I put the dreaded “today is the last day for Christmas orders” up on the home page today. It’s not that I couldn’t get an order out in time if it came in over the weekend, or even later, but I have a backlog of orders, maybe still another 25 to get through. That’s all I have to write today. I’m about to drop off another 6 orders at Fedex, and then I’m coming back for a nap. I’m beginning to make mistakes, i.e. I didn’t notice that I was almost out of yellow ink until it was too late and just did a rush order with ShadesOfPaper.com which will arrive tomorrow. So no more printing today.
I’ve recommended ShadesOfPaper.com before. I don’t get any kickbacks for it. I just like to mention vendors that have treated me as a human being. And that is rare. No charge from them for the overnight delivery. And they have paper sales for particular brands – usually one brand a day – and when they had the 50% sale on Epson Exhibition Paper I really stocked up. So if it’s worth it to get their newsletter just so you can get notified when they have a sale on the paper you use.
The other company that is top-notch is Uline.com Since they have warehouses scattered around the country, I always get next day delivery for ground prices from them. I have a shipment of the large stay flat mailers arriving tomorrow. Those are really the most versatile shipping stuff I’ve found. For smaller prints you can fold them over twice and use less cardboard. For large prints, you can stack them, one per mailer with cardboard between the stacks and that works really well for two or three large prints. After that I have to use the large folding cartons which I still have to cut down to custom sizes.
As you can see – I’m too tired to write creatively… just some stuff that might be of use to someone out there.
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“Delete the Poet’s walk poster from dazzle…People should continue to pay you for your signature image…
No free rides!” – Matt
What about something like this? Or, since I’m not Ansel Adams, I can make the title larger and my name smaller underneath the title.
Hi Dave:
When you have a chance please send me the product number for the Uline mailers.
Glad business is good in this economy
Craig Nisnewitz
10 Dec 09 at 3:50 pm
Delete the Poet’s walk poster from dazzle…People should continue to pay you for your signature image…
No free rides!
MattW
10 Dec 09 at 6:43 pm
I think the posters should be done as posters, i.e. if you do a search for Ansel Adams posters, you’ll find his name across the bottom, with the name of the print.
The posters should really be done the same way, i.e. designed as posters so that they aren’t competing with the prints. You can find examples of what I mean at AllPosters[dot]com if you search for Ansel Adams.
DB
dave
10 Dec 09 at 7:12 pm
I was just breaking your balls Dave…I hope you sell a thousand of these…
MattW
10 Dec 09 at 10:46 pm
Yeah, but I had been thinking about how the posters should look compared to the prints. And you reminded me of the idea that the posters should look like posters. I think I mentioned in the blog how I had a huge Andreas Fifth Avenue poster on my wall for years; long before I knew anything about him, and liked having the name and title on it. Same for an Ansel poster that I had at work a long time ago of half dome with his name and even some small print at the bottom describing the camera and other bits of info about the shot. They haven’t sold much compared to the calendars anyway. So it would be interesting to have different designs.
dave
11 Dec 09 at 6:30 am
Hmm . . .
You just made my day. I’m going to
revise all my Zazzle stuff so posters
look like posters.
What could be better, a huge poster
with an advert on the bottom that
gets your name out there?
Be sure your struggles are my inspiration.
Stephen
Stephen Bray
11 Dec 09 at 9:47 am