It’s been awhile since my last post.  I have been spending almost all of my free time trying to get things together to ship out Little Duck Organics samples to buyers.  This weekend should be really productive.  We are planning on taking lots of pictures for the website and I have a professional photography tent setup coming in tomorrow so that I can take good pictures of our products.

As long as everything goes as planned, we should be able to start shipping during the last week of June.

Here’s a recap of the things that I need to accomplish in only a couple short weeks:

1. Finalize and publish website design.
   • Preliminary home page design is complete.  I’m sure it will change at least 10 times before it is published.  My biggest problem is coming up with a scheme that makes our logo “pop” on the page.  It looks so flat and subdued right now.  Hopefully I can come up with something good soon.
2. Lock in shipping scheme.
   • Using eco-friendly corn starch packing peanuts from  Green Packaging Inc. for all shipments to buyers.
   • Sample shipping mailers coming in tomorrow (Friday). We’re considering using white boxes with a logo/information label affixed to the top cover.
3. Complete sell sheets for individual products
   • I would like to use 8 x 10 books from Blurb with all of the necessary information and some big colorful pictures of kids eating our product.  I think that it will leave a lasting first impression for our buyers.
4. Change 800 number information with Grasshopper
   • This is a pretty easy change.  I basically need to write a new script for our 800 number and replace the voice recording that we already have for The Monadnock Review.

One day soon I’ll be able to look back on this post and smile knowing that everything is done.