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Oligo Giveaway Results are in!
Last week our 10th Anniversary Free Month of Oligos Giveaway contest ended with the selection of winner Allan Kelleher from the University of California San Diego. Our contest was exclusive to our Facebook friends and fans but we announced the giveaway and updated the status of the contest via our other social networking channels. I got the opportunity to meet with Alan this last week at UCSD’s Bonner Hall where he is hard at work in molecular biology research.
We gave him a certificate to confirm his win and took a few photos. He was a really nice guy and we are happy that our $1600 worth of free oligos will assist him in his experiments. I will post the pictures on our social sites soon.
I was really eager to promote this contest. At Allele we wanted to do something that marked our ten years in business in an impressive way while at the same time abiding by our philosophy of encouraging the advancement of research. Oligos were an organic choice as they were our first commercial product on top of being a universally useful tool in the industry, which is evident in their use by medical researchers, molecular biologists, physicists, oceanographers; the list goes on.
To hold the contest exclusive to our Allele on Facebook friend/fan base was another organic choice as most of our contacts on this format are bench researchers. Some are just fans that are interested in our weekly product promotions and new product announcements. However, most of our Allele on Facebook contacts are friends. This allows us to see their bio questions. In frustration they will post, “Has anyone had experience with this type of ligation…?” Facebook gives our friends the opportunity to get help from top scientists for free and often during their workday for the fastest access to information available.
For all the benefits available to you, join Allele’s friends on Facebook today and be the first to know about everything Allele Biotech has to offer!
How We Give Back in 2010
This year has started off great for Allele. Every week our shipping volume is increasing, we have an arsenal of new products in the pipeline, we are the sole provider of oligos on the University of California San Diego’s central online purchasing site, and every day we are taking even more action to cut the waste and increase productivity in order to give our customers the very best at a reasonable cost. Our company is maturing nicely in its 10th year!
Lately we have really been focusing on giving back to our customers who I, on a daily basis, am impressed with. Most of all, I am impressed with how good of a relationship we have. I have several customers who I am on the phone with regularly and genuinely glad to hear from. We have fun with our friends on facebook, giving advice on molecular biology techniques and even swapping recipes.
So far this year we have designed three new ways to reward our customers:
There is our big 10 Year Anniversay Oligo Giveaway where we will give away a free month of oligos to one facebook friend or fan. DNA and RNA oligos were Allele’s very first product and we knew we wanted to have a big prize to reward to celebrate not only 10 years in business but also surviving through what is the worst economic time in decades. It only made sense that the giveaway should be oligos. Most importantly, this is also where our longest customer relationships exist; within our oligo customer base. Personally, I cannot wait for the winner to be announced. I am probably more excited about it than most of the contestants!
This last January we also launched our Allele Biotech Rewards Program designed by our Business Development Manager Eugene Pahk. We want to make it more affordable for all Allele customers to purchase Allele Biotech Products (we have over 1000). Allele Rewards are easy to earn and more importantly, easy to redeem. We do not make it complicated, rewards do not expire, and they can be used on a number of common molecular biology research tools. Just another way to give back to the people who keep us in business and support our research.
Our latest tribute to our patrons is especially designed for all the younger, tech savvy (and usually desperately in need of money) grad students! We will award $100 cash to anyone who submits an Allele product or service relevant picture to us for use on our homepage. We are tired of the current photos we have now and instead of just purchasing some (which we could do for a really low cost) we decided to get the force of our creative and intelligent supporters to not only have some fun but to get a different perspective on what the Allele brand means to people.
On top of the new programs and promotions, every week we make a promise to have one item or service on sale; sometimes at the direct behest of the researchers themselves. Our weekly promotions are announced via our social networking sites (facebook, twitter, Linkedin, myspace, and our Allele Biotech Blog). We want to have as many avenues as possible for customers to be involved with Allele Biotech so we can succeed in this business for decades to come while giving back to our customers the entire way.
Become a friend, fan, follower, contact, or bookmark our blog site today to get the most of what we give!
Allele Biotech is 10 Years Old and Celebrating with FREE Oligos!
Allele Biotech is 10 years old!!!!!!! December 1999 was when Dr. Jiwu Wang and colleagues started this great company as a DNA oligo and siRNA service provider to the San Diego area. Since then he has fearlessly lead Allele into the forefront of the biotechnology industry with multiple RNAi patents, numerous NIH grants, revolutionary iPSC and fluorescent protein technologies, the acquisition of Orbigen, a continuously growing catalog of over 1000 molecular biology products and signature Allele Biotech Reagents, and a business culture that is approachable, encouraging, and reverential of research advancement through global communication and collaboration.
What a difference a decade makes. Today Allele Biotech is a top oligo service provider all around the country with customers in all of America’s major academic institutions. Currently, we are the sole oligo provider on the University of California San Diego’s central purchasing site, Marketplace; a collaboration designed to provide top quality oligonucleotides to UCSD research departments while saving them thousands of dollars annually. We now produce many of our own oligo synthesis and modification reagents, further cutting the costs to our valuable customers which enabled us to continue operations this last year without raising prices due to the worldwide acetonitrile shortage which more than quadrupled in cost! Allele Biotech has stood out over the years not only to our loyal customers but other oligo providers as well. Less than 5 years into our operation we were approached by one of the well known, top three, oligo providers in an attempt to buy us out! We resisted and are still here to proudly serve the research community with the Allele brand!
It all started with oligos…Now ten years later we want to honor our accomplishment by giving away a FREE month of oligos to one lucky customer! To enter you must be an Allele Biotech Facebook fan or friend. A winner will be randomly selected from our friends/fan pool on Sunday, February 14th, 1210 at noon. That lucky winner will receive FREE oligos for the month of March 2010! Limitations apply. Click here for terms and conditions.
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