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I Wish I Had Known This 15 Years Ago

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Jeff

I periodically review both good podcasts and random pieces of interesting audio equipment. This posting is about both, or neither, depending on your point of view. The podcast is GearMediaTech, one of the many podcast enterprises run by Leo Laporte … Continue reading →

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Duct Tape Revisits the War of the Roses

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Jeff

It seems that Portland Oregon, the home of the Rose Festival Parade is ready to go to war over duct tape. For years local tradition has allowed parade attendees to mark out and reserve prime parade viewing locations with duct … Continue reading →

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On The Trail of A Good Floor Marking Tape

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Jeff

For several years we offered our customers a tape called SafeOff for use in temporary layout of gym floors. Lots of school and college gyms have to accommodate a lot of sports and you can only paint so many courts … Continue reading →

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Take It Out of One Box-Put It In Another Box

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Jeff

We are breaking in a new customer service person today, and I always have to stop when we have a new employee to marvel at how a business like ours can exist at all. We don’t actually make anything and … Continue reading →

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Why The Internet Hates Miles Davis

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Jeff

Miles Davis, the famous jazz trumpeter, once said “don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there”. That may be great advice for a musician learning to improvise, but it would not have gotten much traction with internet search engines. When … Continue reading →

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How’s This For Return On Investment?

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Jeff

Most of our gaffers tape customers use gaffers tape for securing cables to the floor. The keep people from tripping over wires when its necessary to run cables across a stage or in an area where there is lots of … Continue reading →

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How the Mighty Have Fallen

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Jeff

After holding the #1 postion in google search for the term “gaffers tape” for several years, we fell to #2 behind wikipedia and then, last week, we slipped to #3. We spend lots of time optimizing our web pages for … Continue reading →

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Jeff

I’m not a chemist (don’t even play one on tv), but a phone call from a prospective customer yesterday had me thinking about how little attention I paid in high school chemistry. The stage manager for a well known Chicago … Continue reading →

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Shurtape Drops The Other Shoe

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Jeff

If you check by here periodically, you may remember that I wrote about a change in Permacel 665 back in February. The focus of my post was about how pricing on Permacel 665 gaffers tape was out of sync with … Continue reading →

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Customer Service From The Top

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Jeff

There’s an interesting feature on NPR these days, about once a week, called “This I Believe”. It’s a modern take on a broadcast feature from the 1950′s started by Edward R. Murrow. This weeks essay features Craig Newmark, the founder … Continue reading →

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