Today was long yet exciting for me. I woke up early and drove out to the New Jersey shore so that I could meet one of our best dealers at a job site. They were putting in one of our aluminum deck stairs and I was looking forward to not only discussing the project and our product, but to take some pictures of them installing it.

For those of you who don’t know we do not install our spiral stairs. Instead we choose to manufacture the highest quality spirals and ship them around the world. This ensures some of our contractor and builder customers that we will not be competing against them on regional installs, but more importantly it allows us to focus on being the best manufacturer possible. This is why I was so excited to meet the installers becasue we always need more field knowledge about what is working great and what needs improvement. While we already have the best spiral on the market, we are constantly striving to improve. This is not some marketing ploy, I personally make it my business to strive for perfection.

That being said I came away with one idea, a bunch of good vidoes/pictures, and a better relationship with one of our installers. I’ll be busy after the holiday posting these things to our facebook page which you can find here… Salter Fan Page – Facebook. Have a great weekend…

Sam

I received the new proofs for our updated brchure today. I’m really excited and I posted the cover proof on our twitter and facebook pages.

I was reading the on-line edition of the journal and there is a great opinon piece citing why the government shouldn’t be running businesses. It seems obvious to me, but nonetheless the writer points out mulitple cases where the government has either made a poor decision to intervene in private markets or try and compete the with the private market. Here it is: WSJ Article.

Also, we recieved a shipment of steel today from a supplier and the weight on the packing slip is way off from the actual weight of the shipment. Now we have to duel over theoretical weights which is industry standard vs. actual weights. Normally the shipment is a little more or a little less, but most likely withing a thousands pounds or so. Today’s shipment is over 7k lbs different on the lighter side than what the invoice states. This is frustrating not only it seems like they are trying to take advantage of me but it is complete waste of time becasuse it takes away from trying to improve our business…

Sam