Bidnez Advice To Self

Over the past year I have been working on getting my inventory of the Historic Woodfinishing DVD replenished as I was quickly running out of inventory, which I finally did several months ago.  But still the orders came in.

The first step was corresponding with the good folks at Popular Woodworking, who produced the original videos, to inquire about their warehouse inventory.  They had none, but did release the rights to the contents to me.  A very generous and classy gesture on their part.

Then I spent a lot of time contemplating the revisions of the cover art and text.  I wanted to simultaneously accomplish three things:

1. Revise the descriptions of the video content
2. Promote The Barn as the new distributor of the DVD
3. Recognize F&W Media as the original producers of the video and retain the general visual presentation of the product

This process took me a surprising amount of time, mostly because I do not have a state-of-the-art graphics and layout package on my compewder.  Once that was done Tim and I sought a fulfillment company to accomplish the task.

Here’s the strong bidnez advice: do not select a fulfillment vendor who is located in the path of both hurricanes plowing through Florida.  The business we were working with just disappeared.

Still, Webmeister Tim worked his magic and got things moving again, and this week I received the first box of new DVDs.  A second box is due after the holidays.

So at long last I was able to finally get all the back orders sent out.  All should arrive at the customer’s mailbox on Dec 19, just in time for Christmas.  In fact, all the orders for all products have been sent, unless something came in over night I am all caught up!