And then we had Tower Records at the time, agree to sell the shirts that we printed at the show, and give all the money to the client, which was astounding to me. And so, we printed 10,000 shirts, and they sold them off for $45,000. That is still one of the largest donations the clinic ever received. I’ve stayed involved because I could also see the money was well spent. You want to raise money for people that spend the money wisely. And in this case, I think they do a great job. And, you know, music is the lifeblood of New Orleans and they keep musicians alive. Marshall Atkinson Are you creating online stores? Rick Roth Like a lot of shops too, so, you know, that was a recent expansion of Mirror Image to a division we would call Doing Good Merch. And we specialize in that, actually. So, we take the ethics of the organization into account. And a lot of them don’t have the money to invest, honestly. So, you know, we have, our Brother printers and — I don’t mean our brothers in arms. I mean the company, Brother DTG machines, where we keep a small amount of stock and they don’t have to make a huge investment. Marshall Atkinson Yeah. Okay. Business owners or listeners out there may want to do something similar to what you guys are doing. What’s the best way they can get started, or maybe even what should they avoid? Because we don’t want to lose our pants, helping out somebody. So what advice can you give them? Rick Roth Well, certainly you don’t want to bite off more than you can chew, that’s for sure. You know, I think that if, either as owners, you have something that you believe in, or if some of your employees do have that personal connection, I think it makes a huge difference. You know, as I get older, I see that trust makes things a lot easier. So, you know, if you’ve been involved with the organization or someone you know has, I think that helps a lot. So you don’t have to do as much investigation. And if you care about it, it’s going to be easier, you know? Marshall Atkinson Right. Yeah. Over the years, you know, we’ve done lots of Breast Cancer walks and stuff for the March of Dimes and, raise money for all types of things that even did a huge garage sale where everybody brought in stuff from our homes and we had a garage sale in the shop over the weekend. Everything that wasn’t sold just went to Goodwill. And that all went to the donation that we gave as the shop to the cause. But we also did shirts
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