Heffys finds financing back home. American helping American….pursuing a dream, like something out of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life.
It takes money to run a business, we’ve all heard it said in one way or another right?! Well it’s true. As Heffys has grown, thanks to fantastic fans who appreciate our premium Kansas City made sauces that are lovingly hand labeled by Special Olympic Athletes, the need for some dough to help finance our growth has come along with it.
Enter the problem….banking these days is in an “interesting” spot. But being the optimistic guys we are we thought it wouldn’t be too hard for a good banker to see how sweet of an investment we are. I mean we (the American public) bailed the banks out to help spur business growth right?!
It was frustrating to experince first hand a rather large issue keeping our economy from healing, the inability or unwillingness of some banks to help small business. Kind of felt like we were up against Mr. Potter in the movie. You remember that crotchety old guy, only bent on making lots of money for himself. But as it stands we found that America still has heart.
Inman Kansas is about 20 minutes from Moundridge, Kansas. Why the geography lesson you ask? Well our Heffys BBQ award winning original recipe was born out there in the Kansas Prairie’s of Inman Kansas. We’re proud of that, although we are made just up the road in Kansas City these days. We make it a point to remember where we came from.
Lots of folks in Inman remember the family too. Larry the banker knows Phil, the dad of Jeff, one of our founders. See we are already at 3 degrees of separation and it only gets better. Phil and Larry were talking about the financing needs facing Jeff and Heffys BBQ Co. Larry pipes up and says “I’d love to step in and help, we’ve done business with your family for years. Let’s get them what they need”. And just like that a neighbor helps a neighbor striving for a dream. That’s as American as it gets! For us it really was something right out of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life (happens to be one of our CEO’s favs).
Larry and Phil, thanks for proving to us that the American dream is still alive and well. We’ll travel to Inman anytime you need us, cause that’s what neighbors do for each other.
So Heffys BBQ Co. turned 4 years old this weekend. We have had a blast the last 4 years building a little BBQ sauce business into a little bit bigger BBQ sauce business, thanks to loyal fans.
Fans like Erik W. (aka E-Dub)
Erik has been with us since the beginning, he is a Heffys Fan, he gives us his opinion whether we want it or not. We love him for it.
A few weeks ago he shot us a note about our outrageous shipping prices, he was like “I don’t have Heffys in my house because of how much it costs to ship it to me”.
We have learned a lot the last 4 years….one thing for sure is to listen close our fans.
We also know if would be more convenient for Erik and his fantastic wife Stacey to buy us at their local store which is why we invented the I LOVE HEFFYS program. But still we wondered if we could do better with our shipping prices. So we went to work, took a look at our current shipping policies & providers, and tightened down some screws where we could and after much sweat and plenty of empty beer cans we came up with the “E-Dub” shipping method.
So in honor of Erik and our 4th birthday, we are officially launching the “E-Dub” (our nickname for Erik W.) shipping policy. It’s super simple….$4.95 flat rate shipping on up to 12 items.
Buy 2 bottles = $4.95 Shipping
Buy 12 bottles = $4.95 Shipping
Any combination of 12 items is one flat rate to ship!
Pretty sweet huh?! We think so, but don’t thank us, thank Erik!
Wanna be as cool as him, drop us a line and talk to us.
Do you ever wonder why sometimes that drink you order doesn’t taste the same every time, or the cake you make comes out just a little different? You know why, because chances are the same person didn’t make it or they used a little more of this or that in the process. Maybe they have never even tasted the drink they are making for you!
At Heffys we do our level best to make sure that every batch of Heffys BBQ Co Sauce is perfect. So our CEO TASTES EVERY BATCH we make. That’s a lot of sauce but hey, we love it that much. Do you think KC Masterpiece’s CEO does that? Hmmm…we doubt it very much.
Ever heard the term, measure twice, cut once. Well we take that pretty seriously at Heffys. It’s called batching, we measure out every ingredient before we even think about firing up the kettles to cook up delicious BBQ sauce.
Check out the process a bit closer, if you lean in you can almost smell it
Yeah, we hand label Heffys BBQ products for a purpose. Why? Because we love to ensure that each bottle is given the right amount of Love.
What’s more is we are passionate about helping people, and Res Care KC does exactly that. Rescare employs those with developmental disabilities, and they take great pride in each bottle of Heffys that they personally label.
HEFFYS LOVES YOU and thanks for doing such a great job for us and all our customers…
UPDATE: Sadly, all good things must come to an end. Thanks to everyone that joined in on sharing the Heffys Love…we are STILL processing some of the orders!!! I have a feeling we’ll be running this one again, so make sure you are signed up for our email list to be sure you get notified of our latest promotions:http://heffys.com/contact.php
We love HEFFYS.
We know that many of you love Heffys too.
So its simple, we want you to share the love.
Here is the deal:
-Order two of your favorite bottles of Heffys between Feb. 17 and Feb. 28th
-Pinky swear that you will share the love with your best friend, mom, dad or whoever needs some Heffys LOVE
-Use the coupon code GOGO10 at checkout and just like magic, one of those bottles will be…FREE
So join us in spreading a lot of love, and make yourself a hero to your buddy, grandma, sister or even the guy down the road who you keep borrowing stuff from. We really don’t mind who you share it with…but you do have to share (trust us you will love being the hero)!
It takes money to run a business, we’ve all heard it said in one way or another right?! Well it’s true. As Heffys has grown, thanks to fantastic fans who appreciate our premium Kansas City made sauces that are lovingly hand labeled by Special Olympic Athletes, the need for some dough to help finance our growth has come along with it.
