by Hattie Hasan | Mar 17, 2013 | Business, For Customers
As customers we all like to believe we’re making a free choice. We base our decisions on a variety of things, customer service is one of them, what’s available is another. But just as we’re forced by the market to accept that only ‘this seasons...
by Hattie Hasan | Mar 5, 2013 | Business, For Customers, Uncategorized
So, International Women’s Day is nearly here and what changes have we seen? First celebrated in 1910 and quickly used to support women’s claim to the vote perhaps it was felt unnecessary once women achieved that as it virtually disappeared until the rise...
by Hattie Hasan | Mar 4, 2013 | Business
Yesterday I went to the mobile van for a breast screening. At Stopcocks we’re all about empowering women; understanding your own body is a massive aspect of that. I didn’t expect it to be a networking opportunity. I stood there, half naked waiting for the...
by Hattie Hasan | Jan 6, 2013 | Business, For Customers
As a customer, it’s a given that for quality one has to pay more. Lets use the example of purchasing a sweater. If we go to ‘Well Known Cheap National Clothing Store’, we know any sweater we buy will probably be made of a synthetic material, it will...
by Hattie Hasan | Dec 5, 2012 | Business, Training, Want to become a plumber?
Plumbing can be the perfect new career for women. Many seemingly successful women are finding that high status jobs aren’t always the bed of roses they’ve been lead to believe in by our driven culture. We’ve been surprised at the calibre of the women...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 26, 2012 | Business, For Customers
I caught a conversation on Facebook the other day. Someone was asking what a fair price to pay a plumber was. Of course, I dived right in there. The price she’d been quoted I considered high; more than what our Stopcocks Woman Plumber in her area would charge. I...