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Happy Monday Friends, Today our offices will be opened, but I am not working as I will be at temple praying in the AM and then chowing down in the PM. It is the start of Rosh Hashanah which is the Jewish New Year Festival. This holiday is marked by the blowing of the shofar. The shofar is a ram’s-horn trumpet used by ancient Jews in religious ceremonies as seen in the photo below. This holiday starts the ten day of penitence for Jewish people and culminates in Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the most holy day of the year for me and my Jewish brethren. I will spend that…

I hope you had a great weekend and made progress visiting lots of quilt shops for the #scottsentme2019 challenge. I hit none this weekend as my daddy duties are in full swing and I am stuck at 14 visits. Quite frankly, my daddy duties have been crushing me lately and it has been impacting my blogging. Did anyone even notice that I didn’t post a blog last week? But seriously, my kids are very active and it’s hard to find time to write. I cannot wait for the work week to start….that is my weekend. Consider it a 5 day weekend. On top of that, I am still coming from…

We are just a little over a week into September and the #ScottSentMe2019 Challenge is still in its infancy as it ends at the end of November. What better time than now to bring you up to speed and also to have you help me spread the word to make sure that everyone in our quilting world knows all about it? For starters, if you click on this link, this is a great starting point if you are a consumer or a shop owner. For CONSUMERS, when you click on that link above, this is what you want to be looking out for: For the rules, you can either click…

It’s now time to switch gears as August has come and gone and the black and white checkered flag is going up on the Jaftex Facebook Live Shop Tour Challenge 2019. The winner will be announced shortly so stay tuned. With that being said, you can probably figure out who the winner is as it is the shop whose video has the garnered the most views. For August, you got to sit on your rear ends around your home and enjoy all the fabric-tainment provided to you by Jaftex Corp. and our amazingly brave shop owner partners around the world. For the next contest #ScottSentMe2019, you are unfortunately going to…

Recently, I was talking with my brother about vendors that we deal with through work and vendors that we deal with in our personal lives.  We were commenting about how surprisingly poor the customer service was at so many companies that we deal with.  You would think that owners and vendor employees would be conscientious enough to do their jobs and do it with pride.  However, that really isn’t the case whatsoever for all too many companies.  To be honest, as a business owner, I don’t really get it at all. The complaints about these vendors run the gamut.  On the one hand, it’s like an act of congress to…

SEE THE WINNERS AND PRIZES SECTION FOR UPDATES Happy Monday Friends, As I am writing this blog post, the #JaftexVideoChallenge19 is still underway and going strong. If you weren’t aware, that is my challenge to get shops to submit a video shop tour to me to post on my page for the world to see. If you don’t know anything about this challenge, you should go check out all the videos on Facebook on my @jaftexpresident page. I love to see shops and I especially love to see them participate in my challenges. This is a great way for them to step-up their social media activity as that is an…

On July 29,  I posted about the second iteration of The Jaftex Facebook Live Shop Tour Video Challenge.  I know that I am going to hear lots of excuses as to why people won’t be submitting a video, so I am going to debunk those excuses right here and now and recycle a post that I wrote for last year’s contest.  I hope I can convince you to change your mind before August 30th, 2019 when the contest ends. I keep asking myself, “Why wouldn’t a shop owner want to create a video and be a part of the challenge and the fun?”  And in my brain there are reasons…

Instructions & Rules THIS INFO WAS ADDED AFTER THE ORIGINAL CONTEST POST: YOU CAN’T USE LAST YEAR’S VIDEO OR ANY VIDEO THAT WAS PRODUCED BEFORE THIS BLOG POST WENT LIVE ON MONDAY JULY 29th. ALL VIDEOS MUST START WITH ZERO VIEW. WHO: This contest is for quilt shop owners worldwide with a brick and mortar store. However, like last year, anyone selling Jaftex fabric can submit a video as long as they have meaningful fabric stuff to show and share. I will not reject anyone that steps up to the challenge as long as you are a Jaftex customer or an international customer of one of our distributors.    WHAT: …

Hey Gang, Hope you are loving this summer minus the ridiculous heat. I know that empty house Scott (me) & Laurie (my wife) are sure having a fun summer and really tearing it up with lots of fun adventures and experiences. We do miss the kids though…..a little. As we approach the end of the month, the beginning of my shop owner video tour challenge and then the #scottsentme challenge (more on that below), I have a bunch to tell you before the madness begins. With that, I am bringing back my Bits ‘N” Pieces series with tidbits of info that you need to know to finish your summer off…

Last week I blogged about the things consumers need to do to be a beloved quilt shop customer. This week I am going to discuss the things you DON’T want to do if you want to remain a beloved customer. Before I do that though, I want to mention that there are lots of good reasons to shop local and support small businesses like quilt shops as compared to big box stores. Here are a few: Shop owners donate to and help local guilds. Shop owners even let guilds use their shops for meetings and other purposes. Small businesses pay various types of taxes which are cycled back into the…