Friday, January 23, 2015

Our most popular questions revisited: Can I order dry ice?

Mike Noyce

So far, we've had positive feedback on our newest blog series. We appreciate your thoughts and try our best to address any further questions.
Today, our series continues as we explain and answer more of Ice Now's most popular questions.
Last week, we talked about the products that we DO sell.
This week takes a new turn-- it's all about dry ice.
Our question of the day is: "Can I order dry ice?"
Let me explain...

Do we or don't we?
Out of the continuous calls we receive during the day, a good number of those are asking to purchase dry ice.
So to be up front- the answer is NO, we do do not sell dry ice. That is... We do not sell it in bulk, in small quantities, or at all. Our primary customers are events and businesses that need beverage ice.
There are businesses, and even grocery stores, that sell dry ice. But we do not have relationships with any of these companies and can't recommend a good supplier at this time.

The fine line
While we don't offer dry ice, this makes it easier to continue to fulfill our drink ice and snow orders. Our services may grow at some point, but our expertise is currently in these areas. And the related products we currently offer.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Our most popular questions revisited: What products does Ice Now sell?


One thing that new customers have in common is that they always have a lot of questions. Some of these questions are answered on our Commonly Asked Questions page, but we didn't have the space to dive in and go too deep. We felt this was a better place to dig in and answer more specific questions. So in the next blog series we're going to re-visit some of the most reoccurring inquiries we get.

At the end, feel free to let us know if you still have questions about the featured topic or if you would like to see a specific question or topic covered in a future post.

What products does Ice Now sell??

Ice Now is still strongly rooted in our base business which is delivering beverage ice to businesses, restaurants, private parties and events. Our drivers have a daily list of customers that need ice and make a route each morning. When an emergency comes up, we contact a driver in that area to cover the delivery as soon as possible. Sometimes that means the driver has to pick up more ice, which is why we need a specific window of time.

But we don't just drop off ice. Sometimes our customers, especially in the case of special events that will span one day or multiple days, don't have anywhere to store the ice they order. This is why Ice Now also has bins, merchandisers, coolers, and trucks available for rent.



Another product category for us are the ice sculptures we sell. These are custom made creations that we deliver directly to an event location. During the time we added this service, ice luges also became very popular. Since most of our customers were serving alcohol at their functions, we received requests for ice luges to. It wasn't a far stretch so we included this product in our repertoire, allowing customers to customize their luge with a logo or design.

Our last service, which is our newest, is the winter snow we provide to customers. Ice Now has snow-making machines both at our Arizona location and in Las Vegas. Our snow professionals make fresh snow by using beverage-quality ice that is crushed and sprayed out a hose wherever we need it. Surprisingly, man-made snow acts exactly like freshly fallen "real" snow. It can be packed into snow balls, used for sledding, and takes a long time to melt (varying of course based on the weather that day).

This is a fairly concise run-down of the services we offer. If you have further questions about this or another topic, feel free to comment below. We will do our best to answer.