An email arrived today that began with a website link and a simple sentence: “What planet does this guy live on???”
I clicked the link…and found that “a certain retail consultant” is recycling his old material, telling merchants to delay participation in consumer awareness campaigns (again singling out only The 3/50 Project by name).
Yeah. Right. Limit your store’s visibility during these days of stiff internet and big box competition. Not exactly the advice I’d give. (Ever.)
My brother is the third generation running our family business (cattle, corn, and horses). Lucky me, I got to watch generations #1 and #2 build what Greg sits at the helm of today. It wasn’t until adulthood that it struck me–evenings around our family dinner table doubled as Master Class sessions titled “How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur,” with Dad in the role of Professor.
6.16.11 Editor’s note: Based on the sheer volume of panicked emails from folks who kept putting this off (now “up against the clock” as a result), we’re going to leave the update link up for two more days—through the end of the day Friday. After that, though, it’s gone, since the server time is being comp’d by a local brick and mortar whose gracious welcome is something we don’t want to overstep.
Today’sFriday June 17th is the day–last chance to update your business info with The 3/50 Project! Three emails were sent to more than 15,000 businesses over the past three weeks, asking them to update their info with us before the deadline.
Not all businesses were sent update emails—only those in the left hand columns on our Supporter pageswho registered before February 20, 2011. If your business appears there, and you registered before February 20th of this year, please check your spam folder…quickly…or you’ll miss out. [click here to continue…]
Thanks to the ever-fabulous Joan Schnee, owner of On Paper in Columbus, Ohio, for doing such a terrific job of spreading the word about The 3/50 Project via their local NBC affiliate, WCMH-TV. Joan’s been a rock star on my radar for several years, both as a retailer and as someone who felt so passionately about high quality recycled paper that she founded a wholesale option, Green Paper Company.
Better yet? She’s a fabulous, smart, fun, delightful person to hang with, and someone I’ve been fortunate to call “friend” since shortly after we met.
Here’s a virtual high five to Joan and neighboring business owner, Mary Ernst (Rose Bredl Flowers), for all their dedication and hard work on behalf of the Project. It’s people like them who breathe life into what we do. Fabulous!
I’m going to be so relieved when this is finished.
As you know, The 3/50 Project began the process of overhauling our database a couple of months ago (although, truth be told, the lion’s share of the work didn’t begin until Nick, Justin, and Brett took the reins a couple of weeks ago). Currently, we’re in the stage that requires most of our Supporters to update the info we have on file—no small task.
This time around, as the reminder emails go out, things should flow a littleconsiderably smoother than they did last weekend. Suffice it to say, this has been quite a learning curve, for both the software engineers in Wisconsin and me in Minneapolis. [click here to continue…]
An email arrived today that began with a website link and a simple sentence: “What planet does this guy live on???”
