Monday, September 14, 2009

It's Nice Having Friends Around the State

Over the past few years, I've had the pleasure to work with other small businesses around California on a statewide office supply contract. Shawn and Oz in Campbell, Tim in San Diego, James in Santa Monica, Bonnie in Rancho Cordova, Mark in Roseville, Tim and Susan in Lafayette--it continues to be a wonderful collective groove as we share stories of our businesses, our great customers and even what we do when we're not wearing our office supply hats. I consider them my friends. Best of luck to all us...I look forward to working with you for years to come!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I Love Being In The Sentiment Business

I contend that no green office supply store is complete without a large assortment of eco-friendly greeting cards.

Yeah, I know there's Facebook, Linkedin, e-mail, blogs, Twitter...hey, I use 'em all but, with all due respect to the electronic era, nothing beats a nice hand written note...it's personal, tactile and kind of shows that you care about someone. They can be humorous, warm, serious, caring, loving and just downright silly.


All Waldeck's greeting cards are either made of recycled paper or tree free paper...some are even made with hemp (put THAT in your pipe and...).

Perhaps, the most wonderful feeling is when two people are looking at the cards together, start chuckling, laughing harder and then start laughing and chuckling about the next card before they're done laughing and chuckling from the previous card. It's a joyful sound that brings alot of positive vibes and great spirit into Waldeck's and that's why I love being in the sentiment business.