Our company's expanding!! =)

I got some great news last night. A friend of ours from Mount Carmel is going to school for Graphic Design & needed an internship with a graphic design company, so he thought of us. We started talking & all of a sudden me & Cory saw a chance to do the expanding we've wanted to do so bad. We've been talking about advertising our company in many other areas outside of Lancaster county, but limiting it to graphic design jobs, which we can do through the internet & phone. But we weren't sure about some things that are better done in person, like showing our portfolio to customers. And also, we didn't want to make the customer responsible for things like scanning an old picture that they want restored. So Dani (our friend) is going to start being responsible for a "branch" of our company down there & take care of all that stuff that needs done in-person. He'll meet with customers, scan anything we need to work on, print out the final copy & give it to them, take their payments, etc. And of course, he's getting a large portion of the payment. As for the actual work, him & Cory will collaborate & come up with a joint finished project. Although if there's ever a job that one of them really wants to do on their own, that's okay too.

Hopefully Friday (pending the graphic director's permission) we'll be able to print a ton of flyers & business cards at the graphic design press-room at Steven's. We want to get some cards printed out with just our names & others with just Dani's name & contact info (& of course the company name), all on thick, good stock cards. We're going up there Saturday & hope to give him some flyers & his own stack of business cards so he can distribute them as he pleases. We also wanted to get a copy of Cory's portfolio that he can add some of his own work into it & show it to customers if they request it.

While we were planning this, I started to see openings for expansion pretty much everywhere. That's one of my favorite parts of this business, is that we can do it in-person or over the internet & snail mail, so we aren't limited to Lancaster County or places we can drive to. We're soon going to invest in buying a domain & setting up an awesome website. Once that's done, we're hoping to start getting internet orders from anywhere in the US. Can you see how great this could be if we really have the perserverance & dedication to make it work??! =)

On other news, this weekend was good, just really loooooong. =( Cory worked 12 hours on Saturday (12-12) & 8 hours yesterday (12-8) so I pretty much spent the whole time chasing Steve around. But now that it's the week & he's back to working just 6 hr shifts, we should be able to get some fun in every so often too. =)