busy, busy....

Well, the news of no price increases has gone down well with the business community. We've been inundated with work on all sides, from loads of print and design for print for Rocket through to our sister company Paradox being snowed under with branding, websites, advertising work etc (see paradoxsolved.blogspot) .

Apart from starting to attract the interest of the Oil industry, work we've never particularly gone after, we've had a number of senior businesses suddenly expressing an interest in using our services.

It could be due to the AIFF work Paradox completed a couple of weeks ago (We were asked by a consortium of senior Aberdeen businessmen to rebrand the Aberdeen International Football Festival (one of the older ones in the world) and create a new ideolect and website.) . This high-profile job has been amazingly well received and is shooting up the rankings in Google.

Whatever it is, I'm not complaining...

new services...

We're in the process of adding new products and services, which along with our new e-commerce site (finally) will make our lives ever more interesting. With the advent of our club flyer service (which seems to be much liked) the pubs and clubs are coming on board in their droves.

New York, New York...

Karla is off to New York today for a tour round the sights. Knowing her, she'll come back with some prime contacts in the design world....

another fiscal year...

We have been sitting down and figuring out our new print prices.

That was quite easy... no changes to most prices.

1000 business cards full colour 2 sides on 400gsm card are still £39 inc VAT
1000 A6 flyers full colour 2 sides on 400gsm card are still £59

The only price to rise in four years is 1000 letterheads & compliment slips, up from £178 to £198, and that's only because we are now printing on a very high quality 120 gsm bond paper.

Unlike some other online and discount printers, what you see is what you get.... no need to entice with spurious special print deals (which never turn out to be real) on the front page of our website, instead just totally transparent pricing for genuine premium quality cut-price print, which our clients seem to like...

btw..

Amazingly well done, rocketprint girls... already up to 85% of their target for the skydive.

See more at www.justgiving.com/rocketprintgirls.

I can see they're going to smash the figure,,,

stupid is as stupid does...

A favourite Forrest Gump saying... it really applies to certain situations. I recently (today) managed to do an amazingly silly one.

We are in the midst of sorting out servers. Why? With the hundreds of fast-moving and high-traffic client sites we are currently hosting across a number of servers, we decided a bit of file-keeping was in order. Though we don't host any sites created by others, one of our own sites (rocket-print.co.uk) is testing for e-commerce at the mo'. I decided to swap servers, forgetting that I would have to create the space then switch it off till it went live. The end result was a very quiet day in the rocket print studio as no emails came in.

To clients out there, apologies, but normal service is resumed as of 4pm.

duhhhh...

aha skidiving....

Three of our staff, Maaj, Karla and Lynne, are intending doing a skydive for charity this year and have put a blog up on www.justgiving.com/rocketprintgirls. They're trying to raise £1500 for McMillan Cancer Support. If you want to help them raise some money, go to the link above and pledge some cash - any amount is good....

The title? a typo on the rocketprintgirls blog ....