by Robert Bond on April 27, 2012
So where’s the shirts? HERE! HERE’s your stinkin’ shirts, alright?!
Wild, needless outbursts aside, even in the face of never-ending tasks and complications (like the paypal one mentioned in our previous post), we’ve managed to produce our own neck labels and get them pressed into the collars of the shirts for our first run!
Speaking of this first run, I won’t reveal what’s to be printed, but as soon as the final website upgrades are made for our new payment gateway, production will start, and then the site will launch.
Baby steps, baby steps!
by Robert Bond on April 27, 2012
PayPal is one of those things that SHOULD be an extremely powerful ally to people who want to process credit card payments online. Turns out it’s exactly what budding entrepreneurs need it to be, and one thing they definitely don’t want it to be: broken.
I don’t want to get into all boring details, but let it suffice to say that PayPal kind of “shit the bed” with an important client of mine. It was a payment “Send Limit” issue, and there was apparently “nothing to be done” about it.
I will concede that the customer support wait times were refreshingly minimal, but that does not detract from the fact that both my client and I came away from the situation in a very frustrated and confused state. And this is not anything new for PayPal. They’ve made many improvements over the years, but they’re clearly still more interested in getting my customers to sign up and sign in than they are in simplifying everyone’s experience and getting merchants their money; which is baffling since they get 3% of every transaction! What good is a payment processor that doesn’t process payments, I ask you?!
So at this point, the options are: GIVE our products and services away, or sign up for a legit merchant account and work flexibly from this point on. The decision was obvious to us, and within the next few weeks, we should be all signed up with Moneris Solutions (who’ve been very helpfull, and are surprisingly affordable) and able to process payments the right way. This of course will require some hours to implement on mindfull.co, but I believe it’s worth it.
More launch and product updates soon!
by Robert Bond on March 8, 2012
Update [apr.02/12]: Printing 1000 shirts is a lot of work, and working around the schedule of a stand-up comedian is difficult when you have several jobs. We didn’t get Daniel on our show this time, but he was more than willing, so we’ll be sure to connect with him in some way/shape/form in the future. Hopefully we’ll get him into one of our MindFull tees at some point!
Many of you who used to listen to our old “Hotcakes” podcast may remember Comedian Daniel Kinno paying us a visit on one episode.
Daniel’s comedy is sharp, and delivered with precision and playfulness, and we were excited to hear he was making another trip to Winnipeg for some more comedy dates at Rumor’s comedy club. Even more exiting was the fact that he came with 90% new, and even funnier material. More exciting yet, is that he’ll be appearing on the Mindfull Show in the next few weeks!
What about the shirts, you ask? I know, I know; and I’m not avoiding the topic. Our initial designs are complete, and ready to print when the blank tees arrive. There are a few remaining tweaks to make to the website, but for the most part we’re ready to go. We had planned to open the site to the public on the 15th of this month, but we’ve received a few new printing jobs since making those plans, and the money from these jobs will really come in handy for producing more new Mindfull products in the future, and advertising for them. Things are progressing though. Keep an eye on the “Works in Progress” section of the blog for more updates soon, and of course we’ll discuss shirts more on future episodes of the podcast!
In the meantime, enjoy our upcoming chat with Daniel, and check him out online. He’s on Twitter, is a regular on the amazing Todd Glass Show, and you can find some of his older material on YouTube. Also, his latest album seems to be available here.