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May 11: It's Summer Order Discount time! We're now accepting orders for the summer and offering a 25% discount! Check it out on "Summer Order."
May 5: Check out stock search and Order Check. They're working now in a more user friendly way.
Feb. 29: Either we picked better music or church budgets are a little better. We had a fine response to this year's 25% special.
Jan. 24: Release of a review packet at a 25% discount. Orders taken until Feb. 26
Jan. 3: We've moved! We're making some changes which should be good for both you and us. All our stuff is now in place and we're ordering and shipping from our new location. We will be setting up a new packet offer in a few days. Notice we've dropped our "800" number. Almost everyone uses e-mail now. Since some months we would have only one phone call on that number, it no longer made sense to spend $30 per phone call.
Nov. 12: Have had a great deal of trouble with AT&T. Web site off line for weeks. Think it's fixed for now.
Sep 14: Thinking of ditching our 800 phone number. Any comments?
Aug 26: All orders have been shipped. There are a few, as always, backorders or pieces temporarly out of print. These usually clean up in a week or two.
Aug 3: Summer special over and a few packages have shipped already. As far as compared to last year, we had about the same number of orders. Tells me things may not be getting worse overall. Some new faces, yea!
July 19: Only a few days left on our 25% summer order. We close this program on July 25! Fixed some navigation buttons.
June 29: We're taking a bit of a vacation until July 8. We will order music, answer emails, etc. during this time, but no shipping again until July 9.
June 9:STOCK SEARCH You can now check on what we have in stock. Look for ideas based on season, voicing, etc. See what's come into print as new offerings by checking it's entry date.
June 8: ORDER CHECK You can now check on the status of your order. See in real time how your order is progressing, giving you a clearer idea of when it will ship to you. Still a work in progress, but it works.
May 15: Coming up on the start of the Summer Order Special. Will be mailing fliers before Memorial Day.
Mar 14: FYI This has nothing to do with CLH Publications, but I had a hip replaced. So far so good. Should be off restrictions by mid April.
Feb 18: Sale closes. Again this year a small response. Times must still be tight with budgets.
Jan 19: Packets for the 25% Winter Sale sent. Deadline for ordering set as February 18.
Jan 13: Picked anthems to put on 25% sale. Go to 25% Off page and see what they are. I'll be shipping packets of these titles to regular customers by the end of next week.
Jan 8: Working on web site. Settled on new logo for CLH Publications. It now appears clearly on the site, invoices, return addresses, etc. Smart people say branding is important and a logo helps. I trust the effort is worth it. Narrowed down the list of 5 pieces to send out in the next 25% off music packet. Might go out next week.
Jan 2: Officially retired.
Fall: Prep for retirement from full time church music. Will still operate CLH Publications. Did my bucket list of favorite pieces.
Aug 30: Everything's out the door, except materials from Oxford. If you're one of those customers, Oxford materials should arrive this week and ship on Friday.
Aug 25: Only 5 more orders to ship. Those are waiting for materials from Oxford University Press. They should arrive this week. Just a few snags as in Temp Out of Print, publisher sent the wrong item, etc. Overall, a rather smooth season. It's clear churches and schools are in a financial bind. Our business for this season is down 30%.
Aug 12: Shipped out the first summer special order.
July 31: Placed the final orders with publishers. We have a deadline of the end of July to make this offer with the publishers. What I notice is our summer order volume is down 30%. Tells me it's rough and is likely to stay that way.
July 27: Ended the summer special season and am keying in the orders.
June 11: Site down and back up. Handling database via PHP is making the most sense. Trying to have the skeleton of our web site in place before too much longer.
Summer orders are starting to arrive. Might the economy be a little better than last summer?
June 3: After two trial servers, the web site is back up. Some of the features I hope to add to the sight should be possible with this new arrangement. Too bad DIY takes so long!
May 25: Final fliers mailed on the summer 25% discount program.
May 10: Will activate summer orders this week. You can place an order which will be delivered before Labor Day and receive a 25% discount.
Apr 27: Still working the tech problem. Moving to OSX Server.
Apr 9: Sent letter to all customers with emails that announce my retirment from full time music ministry. Will keep CLH Publications active, in fact, hope to devote more time to it.
Apr 2: Bigger problem than tech.
Mar 16: Finally working out the tech. of submitting an order form to our server. It should be up and running in a few days.
Mar 1: Closed the 25% off sale. By our customers response, either we were a little late in sending out the packets, our choices weren't on the mark, or once again, budgets are really tight. This is all to say we had a small sale.
