The Kush Report » Community http://thekushreport.com The Kush Report blog chronicles the process and challenges of developing a woman focused retail product by Inventor, Entrepreneur, and CEO Cathinka Chandler. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:48:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2008 cat@kushsupport.com (cat@kushsupport.com) cat@kushsupport.com (cat@kushsupport.com) Business 1440 http://thekushreport.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/Kushmini.jpg The Kush Report http://thekushreport.com 144 144 The Kush Report podcast is a conversation with Inventor, Entrepreneur, and CEO Cathinka Chandler about developing a woman focused retail brand. Inventor, Entrepreneur, CEO, Cathinka Chandler, woman business, retail brand, product development, female owned company, sleep support, kush supports, sleep discomfort, augmentation relief cat@kushsupport.com cat@kushsupport.com cat@kushsupport.com no no Kush Support Wins the 2011 CMUS Talk of the Town Award for Excellence! http://thekushreport.com/cmus-power-ratings.html http://thekushreport.com/cmus-power-ratings.html#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:04:51 +0000 admin http://thekushreport.com/?p=524 As a business rating service and publication company, Celebration Media U.S., along with Talk of the Town News, annually calculates CMUS Power Ratings™ based on a multitude of resources, including consumer-review websites and blogs, social networks, and other rating services and industry resources to determine the top consumer-rated businesses in the country.  Having earned top honors, Kush Support has its very own award page on our website that showcases its power rating.

Visit CMUS Power Ratings™  to view the award.

  • Customer satisfaction is important as it has a direct impact on the bottom line. The Customer Satisfaction Award and CMUS Power Rating™ shows that an appreciation for each and every customer.
  • CMUS Power Ratings™ are based on millions of people who use the Internet every day to find products, information, rates, services, sales and just about anything. More and more consumers are using websites to write reviews and also learn from one another’s feedback prior to deciding where to go, which products to use or whose services to trust. For each of the past three years our research team has analyzed business performances based on all data collected for the previous year, and our comprehensive power rating system ensures that businesses receive a fair and unbiased score.

The Kush Support team has worked hard to earn the 2011 Award for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction and the award can stimulate new business when shared with everyone involved, including employees and consumers. CMUS Power Ratings™ are sponsored by  Talk of the Town News, Celebration Media U.S. and Customer Care News magazine.  Ratings are based on research collected from customer reviews and surveys, user-review websites, business rating services, and other honors and accolades.

]]> http://thekushreport.com/cmus-power-ratings.html/feed 0 Mecklenburg Times 50 Influential Women Photos http://thekushreport.com/mecklenburg-times-photos.html http://thekushreport.com/mecklenburg-times-photos.html#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 18:30:00 +0000 admin http://thekushreport.com/?p=305 Founder and CEO of The Kush Co. LLC, Cathinka Chandler was recently honored at a black tie gala as one of the 50 Most Influential Women by the Mecklenburg Times.  The award is to recognize the role that women play in the local economy.

Here are photos of the event:

50 Most Influential Women honored by the Mecklenburg Times | KushSupport.comCathinka Chandler | 50 Most Influential Women | Kush Support.com

Congratulations to Cathinka and all of the deserving recipients!!

]]> http://thekushreport.com/mecklenburg-times-photos.html/feed 0 Congratulations to Cathinka! http://thekushreport.com/mecklenburg-times-top-50.html http://thekushreport.com/mecklenburg-times-top-50.html#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:03:38 +0000 admin http://thekushreport.com/?p=250 50 Most Influential Women | Cathinka Chandler | Kush Support.comThe Founder, CEO and Inventor of the Kush Support, Cathinka Chandler, has been recognized by The Mecklenburg Times as one of their 50 Most Influential Women! The award is to recognize the role that women play in the local economy.

From the Times web site, “The honorees represent the most influential women in business, government, education, and the not-for-profit fields, and are selected by a panel of business leaders based on professional accomplishment and community involvement.”

Previous winners include Frances Queen, Integra Staffing founder Michelle Fish, Asterisk Creative Partner Wendy Shanahan, and VisionCor CEO Sherry Barretta.

Congratulations to Cathinka, she is a fine addition to this list of influential women!

]]> http://thekushreport.com/mecklenburg-times-top-50.html/feed 0 For Those Near Charlotte NC http://thekushreport.com/near-charlotte.html http://thekushreport.com/near-charlotte.html#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:22:39 +0000 admin http://thekushreport.com/?p=196 Hello Neighbors!  We have a special walkup offer for anyone near or traveling through the Charlotte North Carolina area.  If you come to the office location during normal business hours, you can purchase a Kush Support for only $18.00 plus tax.  That is a discount from the regular retail price of $24.99!

Hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 – 5:00

See you soon!

]]> http://thekushreport.com/near-charlotte.html/feed 0 Building A Kush Community http://thekushreport.com/building-a-kush-community.html http://thekushreport.com/building-a-kush-community.html#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:02:58 +0000 admin http://thekushreport.com/?p=82 We’ve had a long break between editions of The Kush Report over the holidays, so we get to kick things off immediately by letting everyone know that the newly designed web site has launched at www.kushsupport.com!

The site has been redesigned to help customers through the process of purchasing a Kush Support by explaining product attributes more concisely, as well as making the entire transaction easier to complete.

From our marketing perspective we will be able to monitor results through Google Analytics so we can get a clearer understanding of our customers, and can target the best locations to position our marketing message to reach our target audience.

A key element of our initiatives for 2009 revolves around getting peer to peer endorsement regarding the benefits of using a Kush Support. A customer testimonial has now become the most significant way to provide relevancy, authenticity, and for the sake of business to “close a sale”, taking it out of the hands of the company copywriters. It is a crucial tenant of social media marketing to initiate a conversation about your product and allow it to flourish.

We believe that the uniqueness of the Kush Support product makes it even more important to engage users, so that others can benefit by hearing their perspective. However, we also have concerns that the private nature of the product benefits, including prevention of cleavage wrinkles and shoulder and neck pain relief via supporting the breasts at night, might be a subject that women will feel uncomfortable publicly proclaiming on a web site.

We understand the hesitancy, but hope that if you are a Kush Support user there is some way that you can share your insights with others so that they too can benefit from buying the product.

As a way to reach out to current or potential users of Kush we have set up some social networking sites, in conjunction with the comment sections after each post on The Kush Report, to allow for community building and sharing.

If you are on Facebook please become a Friend on our the Kush Support Fan Page … and we have a new community page built on the Ning platform at Kushsupport.Ning.Com.

Cathinka continues to get kudos from those that she speaks with, giving her the compliment that she will be the next Sara Blakely, inventor of the Spanx shaping hose. Let’s hope so!

An additional course of action to take this year is to insert Kush Support into the conversation regarding the identification of when the need for the product actually exists. Do you have neck and shoulder pain?  Have you noticed cleavage wrinkles?

Please let us know in the comments section how your use of the Kush Support has been, or join us on Facebook or at Ning.

We look forward to hearing from you!

]]> http://thekushreport.com/building-a-kush-community.html/feed 0 0:17:28 We’ve had a long break between editions of The Kush Report over the holidays, so we get to kick things off immediately by letting everyone know that the newly designed web site has launched at www.kushsupport.com! The site has been redesigned [...] We’ve had a long break between editions of The Kush Report over the holidays, so we get to kick things off immediately by letting everyone know that the newly designed web site has launched at www.kushsupport.com! The site has been redesigned to help customers through the process of purchasing a Kush Support by explaining product attributes more concisely, as well as making the entire transaction easier to complete. From our marketing perspective we will be able to monitor results through Google Analytics so we can get a clearer understanding of our customers, and can target the best locations to position our marketing message to reach our target audience. A key element of our initiatives for 2009 revolves around getting peer to peer endorsement regarding the benefits of using a Kush Support. A customer testimonial has now become the most significant way to provide relevancy, authenticity, and for the sake of business to “close a sale”, taking it out of the hands of the company copywriters. It is a crucial tenant of social media marketing to initiate a conversation about your product and allow it to flourish. We believe that the uniqueness of the Kush Support product makes it even more important to engage users, so that others can benefit by hearing their perspective. However, we also have concerns that the private nature of the product benefits, including prevention of cleavage wrinkles and shoulder and neck pain relief via supporting the breasts at night, might be a subject that women will feel uncomfortable publicly proclaiming on a web site. We understand the hesitancy, but hope that if you are a Kush Support user there is some way that you can share your insights with others so that they too can benefit from buying the product. As a way to reach out to current or potential users of Kush we have set up some social networking sites, in conjunction with the comment sections after each post on The Kush Report, to allow for community building and sharing. If you are on Facebook please become a Friend on our the Kush Support Fan Page … and we have a new community page built on the Ning platform at Kushsupport.Ning.Com. Cathinka continues to get kudos from those that she speaks with, giving her the compliment that she will be the next Sara Blakely, inventor of the Spanx shaping hose. Let’s hope so! An additional course of action to take this year is to insert Kush Support into the conversation regarding the identification of when the need for the product actually exists. Do you have neck and shoulder pain?  Have you noticed cleavage wrinkles? Please let us know in the comments section how your use of the Kush Support has been, or join us on Facebook or at Ning. We look forward to hearing from you! Community cat@kushsupport.com no no