grab another magazine while you wait for this transaction to take place, three pieces of ID and a blood test later that transaction gets completed.

The beauty of buying on-line is getting to avoid all of the above. Sure nothing’s perfect, slow internet speed can be a pain, or you hit the “buy now” button after entering all your info and nothing happens, but those problems are much easier to deal with than actual people.

When I add up all the pros and cons, the pros win this one, staying home and shopping means the only screaming kids I have to deal with are mine, the lady with enough perfume sprayed on to fill a bathtub won’t make my head ache, nobody will be smoking around me, nobody arguing about mismarked prices, rude sales people, bad parking spots, or no parking spots. And best of all, when my credit card gets declined, nobody standing in front of me with a pair of scissors cutting my card in two. I feel like Dorothy clicking my heels together, when it comes to shopping, “there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.”
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George Siegal and Luis Ramirez are the creators of watchnbuy.com. You can contact George at george@watchnbuy.com or Luis at Luis@watchnbuy.com.