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Andrew Lewis Workshop

First staff meeting of the year today, had to go to the workshop in the snow. The commute took about 30 seconds, which is almost double the normal time. Meeting was a waste of time. I'm the only employee and everything is still terrible, just like before the break.

As the boss I feel like I should put on a brave face for the sake of me, but I'm pretty sure that as an employee I need to do better this year or I'll have to let myself go.

#smallbusiness#smallbiz#workshop
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Scott Norris Photography

🎉 Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉

To kick off 2025 in style, I’m offering 20% off my artist markup on all prints in my Pixels store! 🎨✨

Use code BYNCK at checkout to grab something special—whether it’s a treat for yourself or the perfect gift for someone you love.

Don’t wait too long, though—the sale ends January 15th! 🕒

Take a look and find your favorite piece here: scott-norris.pixels.com/

#smallbiz#wallartdecor#photography
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John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻

This year Apple has released a special edition 8’ tall iPad. No one knows why but they're flying off the shelves. Probably those people who bought the 12' skeletons.

Don't worry, there's enough monster iPads to go around. Imagine reading on that thing!

Anyhow. Happy Day before thanksgiving AKA Wednesday.

Save 35% off anything on my store with code ‘BlackFriday2024’ until December 1.

Tell your friends :)
#bookstodon @scifi #scifibooks #smallbiz #shoplocal @bookstodon

johnwilker.com/shop/

A snowy scene of a Christmas village looking place. There’s a massive iPad sitting in the middle of town. On the iPad’s screen, the cover of ‘Any Job Will Do’
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Sheldon

And while I'm on funny #SmallBiz stories...

I once had to do photos of a shop owned by a woman who was probably mentally ill. Her store was kinda a disaster so it was impossible to photograph.

I had never met her before, but on the first time meeting her, she said she remembered me.

I told her that no, we had never met before, but we knew some people in common. She just repeated, "No. I know you. Your name is Fidel."

Uh, no. I'm Sheldon.

"Fidel."

No, really I'm Sheldon.

"Well, what are we doing today, Fidel?"

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Sheldon

Exhibit 921 of what it's like to work with #SmallBiz. I asked some people for their logos converted into one color images for screen printing purposes. I also offered to do the conversion for anyone who couldn’t do it themselves.

I just got a logo back that looked like someone printed it out and then meticulously colored it in using a black fine point felt tip pen… an impressive effort to be sure.

The absurd and difficult parts of working with small businesses is also what I love about it. You'll never be bored and if you thought you've seen it all, just wait a minute.

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Leona

Got a question for y'all. Given that, as a small bookstore, my profit margins are thread thin at the best of times, and given that this restricts my ability to keep the business running smoothly, what is your opinion of using the "tip" feature on my payment system? Would you tip a small bookstore as a way to say "thank you and please keep rolling" ? Please do add your thoughts in comments. #smallbiz #bookstodon #bookstore #reading

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Sheldon

This is what it's like working with small businesses. I'm trying to help someone with their Wix account. I ask for their login info.

Of course they could assign a sub-account to me, but they don't know how that works so we do it the gangsta way.

A few minutes later, I get a stray 2FA access code texted to my phone. Ummm... wut?

OK, so for some unbeknownst reason, they made MY PHONE the recovery phone number and so now everytime they need to login, they now need to ask me to check my phone.

But wait, so I finally get what I need to login, but for whatever reason, the 2FA for me gets sent to their email (instead of my phone) and I have no idea how we got here.

Got that? We now have this ludicrous situation where anytime they need to login, they have to contact me and it's vice versa when I need to login.

Fortunately, I got in and create a separate account for myself so I can avoid this mess, but my phone is still their recovery number that's going to get 2FA codes.

#webdev#smallbiz
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Sheldon

I don't know why I'm amusing myself this way today, but I just remembered one of my favorite small business typos ever. There used to be a Japanese restaurant near me that had a massively typo ridden menu.

The best item on the menu?

Crap Rolls.

Even better? It wasn't really a typo. English was not their first language. I really don't think they understood that CRAP was not the same as CRAB because underneath the menu item for Crap Rolls was the description:

"Imitation crap, avocado, fish eggs..."

Everywhere on the menu where crab was an ingredient, the word crap was used instead.

Despite the dodgy sounding menu item name, I can attest that their crap rolls were definitely not total crap.

#today#funny#smallbiz
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