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Starting last year, my brother and I sat down with our parents to do our first "just in case" meeting (funeral plans, lists of accounts, doctors, utilities, insurance, social security, tax papers, etc...the list goes on). We have another meeting this week to update everything we started last...

Every once in a while, I get in one of those moods to "clean house" and simplify. Today's topic of concern is that big box of CDs that's been collecting dust. I want to copy them all onto an external drive and then give them the big heave-ho...everything except OEM software and family...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY JB

Thursday was the end of four very busy weeks, and four very different projects. Lots of photos...too many to post here...but here are our fb links: Ronald Reagan Memorial (Engraved the bricks and set the bronze plaque) There's also a couple of photos of someone almost everybody...

...Translated from the Latin, it means for "Strength Rejoices in the Challenge". It's located at the cross country track at Hillsdale College and was pulled from the fence row in the back of the field. After completion, I found it to be a very fitting title for such a project. It...

As a former vocational trades teacher, it was mandated that we accumulate a minimum number of professional development hours each year. For the most part, we were allowed the freedom to choose those activities and seminars that we deemed beneficial to our needs. So...now that I'm a business...

Should be easy, but I'm clueless. The "K" and comma seem unique to this typeface. Look at it a while...it's actually engraved into granite, but the optical illusion will make it appear raised. Thanks in advance, Jim

Even though we've been in business just five years, we still have a lot of "start up" characteristics that comes from building a business totally from scratch...and with zero business experience. We've entered Startup Nation's Home-Based 100 Competition and would appreciate it if you could...

Had a glass etcher friend ask me about this one. As you can see, the glass is laminated...and broken and needs to be replaced. Many thanks, Jim

Just a quick thanks to everybody who helped us get our business page back on facebook with our own domain name. For those who haven't checked us out yet, you can still "like" us at http://www.facebook.com/JarsaCo Now that dilemma is over, I can finally get back to work. JB

I was up late last night working on facebook and accidently deleted our business page. We need a minimum of 25 fans in order to get our facebook domain name re-established, so please check us out at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jarsa-and-Company-Stone-Engraving/237504886272742 and see what we...

Well, I have to admit I'm un-educated when it comes to vinyl since we do mostly sandblasting (stone). Heavy monument stencil material is our medium of choice for the majority of our work. It's time to letter the new (white) shop truck and I was thinking it would look good with black...

I had a post earlier last month about prepping my business for sale in the next twenty or so years, and the responses were great. Thank you to all who contributed. But for anybody who's currently going through their exit stragegy, do you care to share what's going on? (I'm lookng to hear...

The top three diseases that run in my family are heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes. Each poses their own unique threat, but when teamed up together the synergy produced by those "multiple morbidities" is extremely bad. As for me, so far, so good on all three accounts. I'm 46 years...

Well, class is finally over and the business plan is 90% complete. A few more days should have my financials in order and life will resume back to some normalcy. A last minute acquisition of my customer’s clients snarled my attempts to get things 100% finished and I learned that when business...

Well, after five years of being in business and six weeks of class (http://fasttrac.org/entrepreneurs/programs/FastTrac-GrowthVenture.aspx), I finally have a written business plan. It’s been a tough row to hoe since I feel like I'm still learning business as a “second language”. My...

My wholesale customer has been struggling for the past two or three years and calls me to let me know he's letting me have all his clients that I had been servicing through him. This aspect of his business had been dragging him away from his more profitable areas and things were beginning to...

FastTrac Growth Venture: Week 4 Operations…”Why do we do things THAT way?” Fortunately, our instructor didn’t give us any homework this week as we’re still trying to tie up loose ends from our previous assignments related to financial matters, our marketing plans and our competitive...

I found 48 CD's of vector, raster and photo images on CD today. They came with two very thick catalogs and it's a dang shame I can't open anything. I was hoping Illustrator would somehow be able to read the files. Other CDs in the bunch were some older Adobe software, and misc print shop...

I've resolved to change over to a computerized accounting system and I'm wondering how easy it was for any of you to make the switch to Quick Books? I'm having a difficult time customizing my forms & invoices with my logo to the correct size. Am I missing something or don't they let you...