last working day of september and the stress builds

We are getting calls daily now for quotes and designs. This is so good. It has been a hard two years to get the phone to start ringing. The trade show is coming up fast and I am getting a bit on edge. The mascots we are taking are looking good, The stands haven’t been done but I am confident they will be. The booth stuff is all done and ordered, The shipping arranged, and our company shirts ordered. But the stuff out of our control is not done.. The new brochures are not designed yet or even ordered. The new business cards are not ordered or designed. I am assured they will be soon. The signage stuff has not been done and I am again assured they will be.. But till I see it I feel a bit out of control. We need to ship everything on the 23 of next month and it is the last working day of September today. We got a second web site now up and working www.upfrontmascots.com and new email addresses to go with them. That was a big mess to. When we first started our web designer told us we needed to have our address www.mascotsupfront.com in order to get found on the internet and that was totally wrong. We now have a great girl Cheryl designing our site and maintaining it so that helps. We also have found a great supplier for stuffed animals. So we are able to offer stuffed animals now to match the mascots. Our plane tickets are bought, rooms booked, and all the little stuff working.. How stressful. But I am sure it will be all work out.

So many things to know.

So many things to know. I had no idea going to a trade show was going to be so much work… wow.. We have insurance, brokers, booth rentals, carpet, no carpet, drapes, booth design, brochures, badges to get in, air fair, pass ports, hotels, shuttle services, oh my gosh.. I am over come with fear. Can we pull this off, I don’t want to come across like a small time company yet reality is we don’t have a huge experience in the trade show stuff. We can build circles round our competitors on the mascots but how do you show others that. I guess our product will just have to sell itself. We will have a few mascots to show people and with any luck I don’t screw up anything and the booth looks good. I took this in school but on a shoe string isn’t easy. Good news we just hired a new girl she starts full time on the 25, wow the experience she has is great and I believe she will grow with us and be a long time employee. Time seams to be passing so fast, It is September already and we fly out in just over two months.. Wow… Matthew still needs his pass port. I have mine from this spring when I flew to see a client in Kentucky. Sometimes I wonder if I am doing this right. I am almost 50 and want to retire at 55 can I do it? So many people are depending on me to make this company work and be a success. So many talented people and I want to show our work as being the best because in my heart I know we are..