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365 Adventures in 2011: Day 114 – Lanyard Lab lanyards featured on Desperate Housewives
A couple months ago, we received an order at Lanyard Lab from Disney’s hit TV show Desperate Housewives on ABC for lanyards to be used in an upcoming episode. They were to be part of a “convention” on the show. I didn’t know to what extent we’d see the lanyards in the episode, assuming they would simply be worn casually throughout some of the scenes. Well, that episode (season 7, episode 19) aired tonight and I was pleasantly surprised to see our lanyards not only prominently featured, but also tightly integrated into the episode’s story line. The lanyards actually played a rather important role!
Below is a single frame from the episode where star Felicity Huffman is pulling her lanyard out of an envelope to put it on. Yep, we made that! (We didn’t make the badge with her character’s name on it, only the lanyard itself.) Throughout the episode, you’ll see plenty of red and black lanyards, all with the same text design that reads “Weisman LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE” which the fictional convention where Huffman and a few of the show’s other stars attended. Yep, we produced all of them.
Thanks to the show for the order!
365 Adventures in 2011: Day 10 – A mistake worth thousands of dollars
I’m a little late posting today’s picture of the day, but with good reason. I spent a couple hours tonight discovering and getting to the bottom of a Lanyard Lab business mistake that may end up saving us thousands of dollars. Needless to say, I’m happy I found it.
I won’t get into specifics of the mistake, but to figure out just how deep the problem ran, I turned all Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of “The Social Network” for a while, writing some rapid-fire, database-driven code to analyze the issue. So today’s picture is of my computer screen, blurred for security and privacy reasons, with freshly-written PHP code on the left, HTML on the right, and the results of the coding printed in the middle:
The joys of being an entrepreneur.
Oh, and to keep this picture-of-the-day thing properly sorted, I’ve back-dated this post to January 10, even though I’m technically writing it after midnight on January 11. I can bend the rules. It’s my blog.
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I truly appreciate everyone who has followed me online over the past few years. It all started with gaining thousands of listeners and fans of Inside the Magic. Then it grew to this blog. And in the process, I’ve also grown a small following on Twitter and Facebook.
It’s been a whole lot of fun to interact with all of the listeners, viewers, and readers over the past few years. But I’ve never really spent much time interacting with all of you on a business level. Sure, many of you followed me to Orlando Attractions Magazine, but one-on-one interaction was fairly limited there.
Now I ask that you follow me over to my new adventure: Lanyard Lab.
If you’re ever in the need of custom lanyards, I hope you’ll come to us first – and then we’ll convince you to stop looking anywhere else. :) We can put your name, organization name, logo, or any other graphic onto lanyards – those strips of fabric that hang around your neck to advertise and promote your business, show school or team spirit, or just unite a group. And we’ll get them to you in as little as 7-10 days.
And it may seem that custom lanyards aren’t as fun as a podcast about Disney or chatting on Twitter, but you all know me very well by now and you know that I don’t partake in activities unless I truly enjoy them. And with Lanyard Lab, I am able to interact one-on-one with anyone who inquires with us. I am answering the phones, e-mails, sending price quotes and artwork, and processing orders.
So, again, I ask for your help. If you need custom lanyards give Lanyard Lab a shot. If you know anyone else who might need customized lanyards, please pass our information along to them. Or if you’ve got a web site or blog and simply want to help out, then please link to us. You can even use this graphic:
You can visit us directly at www.LanyardLab.com.
Thanks to everyone who has followed me as I’ve hopped around the Internet for the past few years. I’m excited about my latest opportunity and I hope to hear from you soon!
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