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Hey Everybody -

FRIDAY – now that things have settled down a bit after our transition into the new building at church, I actually start having my day off again, Fridays. Typically, Fridays aren’t a day off work … just off work @ church. I’ve still got to get up and enter lyrics for ProPresenter this weekend (one of my tasks that didn’t get completed), but for the most part, I’m done until Sunday.

However, as a small business owner – I have a ka-zillion other things that stay on the back burner until Fridays when I catch up. Until I can find a good part-time assistant to return phone calls, take orders, process orders, and manage inventory, I have to neglect most of my incoming sales calls – many don’t leave voicemails … many leave voicemails, only to have shopped elsewhere by the time I call them back. NOT good business … for the folks who did it simple, and order online …. it makes the world so much easier. Speaking of … for all you folks w/ Macs, iPods, iPhones, PDA, BlackBerry, Treo, etc … checkout all the goodies we offer at GetSkinsNow.Com.

Anyway – I love Fridays. For the first couple of hours, I juggle attempts at beginning work, while at the same time listening to the non-stop beckoning calls from the younger two kids through the baby monitor as Joy has a girl’s accountability group for b’fast every Friday AM from around 8:30 – 10:15.

Today:
1. There are currently 753 messages in my email inbox.
2. Only 75 unread blogs in my GoogleReader (unfortunately, those are lower on the priority list)
3. I have multiple cases of product from vendors to check-in, ship out, or manage. (new cases for MacBook and HP 6000 series from Speck, a huge shipment from Canada/Hong Kong arriving today from UNIEA, more from Marware, InvisibleShield, OtterBox, iSkin, and Klear-Screen)
4. I have 3 piles of paperwork on my desk – tax paperwork, invoices to be paid, bank statements
5. I have a stack of returns/exchanges spilling over in a pile on the floor.
6. I have 3 big boxes of NEW PRODUCTS that have arrived from vendors that aren’t listed anywhere for sale yet.
7. I have a few banking errands that are like bugs biting me … need to take care of them, but they are just nuisance errands that I don’t really feel like dealing with yet.
8. We’ve been approved as official dealers for M-Audio, maker of incredible music products, including keyboards, monitors, studio headphones, in-ear monitors (the IE-30′s are awesome), music software, ProTools plugins, USB MIDI controllers, guitar processors, etc. We have full dealership to all the M-Audio product line – so I have a huge bit of products to get added into our listings at Ebay and Amazon … in the meantime, if you want any M-Audio gear, I will make you an awesome price. Contact me directly. And hey – how ’bout spreading the word that you can get M-Audio gear from me!? Thanks.

Think I’m kidding? I’m ashamed to show you just ONE ANGLE of my studio/office (much more an office/warehouse these days as opposed to a studio).

How’d you like to walk in to THIS in the morning? I’ve got my work cut out for me today.
Fred