Hello guys and gals,
Just thought I'd drop a note here and let you all know that we haven't given up on our laser business...we just hit a major snag in the road! We've had a lot of computer troubles here in the last year, to the point where we went from having 4 working computers in the house to only having one (that belongs to my daughter and she wasn't sharing lol). The last machine to fail was the business computer and we haven't been able to get a machine up and running to even sell any jobs till the last couple of days. The machine we are running won't run our old hard drive so we've lost all our fonts, graphics, and previous layouts until we can run enough jobs to pay for a new motherboard and processor for the computer that was running the laser, but at least we now have a computer that will run it even if it takes 3 times as long to produce anything due to having to search for graphics and fonts and re-layout our designs of things so basic as 8x10 picture frames. It's tough to buy computer components when I'm still unemployed...and the business can't afford to buy them without jobs to run, the old catch 22. Add to all that that it's been 63 days so far this year over 100 degrees and our laser was in the garage until yesterday when we decided to move it into the house because the only time it would be safe to run it was between like 10pm and 7 am.
Since I'm still not getting any response from my resumes that I've sent out (literally hundreds of them) I'm going to be focusing more on trying to actually make a profit from our business. Heck if I could even just manage to get the machine to pay for itself I'd be thrilled. We actually did do enough jobs in June to almost make the payment and that's the best month we've had so far, but I had to do all the engraving in the middle of the night lol.
Anyway, just wanted to post and say we are still here, and I'm glad to see that many of you are as well. I see from browsing the boards that many have been having a difficult time during this economic slump, but hopefully we will all pull through this soon!
~Alicia