why CleverConvenience

Hi, just know me as Phil for now.

Why did I create this store?

Well, to be completely honest with you here:

As a young father who has recently started his own family, I do not want to waste a lot of my freetime to browse for products.

I wanted to have a page where the solution bringing products are organised and picked for me.

I envisioned a page, where I don't have to research to find products that will improve things in my household.

I have a specific problem in mind, that I wish to fix, without having to file through hundreds of ads, offers, and algorithm recommendations.

So thats why I created CleverConvenience.

From one young father to the other, picking out home improvement products so you do not have to browse around.

Sounds a bit idealistic, but let me tell you where I am coming from:

I grew up in a small countryside village, far away from a bustling metropolis, surrounded by nature.
Once I was old enough I started to go to a school that was in the next bigger town, 20min away by car, but 1h away by bus (dont ask about that logic)
Anyway, I went to those schools, mostly, because I knew other people there that gave me a sense of belonging or safety for going to that school.

I was not focused on the Curriculum at all, even though I was asked where I would like to go.

But how should a 13 year old know what he would like to work later?

So anyway, I went on to go to a technical college, for automation technologies.
Sounds flashy, was it also partly.
A common description about me I would hear is "he has so much potential, but he is just lazy" Or "never understood why he is going into tech, he is so good with languages if he would just study the vocabulary"

You know, things that a teenager loves to hear when he is out there trying to find himself in this world.

So I continued. Gratuated. To the Surprise of many around me, teachers included.

I went on to do my public duty as a paramedic.
Why?
Thinking back now, I believe what drove me was the thought that maybe I will be trusted more as a paramedic and will not just follow bland orders in the military.

After the paramedic service, I landed my first job.
As a technical graphical designer for a production company in the big city.
I was a 1 man department.
No one there to tell me what to do, how to do it.
They demanded of me to be the expert in technical drawings.
Product managers came to me with all sorts of ideas, and the weekly usual was me explaining them, what I can do within the sketching program and what is easier to be done on a piece of paper.

The consequence? I started learning how to think solution oriented and read between the lines what the "customer" wants at the end of the day, while focusing on keeping a low budget.
They didnt care how I would do it, they were focused on the outcome for them.

Soon, I would get "my" own 3D-Printer in the office, to design and print prototypes.
I loved that part actually, being presented with a problem and thinking of a creative and doable prototype that we can then transform in a mass product.

How things ended at that company?
I suggested them, and showed them how internal structures where blocking the progress within the company, and after seeing this, they decided to withhold any developments for the next years in order to reposition their companies-structure for the future.

Found a new job for the same expertise, in a big office with a lot of colleagues doing the same that I was supposed to do.
I thought, great! Bigger paycheck, and people around me doing the same things, they for sure can show me how to do things.

As it turned out, I stopped designing and developing mostly, and instead got the big manuals handed, those, that no one wants to write, but will be needed and will need to be correct at the end of the project.

But I just came to the job, I dont know their projects, come on!

And the "support" that I received? waiting for 2 weeks for someone to return from the construction site to show my stuff for 1 day before he had to continue with his project.

I was surrounded by similar technicians, yet isolated.

Roughly 8 months passed there, until I said, no more, and I quit.

To be honest, it was also from the companies side that they saw I was stuck, and they saw they did not have the resources to support me in my growth in how I needed it.

It was the end of the year.

And I just wanted to leave the country.

Meanwhile, friends of mine that I got to know over the last years, told me I could visit them over the holidays.

And I took it, and went abroad.

That is also how I met my now Wife.

So, after those holidays, I came back home looking for a new job, playing it safe and going with the similar experience because "where else could I go? what else could I do?"

So i found a job for a technical designer, but insisted in that company that I will get a better structure for getting trained.

Well, lets just say they got more and more hesitant to train me because they saw my personal situation, and it got clearer and clearer that I would move abroad to move in with my wife.

So then, this job ended, and I found I bilingual customer support job in the country I moved to.

With the pay being cut in half, and starting a family now, I suddenly got a completely different set of responsibilities as a Provider for the house.

But now, I also got the motivation to actually put something out there.

And again and again, I came across this "dropshipping" thing.

But I thought, if I would do something within that, I will do things different.

I wish my website to make a difference, bring value to you, who is reading this.

My idea with this shop actually came as a "counter-measure" to some of the other stores out there.

I find many of those way to confusing and overloaded, filled with semihonest discounts and additional gifts, and dont get me started on all that data that gets collected along the way.
All that noise of what else to buy, and this and that.

I dont want that. Even if it means my store will create way less sales. So be it. I will not sell my beliefs for that quick buck.

I dont choose and handpicked the products because they have the greatest margin, but because I truly believe that all of these products would give value to my life and would be a big or small helper for me and my family.

So this store, it is for you.

For any young father.

Who is looking for handpicked products that are convenient to use, fairly priced and will aid you in your home.

I do not know how many of you are out there that can relate to what I wrote here.

In any case, I feel it as a blessing that you have come across my page.
Thank you for being here.
And I hope that one of those products I pick will aid you in your situation, on whatever step you are in your life right now.

Yours, Phil