About Espionage
Most sites have a spiel about themselves that are really boring, so we decided instead to tell you the story about how we came to be, you might be surprised to find out we're not your usual company..... or you could just find it as boring as all the others.
When Espionage first started, it was a clothing brand with not much thought about 'going online' but we found that 99% of the hurdles we where facing were ridiculous, we originally found it hard to find a wholesaler, when we chatted to a guy who had his own brand, he told us it was because a female was making the phone calls for us! we thought no way, couldn't be! but sure enough it only took one call by a male to the same people who had nocked us back before and we had our account!
Now that pissed us right off, when it came to selling the clothes in the shops we found the people who we called didn't even want to know about us, if people weren't asking for our brand they wouldn't stock it, 'but how do we get people to ask for our gear if they can't see it in your store?' we would say. Now most brands at this stage then would get their mates to go down to the shops and ask for their gear, after a few weeks of that they then make a new call to the shop and try and sneak it in that way, but we decided to go online.
We scrapped together enough cash to get our online shop made and as we played around with it we found that the net was a very very interesting place and we started dreaming.......
Still a little bitter about how the clothing and business industry in general had and still where treating us we thought it would be cool to find a way of doing things a little different, we had bumped into heaps of people who were having the same problem, from clothing brands like ourselves to musicians they all seemed to be getting screwed and we decided to do something about it.
We decided the best thing we could do is let people use our site to sell their own gear, we were lucky enough to be able to afford a site, but many people out there with really cool gear couldn't, we started to brainstorm the idea and heaps of other ideas that followed the same principals started to pop up, ummmm....... we could be onto something here we thought, this idea doesn't need to be just about clothes everyone who seems to be young and starting something new no matter how good it is are getting screwed and we can help them out.
We decided to make websites that.... wait for it.... 'focus on providing a platform that removes the restriction of existing systems of commerce and communication via the internet whilst empowering the individual', sounds impressive hey! what does it mean? you'll work it out.... we're still trying.
So that's how we got started.
What's our motivation?
Most people create businesses to make money, although it's nice it doesn't motivate us at Espionage enough for that to be the main reason why we're doing it, we really do like the idea of creating an online brand that helps people like you out, but also we believe that if we make a brand big enough, we might be able to make a really big difference in the world, you see big brands make big money and big money can make a big difference !
At the moment big brands make big money which they use to make their brand bigger which seems to screw over people in a bigger way!
Our idea is to use big chunks of our profits and put it into 'The Espionage Project' which is the Espionage brands own philosophy about making the world a better place, this incorporates all sorts of things, I guess some good examples are that the office here is run on 100% green energy, we help fund work in orphanages and even the websites we create are free to use and are of a benefit to people in that they help people communicate and source information as well as being able to sell their own products (more of those sites coming).
The Espionage Project has a page that's been designed as a communication and support tool for people involved in projects around the world, it has a forum and profile page as well as other tools. It's a restricted site so if you are working or involved with projects that assist others in need then get in contact with us and we'll tell you how to access the site.
We want the Espionage brand to be a new business model on how companies should operate, we want companies to understand that it is in the best interest of their shareholders and customers to make the world they live in a better place.