Monday, August 6, 2007

Need Some Growth!

Well, it would appear that we have flattened out on the growth curve at $500 to $600 per day. I have mentioned that before, but we have another week's data to confirm... College starts up again in a couple of weeks. Colorado College and Pikes Peak Community College are not far from us. I'm going to start doing flyers around the campuses soon... Kids will be moving in over the next couple of weeks.
We are also going to get some signs made and have someone stand out by the street advertising $1 coffee and $2 lattes during the morning commute hours. Pikes Peak Ave goes straight into downtown. We obtained traffic data last week and 80,000 cars go by our shop DAILY. We need to tap into some of that, as we have not done so yet.

Paul Kulik came by this weekend and swapped out his amazing photos again (third set of artwork to be on display). They will be up until September 8th, at which time Paul's work will come down and we will support another local artist. It has been a real blessing to have Paul's beautiful work on display since our opening, and we look forward to showing his work again in the future. We can't thank him enough! What I look forward to even more is to go to some of those places myself! He is a great inspiration. Bottom line, though, is that you need to get in here this month and see his photos of Western Colorado, Antelope Canyon in Arizona, and some other beautiful locations...

We had a meeting with the local event organizer for the Diabetes Walkathon. It is confirmed... We are going to provide the coffee service, after Starbucks backed out. I will also be doing candid photos of people on the walk for their website, and I will also be doing formal group shots for 85 groups. In exchange, we get to have our logos on the event t-shirts, flyers, brochures, and have flyers in the event bags that all participants get.

We spent some quality family time yesterday by checking out Red Rocks Canyon, which the city of Colorado Springs recently purchased from a private owner. They have built a some trails, a technical mountain bike practice area, lots of rock climbing areas, etc... I only took the point and shoot, and the batteries went dead after just a few shots. Here are a couple of them of the kids doing what boys do best:











Gotta run,
JD

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