Score Check In

Our Score Counselor, Hugh, called us Tuesday night to check in and see where we are.

So, let's catch you up too.

1) How's the website coming?
Well, we have had one of our friends and Josh's former teachers, Susan Shapiro, of Indiana University East, look at it and give us some tips. She consulted to companies about their web pages during her sabbatical in 2009 (I believe). She gave us a lot of tips, but many of them were a lot for us to handle at this time. We're not web designers. Bottom line.

2) How'd our meeting with Bare Knuckle Marketing go?
Great! Allison and Rebecca are very talented and have a lot of potential to help us. They are hooking us up with their lunch 'n learn schedule and hopefully we can go to that when it comes up. The class will help with how to better handle social media and our interactions with our fans and potential customers. They also suggested to check out the Final Fridays at Pendleton Art Center. It's an art event for artists to sell their work at the event on the last Friday of every month. We attended that this past Friday and it has a lot of potential. We're eager to explore our options with that.

3) Have we looked into Peachtree or Quickbooks yet?
I think we've actually talked about Quicken's Office most, but not totally sure.  I want to be able to interact with the customers and keep a log about them, and I'm not sure that Quicken does this. We haven't had a ton of time to look into it all because we've been trying to just manage making pieces and keep our head above water with our bills.All three programs are close to $180-$200 and that how much we are selling one  some of our pieces. But, that's the rough part, we're not selling that much right now and we have too many other bills to pay.We just can't afford much right now.

4) Have we sold any more pieces?
We sold "Amen" for $200.

"Electrified Again" for $65

And this awesome 3'x5' sign with a price of $400.

5) Can Score do anything else?
At this point, I think that we just need time and money. If Score can give us that, then we're good. :) Most likely they will give us time, so the next best thing is probably finding our customers and displaying our work there. Pendleton Art Center has a lot of potential and we're researching that. This past Friday was interesting and we think that we have a cheap way to display our art through another store owner at that event, but we still have to negotiate and set things up with them.

So until then......

Jen Crandall, Wife/Manager
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