Enid Shops
It’s good to shop local. It’s also good to provide excellent customer service… as long as these two things occur, Pfaff’s will have the recipe for success!
It’s good to shop local. It’s also good to provide excellent customer service… as long as these two things occur, Pfaff’s will have the recipe for success!
We love to shop local and don’t mind paying extra, but yeah, that “excellent customer service” should be there. There have been a few local stores where they thought we owed them our business, and that going to a box store was evil and destroying the fabric of America. We… uh… didn’t frequent those establishments after that. After all, box stores hire locals to work there. And we have an obligation to be fiscally responsible to our children, too. Oh, and charging MUCH higher prices – beyond fair – doesn’t help.
Fortunately, most small business are much more like the Pfaff’s, for which we’re very glad!
Weird…did somebody clone Enid?
Yah… you do have to EARN people’s business. If you don’t pay attention to customers, you drive them away. One thing about working for Dizney, customer service was POUNDED into your head. Grace could NEVER land a job at a Dizney institution… (It’d be like bootcamp for sure)… It was certainly good training for me.
Dada… Yah… I do see that now. YOU would know about cloning, wouldn’t you? HA! Enid would be the opposite of the Mira Miras (which I just noticed sounds like Mirror-mirror…. you clever dawg). (Scapulacomic.com for those of you who don’t know that Dada does a webcomic… check it).
Hey, Squiddies!
If you live in the Richmond, VA area and would like to see some Squid Row Comics merchandise, come to RavenCon (http://RavenCon.com) this weekend (April 5-7) and visit the Double Dragon Publishing table in the Dealers Room. Brig doesn’t have any affiliation with DDP, but they’re my publisher, and it’s MY table. So I’ll have buttons, stickers, some booklets of the classics Squid Row comics and a low numbered print of the ink drawing, “Randie Dreams of Paris”. (I don’t know if it really has a title, ask Brig.)
All money goes to Brig… sorta. I bought all of it up front and as I sell it, I buy more.
And while you’re there, buy my novels, too. *hehe* (Couldn’t resist the extra plug.)
Pete… Hot Dog! Everybody go see Pete at RavenCon… buy something from Pete’s stash of Squid merchandise, and I will send you a free sticker! Send me a photo of you with your Squid Row purchase along with yer address and I will send you a Squid Row sticker. I’ll post yer pic on the site here (or not)… win-win-win. Smiles!
… and yes, Randie Dreams of Paris is the name of the print…
there’s a picture of it in the Squid Shop.
A general rule about hobby businesses – 10% of the customers account for 50% of the sales. 🙂
This came up when I knew folks running a hobby store for RPGs, miniatures, and wargames. The owner/ manager was helpful, knowledgeable, and friendly – enough so that he was hired away from his own store to work for another business (for more than he could pay himself from his hobby store).
Then he went and hired a manager that could not be bothered to assist customers…. Business dropped like a rock. 🙁
The store is gone now.
The Auld Grump
@Brig – look closer at Mira’s FULL name (check the cast page), to get the whole joke.
Though, for those who never caught it before, Dada wrapped it around a sledgehammer and drove it home with wednesday’s strip commentary. ::snicker::
No, Dada, not around a “rather large gold brick” because it’s a bit more than a lemon wedge and it didn’t scramble our brains quite as nicely as a PGGB would. 😛
@GreyWolf Great, now I’ve got a hankerin’ for a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (or maybe a Diet one)!
What the heck’s a *diet” PGGB? Same as a regular PGGB but with crystal meth sprinkled on the rim, so you lose weight after drinkin it? o.O
Grump… there ya go. Yah… that’s the model now for a lot of webcomics as well…
Grey & Dada… ?
Hehehe. I was referring to Mira’s full name. Go read it on the cast page, and if you still don’t see the joke, read Dada’s commentary with the comic on Wednesday.
As for the rest, we were drifting off into talking about Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters (PGGB’s), an infamous drink from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – “the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick”.
😉
Grey… OH, right! I never read the books… but I saw the movie… (only because Alan Rickman was sorta in it…) Thanks for the explanation.
Oh, and my bad, I thought it was in Dada’s commentary, but apparently I was confusing that with his Twitter feed, where he had posted on 4/03:
“Mira Mira Anewaa, who’s the dumbest villain of them all?”