No matter what type of sleeper you are, your sleep position can affect how you digest food. While you’re sleeping, your brain and body continue to work by digesting the food and drinks you consumed throughout the day. Both the foods you eat and your sleep position can affect the quality of sleep you’re getting and the speed of digestion.

A Pillow Builder in a Fill Station Pillow Kiosk can help you build a custom pillow for all sleeping positions. As your needs change, you can bring your pillow back for an adjustment.

The Fill Station Group, LLC is excited to announce our new Vendor Program. If you have a product with a zipper on it and it can be filled with Buckwheat Hulls, Shredded Memory Foam, Shredded Latex, Shredded Poly Foam, and Feathers, we want to speak with you.

For a while, the license Fill Station®️ Pillow Kiosk Program have supplied our licensees with our own products. With the amount of growth we are forecasting, we will now start looking at a Hybrid Vendor Program for our Licensees. We are looking at products that can be filled with our Kiosk for sleep, ergonomics, comfort, and health.

If you believe you have a product or products to consider, email us at pillow@fillstation.com.

We would like to welcome Snooze Mattress Co in Pueblo West, CO to the Fill Station® License Network.

The creation of a Fill Station® Pillow is similar to going into an ice cream shop with many assortments of flavors and toppings. Think about a pillow in your mind being made of Crush ice cream. “The flavors offered aren’t always the same, but Crush offers tropical flavors like mango, pineapple, papaya, and strawberry. Crush also offers combined flavors such as strawberry banana, mango orange, and coconut with ice cream” (Gloria Knott, 2019). I bet your mouth is salivating.

The Fill Station® Custom Pillows will have your neck, shoulders, and head wanting to feel the taste of support and comfort every night. A Fill Station® Pillow can be built with distinctive fillers that provide everything you are looking for into a pillow. You can say, “Add a little bit of more memory foam.” This is the confidence to know you are getting what you want. 

With confidence, you know you can eat ice cream hard or soft, but you have the choice. You can sprinkle chocolate or melt chocolate on your ice cream. Similarly, a Fill Station® Pillow can be made soft or firm. You can choose the filler that will help the pillow melt to your head while you sleep or feel as firm as you want. 

As a Fill Station® Pillow Customer, you do not have to be stuck with one kind of pillow. Customization is greatly appreciated by many. 

References

Knott, G. (2019). 20 Refreshing Raspado Spots to Hit in Summer https://tucsonfoodie.com/2019/08/14/23-of-the-best-raspado-spots-in-tucson/

It’s obvious by title I am talking about your current pillow. Sometimes we forget, or your body becomes immune to how bad your pillow is until you willfully try a new one. A constant unleveling of support can be a long hinderance through your day. For example, at work you are staring at your computer. You grab your neck because it’s fatigued, and in pain from looking down at the screen. Imagine what a good pillow with proper support could have benefited you in these actions on a 5 day work week. 

A good pillow would support your 6 – 8 hours of beauty sleep. When you finally wake, you feel refreshed and you feel as if your neck can lift 10 pounds for 5 hours. When you are in front of that computer screen again, that fatigue and pain is not as noticeable as any other day when you slept on that unnoticeable bad pillow. Remember, you did not notice how bad it was until you slept on a better one. 

When you are feeling your best, you can defeat your day with a big roar of excitement. You are noticed and your alertness is at its peak. You get that feeling you can wear 30 gold chains around your neck and not notice the weight. This is the true feeling of what a great pillow can do for you. 

We would like to welcome The Purrfect Mattress in Port Charlotte, FL to the Fill Station® License Network.

Hello Licensees,

The Fill Station Group would like to introduce the Event Request section of our Portal. You can now schedule events to create additional traffic for your stores. We recommend scheduling these events 2 – 3 weeks in advance.Your advance notice will give Fill Station Group, LLC time to prepare your event, help get Facebook leads up to the event, and add the event to Fill Station.com.

Best Practices:

• Always schedule events for 2 – 4 weeks to give the marketing time to populate.
• Be prepared with stock you need for the event.
• Upgrade customers to protectors for the Free 5 Year Re-Fluffing and Adjustment Guarantee.
• Register all customers to add them to your customer base.
• Have Fun! Give customers a tour of your showroom to sell them more product! Do not forget to lay them down on mattresses!

Click here to schedule an event!

The Fill Station network is growing!  We would like to welcome Sleep Haven Bedding with two Fill Station locations located in Modesto, CA and Redwood City, CA.  Additionally, we would like to welcome Today’s Bed in Woodbury, MN to the Fill Station licensee network.

The Fill Station® Group would like to welcome John Arnold of Mattress Factory located in Grand Rapids, ND.

The Fill Station® group would like to welcome two new licensees to the Fill Station® network; Mattress Studio in Lawton, OK and The Mattress King in Omaha, NE.

The Fill Station® Group would like to welcome Elephant’s Attic to the Fill Station® network of licensees.  Elephant’s Attic is located in Vandalia, IL.

The Fill Station® Group would like to welcome Strouds Home Furnishings to the Fill Station® Network of Licensees.  Strouds Home Furnishings is located in Russellville, Arkansas.

The continuous filament fill provides support and prevents lumping so you enjoy consistent comfort. This fill offers great neck and shoulder support. It is incredibly soft while still offering springy elevation so you feel cradled and comfortable. This man-made filling is durable enough for machine washing and won’t fall flat after just a few uses.

As the Fill Station Licensing network continues to grow, demands for pillow fillers are increasing.  Fill Station® Group has partnered with two leading companies in the Sleep Product Industry.  DOWNLITE and Talalay Global will be supplying their products directly to the Fill Station Group.

“When it comes to building a pillow; we want to offer the consumer and our licensees only the best ingredients. We have carefully selected two of the most reputable organizations in the industry. We trust in their products and know they stand for quality and luxury,” says Fill Station President and Chief Executive Officer Arthur Watkins.

The Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk allows customers to build, refill or remake their pillow from scratch. First-time customers select the size of their cotton pillow shell. Next, they create their own custom level of support and comfort by choosing any combination of Super Soft Poly Foam, Buckwheat Hulls, Shredded Memory Foam, Shredded Latex and/or Goose Down. The program comes with an assortment of pillow covers and protectors designed to meet specific needs of the consumer.

For retailers, the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk is a pillow building and marketing platform that drives traffic and helps retailers build new relationships with customers.  The innovative pillow program is designed to target all age groups. Every pillow includes the retailer’s logo to help strengthen their brand. Two kiosk sizes are available. Whether you have a large furniture store, or a smaller format sleep shop, there is a kiosk available for you.

Visit www.fillstation.com or call 844.478.2846 to learn how you can license a kiosk today. Las Vegas Market attendees can also learn more by visiting the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk at booth B-270-05.

The Fill Station Group would like to welcome Mattress Makers to the Fill Station network of licensees.  Mattress Makers is located in San Diego, CA.

Fill Station® Friends are now available.  Now families can enjoy the benefits of building their very own Fill Station® Friend.  Kids can choose from building a pillow and adding a special animal cover making their pillow extra fun and cuddly!  Kids can choose from three friends, the Purple Unicorn, the Green Dinosaur, the Blue Cat.  Collect them all!

Now your guests can enjoy the therapeutic and relaxing benefits of our new Aromatherapy Collection of Pillow Sprays.

Our sprays are 100% pure, and natural aromatic compounds that are carefully extracted from plants.  Let your customers take their pillow building experience to the next level by offering them Lavender, Citrus Joy and Tranquility Pillow Sprays.

You may order the starter kit in the portal or you may order the sprays by the box.

Our sprays are not sold to the public online.  When your customer runs out they will come back to your store to order more!

Fill Station® Group is proud to announce their partnership with Good Morning Mattress Center in Mobile, AL.

“We are excited to work with Carlos and his team at Good Morning Mattress Center and we are proud to have them as the eighth licensee to join the Fill Station® network,” said Vannie Morisey, Director of Business Development for Fill Station® Group.

Good Morning Mattress Center is located in Mobile, AL.  They are a specialty mattress store and offer their customers only the best.  At Good Morning Mattress Center, “Good Morning’s Begin with a Good Night Sleep.”

Fill Station® Group is proud to announce their new partnership with Jeff Giagnocavo and Ben McClure of Gardner’s Mattress and More located in Lancaster, PA.

“We are excited about this partnership with Gardner’s Mattress and More,” said. Arthur Watkins President of Fill Station Group.  “Jeff and Ben are both extremely innovative and motivated individuals.  They have a lot of passion for their business and I am excited to partner with them and grow our businesses together.”

Since 1990, Gardner’s Mattress and More, has been helping the people of Lancaster, PA find the secret to a good night’s sleep.  They have several accolades and have been voted as “Lancaster’s Favorite Mattress Store” for the past 6 years by the A List Reader’s Choice Awards Lancaster Newspaper.

Ben and Jeff strive to make the mattress buying experience as stress free as possible for their guests.  They provide mattress shoppers with an informative guide on ‘How to Buy a Mattress’.  Additionally, they offer guests the opportunity to “try before you buy”,  where a guest can try out their desired mattress in the designated Dreamroom.

As stated before, Ben and Jeff are extremely passionate when it comes to the mattress industry.  They have designed a program called AMP, Automatic Mattress Profits, where they consult with independent mattress retailers across the county and help them find solutions to help grow their business by driving traffic and boosting profits.

The AMP program has gained vast industry recognition as they have been featured in several industry publications including Sleep Savvy, Furniture Today, Bed Times and More.  They have worked with over 55 mattress retailers across the country and transformed several businesses over night.

We are excited about this partnership and welcome Ben, Jeff and the entire Gardner’s Mattress and More team to the Fill Station® Group family.

With ongoing development of the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk program for licensees, we are proud to announce the deployment of the Fill Station® Email Automation System. This new technology will allow engagement with your customers after they registered their custom pillow(s). Your registered membership list is an exclusive benefit to your business to drive more sales back into your business.

Benefits of the Fill Station® Email Automation System

• Customer Membership List Building for your store through our online pillow registration where customers activate their guarantee to Re-Fluff and Adjust their pillows for 5 years.
• Fill Station Email Automation System: Your Membership List is emailed once a quarter to visit your store to use their Re-Fluffing and Adjustment Guarantee. This marketing strategy will help your business create strong customer retention, loyalty, and prompt your membership base to buy more products.

The Fill Station® Email Automation System offers an interaction between all members of the family with the sales person that is fun and beneficial and creates a dialogue which leads to sales. Further, when a customer builds a pillow in your store they get instructions to register their pillow and activate the 5-year guarantee. Now they are in your exclusive membership list and your work to get them to come back in your store is done. The Fill Station Email Automation System reminder does all the work for you. Build 1000, 2000, even 3000 registered pillows and those customers will be coming back over the years for their free re-fluff and adjustment.

If you are a mattress or furniture retailer and want to find out more information about the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk License Program, please contact David Pillow.

David Pillow
Director of Licensing
david@fillstation.com
(844) 478-2846 Ext 702

We are proud to announce license leasing for our Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk Program for the US Market. Our easy new finance license program will allow retailers to floor our Turnkey Fill Stations as low as $295 a month for 36 months of the agreement with all the benefits of:

• Chiropractor Partner Program.

• Customizable Pillows.

• Co-Branding with the retailer’s logo on pillows.

• Store traffic during our pillow building events.

• Our 5 Year Re-Fluffing and Adjustment Program to build a fan base for your retail locations through customer pillow registrations.

• Competitive edge over the competition.

• Fill Station’s E-Gift Card Program.

• Kids Pillow Building Events. (Optional)

• Fill Station growing network of kiosk.

Arthur Watkins, President, stated, “When we started the license program, financing was one of the biggest hurdles with potential retail licensees. In some situations, we had to do financing for retailers out of our own pockets. To grow our program across the country at a faster and affordable rate, we decided to partner with a financial group.”

Now, mattress and furniture stores can join our Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk network without worries of a lump sum upfront and a down payment. If you interested in becoming a licensee, fill the form out below. If you have any questions about the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk License Program, contact David Pillow at david@fillstation.com.

Trent Ranburger, the owner of Trent Bedding, does his Big Reveal of the Fill Station Pillow Kiosk Live through Social Media. The Fill Station Group wants to thank Trent Bedding for becoming a licensee, and we are excited about our partnership.

The Fill Station Pillow Kiosk program was created in a mattress store with an idea that customers replace their pillows on average of 6 months because they go flat, or they do not feel the same because of a difference of 10 pounds of body weight difference through human life cycles that changes the feel of their pillow. I wanted a program that does not eliminate a customer for 3 years, but a program that branded my store and keep my customers engaged.

I created the Fill Station because I wanted to attract more customers into my showroom, retain the relationship with my customers to build my business, and I wanted increase my attachment rate with 100 different variant of pillows that can be built based on how much the pillow is filled, so the customer can get exactly what they wanted.

I found out that if your floor were limited in pillows, the customer would shop at big box stores for pillows. With our program, the customer gets a Free 5 Year Re-Fluffing and Adjustment Guarantee. This way, the customer will visit your store for maintenance on their pillow similar to car dealership. I figure that if they are visiting my store often, the customer will talk to people in their social circle about my store. Has it worked? Yes, since 2014 I have increased my business by 145% and selling an average of $8,700 in pillows a month. We have made it fun for the customer.

If you are interested in talking about the Fill Station Pillow Program, email me at pillow@fillstation.com or go to fill out our Licensee Online Form.

Sincerely,

Arthur Watkins

CEO

Fill Station Group, LLC.

Summary

The Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk has been in development for the past 3 years in Mattress Inn. The premise of the Fill Station is to drive traffic and introduce a new customer base that visits Mattress Inn often for refluffing and adjustments. Through the year, there were scheduled events that crowded the showroom to help Mattress Inn sale more mattresses and pillows. These events have been extremely successful that customers have come back to buy mattresses with a higher ticket average. Furthermore, the Fill Station Group introduced an E-Gift Card program in 2015 that customers could send personal notes to build a pillow including telling friends and family they are interested in a Fill Station® Pillow.

Notable Accomplishments

• The Fill Station Pillow Kiosk has increased Mattress Inn’s overall store business by 117% in 2015.
• The Fill Station® has become a conversation starter from previous customers that have sent new customers into buy mattresses with the intention to build pillows.
• Mattress Inn has over 6500 refluffers that periodically revisit the store for maintenance on their pillows. In 2015, Mattress Inn added 2800 more refluffers.
• Mattress Inn sold over 100 Fill Station® gift cards over the Holiday for pillows. This was an 800% increase over the previous year.
• The Fill Station Group added 9 Chiropractors to the Medical Partner Program to build custom neck pillows for their patients.
• The Fill Station® increased sales over 2014 by 173%.

Fill Station® Sales History for Mattress Inn

2014

Sales: $26,485

Margin: 56.99%

2015

Sales: $71,055

Margin: 55.84%

Conclusion

In 2016, we are forecasting that the Fill Station® will do sales of $110,000. We are hoping the Furniture and Mattress Industry will see the Fill Station as a compliment to their retailers to help grow business in brick and mortar locations. With online sales increasing, the Fill Station can help leverage why customers should continue to shop at their local mattress and furniture stores. 

The Fill Station Group LLC will start expanding its Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Partner Program in areas of potential Fill Station® Licensees. This expansion will help other medical experts join the program while the Fill Station Group signup new licensees. The program is simple, and very cost effective for the licensee and medical partner. The program benefit retailers by seeing patients of these medical partners in their showroom to build custom neck pillows in the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk.

The image below is the care package that patients are sold at the medical offices, and then they bring them in the Kiosk to have them filled.

Kris Kietzmann joins the Fill Station Group LLC as the Fill Station® Tennessee Independent Sales Representative to sell licenses to mattress and furniture stores in the state. Kris represents a national mattress manufacture and another sleep product line.

We are excited for Kris, his understanding of the Fill Station® License Program, and what it will do for the Industry. Adding the Fill Station® License Program to his portfolio will help him open more doors with his other products, and allow him to open doors for the Fill Station® License Program.

The Fill Station Group LLC is hiring independent representatives for AL, FL, MS, LA, KY, MO, AR, NC, SC, and GA. Learn more>>

We are pleased to announce that the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk Showroom will open its doors to retailers on September 14, 2015 in Mattress Inn. Never before, a retailer can experience a product in a live customer environment, visualize how the kiosks will fit in their showroom, and see the Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk in action. Learn how Mattress Inn store staff sales more than 250 pillows a month, how the Medical Partner Program can help your store sales, how to build a pillow in the kiosk in 5 minutes, how to re-fluff a pillow, and adjust a pillow in the kiosk.

If you are a retailer, and interested in increasing your overall store sales and build a comprehensive repeat customer base, email us for an appointment at pillow@fillstation.com.

Sincerely,

The Fill Station® Group

The Fill Station® Group LLC will start selling licenses to our Patent Pending Fill Station® Pillow Kiosk in GA, TN, AL, KY, AR, MS, FL, NC, SC, and MO starting October 6, 2016. Controlled growth is our targeted goal, and we will soon start searching for Independent Reps. Once we see demand in other states, we will evaluate distribution and manufacturing to support more markets.

We look forward to working with retailers to help increase traffic in their stores.

If you are an Independent Sales Rep, please apply Here!

The Fill Station® Chiropractic & Physical Therapy Partner Program starts rolling out today. Thanks to Dr. Jeremy Johnson for being our first partner. Today we have partnered with Dr. Paul Patterson to build custom neck pillows for his patients in our showroom. Looking forward to more partners in the coming weeks.

The Fill Station Group LLC will be launching our new Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Partner Program (CPTP) with licensees at launch. This program is design to help you build relationships with Chiropractors & Physical Therapists in your local area. The CPTP program can help you gain more customers for your store, and grow your business. Patients that are seeking professional help with neck issues, or also the same customer that is having trouble finding a good pillow. Once they become a Fill Station® Pillow customer, they will become your loyal customer. A loyal customer can increase sales in your store.

The following is the program we will offer to Chiropractors & Physical Therapists through the licensee program in your area.

Now You Can Offer CUSTOM PILLOWS for Each Unique Patient

Fill Station® Pillow Chiropractic and Physical Therapy

Partners Program

Starts June 8, 2015

Your patients are completely frustrated. They can’t find the right pillow to relieve their neck pain. Or to help keep their back aligned. Or to give them better sleep.

They search high and low for the ‘best’ pillow.

They look at the big box retailers like Wal-Mart and the home specialty stores like Bed Bath & Beyond. And they spend hours online, scouring websites and ads.

Their problem? After all the pillows they see, they end up just totally confused!

The ‘Best’ Pillow

Each sales pitch claims that their pillow is the best. But that can’t be right, because as you know, every single person is different. Your patients’ bodies, injuries, mattress, and sleeping preferences are each completely unique to that individual.

They won’t find their pillow solution at a big box retailer, a specialty store, or even online. They may try, but once they buy, they can’t return and they can’t exchange. So they ask you, the professional. And, until now, even you haven’t had access to the best solution.

The best solution is to build each patient a custom pillow.

Partner Program

The Fill Station^® Pillow Kiosk now offers a Partner Program to build custom pillows for your patients.

After you become a Partner in the Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Partner Program, you send your patients to the kiosk in our store. We take it from there.

They come into the store, and we help them build a custom pillow that addresses their unique combination of needs. We discuss their sleeping concerns (Aching neck or back? Side, stomach or back sleeper? Etc.)

When we understand their needs, we help them choose a pillow mix that addresses those needs. That includes choices about the outer case, type of fill and firmness. Your clients get the exact combination they want.

We Build Their Custom Pillow

Once these decisions are made, we build that exact pillow right then and there – on the spot – in about 5 minutes.

Now, if they go home and for any reason it’s not quite right, they just come back in to the store and we make it right. We can add or remove fill, or change the combination of fill. The best part? That pillow can be adjusted at any time.

And it works for children, too!

Complete customer satisfaction is our #1 priority.

Free 5 Year Re-Fluffing & Adjustment Guarantee

Every pillow comes with our unique Free 5 Year Re-Fluffing & Adjustment Guarantee.

• Once your Pillow is built, you can come back to have it adjusted. An adjustment is us adding more filler to your pillow or taking some filler out to make the pillow more comfortable for you.

• For five years, you can bring your pillow back to Fill Station^® Pillow Kiosk every year for FREE Re-Fluffing. This process is sending your filler back through our machine, so that your pillow feels refreshed and new.

As a Partner you benefit by your patients’ satisfaction and healing, and by sharing in the revenues of the pillow sale.

Partner Program – How it Works

As a Partner in the Fill Station^® Pillow Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Partner Program, the Partner gets two sample neck pillows for display, and 10 free empty shells to sell to patients with Fill Station^® Packaging.

After you demonstrate the pillow, you will sell your patient an empty shell for each pillow they want to customize. Each empty shell sells for $10 and up. The patient then comes into the Fill Station^® Pillow Kiosk to have them filled. Fill Station^® charges the patient only for the fill, according to the published price per pound.

After we’ve built their custom Fill Station^® Pillow, you can ask your patient to bring it to your next appointment. Take a look at how they lie with it in their sleeping position. Assess the ‘fit’ with your specific long term goals. Now you have something to work with to really help them in between appointments, too!

Partner Program – Product Design:

The Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Partner Program uses the Fill Station^® Bolster Neck Pillow, with the following features, especially designed with Professionals in mind – for their patients who need specific support:

• The Fill Station^® Bolster Neck Pillow can be built of Shredded Natural Latex or Shredded Memory Foam.
• The Bolster is designed to reduce stress on your neck by supporting your head at the correct alignment while you sleep on your side.
• You can flex and bend the neck pillow for increased support. It has a roll feature to offer more cradling neck support for back sleepers.
• If you sleep on your stomach, you can sleep on your stomach by rotating the pillow around to the lower sleeping side.
• The Bolster is designed to keep the weight of your head off your shoulder; relieving the pain from the middle of your back and reducing the stress in your neck.

“My patients have always asked me for pillow recommendations. So I’ve looked at a lot of pillows. I always wanted to find one that offered some structure, was comfortable and affordable.

“When Arthur told me about Fill Station^® Pillows – the materials, cost and service – I thought, “This sounds like an amazing program!”

 “It’s a good, solid product. It really works and is unique. I’ve been doing this for almost a year. Not a single person has said anything negative.

 “There’s nothing like it! My patients have found them comfortable. Some have made adjustments – took filling out, put more in – quick & easy, no issues. I feel confident that they get a good product without spending a lot of money.

 “Now, my wife and I both use Fill Station^® Pillows.”

Dr. Jeremy Johnson, Founder, Back to Health, Spring Hill, TN