Keeping Up With The Chaldeans - Italcasa Design [5:05-10:09]

if you were a designer going there. So we suggest you come to us first and have one of our designers whether you buy from us or another showroom. Our designer can get you a better price. More on sweet 30. Yes, you can miss it. We're like near the entrance see. And then so you were talking about the two different locations you want to kind of expand on the that a little bit. Yeah, so everybody really knows that Royal Look location because of Bill. They know him very well. But now recently they've begun to realize the word the Michigan Design Center. Some designers bring their clients to us through there. We even bring our own clients to the Michigan Design Center just because there's a bigger space. And show most of our displays in there. So I do like working there a lot. And what do you have to say? I actually forgot. That's great. Victoria was going to tell us about our new client portal that we just haven't talked about. So my name is Victoria LaFada. I've been at Utakasa Design for about seven years now from the beginning. Recently we've been taking everything to be a lot more advanced with technology. So we recently launched a design portal. So we send out a login to interior designers. That will get them access to view the brands that we carry with their designer discount. Also, they could order the samples right from the portal. They can track their orders that they place. So they can see if it's shipped, if it's currently on the ocean, coming to the United States. If it is in our warehouse, we can also from the portal send out quotes to anyone who requests the quote or clients can request quotes for a certain product that are interested in. Yes. So the design portal is that an industry standard? Is that something that all the designers know? No, it says actually brand new that we just started that up a few months ago. It just what happens with designers is they seem they have to call us say, you know, my client is looking for this order. They'll email our call us and then we have to research and then call them back and that takes a few days and you know, people are very impatient. So now a designer to make it very simple, they could just go on the portal and we update it. As soon as we get an email from the company that we purchased from, we will add it to the portal. So when our designer goes to our portal and says, oh, yeah, they just got an update. And when we do update, it's a tracking system along with like where they can they can actually request a quote or request samples. If they're working with somebody and they need a designer from St. Caligaris or from Ritutsi, they can go on their portal and just type in a simple, you know, the brand, whatever, da da da, hit send and we get a thing, oh, this client wants a sample for this. We reach out to the company, have it mail right to her. And can they see something back there? Like when someone they log in, what do they see? Well, they see all their discounts. It's a login. It's an admin. So they'll see their discounts. They'll have a spot where they can request a quote. They'll have a spot where they can request samples. They'll have a spot where they can email us directly. And how is the spot that shows everything they've ordered in the past. So let's say for their taxes, they need to pick up all their invoices they have from the past. They can go on. It's all right there for them. It's all in one spot. It's just trying to simplify the complexity of ordering, you know, for sure. But I do want to say something like Victoria mentioned, like you could find out if your, your items on the ocean. Another thing we do is we have a warehouse all over the country in New Jersey, Miami, and in California where we stock items. So there's a lot of items that we can have to you within two to four weeks, over a million items to be exact. That is readily available. It's called our QuickShip program. So you're not, you don't have to wait the 16 weeks if you don't want to customize a piece. We have over a million items that are ready to, ready to ship. Different warehouses in New Jersey, Miami, and in California. Talk about like the furniture and the design, like the inspiration or the style of the furnitures. That's a great question for our designers. I'd love to answer it, but yeah. Less is more. Yeah, so our, I guess, philosophy or quote is less is more. It's very monolithic, but also a stunning piece is something you're not going to see anywhere else. I consider it a two piece. It's a functional piece, but it's also an R piece that our clients get to see. So Marcel Wanderer is one of Bill's favorite designers. He talks all about him and he knows it right in the butt. Every time I do have a question about one piece, Bill knows right away. He's like, oh, it's Marcel Wanderer's. This, this, this audience will know, like Birkin or Gucci or Fengyi. Yeah, right. Well, in the design industry, Marcel Wanderer's,