Not Just a Pretty Face 11. JULY 2011 paul.bentham@robinsons-uk.com Behind the Scenes (0)
Category: Previous Work: Robinsons
Previously-written material from the Robinsons website
Archive: The Importance of Being Honest…
First published on 17th October 2012 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com …or ‘Who on Earth are Feefo and Why are they Emailing Me?’ If you’ve placed an order from Robinsons this year, it’s likely you’ll have received an email from a company called Feefo in the days and weeks that followed to ask you to rate the items and …
Archived: Fancy an early night? ;-)
First published on 15th December 2008 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com If you've received your Sale Catalogue and you've found something you like, I invite you to go to bed early tonight, just like I'll be doing. As you’ll no doubt already know, our Winter Sale starts online tomorrow morning at the less-than-Godly hour of 3am and we all …
Archive: How ‘Antlers for Horses’ Became Popular
First published on 9th November 2012 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com Sometimes, the success of something is all about being in the right place at the right time. We could never have predicted the success of such a silly product as the Horse Head Antler which first appeared in a Robinsons catalogue in 1992. This 'silly' product has since stood …
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Archive: Robinsons Launch ‘Rider Rewards’!
First published on 11th December 2012 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com Robinsons, the UK's number one equestrian provider is pleased to announce the launch of a new customer points programme to help riders get the most from their horsey purchases – and we're calling it 'Rider Rewards'. We're all familiar with the idea of so-called 'loyalty schemes', many of …
Archive: Robinsons and the Royal Mail – What You Need to Know…
First published on 15th October 2009 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com As you may have seen on the news, the country is about to face a period of strikes by postal workers. Naturally, you’ll be concerned that all mail order will therefore become totally unreliable and to be honest, who could blame you? If you’re still reading at this point, …
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Archive: The Perils of Success
First published on 23rd April 2008 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com As seasoned readers of this blog may attest, much of my information from the outside world comes from the BBC website. On one of my many forays there recently, I came across a story which made me grimace. The story was (believe it or not) 'Riot Fears Absent Ahead …
Archive: Basingstoke – Our Opening Gambit
First published on 13th March 2010 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com Before I talk about our forthcoming store at Basingstoke and our reasons behind the way we do store openings, let me apologise for neglecting to write an entry on here for about three months. Yes, it's been a busy three months but I like to post something on here …
Archive: Virtual Insanity*
First published on 4th March 2011 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com It's a Friday afternoon and I'm very conscious that I haven't blogged yet about our forthcoming new website, in the way that I have about our forthcoming new Cardiff store. There's so much I'd like to say about our new website, what's going to be better about it and …
Archive: All Change Online!
First published on 23rd March 2011 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com What an incredibly mad couple of months it's been! We don't seem to like doing things by halves and here we are about to open a new store in Cardiff and launch a brand new website in almost the same week! I've been promising a blog on our new …
Archive: Our Leeds Store Will Open… …As Soon As We Announce It!
First published on 15th December 2014 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com Since we announced an intention to open our fifth store in Hunslet, Leeds, we've been inundated with questions about when it'll open. I guess that's not surprising but it's still great to see how warmly we're being welcomed by the local equestrian community. While we've needed a few weeks …
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Archive: New Catalogue, New Thinking
First published on 25th March 2008 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com One of the pitfalls of being involved in any sort of publishing is that you often forget what the time of year is. The relentless need for monthly magazines to produce next month’s issue (often with the following month shown on the cover) by the end of this month …
Archive: The World of the Smaller Catalogues
First published on 7th February 2013 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com As HMV, Blockbusters, Jessops and many others have found recently, if something can be downloaded these days, there's far less demand for the physical version of it. While we've certainly noticed that we don't sell the same proportion of books and DVDs that we used to, thankfully, most of …
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Archive: For Those About To Complain – We Salute You
First published on 28th June 2011 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com Last week, we were concerned to read a thread of comments on the Horse & Hound Forum in which we were the subject of some criticism. Our new website was the topic and it received most of the comments but other points were made which were not …
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Archived: Welcome to the Rob-Blog
First published on 22nd January 2008 on http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com Joining the Blogosphere One of our New Year's resolutions for 2008 was to continue to present a more human face to Robinsons, and I hope you find that to be the case. One way to do this is for us to write a blog. If you're new to the …
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