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We’ve all slammed the door on that annoying salesman that seems to come right at the most inopportune moment. The kids are fighting, the bread is burning in the oven, the phone is ringing. Then a knock comes at the door. “Hi, would you like to see how the new Accu-Vacuum has more suction power than any other in its price range?”

“No…” SLAM! Why did he have to show up now? Did he purposely plan to arrive at the most inconvenient time?

Well, what if you’re on the other side of this scenario? You’re a salesman, trying to sell your product, trying to get people to listen to you. But they just won’t pay attention to you or want to learn anything about your product. You’ve tried printing full-color pamphlets with diagrams and descriptions, but the people just throw away these brochures. You’ve tried refining your sales spiel to get them to listen for more than half a minute, but it just doesn’t work. You get to know the sound of a phone slamming back onto the hook and dropping back to the dial tone, and the sound of a door slamming back into its frame, better than you know the voice of a customer.

What about giving your customers something that they probably won’t just throw away, something they’ll hold onto and just maybe take a look at? A company called CF Gear makes custom flash drives that can store whatever information you want. You could put on videos of your amazing vacuum in action, information sheets, contact info, info on special offers, whatever you want.

If someone sees you walk up with a bagful of flash drives, chances are they won’t just slam the door if they think they’ll get a free flash drive out of the deal. And then when they pop the drive into their computer they will hopefully at least take a look at your product. To be sure they don’t forget where the drive came from, you can have your company name, logo, address, and phone number printed on the USB drive in up to four colors. Or even consider laser engraving for an even classier look.

CF Gear sells flash drives with surfaces ranging from the typical plastic to wood to metal. Customers can pick from a variety of colors and styles. Suit your company’s personality and style.

Whether selling products door-to-door, setting up your company booth at an exposition, or advertising your product in-store, flash drives can help to market your product. You don’t have to be the typical salesman who depends on a fake smile and smooth-talking voice to market his goods.

Take a look at CF Gear’s website at cfgear.com. Browse through their product lines and read some customer reviews. You’ll be impressed and just might pick to use their flash drives for yourself.

In the world of medicine, it seems as though the most common prescription (at least in the United States of America) must be for corrective lenses. It doesn’t matter whether they’re the kind of lenses that set into frames, resting in front of the eyes or the kind of lenses that sit directly on the eyeballs, prescription lenses appear to be a critical element in the lives of the vast majority of us. An even larger percentage of the American population depend almost as heavily on non-prescription corrective lenses—you know, the kind you can pick of a rack at the pharmacy, marked with different levels of magnification…not just for grandparents, anymore.

Despite our obvious dependence on them, what most of us never take time to consider is the manufacturing process behind these wonders that make it possible for us to see that there are actually individual leaves on those trees along the road. The fact of the matter is, very few of us really and truly appreciate the research and development that have gone in to preparing all the different kinds of corrective lenses for us, not to mention our failing to consider the steps involved in just the manufacturing. For example, how many of us have ever thought about the custom wire baskets used to clean corrective lenses during and at the end of the manufacturing process? Although you may never have taken the time, you can be sure that Bausch & Lomb Company has thought about them, in great detail. So has Three M Tool, a company based in York, Pennsylvania. Three M Tool is a supplier of custom baskets and racks for the optical manufacturing industry, not only to Bausch & Lomb Company, but also to several others in the same field.

Three M Tool has many clients in the world of medicine and manufacturing, although Bausch & Lomb Company is probably one of the best known. Among Three M Tool’s many customers in the medical field are some on the pharmaceutical side (including customers involved in pharmaceutical research), as well as several others in orthopaedics. Consider—custom wire baskets are just as necessary for other cleaning processes. Medical implants have to be cleaned before they can be introduced as replacement parts, so the world of orthopaedics needs hip, knee, and shoulder implant cleaning racks. Where research teams are exploring the future of medicine and pharmaceuticals, they need tissue sample cleaning baskets and lab sample testing racks.

Every client in the field of medicine has its own, very specific needs, ranging from cleaning eyeglass lenses to preparing surgical implants. Three M Tool is dedicated to meeting each and every one of those needs, and their team of engineers, using cutting edge technology, will work with each customer to design the perfect custom wire basket for each unique application. With over fifty years of experience and a long track record of success, Three M Tool has the capabilities necessary to deliver what they promise, ensuring satisfied customers.

I spent part of my morning creating two 12×12 scrapbook pages focusing on the first house my husband and I lived in.  We lived in Hudson, MI in a house provided by my husband’s work.  It was a really nice house, and, as I sat scrapping the pages, I remembered so many different wonderful things.

I thought about our first Christmas.  We had very little to spend on gifts and yet I still have and use items I got that year.  I saw a picture of the first birthday cake I made for my husband - it was a snowman.  There are lots of memories. 

The man who built the house was a brick mason so we had the neatest stone work in the living room and kitchen, unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.  And the downstairs, wow!  When you walked down the basement steps there was a bit of a hallway and the wall on the right was made to look like the front of an old western town saloon.  There were “bars” (dow rods painted black) over the real windows that looked into the room and there were swinging doors that you had to walk through to enter the room.  It’s so hard to explain and unfortunately I never did take pictures of that particular room.  With my scrapping today I was really wishing for some!

Yes, our first home looked really neat!  There are times I wish I could move back there and let my boys play in that house.  As I think back though, I remember some not quite so fun things.  I remember the lack of AC on hot days.  I remember the fun electrical mix ups that seem to come with every house.

You see, this house was not very high tech.  We were doing good to have lights, they may not have had dimmer switches, but they were lights.  I remember one of the lights.  It took us forever to learn how to turn it on.  There were three light switches controlling that light so it shouldn’t have been a problem.  The only thing was, all three of those switches had to be in a certain position in order for that light to work.  If one was down instead of up, no lights!

There was no home automation.  There was no Protector Plus Home Security System to keep us safe.  There were no wirless remote controls to anything other than the garage door.  You know what though?  It didn’t matter.  My husband and I were together and that’s all that really matters.  We were as happy as larks.  We could have been in a one room apartment with an airmattress and we would have been happy.

Those are the memories I like to scrap.  There aren’t any pictures of light switches, AC units or security systems.  The pictures on my pages are the ones that bring back good memories, memories that I want to share with my family.  They’re memories of happy times.