Our neighbors in our industrial park are Ruan Transportation, a large trucking company. We share part of a really big building. As we pulled into the parking lot on Monday morning, we saw this:
That’s insane. I’ve never seen anything like it. Normally they just have a handful of relatively new, clean [...]
It’s 4:13 PM on Tuesday and I think this is the first second that I’ve had to relax since last Wednesday. The past five days have been out of control busy. When posted on Thursday I was excited to find out what was to come of our Thanksgiving-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday sale, but I wasn’t quite [...]
Last year I wrote about how we use our shipping dock as a hockey goal. For a while it was fun to just blast shots at the goal. Then it was fun to try to score a goal from real far away. Then it was fun to put up targets with pictures of our least [...]
My favorite Lifehacker posts are their “featured workspaces.” If you haven’t seen it, people submit their unique work areas and they pick the best of the best to display on the blog. The ones they pick are usually some combination of simplicity, elegance, creativity, and affordability. If you have a few minutes, [...]
Wtf is going on this winter? My plans totally keep getting messed up. Today I have a cold/flu, and this is what it currently looks like outside of the warehouse (all of that is from the last 2-3 hours):
New Years Eve plans officially canceled. Who knows when FedEx will make it out to us to [...]
Apparently our specials worked pretty well. We pretty much crushed our expectations for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Take a look at our shipping area on Monday with all of the orders from over the weekend:
That prior record of 73 items shipped out in a day is now somewhere around 130. Then we followed that up [...]
I mentioned in my last post that I was going to come back and delve a little deeper into our new packing area.
The process outlined below is a combination of George’s prior e-commerce experience, my industrial engineering experience, Greg’s overall business experience, and the work that Mike has done in studying how our competition and [...]
A whole lot has changed since that frigid Monday in February when we worked our first day from our warehouse. We survived not paying ourselves, we’ve grown our sites by leaps and bounds, we’ve made significant improvements to all of our business processes from accounting to shipping, and we’ve seen revenue grow to more than [...]
Back in March I wrote about how I was changing my schedule to accommodate our early morning deliveries to our warehouse. Six months later, we’ve all pretty much acclimated to working from 7:30 AM to around 3:30 PM on our warehouse days. Even though we’ve more than doubled our inventory since March, we’re able to [...]
Back when we moved into our warehouse we were shocked to find out that there was no high speed internet available in our building. When we contacted local high speed providers, we quickly realized that adding a line to the building would cost a ton (like either $4,000 down plus $140/mo, or $300/mo with a [...]
