Only two things left

Well, it's all come down to this, we're about 3 days away from attending the Crossroads gun show in Phoenix and we only have 2 things left to get accomplished.

1. Take delivery of the final foam product - 200 pieces
2. take delivery of the "Blue Gun" display units so the gun show patrons can try out the display Fammocans for themselves. 

We were just informed that our foam is ready and all we have to do is figure out if they're going to ship it to us or if we're going to drive down on our own and pick it up.

The "Blue Guns" are a different story altogether. The short version, the first warehouse that we ordered them from has been less than helpful and has not been able to confirm or deny the possibility of our shipment arriving by Thursday so I've canceled the order with them and found a new supplier that will allow me to go to their office and pick up what they have in stock. It's not what I originally ordered but it'll do for now, plus I know for sure that I'll have them in time.

Here's a picture of the final foam product -

Keeping Busy

So last week I had a few things on my "to-do" list.

Here's what got accomplished.

T-Shirts - Done
Stickers - Ordered
Shipping of product to Phoenix - Done (going to get a Uhaul trailer and then borrow a friends pick up to get it out there)
The foam prototype was finished last Wed and I went down on Thursday to check it out and I had hoped to have those samples back at the house that day in order to take some photos but, there is a slight adjustment that is needed and a new set of dies needs to be tooled. I hope to have that process completed before mid-week this week, we'll see. On a good note however, they looked awesome! I can not wait to bring these things out to Phoenix next week. I think I have a winner on my hands here but, you never know. I keep looking over the numbers and the price is right, the product is right and it fills a need for people in a cost effective manner.

Moving on...
I placed an order for the first round of "CanCaddy's" and should have them by the end of the week next week.
Once I have the photos of the actual foam I'll have the mailers completed. I've set a date to send those out by next Monday and then I will e-mail all of the same places on Wed. and then also send out a follow up mailer with a reminder and a sticker on Wed.

Other things I completed last week -
I got the idea for a table display so people could "try-it-before-they-buy-it" kind of set up. So  got a 2x2 board, made a couple of legs so it's angled, screwed 2 ammocans to the board I'll have 3 demo "Blue Guns" chained to the board so people can see how the system works. I think this will be a huge impact on the individual sales for the weekend. I also went to Kinkos and printed out a 22 inch display with all of the prices for each product.

Below are of the pictures of the display case, the display prices, and the t-shirts.