Category: Daisy Retailers

Daisy Releases New Year Book and New Range

Posted on

Simplified pool cover range. Three grades to suit your clients. 

2015-16 has continued to be a progressive and successful year for Daisy and again, we would like to thank you for your support.

We are about to send you a suite of new Daisy printed collateral, including the new 2016/17 Yearbook and brochures that come into effect from 1st August 2016 .

Easier and more stylish! Daisy has upgraded and simplified the solar pool cover range to an entry level, mid-range and the new 525 top of the line choice.

The new Daisy pool cover range:

  1. The 525 range – top of the range, it replaces the Series 8 (500um).  5% thicker at 525 um, when purchased at an Expert (physical) store, it will be backed with an additional two year warranty, taking it to an industry leading 10 year pro rata warranty. This will only available when purchased from a Daisy Expert outlet; online purchases in this range will carry the standard 8 year pro rata warranty

The 525 range will be available in our popular colours, Blue (525B), and our stylish Titanium Blue (525TB), Titanium Green (525TG) and Titanium Cool (525TC).

  1. The 400 range – (400B) mid-range, this remains unchanged and well-priced with a five year pro rata warranty
  1. The 250 range – (250B) our entry level range, it still offers great Daisy quality. This has been upgraded from the Series 3 from 200um to 250um, offering a solid lifespan and all the benefits of a quality, budget style, entry level pool cover with a three year pro rata warranty.

Did you notice the new names now directly reflect the micron thickness – easy!

Yearbook 2016-17 ready for release!

The new Daisy Yearbook that comes into effect 1st August 2016 will have it all covered and be accessible via the Daisy Resource Centre.  We hope that it continues to be a helpful guide!

Need more info?  Catch up with your Daisy Area Manager to keep in touch with our initiatives or check out our Resource Centre on the Daisy website. It has all the new brochures and Yearbook digitally.

New Products for 2016/17

Posted on

Love new things to sell! We have a new cover for above ground pools, DIY rollers and more!

We’re here to help you sell more and what’s better than some new add-ons and products. From a new above ground pool cover option, to a new easy to install DIY rollers range, we have loads of new products that keep the conversation going with your customers. 

A new cover for above ground pools – that’s a quality leaf cover option!

Previously offering the PoolKap as the only option for the above ground pool market, Daisy is excited to introduce the WinterKap, a quality new option made from the same material as the very popular WinterKleen cover.

Similar to a shower cap, this cover is used for free standing, above ground pools as a cap to go over the top. The WinterKap is approximately 400mm larger than the PoolKap and is secured by a shock cord that is thread through eyelets around the edge of the cover. There are also floats available to help keep the centre of the cover out of the water if needed. See page 17 of the Daisy Yearbook for pricing.

WinterKleen – Black has joined Blue and Green as a standard product

Black is cool! Now you have a choice of three colours to sell in this range and it looks great!

conquer-high-leaf

A new DIY roller range

The new easy to install 5 Star DIY roller range uses an innovative pool cover roller tube design to make it a truly simple pre-manufactured roller that can suit a variety of standard pool sizes.

With a maximum length of 2.5m, the DIY tube set is supplied pre drilled and marked for quick and easy installation. All stainless steel screw holes for joining the tube and end slug installation are marked red, whilst all feather plug holes are marked white.

All 5 Star roller models have the DIY option and come in small (SM) for the majority of pools that need a roller up to 4.6m in length, or large (LG) for pools of up to 6.4m in roller length.

The new 5 Star A100 roller, upgrade of the UTC75 and the reintroduction of the UTC100

The new A100 roller comes as an extension to the current A75 range for the larger pools.

With the introduction of the DIY rollers, the tube set for the UTC75 has been upgraded to the new DIY style and will suit pools up to 12.0m long by 4.3m wide.

The UTC100 has been reintroduced for a cost effective option for larger pools. It features a three piece 100mm roller tube for tube lengths of up to 6.4m long, suiting pools of up to 15m long by 6.1m wide.

The new Yearbook that comes into effect 1st August 2016 will have it all covered. Check it out here.

Product Update – Pricing Changes

Posted on

New products. New warranties. New pricing.

At Daisy, we work hard to keep any price movement to a minimum without compromising quality.

With new products come new warranties and new pricing – up, down and unchanged! Daisy will always aim to deliver value for money. Our new and improved products will have new prices but the add-on and value will be there for your customers. Whether it’s better materials, or logistics, our focus is delivering the best product in the most cost efficient way.

With the release of our new Yearbook and loads of new products and ranges, you’ll notice that much of the Daisy range will be available for the same cost or even at a price reduction!

Products with no price increase:

  • The 400 solar pool cover range
  • 5 Star rollers
  • Daisy Showcase range including Daisy Power, Berlin and Venice
  • All available parts.

Products with a price change:

  • 525 Range – with the main cost of the product in the actual material, we’ve worked hard not to pass on the full 5% increase in materials by moving the range from a 500um to a 525um range. We are limiting the price increase by less than 4%.  Titanium costs a lot more to produce, however with the exceptional uptake of this release, we have been able to keep the price difference to a minimum of only 2.285% for a much more advanced and attractive product
  • 250 Range – offering 25% more in thickness, there is a marginal 3.67% price increase
  • 5 Star – the 4.9m and 5.2m roller sizes have been moved into the large roller price bracket
  • ThermoTech Foam – with the increase raw materials pricing, we’ve had to pass on a part of it resulting in a 1.5% price increase
  • WinterKleen – with product improvements with the attachment cord and fitting style, as well as an increase in the costs of raw materials, we’ve had to increase the price by 5%
  • Buddy 50 and UTCAG 50 rollers – the new DIY pre drilling of rollers will see 2% increase
  • UTC75 – price reduced by 7.2%.

Freight

Daisy has one of the best track records in the industry in getting your orders to you quickly and on time!

Shipping large cubic items around Australia, we have always subsidised the cost of freight. And we like to keep it this way for you and your customers! However for non-metro areas, unfortunately we will have to pass on the increase in the cost of freight by 5% – this is a direct cost from the freight companies.

There will also be a long length surcharge of $75.00 + GST on fixed length rollers over 6.5m, regardless of location and other delivery charges. Fortunately, this will affect very few customers. We’ve kept the increase at a minimum and it’s a simple cost recovery for expenses incurred by Daisy when sending tubes outside the standard range.

If you need further information or have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact your Daisy Area Manager.

How to find us

Local Area Managers

Admin Centre

 

Attachments and refit kits

Posted on

Did you know that all Daisy rollers are supplied with a Cover Attachment Kit and an over-cover to suit the roller? And that pool covers are supplied simply as a cover but there’s a refit kit if you need it.

If you need to connect the pool cover to any roller, the Daisy Refit Kit has you covered!

Part number 092 – Daisy Refit Kit

All Daisy Refit Kits are equipped so you can connect a Daisy pool cover to any Daisy roller.  Each kit includes:

  • 10 x Cords
  • 10 x Cord adjusters (so you don’t have to tie knots)
  • 10 x Eyelets
  • 1 x Eyelet punch (to make the hole in the pool cover for the eyelet)
  • 10 x Feather plugs
  • 1 x Drill bit for feather plugs

And the only tools you will need are a:

  • Power drill
  • Phillips head screwdriver
  • Soft-faced hammer or mallet

Everything else is you need is included, even the correct drill bits!

Part number 1007 – Eyelets

If all you need are the eyelets, simply order an Eyelet Kit which includes 10 x eyelets and an eyelet punch.

Handy Hint

To make sure your Refit Kit or Eyelet Kit includes matching parts to your pool cover, be sure to include the colour of your Daisy, or its corresponding part number i.e. for a Titanium Green pool cover you will need Titanium Green eyelets.

Resources and training

Posted on

At Daisy, we aim to help you sell more by supporting you with all the information, tools and training you need … at your fingertips!

Training, resources, tools and passion (yes, we have to love our jobs!) are the cornerstones of knowledge which in turn helps sales.

Here to help.

The Daisy website contains an enormous amount of information from product information and flyers, to training and ‘How To’ videos, to Frequently Asked Questions. Use it yourself, for your staff training or direct your customers to the site to help them!

The Daisy Video Channel

The Video Centre contains ‘How To’ videos that walk you through the handy tips of how to measure and install pool covers, rollers and the Winterkleen – as well as Product videos that will show you how to select the right cover, for example.

The very handy ‘Resource Centre’ contains all the Daisy printed collateral from trade, residential and commercial brochures to fact sheets on warranties and installation. It’s like a one-stop shop for Daisy information!

And there’s more! The FAQ section has over 50 questions and answers filed under covers, rollers and technical tabs. Too easy… search and find!

Keeping up-to-date

The ‘News’ section is a library of all the articles that have been published over the years. All information is filed in categories – check out the left hand column. There’s also a search function if you need to find something specific.

It’s a great place to visit to keep in touch and find out what’s happening within our industry and with  Daisy.

We hope that providing all this information at your fingertips helps you and your team. If you need further assistance with training, contact your local Daisy Area Manager, or the Admin Centre.

How to find us

Local Area Managers

Admin Centre

Just leave a quote…

Posted on

Let your customers know you supply pool covers

In today’s digital world, the old saying ‘look after your customer or someone else will’ could not be more true!

Today’s consumer is more educated and has more information at their fingertips so as a service orientated industry we must constantly tell them what we do, along with what we can do for them.

A lesson learnt a few years ago was in the drought era, when a customer walks in-store – unless you 100% know that they have a pool cover – you would offer them one. Along with most savvy service people, when they turned up onsite, if there was not a pool cover there they would simply leave a quote for one.

The people that adopted this mentality would sell a whole lot more pool covers and rollers than those that waited for their customers to find out about covers and ask them.

Today we don’t have the same drought but the theory does not change, let you customers know regularly what products and services you have available… you don’t want them ‘finding’ a product you supply elsewhere as this is a fast way to lose a good customer, so keep informing them by word of mouth, emails, SMS or even simply by leaving a quote.

A great way some people achieve this is by having a product of the month, whether it be a Daisy pool cover, a pool cleaner, monthly onsite service or anything else make sure everyone who has any contact with the consumer all offer the product of the month, just a way to keep your customer informed what you do and to open conversations to help you sell more.

Want to have a further conversation about this?

Contact Derek at the Admin Centre [email protected]  or your local Area Managers:

Lee [email protected]
Brett [email protected]
John [email protected]

Does the whole pool need to be covered?

Posted on

Daisy makes it easier

When there are obstructions or irregular shaped pools, a question we are often asked is: how will we make it work?

For the customer this question can be for a number of reasons, their pool may be:

  • Free form pools that have a very irregular shape
  • Large step areas (or sections) that protrude in an unusual way
  • Step areas (or sections) that are inaccessible
  • Posts or pots obstructing the use of a roller
  • Not enough room for a roller full width.

Daisy CAN help (it’s even easier if you send a photo)! The aim of making a pool cover easier to use is so that the customer will actually use their pool cover.

If the pool cover is too hard to use then they will tend to leave it to one side and not worry about using it.

To make pool covers more user friendly, we may advise not to cover the whole pool area. It is ok to leave some parts uncovered for ease of use.

For some shapes we will advise to leave a section uncovered, the heat loss (lack of insulation) or lack of heating, and even the evaporation is a direct ratio of how much of the pool is covered to how much is uncovered.

The evaporation can only occur on the uncovered section, so if you have 95% of the pool covered they are stopping 95% of the evaporation. The trade-off for the small amount of evaporation far outweighs the customer actually being able to use the pool cover.

Sometimes the shape of the pool will equal the usage and the advice. Send a photo to Daisy for assistance and expert advice if your customer is ok for you to defer the advice to your supplier for special or unusual installations. Email us at [email protected]

 

How much for a pool cover?

Posted on

Daisy Expert best answer: What are you trying to achieve?

This #1 question from our customers only has one reply… That’s great, so what are you trying to achieve?

Before we blindly quote a price, it is up to us as Experts to find out what solution our customer is after by spending time with them to find out what they really want.

After all that’s what they are looking for and are coming in to your store to ask for advice… not the cheapest price!

Quality time spent together to gather enough information to provide solutions is how to win sales. No, we don’t mean at the cost of driving price down; it’s so we can be on the same wave length as our customer.

Ask questions! Query your customer to find out their desires or problems so you can tailor your response and recommendation. By doing this, you will have your customer saying ‘yes, I want that one’ before any price is mentioned.

Query your customer until they divulge what they want, they don’t know how to buy from you so the ‘how much for a pool cover’ question is not asking you to give a dollar amount, it is a question stating that they have a need for something from us and now it is up to us to fulfil that need or desire.

Want to know more, ask your Daisy Area Manager for some upskill training and techniques to assist you in getting sales over the line, or call the Admin Centre on 1300551811 or [email protected]

With all new things, good things come

Posted on

Get the lowdown on our pool cover range shake up

With the introduction of Daisy’s new Titanium pool cover range and the huge consumer acceptance for this new cover technology, Daisy has embarked on a product range shake up!

Over the last few months, we have been hard at work making some cool new improvements and changes (that your customers will love) to our pool cover range, including a brand new non-heating cover…

Solar Cover Product Upgrade

S8 Silver Back – Now gone!

S8 Green – Upgraded to Titanium Green (TG+)

S8 Solar Screen – Daisy has unlocked the next generation of non-heating pool covers and is now upgrading this cover to a brand new reflective, non-heating pool cover – Series 8 Titanium Cool (S8 TC)

The unique reflective properties means the new S8TC will reflect the sun’s heat while not absorbing it into the pool cover material, so it transits virtual zero sunlight and heat into the water. 

Why this non-heating technology is better:

  • Total sun block out
  • Evaporation and cooling control
  • Modern colour looking better (and cooler) for longer.

More information on this new product to come! A complete shake up of standard blue pool covers is also imminent so stay tuned. Daisy is aiming to make a product range that is clear and concise to make supplying a Daisy as easy as possible.

Feel free to get in touch for a sneak peak – call on 1300551811 or email us at [email protected]

New job opportunity for Daisy Experts

Posted on

Commercial swim schools and pools are waiting for you!

How many commercial pools in your area… be it swim schools, physios, hospitals, hotels or shire pools?

Some of these commercial contacts need help, advice, or are just waiting for someone to talk with them to make their life easier.

And even better, they want to deal with an Expert in their area so there are local opportunities just waiting to be explored by you.

Easy to quote, great new job opportunity

Daisy supplies a complete range of Commercial Pool Cover and Roller Systems for all commercial applications. You don’t need to be the full bottle on covers to be the Expert, Daisy will help you along the way so you can give Expert advice, help them save money (in so many ways – water loss, heat loss, building maintenance for indoor pools… and the list goes on) and close sales.

Daisy will be there to support you as much as possible by supplying and backing you with all the right information, words and quotes to equip you and make you shine!

Just contact your local Area Manager or call the Admin Centre on 1300 55 18 11

Or email [email protected]