So if you look at specifically the paper printing market, there's a lot in common between how someone who is in the print space would be running their business just like someone in the promotional product space. And of course, there's a lot of adjacency there because if you're selling business cards, you're probably selling t-shirts. And if you're not, then that's a great additional revenue opportunity for you. So tapping into adjacent markets where there still is something in common represents this, huge blue ocean for commonsku. And we're very excited about that because I think people in promotional products probably have an opportunity to sell into print as well. So, we're excited about that. And, I think that that'll keep us busy for some time yet, given the fact that both industries globally are in the tens and tens of billions of dollars. So I think that should keep us busy and out of trouble for a bit. Marshall Atkinson How is the way that, you know, we're working now... we're all working out of our houses, right? Do you guys have an office? You guys, I know you have a lot of people here in the US like, or do you have an office somewhere here in the United States? Talk about that... Mark Graham So we do, our head office is a physical office in Toronto. We have had a physical office, right from the very beginning where our entire Toronto-based team would come in and work every day. So our whole development team is all out of Toronto, we don't outsource that to offshore. All right within Toronto. The majority of our team is based in Toronto, but as we grew, we brought in a number of people that are in the US, as well as across Canada, those people will come into our head office several times a year. Culture building is very, very important to us where we bring them into our office. Now that we are in this unusual pandemic time, we had to close our office like many other people in the middle of March. We have not gone back to that office since the middle of March. And, maybe not surprisingly, we were able to work in a remote environment, like literally without batting an eyelash, because everything that we do is in the cloud. And, that has created some additional opportunities for us in terms of efficiency. But at the same time, it's also created challenges to be honest with you, Marshall. I mean, if you're not seeing people in person, you have to work really, really hard. Extra hard I would say, at creating that culture and finding new ways to build culture when you have a remote team. Because you can't get together because of this pandemic. So we're figuring that out. But we're very, very proud to say that we have not lost or laid off or had to furlough a single employee. We're actually continuing to grow, and everyone is very happy and efficient in this new environment.
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