Terry created a strategy and business plan to open a convenient retail store to shop for storage and organization solutions. Since there were no other stores of its kind within 50 miles, the small business owner opened the doors of a 9,000 square foot retail store in Riverside, CA – just across from the local mall. It would be one of the first independently owned stores in Southern California dedicated to selling Storage and Organization products to help customers organize and simplify their lives. Terry, along with two full-time and eight part-time employees, set out to find thousands of products to ‘organize everything’, just as the name said. Every store associate was personally involved with purchasing, stocking and selling product – including Terry. If there was a new product to be added – it was almost like a decision in a ‘family meeting’.
In 1999, the Company decided to try selling a few items on the internet. To our delight – this turned out to be a pretty good thing. Two years later, we launched an additional site - HangerCity.com and then, TheStorageStore.com. Along with these additions, we developed several relationships with strategic partners. Our orders told us that our retail vision expanded beyond our brick and mortar store in the hometown of Riverside, to literally the ‘world of retailing’. Who ever dreamed that those first few Internet orders would pave the road of the future for Organize.com?
As online sales continued to grow, we outgrew our retail store. In July of 2003, Organize Everything added to the operation and opened a 42,000 square foot (and still growing) Internet Processing Center, just five miles from the original store. Our passion to offer high quality products at a reasonable price remained our goal, but our merchandising efforts then shifted to our website.
We created a “NEAT” storefront that now sits before our customer in the convenience of their own home or office, while they shop on the Internet. We focus daily on how we can make our customer’s shopping experience “Clean, Neat and Easy”. We continually update and improve our site, our content, services and the site’s functionality. Most of our decisions to make changes are based on the suggestions of our customers. We also continue to seek new and innovative products to offer our customers what they have come to know and expect from us. We test hundreds of product submissions each year looking for the ‘best of the best’, as well as developing our own products if we can’t find what we are looking for.
In 2005, Organize Everything acquired the name Organize.com, an easy name to remember that tells you just who we are. Today, this privately owned business operates with the same philosophy as the day our doors first opened. We continue to work with most of our original vendor’s, who have been more like friends to us.
Our amazing staff is the success of our business. We take great pride in their dedication and commitment. From Order Entry to the Shipping Department, each individual is committed to making sure each package we ship arrives looking like ‘the birthday present you always wanted’. If you walk into our warehouse, you will see a big sign over our shipping department that reminds us each day of just that.