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Keep Your Eye on the Ball.

Posted on 15, Oct

It’s rather nice that The Tinbasher is causing some interest in the world of business blogging. First we had Jackie Danickie over at tBBC giving us a bit of a hat tip and now Wayne Hurlbert has given us the thumbs up at Blog Business World. Wayne Hurlbert was the first person I actually read [...]

Get The Baby Oil Out!

Posted on 11, Oct

The idea of stainless steel being completely stainless is a bit of a misnomer. There are a million and one ways to clean stainless steel ranging from warm soapy water to specialist stainless steel cleaning products. The problem with some of the stainless steel cleaners is that they sometimes leave a streaky residue and require [...]

Steel Planters Direct

Posted on 11, Oct

The Tinpot Alley site came about by accident really. Matt designed a hexagonal stainless steel planter that could be bolted together by the customer and could therefore be shipped fairly easily. I set the site up just to do a spot of market research in the form of a questionnaire. Within three days it was [...]

And Never The Twain Shall Meet…………..?

Posted on 4, Oct

Trying to incorporate various aspects of the internet into this kind of sheet metal business is sometimes like mixing oil and water. I’m not saying that Butler Sheetmetal is resistant to change – far from it – but the handskill-type job shops are definitely of a bygone era. For example, we have one customer that [...]

No Nay Never.

Posted on 2, Oct

It’s always nice that your principles are the first thing out of the window when money is involved. We’ve recently sold a number of our stainless steel planters and water features to Blackburn Rovers Football Club. You might wonder where the problem lies with that….. There wouldn’t be one if we weren’t all Burnley fans.

It’s Back. And This Time It’s Personal.

Posted on 1, Oct

Thanks to Jackie Danicki at the Big Blog Company I’ve decided to give the Tinbasher blog a firm kick up the backside. When I started this little project it was primarily to help boost the serps of our main company site at butlersheetmetal.com. Butler Sheetmetal Ltd is an archetypal small business. It’s been run by [...]