Saturday, September 16, 2023
pamphlets cont'd
The pamphlet saga continues. I decided that by only being able to print and make four or eight at a time, I'm actually slowing down the process of getting these pamphlets out there, when I know there are printers out there who will just make a hundred and be done with it. So I went out to try to get estimates.
I got one - $130 for 100 - which is significantly higher than the $.80 * postage that I now charge. I could just make a hundred, pay $130, and charge $1.30 + postage and it would almost double the cost. I might do it though. I literally don't have time to run four or eight through our little home printer every day until I get a back stock of a hundred.
They are popular in St. Louis - they keep asking for more. If they get around (and I have done literally NO marketing really) I could very easily find orders piling up and myself unable to keep up with them. I have not put the word out on the Facebook Quaker sites although Cloud Quakers are familiar with them and they appear on the CQ site every once in a while. What I'm saying is that this idea of being backlogged is not that far from reality. One order of fifty from St. Louis and I'm already backlogged.
The other possibility is becoming more efficient here at home. I've actually got a better printer than the one I use - it's bigger and faster, but it takes "noncontinuous ink" and I haven't figured that out yet - somehow I have the wrong ink in it and it's stalling on me. It can crank out ten or twenty in the time the other one cranks out four. But we don't really have room for it here in the house. And, I haven't solved that nasty ink problem.
One way or the other Maurine's pamphlets will get back out there and enjoy the fame they have coming to them. She worked hard on it, and this is what I have to remember her.
I got one - $130 for 100 - which is significantly higher than the $.80 * postage that I now charge. I could just make a hundred, pay $130, and charge $1.30 + postage and it would almost double the cost. I might do it though. I literally don't have time to run four or eight through our little home printer every day until I get a back stock of a hundred.
They are popular in St. Louis - they keep asking for more. If they get around (and I have done literally NO marketing really) I could very easily find orders piling up and myself unable to keep up with them. I have not put the word out on the Facebook Quaker sites although Cloud Quakers are familiar with them and they appear on the CQ site every once in a while. What I'm saying is that this idea of being backlogged is not that far from reality. One order of fifty from St. Louis and I'm already backlogged.
The other possibility is becoming more efficient here at home. I've actually got a better printer than the one I use - it's bigger and faster, but it takes "noncontinuous ink" and I haven't figured that out yet - somehow I have the wrong ink in it and it's stalling on me. It can crank out ten or twenty in the time the other one cranks out four. But we don't really have room for it here in the house. And, I haven't solved that nasty ink problem.
One way or the other Maurine's pamphlets will get back out there and enjoy the fame they have coming to them. She worked hard on it, and this is what I have to remember her.
