It's Not ALL Work

John spent yesterday and today in Minnesota meeting with a new distributor. But true to form, he managed to squeeze a little fun in.






He made it to the Mall of America where he wandered around aimlessly and ended the night at a movie. Lucky guy.

The meeting with the distributor went well, and we're excited about the impressive response to our product that continues to come in.

Now if only we could get product manufactured fast enough!

I never fully understood the intricacies of this whole process. To go from idea, to patent, to development, and finally to production is much more difficult than I'd imagined. Although, I do understand that even with as slow as it feels things are going, it's still remarkably fast in terms of the typical time frame for this process. And we're immensely grateful.

And They're Off!

We shipped our 1st full pallet of 60 units last night. I wish we'd gotten a photo of the tower of Draw Collars perched precariously in the back of the pick-up! It was quite a sight. But they made it safely to the trucking company, and are on their way to Colorado.

Soon, we will be receiving enough product to build 1000 units, and then we'll really be on our way!

New York Trip

John just got back this week from Arcade, New York where he was invited to participate in a show featuring the new products that debuted at the HPBExpo this year. It was a truly quick trip. His flight left SLC at 11:15 Friday night, got the booth set up on Saturday mornig, managed a quick trip to see Niagara Falls, spent Saturday night in a little town called Hamburg, worked the show on Sunday, caught a plane out of Buffalo, NY Sunday afternoon, and he arrived back here Sunday night (Mon. a.m.) around 1:30. He's still trying to recover.

The following pictures are of the show that Empire Distributing put on back East for the retailers that didn't make it to the Reno Expo. The guys back there at Empire are awesome and John was really impressed by the quality of show they put on. There were over 100 retailers that showed up, and the folks that John was able to talk to were very excited about the Draw Collar.

There was a stage set up, and when John got up to do his presentation, he told the audience that he needed to take their photo for his Public Speaking Merit Badge to earn his Eagle...

The show was set up in Empire Distributing's gigantic warehouse.

The Draw Collar display. You can't actually see the Draw Collar on the stove because the top is lifted up. But like I said, it went well, and people were very excited about the product.

We are looking forward to a great relationship with Empire Distributing and their retailers.