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Thank You LinkedIn Groups and Laurie Burke

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

I want to take a few minutes here to thank Laurie Burke for her generous help on July 20th. I had posted a message on two of my LinkedIn groups and received a lot of excellent advice from numerous people. I needed to get outside of my box and do some creative marketing in the bath and kitchen area. As comments came through, Laurie spoke   up and suggested that my company donate an Oven Claw Pro as a door prize for their next meeting. By introducing the Oven Claw Pro as a door prize to the joint Southern California, Central Coast & Valleys National Kitchen and Bath Association http://www.nkba.org/ meeting we could get some interesting promotion.

Laurie wrote, “We had many quizzical expressions coming from those who came to the registration counter and there were some funny comments too. I had the Oven Claw Pro on the table at the registration counter with the fliers. I announced the door prize asking everyone to put their business card into the bowl for the door prize drawing. At first glance, some asked if it was a back scratcher, others said it could be used as a weapon in case of intruders. When I explained its use and also that it is a great marketing tool to give to clients, I could see the light bulb effect go off. During the call to order at the meeting, the board president did not have his gavel, so we improvised using the Oven Claw Pro as our gavel. It got some more laughs as we said not only is this a handy tool in the kitchen but equally effective to call a meeting to order.”

We here at Leikam Enterprises, LLC also thank all those who contributed with their ideas as to what we could do to improve our exposure. We have taken action on several ideas and intend to follow through with others. A few examples of these contributions are:

  1. Contact appliance manufacturers to see if they would be interested in your product as an add-on sale or even as an item that comes with a purchase.
  2. Why not have Appliance Distributors, Kitchen & Bath Dealers be able to buy a small quantity of these and give them away as door prizes, or small gifts.
  3. Home Shows
  4. Put them on consignment to local dealers
  5. Appliance centers. Show people how it works, maybe even give a few away.
  6. Set up at kitchen and bath trade shows.
  7. Rent a small area from a major appliance booth at a trade show.

You might be able to use some of these ideas too.

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Portable Toilets Headed for Haiti: Leikam Enterprises, LLC & Green Earth Packaging, LLC Team Up

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Leikam Enterprises, LLC and Green Earth Packaging, LLC have teamed up to help support and to ship Green Earth’s portable toilets Green to Go Bio Loo for Haiti. Leikam Enterprises sells the Oven Claw Pro Oven Claw and will donate $5.00 to Green Earth Packaging Green Earth Packaging so that a family in Haiti can have a portable toilet.

Palo Alto, California USA, March 18, 2010 – In addition to medicine, water and food, the survivors of the Haitian earthquake need toilets especially now as the rainy season has hit and disease from sewage has begun to ravage the tent cities. Leikam Enterprises, LLC and Green Earth Packaging, LLC have teamed up to supply the people with self-contained portable toilets supplied by Green Earth Packaging.

Leikam Enterprises will donate $5.00 for every Oven Claw Pro sold through its website. According to the President of Sales and Marketing, Mr. Lee Leikam, “The Oven Claw Pro is currently selling on a variety of websites from between $22.00 to $30.00. Now people can order their Oven Claw Pro at the Oven Claw website for $19.95. Out of that $5.00 will be used to purchase a toilet. From each sale the company guarantees that Green Earth Packaging will provide a Green to Go Bio Loo to a family in Haiti. Currently hygiene and privacy are two important challenges faced by the Haitian people especially during the hurricane season. These will help reduce disease and offer some dignity to the people trapped in the open.” (Contact Bill@ovenclaw.com)

Shortly after the earthquake in Haiti, Leikam Enterprises, LLC sought to find a way to help hard hit Port-au-Prince and other outlaying areas beyond the city. By teaming up with Green Earth Packaging, LLC in Lafayette California, these two companies have found a way to work together to help the Haitian people. The Green to Go Bio Loo itself not only degrades but so too does the inner liner. The latter contains silica that speeds up decay of the fecal matter and eliminates odor. These are sorely needed by the people especially as the hurricane season approaches. Leikam said, “We have an obligation to help avert widespread disease throughout the people’s encampments. If these units are not delivered, death by disease may kill many more thousands of people above and beyond the actual earthquake.”

Green Earth Packaging, LLC
1712 Springbrook Road
Lafayette, CA 94549
Phone: 925.932.4182
Fax: 925.932.4171

Green Earth Packaging

 Leikam Enterprises, LLC

530 Kendall Ave Suite #1

Palo Alto, Ca. 94306

Phone: 650-856-3041

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What’s Happening with the Oven Claw?

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

  1. Updated Website
  2. Oven Claw Strategy
  3. Community Development
  4. Design Patent Update
  5. Leikam Enterprises, LLC Team
  6. A Background Story
  7. Call for Recommendations – Company Development
  8. Thank You Christina


If you browsed the updated website – thank you Christina – you can now order an Oven Claw directly through the website. We would like to see a flood of orders. You may also notice that the cost is far less expensive ($28.95) than if you were to purchase the Oven Claw from a commercial store. In such stores they are selling for $40 – $50. We can sell them like this because we have no overhead, etc. If you wish to order an Oven Claw now, just submit through our website and we’ll ship. You will never be disappointed. http://ovenclaw.com/shopping.htm

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Our strategy is to sell the Oven Claw through high-end stores such as Crate ‘n Barrel, Chef’s Kitchen, Williams-Sonoma, galleries that sell artistic wood products, etc. In order to get the Oven Claw into such stores, we need a distribution company to contact us. If you know of anyone who is either a buyer or a national or international distributor of kitchen utensils, kitchen gadgets or kitchen tools, please send me a note through the website. It will be much appreciated. http://ovenclaw.com/contact.htm

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As we move ahead, we want to develop the Oven Claw Community and establish a network of like minded people who enjoy high-end kitchen environments. As this develops, we intend to add products to our line and for those who are registered; you will receive specials and free products that only you will have access to.

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The application for a design patent is moving along very well and we expect approval fairly soon. In the meantime, I can legally use the patent mark.

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The Oven Claw is being sold by Leikam Enterprises, LLC. We formed the company by attracting a highly competent team: Bill Leikam, President, David Leikam, Vice President of Web Strategy, Josh Leikam, Vice President of Manufacturing and Christina, Vice President of Website Development. We are proud to be working together with such a competent group of people.

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The Story – Why Not Just Give Up?

When I plunged into the development of the Oven Claw (generically known as a hot oven rack puller), I was warned that the cost for manufacturing it within the United States would be more than the market would bear. Being stubborn and determined, I tried by putting the first supply of Claws into the marketplace at $25.00 wholesale, meaning that the retail cost would have to be $40.00 to $50.00 which is far above the going rate for oven rack pullers. My nephew Josh and I worked hard to try to find someone who would manufacture the Claw at a reasonable cost but after a couple of months we came up with no one.

Everything looked bleak but I often find that when I am intuitively on the right track, I get a break, and we did.

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We want to develop our young company by establishing an attitude with both our customers and our employees that they are encouraged to be an equal part of the family. So if you have any recommendations either for the website newsletters or any other aspect of our operations, please let us know your thoughts. You can do this through http://ovenclaw.com/contact.htm.

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I want to thank Christina for building and maintaining the Oven Claw website. If you need a website at a very reasonable cost, go to http://wagooh.net/ and contact Christina. She’s great!!!!

Sincerely,
Bill Leikam, President
Leikam Enterprises, LLC
Palo Alto, California

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