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Monday, September 06, 2010

This Week at ADB, Inc., 29 August-4 September 2010

Steve Cole reports:

The weather this week was cooler than usual for this time of year (60s-70s in the morning). We had some rain on Monday and Tuesday to cool things down. The Spam Storm briefly jumped to 500 per day. This was the week we shipped PD20M FEDERATION but the awful economy (many stores have folded) didn't help sales much. Too many are worried about losing their job and just aren't spending money. Our page on Facebook reached 440 friends.

Steve Cole spent the week on stuff that didn't get done while he was finishing PD FEDS. He did the first steps on the GURPS version but is waiting for Jean's RPG data for that book. He combined all of the single-ribbon and multi-ribbon pages from the Wall of Honor and added many lost medals from the early 90s, but won't post new images until he finishes the list of awards that were not posted. He also read the General and Federation pages of Y3, did one page of CL#42, and started exercising again (although the heart monitor limits this to a few minutes, he is working up to longer sessions).

Steven Petrick continued work on SFB Module Y3.

Leanna Cole got more stuff uploaded to e23 and dealt with the continuing mail orders, which are actually increasing as wholesaler orders drop, making us think a bunch of stores went out of business. She also proposed one part of one of the Three Revolutions program, which will be announced later.

Jean Sexton did some marketing and promotion stuff, mostly on PD FEDS.

Mike Sparks continued shipping orders and rebuilding the inventory.

Joel updated a lot of the stuff on the website that gets updated when we release new products. Joel has the next issue of Hailing Frequencies ready for 10 September. Joel shut down about a dozen pirate websites and torrent indexes.

We had the first serious meeting about what will be printed next year, and reviewed plans for the rest of this year. Module Y3, Alien Armada, and CL#42 are locked in, but Star Fleet Marines Assault (which is expensive to print) may have to wait for better market conditions.