[Fredslist] Thank you Jill Goldstein - The History of Pencils

[Tessa Marquis]

Pencils are the bane of my existence. 

 

Bane #1: One time I called a friend at her job and was kept waiting an
extremely long time on "Hold". Muzak played. Moths flew out of the receiver.


 

When she finally came on the line she sounded very confused. "Hel-looooh???"
she said, "Who is this????" I told her "This is Tessa. What's wrong?" She
said "Oh! My receptionist told me someone named Pencil' was on the line".

Now..Why on earth would she think someone would be named Pencil?

 

Bane #2: In my business, we present seminars. Usually about one a month, but
(as in June 2010) sometimes 3 within as many weeks.  At the seminars we
provide everything the attendees may need, including pencils.  I used to get
mechanical pencils, imprinted with our company name. The odd thing is, the
mechanical pencils with sturdy lead - which will not snap and break in the
hands of mechanics and maintenance workers - have lousy erasers, made of
inferior rubber. The mechanical pencils with good erasers - which actually
erase instead of bend over - have lead as thin and brittle as Capellini.

 

Bane #3: Eventually, I switched to the old fashioned wooden pencils for our
attendees. You have to have a patient intern who will pre-sharpen a thousand
pencils. I have had them burn up two electric sharpeners so far.  And you
have to buy portable battery run sharpeners and send them on the road with
the supplies. Sometimes the instructors forget to pack them properly and the
lead and shavings get loose and ruin the returned supplies and books. This
is an expensive waste.

 

So, every few years I reassess the situation, to see if I should try
mechanical pencils again. I go back and forth. Some years wooden, some years
mechanical. 

 

I have been in business so long that I have had 8 different suppliers go out
of business on me.

 

You know how there are days where you scratch your head and look perplexed
and blame your brain for not remembering something that you know you know?
Well that was my situation a few weeks ago. And over something as seemingly
minor as pencils.  Well, lLast month I realized with dread in my heart that
I needed to order 1000 pencils again, Toot Sweet.  So of course I
procrastinated. I waited for a miracle. The Pencil Fairy, perhaps?

 

And then I remembered having seen a Promo from Jill Goldstein - a Gotham
"email" member.

 

In less time than predicted or promised, I had 1000 pencils delivered, with
my imprint, at a low cost, with a friendly Gotham assist!

 

Jill M. Goldstein
!MPR!NT Designs
You think it, we ink it!
718-479-3620
917-442-1629
Jill.imprintdesigns at gmail.com



She saved my eraser (which is what I call my ass). End of story.

 

Thank you Jill!  Everyone take notice! She does invitations as well..

 

Tessa Marquis
Gotham New Haven -  Where we Get the Lead out! 
       (Get it? Lead as in pencil lead or as in a Business Lead???) (Oh,
never mind.)
New Standard Institute, Inc. 
84 Broad Street  |  Milford, CT 06460  |  USA
203.783.1582 x101 
 <mailto:tmarquis at newstandardinstitute.com>
tmarquis at newstandardinstitute.com 

 

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