Friday, January 23, 2009

A minor change

Every so often I get emails from some of you (and a phone call or two) expressing justified frustration at not being able to open Lithicvision.com. As near as I can guess (and that is the right word) this is due to some tracking code I have tried to install on my site that isn't compatible or didn't take properly. This is what is preventing some browsers from opening the page. Well, it is gone now (and with it the info it provided me). Let's hope this is the needed solution. Thanks for your patience.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Carping-

just because I need to!

This post is to all of you who are planning on attending the National Convention of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America here in Tucson in April.

As a vendor I am expected to register for the convention ($185) and pay a commission on all my sales. As a vendor I have to have someone at my booth at all times, in my case, me. I am a one man show-I have no employees and no interns. I can't go to any of the seminars and presentations because I have to be in the booth and yet I still have to pay for them on top of the commission.

I'm, in effect, paying for a movie ticket, buying some popcorn, giving the popcorn to someone else and having to sit in the lobby while the movie plays.

Can you guess why I don't want to be a vendor at what may (or may not ) be a very big opportunity to get exposure and sales from an important client base?

Can you guess why I'm very frustrated?

GGGGGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! Yes, I'm angry.

So, to all of you who may be attending from across the country from, say, Atlanta GA, or Macomb MI, or New Paltz NY, or Mountaiview CA, or Winter Park CO, or Portland OR, or any of the places across the country and world (and you know who you are) (and, courtesy of Statcounter and Google Analytics, I kinda know who you are as well), I'll be here, in Tucson, more than willing to have you come by the studio and check out my work. I know you want to. And Lord knows I want and need you to.

I would love to have been a vendor but I am here to make money, not lose or give money away. Which is what seems would be the case. I, as well as anyone on the planet, know life isn't fair. But this is just wrong.