Flying High!

DVD-Photo-Memories.com now has a new office and a new address. 4565 Ruffner St. #107, San Diego, CA 92111. We share an office with an attorney who has generously loaned a bunch of office furniture and important electronics to us. This has been enormously helpful since it gives us much more time to focus on the more important matters, such as getting up to speed on orders.

DVD-Photo-Memories.com is now fully operational within the confines of its new Ruffner St. office. Enough orders to hire a new employee. The new employee seems to be multi-talented with skills in both order processing and sales. This is such a great benefit for DVD-Photo-Memories.com because now Chuck pass off some of the work.

So It's Time To Take A Break....Sigh...

How many things have changed in the last week or so? My partner, Ben, and I have gone our separate ways. Ben needs a more stable job in a field that he has more experience in. So he is no longer my partner.

I, however, am still moving forward with DVD-Photo-Memories.Com. And things with the company are going very fast. After the initial success with the farmers market DVD-Photo-Memories.Com has gotten a lot of business. More than I can handle myself. The first step I took to handle the increased business is hired a new employee to work at the farmers markets. The only problem (anyone please provide helpful comments about this) is that the TV I use to show my seven minute promotional video is about 100 lbs. I can barely carry it from my car and onto the table at the booth, so I know that the girl I hired will not be able to. The only reasonable solution I can think of is to buy a lighter TV, but those start around $1000. I'm thinking that if I could entice a TV store (Bestbuy, Tweeter, ETC.,) to lend me the TV in exchange for making a one-minute promotional video that I would incorporate into my regular seven minute video that I already play during the farmers market. That way they could advertise their TV's on one of their TV's.

Also, with the expected increased business I am going forward and leasing an office. The big decisions are the location, square footage, and price. I want the office to be in a central location with freeways nearby. I was thinking Mission Valley, Northpark, Hillcrest, Kearny Mesa, Clairemont Mesa. And my Grandpa Wayne is helping me figure out the correct amount of square footage I need for the time being. We are thinking anywhere from 169 sq. ft. to 400. So if you have any helpful hints please let me know. Thanks in advance.

The next two weeks are going to very exciting. If my numbers are correct I should be able to finance this whole operation and even make a profit. I'll let you know it goes.

A Jack of All Trades and a Master of None

Now that I am getting many different types of jobs, I need to decide which ones to take myself and which ones to outsource or pass on. I've gotten offers for many promotional videos and even some wedding videography. Both are lucrative options, however I think that unless I can clone myself there is no way that I can get my fingers into too many different areas right now. My dad once told me that you can do a few things really well, or many different things not very well. I subscribe to the former.

Any ideas? Feel free to post comments if you have any.

I Think Maybe We'll Buy The Farm!

Can you believe Ben and I worked at three different farmer's markets this week? We made it to the Ocean Beach, Clairemont Mesa, and Scripps Ranch. I think that all of them were sucessful, but I suppose we won't really know until we see how many orders we get from them. For the money however, this seems to be the most cost effective marketing strategy so far.