Anchor Industries, Inc.
SEND CARDS FOR STRANGE HOLIDAYS
Sure, you mail cards during the winter holidays, but so does everyone else. Why not mail a card for National Doughnut Day on June 1? You can even include a coupon to a local doughnut shop. Or you can send a funny card with a picture of your office dog for National Mutt Day to announce that, thanks to your client’s support, your company is donating to a local animal shelter. These ideas may work great for your clients, or you might need to brainstorm a bit. Your clients are as unique as your company, so don’t hesitate to find a special way to show them you care.
Anchor Industries, Inc. is a company with a long history of quality products and services. Founded in 1892, Anchor Industries, Inc. began as a small riverboat supply house located on the Ohio River. Known then as Anchor Supply Company, the business furnished oil, groceries, paint, and other supplies to the steamboat trade. As the business grew, so did the demand for waterproof covers, so Anchor’s founder, Louis A. Daus, added canvas goods to the line of merchandise. The rest is history. Today, with 300 skilled workers and over 350,000 square feet of production capacity in Evansville, Indiana, Anchor is one of the world’s most respected producers of event, party, and wedding tents; awnings and outdoor fabric shade solutions; fabric buildings and structures; safety pool covers; fire shelters; military products; and other custom fabric and frame products. Anchor has pioneered numerous industry-changing innovations, including vinyl tent technology and aluminum frame tents. For decades, Anchor has set the standard for quality, design, and innovation, and they credit their long history to their talented employees and loyal customers. Anchor Industries, Inc. is known for their aesthetics, quality, durability, support, service, expertise, and partnership. Their products improve the quality of life for end users in commercial, residential, and government markets who spend time outdoors. For more information about Anchor Industries, Inc., visit anchorinc.com.
TEECO’S TIPS
Stop Doing and Start Thinking! Down time is the perfect time to take a good, hard look at your overall operations, you know, really think about your methods and systems. When things get crazy busy during the season, are you a well-oiled machine, barely keeping up, or worse — constantly falling behind? If you don’t know what activities in your business are the most profitable for you, you might be doing the same wrong thing over and over again, and you may not be producing the profits that you need. So it’s important that you stop, take a break, and start thinking about what’s most profitable for your business. You must stop doing. You must measure progress. You must look at your numbers. You must analyze. And you must study ways to have the most profitable plan to move forward. You must set goals . If you’re completely lost about this, there are plenty of advisors out there who can help you. Other help could come in the form of your employees, your accountant, your lawyer, or anyone who understands productivity — but get people to help you! Otherwise, if we don’t stop and think, we don’t know what we don’t know. We’ll consistently think that we’re growing the business while we’re actually doing all the wrong things and not growing nearly as productively or as profitably as we potentially could. So stop. Think. Evaluate. Track. Assess. Work on your business while you have this down time; it’ll make a huge difference when you’re back to working in your business!
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