A Long Sabbatical

I suppose you can say I am on a Blogging Sabbatical. With a new business and no time to post, plus since I have recently gotten engaged I have to plan a wedding now too. So you will not see much of me.

Hopfully I will be get back to this blog and refresh the original idea of looking for ideas and sharing a little creativity, all while driving perfectionists nuts with my lousy spelling.

What a mess

Looks like there are a few cobwebs and dust bunnies taking up residence here. I am just dropping in. There is a lot going on but not a lot of time.

I'll see what I can do to clean things up around here.

NOW OPEN!!!

After countless days of, trials, triumphs, a little frustration and a lot of thanksgiving, we are ready to open our doors. If you live in Elk Grove, CA or just happen to be in the area and you are in need of business cards, NCR forms, or rubber stamps, please stop by (or anything theng else you need printed). If you are just surfing web, the check us out at elkgrove.minutemanpress.com

It is hard to believe that we have been working on opening for the past year, plus a couple of months. Not to mention, when everything appeared to be falling apart, a few days later whatever it was worked itself out. Now we can hit the ground running.

Pushing the Envelope

Maybe not pushing the envelope literally, it's more like we are trying to push door hangers, flyers, work orders, business cards, invoices, or even mugs. Yup, we are not offically open, yet we have already been called for each of these items.

The challenging part is trying to figure out how we can do these things since we do not have a press operator (btw, we are going to make an offer to a person we interveiwed friday). Somethings are easy and can be printed digitally or do not need a press operator. The porblem is learning the pricing system plus the learning the ins and outs of our various central facilities. Right now, we don't have contact information for the the facility that does mugs in our area. The home office hasn't gotten us that information yet.

To be cliche, some people might say we have hit the ground running. I would say it is more like we are trying to run but we haven't hit the ground yet.

I do know this, once we start, I will have plenty of design topics to talk about.

Last Minute Details

sign
Originally uploaded by krumbecker.

Supposedly, there are 3 days left until we open, but we are not quite ready. At least, we are getting down to the final details. Today, the front sign was finally installed. We also interviewed for press operators today.

We will make a decision on who we want to hire and some last minute training on marketing. Plus, do a little promotional work and other in house stuff.

I will definately pass on when we are officially open.