So I emailed the contact at Brand Events in Sydney, the company handling the tour and explained the situation. We had two options – 1. We could refund the money they had paid for the job, leaving them with no Accreditation passes for the tour or 2. If given just a little bit more time, we could pay another supplier an extra fee to rush the order through. Option 1 would have meant no profit for us, but no loss either. Option 2 meant no proift for us plus a loss of over $1,000, but we were happy to cop the loss in order to sort the order out for the client. Above and beyond as they say!

The client chose Option 2 and gave us 7 days to get the job done and delivered (these jobs typically take 3 weeks, so to say we were under the pump would have been a gross understatement).

After only 5 days, with two days to spare, the gear was delivered to both Brisbane and Sydney ready for the tour to commence. The client was happy, we were happy and our new “preffered” card supplier gets all our work from now on! RESULT!

I guess the moral of the story is, you get what you pay for! Some companies offer super cheap prices, but are not always there to back you up if things go bad. We pride ourselves on offering our clients great prices, but we are also very proud to say that if it all goes bad, we will be there to make it right.

As soon as one web site is done, another pops up. One of my other clients may get me involved working on updating and improving a web site for one of Sydney’s most prestigious Car Sellers. Not only the web site update, but the whole email marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, hardcopy ad design and more. It would be an ongoing venture and would certainly keep me busy, and entertained. I will update the blog if and when the work comes through, as I’m quite excited about the whole thing.

In non work related news, I have just confirmed my January holiday to the States with my good friend Matt, so to all my valued clients, mark these dates in the diary as I will be away. I’m leaving (on a jet plane) Thursday 20th January, 2011 and will arrive back Sunday 6th February, 2011 – fresh faced and ready for work again!. For those interested (and especially those who know me well), stops will of course include Las Vegas, Los Angeles and a quick trip to San Francisco to meet up with my old partner and good friend Bardia Housman (go the Aussie Entrepreneurs!!!)

Anyway, Christmas is fast approaching, so a quick promo. If anyone requires any Promo Gear such as Staff Giveaways and such, I am having a 25% off sale on all promo gear, ending this Friday 29th October, 2010. Hit me up with an email if you anything done

We already have a Promo Gear specific web site – Promo King (www.promoking.com.au) so I thought it was a good idea to launch the new Print site. To celebrate the launch of the site, we will be putting together a Special Promotion on all things Print, and every offer will include Free Design and Free Delivery Australia Wide. That should appeal to a number of our valued clients!

If you need any marketing material done, such as brochures, flyers, leaflets, postcards, menus, business stationery etc just contact us at mikel@pr.com.au. Remember the design and delivery is FREE.

Also we now have the ability to arrange for a valued clients’ printed material to be distributed to Households in Metro Sydney and Brisbane, so that is great news.

Speaking of valued clients, I have just been working on a new web site for a client in the Property Market, in fact the Paris Property Market, and I think it will be a great looking site when it’s finished. I will load a link to the site when it’s all done and live on the “internets”

It got me thinking that I might set up a selection of the most popular printed pieces that we do here at PR Design, and build a FREE DESIGN campaign based on those important marketing tools.

So it’s with this idea that I proudly offer all my clients the . . . drum roll please . . . . PR DESIGN SPECIAL PRINT OFFER (great name, huh?!) You will notice on the front page of the site now there is a link to this awesome offer. It basically features a selection of marketing material, and all prices include FREE DESIGN and FREE DELIVERY throughout Australia. Many of my clients are based interstate and ALL of my clients like FREE stuff, so hopefully it will be a successful promotion for both PR Design and our clients.

You can check it out here –

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I’ve even designed a new promotional postcard for my wife Julie’s Beauty Garage, to promote her new spray tan service, and Julie is the hardest of all clients, I can’t escape her!

So to all my current clients, and anyone just popping by the site, have a fantastic long weekend and if there’s anything promo related you need, hit me with an email, or give me call, after Monday thanks