We’ve been selling gaffers tape for a long time, and Permacel 665 has always been the first choice for most of our high end customers when they purchase utility-grade gaffers tape. Permacel has had a few stumbles over the years,…
Author: Jeff
“George, George, George of the Jungle, Watch Out For That Tree”
I subscribe to a great service (it’s free) called Google News Alerts, which sends me emails linking to stories, based on keywords that I enter into my profile. One of my keywords is “glow tape” and I got a great…
What’s This Got To Do With Duct Tape?
We spend a lot of time working on web marketing and there are lots of good online resources for those who sell products and services on the web. One of my favorites is Duct Tape Marketing. Its a great resource…
Low End Products for High End Customers
Sometimes its hard to get excited about selling the sorts of rather mundane products we offer. We got involved in expendable sales after years of being involved in a really interesting industry-concert and special event production. Tape sales certainly don’t…
End of the holidays
Well, New Year’s Day has come and gone, so its time to pack away the decorations for another year. Its always really tempting to just stuff them in plastic bags and pitch them into the garage, but I’ve come to…
wireless tabletop mic
When we were still active in event production, one of our “bread and butter” event types was conference audio. We live in a college town and there are lots of meetings that have to be reinforced for audiences and recorded…
Mary Poppins Leaps Onto Broadway
The Wall Street Journal certainly isn’t thought of as a source of entertainment reviews. Nonetheless, their Friday edition almost always includes a compelling review of either the best or worst in new film and theatrical shows. Last Friday, I had…
Carolina Ballet Takes Us To China!
Sometimes you just have to live vicariously. That’s one of the great things about working with the customers we have. They do great things. Long-time customer Carolina Ballet just returned from a tour of China and they took us with…
Wish I Had Thought Of This One!
Matsushita, a Japanese consumer electronics company (you probably know them better as Panasonic) has come up with a clever solution to an age old flashlight dilemma. Here’s the problem. You always have a flashlight around the house, and you always…
New stand idea from Sennheiser
Everytime I think that there are no good mic stand ideas left, I come across another one. Sennheiser has mated low tech to wireless in a really clever way with their new line of wireless mic stands. Plug your mic…
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