We love our clients — the business clients, the individuals, the creatives, the entrepreneurs, the nonprofits and the public in general. We have found a wonderful place to do business here and it is gratifying to help people. We love it!
We don’t want to lose that, but we also want to have weekends occasionally and be able to stop working before the wee hours of the morning. After two years, the time has come to find a little work-life balance and to get enough rest to be able to deliver the best possible work to our clients.
We are Only Two
Steve and I recently had to consider how we do business, how many hours we can work per day, how many days we can work per week, and how we could help the most people and make the biggest difference in our community with the 24 hours available in each day.
Our business has grown to the point that we either had to hire more people — one to work in our reception area, another to work in the shop with Steve, and a third to help with graphics and website development — or we had to trim back on our client list — which we didn’t want to do.
The City’s Decision Helped Us Make Our Decision
While we were mulling over if we wanted to grow our payroll to continue to expand our services, the City of Danville decided to raise payroll taxes. Our decision was made. We will not be hiring additional staff. With that new information, we had to make additional difficult decisions on how to trim our workload and still help as many people as possible.
Why We Do What We Do
Steve and I both want to be sure that our work makes a difference. Simply “making a living” is not enough for either of us. We want to be a part of improving the local economy, of supporting small businesses and nonprofits, and helping our neighbors succeed in their businesses and organizations.
- We believe that positive change starts at home.
- We believe in grass roots approaches to improving our world.
- We believe that the only way our country will get stronger is through the power of small business.
- We believe the work of local non-profits matters and that assistance should come from neighbors not government.
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center has unveiled a cleaning robot that utilizes ultraviolet light technology to clean patient rooms. This new robot, by Xenex, already has a general practitioner on standby. That robot doctor is Steve Knight of