Could Someone Get Me a Copy of Today's Denver Post?

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Has an article in it about SIA with a pic and mention of the Bros...as well as a few things I guess I said. I'd appreciate it if I could get a hard copy.

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Thanks, Chuck!

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If the customers design the ski and the graphics, handle all marketing and distribution (mostly amongst themselves), finance all of the R&D plus a year of initial production costs up front, purchase them blindly and faithfully on "stoke," then what exactly does Chief Dirtbag entail aside from hanging out in a slow-moving snowboard factory and sneaking into SIA? I mean is it profitable?

Just asking. <shrug>

Yeah, there's absolutely no work involved in starting up the manufacturing, marketing, or distribution of 200 pair of skis, Pinner.
You should try it sometime.
I think Blevins took some liberties in his article and misunderstood the way things were described to him, but that's OK.
Is it profitable? - not when it gets dragged out the way it has.
I've been working on this dream for eight months at an average wage of $1.87 an hour. Sometimes, the dream means more than the pay. All we ever wanted was to deliver the dream and see where it all went from there. If you have ever read any reviews on the Bro Model, you would see that we have indeed delivered the dream. For PM Gear, that is the reward. Weird, huh?

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Hard to tell with Pinner, these days. I think he's getting senile.
What I felt Jason (whom I think the world of) missed was that I explained to him that the guy who writes business books and is mentioning us in his next book felt that the approach of consulting first with customers is a visionary marketing technique that will manifest as a marketing model of the future.

If Pinner truly interpreted Jason's depiction of PM Gear as a company in which the customers do all the work (consultation on design and graphics, yes - marketing and distribution, not), then Jason might have said it better.

And although my business card does not say 'chief dirtbag', I have no problem considering myself just that, cause I make less than the average liftie.


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