A smooth balance…
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Incoming orders to my business are fairly consistent, with growing sales each year. Any loss in orders which might be attributed to dropping prices elsewhere in the industry, are more than offset by the growing market and an increase in local, no-ship orders. Also, as my customer base grows, orders from repeat customers increase.
Doing this work part-time, from my home-office, my capacity is limited. Most of the time, orders comes in at a rate quite close to my ability to process them comfortably. It’s rare that I’m over-burdened with work. It’s also rare that I have a day with no orders to work on.
After shipping out an order to a repeat customer, a cosmetic surgeon in Massachusetts on Monday, I had a couple of enjoyable days, with no orders to work on, a smooth balance.
Today, 124 slides arrived from Richard in Los Osos, CA. His order consists entirely of Kodachrome film, shot in the mid 70’s, to be scanned at 4000 PPI.
I got an e-mail reply from a relatively new, Canada based, slide scanning service provider. I wrote to them last week suggesting we exchange links. Since I don’t serve the Canada market, I felt that exchanging links would help promote each others pages. They agreed the link exchange would be a good idea so I’ll soon be creating a page for 35MM slides & scanning related links at www.slidescanning123.com.