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having owned bussinesses all my life, i have come to several conclusions.
non of what i am about to say applies to government, but thats a story not for here.
1. all bussinessesses depend on customers.
2. my belief that i have lived by is, ''comunication is key to success''
3. in all, be honest and truthfull, and you'll never have to make up stories to cover your lies.

it seems Chris/Boardsort has 1 and 3 down pat, so much so that i need to cast review on #2.
so busy with customers that he is overwhelmed. '' My email is overwhelmed and inefficient. ''. evidently!
''As an alternative I provide a phone number to call me''. major bottleneck here as for 2 weeks, as none here have gotten thru to him for 2 weeks.
no bussiness of mine, but why not have front office help to take care of most questions and emails, leaving Chris to do what he does best. Answer toughest questions and run his shop. He is quite good at the shop part. you don'y expand like he recently has if you arn't good in the shop and have an abundance of customers.
I believe a competent knowledgble person up front, doing the grunt work, would go a long way to help Boardsort/Chris to keep up with his expansion.

just sayin...

carry on!

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

i know of what i speak!
some bussinesses i have owned.
13 yr old kid pushing mower around the neighborhood.
landscpaping and lawn maintenance. first co i sold. sold route and sold equiptment seperately. 19yrs old
gopher removal service. government interupted. old days of ''answering service'', as mobile phones just comig out. big, bulky and dollars a minute. mid 1980's. 23yrs old
O/O truck driver. 30 yrs old
freight brokerage. sold for 3/4 mil. 41 yrs old
print shop. sold equiptment when i closed. 51 yrs old
and now buy at auction, and sell on the side .
and also now wanting to move years of computer ''scrap'' and and vintage avionics laden with presious metals.

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

So glad we got a reply from the source! I have a box to send soon and I understand the turnaround.

The need for a bigger building on top of getting moved into it, I just assumed Chris was busy. But when even Lost hadn't been able to get in touch, that was concerning, but at that point only one person was making a stink about not getting paid, and that was test and buy not scrap. So I mostly brushed it off but was genuinely hoping everything was okay and that nothing was wrong outside of the business. This week rolled around, I got tired of Austin complaining, and Lost was still ready to drive out to Boardsort. So not wanting Lost to have to drive over there if he didn't need to, I did my research and called another person I hoped was within the business and shared who I was and the general concern for Chris being alright (cause the vocal forum members hadn't been able to reach him). I let them know I didn't have pressing business myself nor had there been any noticeable disruption to people getting paid, we just hadn't heard from him and hoped all was well.

For what it's worth, Chris has always been great to talk to when I've needed to, which isn't often. He largely isn't on the forum, which is perfectly reasonable to me, it's a place for members to help each other out so that there's a little less on his plate. Lately I've had time so I do my best to help grade material, though I wish Lost would pop into What is it? more often ’:D

Chris did mention they're continuing to grow (as did the person I talked to) and getting more staff to keep up and setting up new systems to make things work smarter (not harder). I'm sure there will be hiccups, training takes time and all the while we're still sending him material. Hopefully that all goes as smoothly as possible and maybe Chris will find someone great to help with some of the office stuff.


Also...Goph-Busters xD

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Here to learn more so I can recycle more
My grades are my own opinion and not an official grade from Boardsort

3 kinds of people.

1, dont do anything

2, how the heck did he fit all that in a day

3, those that could do so much more. delegating work to others


did i say i smoke some good sh*t

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

Ghost Busters era
ads i designed an put in local paper. cali actually put all the old papers searchable online.

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol: