Business-Side

Hello everyone! You must have thought we’ve dropped off the face of the earth, with our last real post being from September…

We’re still around.

1. Mini-Compressor is still alive and well.
2. Chris has been working away on a secret project (shhh).
3. Ada, in between answering customer Mini-Compressor support questions, briefly forayed into the restaurant world at Battista’s Calzone Company.

Although SaturdayMP and Battista’s are very different, we found both are very similar as well:

Again? Didn’t we just have a 6th birthday this time last year? We re-crunched some numbers and re-calibrated our maths. Today is when we should have put 6 candles on the cake. We knew we were older than we looked.

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Today, Saturday MP celebrates its 6th birthday. Thanks for coming on this amazing journey with us!  Here’s to smaller pictures but not smaller dreams!

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Today’s Mini-Compressor Monday has been replaced by tips coinciding with Cyber-Monday and the upcoming Holiday gift-giving season, known as December.

Some customers have told us they will recommend Mini-Compressor to someone in the future, or better yet, already have made the recommendation.  Why stop at a recommendation?  Why not buy a copy for your someone else?  Well… because, Wise SatMPers, you and your basement don’t give us a way to buy now as a gift…

Every Tuesday night, my business partner and I have a date.  A working date.  It’s in our calendars for 9:00 to 10:30.  The place is always the same – the basement office – so no babysitter is required.  And there’s plenty of parking.  We’ve had this standing date for about a year and a half, since we returned from the Business of Software conference in 2011.

I mentioned in Working Together – Part 1 how SatMP is like our second born child.  Well, like our first born child whom we drive to various extracurricular activities, we need to drive this baby places too.  Only, by driving, we mean staying put, and by places, we mean putting in the time.  When we made this earth shattering discovery, we were both gainfully contracted i.e. day jobs, and found we had a hard time tackling our to-do list.  And boy did the list grow while we were at the conference.  They say the way to eat an elephant* is one bite at a time but those bites are sure tiny when you’re tired and there are competing demands like laundry and bookkeeping.   The obvious time slot would have been our namesake Saturday mornings, but those are now for family activities…  so during one of our lovely dinners in Boston, we committed ourselves to one whole night a week to pampering our SatMP.