Growing Pains

It's been quite busy this week not only with doing the last minute detail planning for the upcoming Dating Game event in Naperville, but we've had some dilemmas come our way.

For starters, we've found ourselves in quite a quandary about a video commercial editing job. We made an agreement with a brother of an employee from one of the churches who recently hosted an event. The singles pastor hired the cameramen who turned the footage over to the editing team. We received the product and were not satisfied. When expressing our dissatisfaction to the editing person, he remarked that most of the footage was not suitable to use and he still expected to receive the full compensation for his work although he realized it was not up to par. So... needless to say, this has led to a lot of discussion between Cache' personnel on what is the right thing to do. Even though we weren't in control of the cameramen, we are stuck with the high cost of an inferior product. The editing personnel tried to do the best with what he was provided. Praying...

Another dilemma that has kept me awake at night is the frustration over lack of time to seek new markets and work the PR side. Even though we have added another employee, so much of our time is spent on all the minute details of event planning, customer service issues, website maintenance, etc. It would be great if we could have someone working the marketing full time. We did have another investor approach us about becoming a small scale investor, but we've decided the benefits would not outweigh the negatives, so onward we go!

On a positive note, we are celebrating today Linda's one year anniversary of quitting her "real" job from the law firm. This was a huge step for all of us and I think overall she has been quite happy with her decision. Although there is something to be said for punching out and not taking your job home with you! Oh well, such is the drawback of being a business owner.

Make it a great one!

Kim