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We have introduced a new telephone number and system to make contacting us easier, we have occasionally been unable to take calls because of a shortage of trained staff, hopefully with our new system we will be able to avoid missing any calls.

I will not pretend to be able to be in 2 places at once but hopefully if the system works as hoped you will be informed when we are not available be it on another line or in the despatch room.

As with all new things it will take a little time to get used to it so please have patience while we get up to full speed.

The new number is 08443 575 891, please let me know if you have any problems.

Link: http://rentablog.co.uk

Marked For Life limited Directors have started a new business venture.

We are now offering new and established businesses the opportunity of having a professional website rich in features designed, built and hosted at a very reasonable price.

our sites are designed for traffic and functionality first and not as an afterthought.

We have a range of products, the professional website for a corporate and formal image and a blog system called traffic sponge designed to attract customers with less formal layout encouraging customers to take part in discussions and make them aware of special offers and promotions.

Our two packages work together to ensure that the site receives as much exposure as possible, our job is to ensure that you get more custom, provided you look after your customers we will guarantee you get your money back in the first year.

We can also supply low cost hosting with an up time that the envy of the industry.

we can cater for the small company with a fixed budget to the larger company who require a vast e-commerce site with many thousands of products.

For more information please visit our new site, to enter please click here

Our blog is designed to give you more information and the truth behind products.

Having looked around the internet we see that most suppliers use the same sales pitch that the importer supplies, this is fine and may answer most of your questions,

At Marked For Life Limited we like to give you that little bit extra, we will look into all our products and find as much information as possible making that information available here for you to use to make your purchasing decision.

We will not dress up a product to sound better than it is, if there is claims that we can not substantiate we will make you aware of this and you can choose to make your own conclusion as you see fit.

This information is made available to you FREE of charge as a thank you for giving us the chance to serve you, however we do not hold you to anything, even if you find the information here useful do not feel obliged to purchase through us just because we are the best, please feel free to look around and see what our competitors have to offer, we have a search box on the right hand side to allow you to find the best deal available.

However if you do see a better deal please let us know so we can asses it.

We will add more information as time goes on, If what you would like to know is not available, if you have a particular interest in a product drop us an email and we will investigate and add it for you.

Marked For Life Limited started trading as a Limited Company on the 20th June 2000.

My idea was to introduce a centralised registration database for use in security marking household equipment, this idea came about when I moved house and all the equipment I had was marked with the postcode of our old address.

I was working full time as a Compaq accredited (and IBM but I don't like to mention that) server engineer and this register was run in my spare time.

I had one of the IT guys at one of my customers build me a database and I started to promote it, after a month or two I had a total of 2 people on the database, me and my brother, this was a disaster so far but I never gave up and started to look around, I thought that giving a free security marking pen would encourage more customers, I found a supplier who sold them so I continued to promote my business and got them printed with the company name and a free phone number, again no response, after all this is a thing that people want after they have been burgled and rarely before.

I was selling pens on their own and people were buying so I thought I would expand on the security side and sold another product that the pen supplier was selling, panic alarms! they were a British panic alarm manufacturer, I built my own web site using Microsoft Frontpage and using an online shopping cart system I built my store front.

This was a great hit we were the only store selling a panic alarm selection on the internet that had our own store front, we were getting number 1 page positions on the Google search engine for everything we sold.

We decided to add more products and found a supplier for a dummy security camera, we added these to our website and they proved a great hit so we added the rest of the products supplied by the same supplier to our site, again we were getting front page hits for everything we added.

One thing that we added was pest control products, these were such a hit that sales for these quickly overtook our security products, I like animals and because these products worked with out harming the animal we had a lot of confidence in selling them and put them pride of place on our website.

I was a bit dubious about selling these to start with because they used ultrasonic sound I was not sure that they actually did what was said on the package being unable to test it myself, but after many sales and many good responses and repeat orders from satisfied customers they stayed at the top of our sales to this very day.

So we were getting good sales from our store, what happened to the security register, well in a word nothing, we could not make it a success, had I the knowledge to design a website to automate it it may have worked, It may show its face in the future but no plans at present.

We are constantly adding new products to our site and trying to keep most items cheaper than available anywhere else.

We still rank well on Google but unfortunately there are a lot of cheap imported panic alarms coming into the country, we still sell the panic alarm products from our initial supplier these are very high quality UK designed and built alarms, We also sell a range of alarms that are imported but are tested by Sold Secure and meet their stringent guidelines to be declared Sold Secure approved.

The supplier of these cheap imported alarms has damaged but not destroyed the industry, we can beat their prices with our quality assured panic alarms, you will not be sold a dud by us our alarms will not let you down when you need them.