Here on Monster Commute, I sometimes tell you about new products that we've created and developed, and sometimes you buy them.
This is a good thing. And it's very appreciated.
No, I'm not going to start with a rant or hard sell about why you should buy one of our products once again. We don't roll that way. Ideally, you'll want what we make, and begging on our part probably doesn't help.
But I was thinking that it might be a good time to tell you what we do with the profits from when we do sell stuff. Why not? Transparency is good.
First though, is what we don't do with the money from your sales:
- Pizza money.
- Rent.
- Gas money.
- Video games.
- Comics.
- Clothes for my kid.
All that stuff is good and fine, but that's what we spend our personal money on, not Steam Crow profits.
Here's what we do invest in:
- Custom printing and manufacturing.
- Fabric.
- Thread.
- Tools.
- Computer software.
- New computer.
- Prints.
- Travel. (To comic conventions)
- Hotels. (For comic conventions)
- Camera. (For product photography.)
- Flyers.
- Office furniture. (Computer chair of quality.)
- Taxes.
- T-shirts.
- Business cards.
- Web hosting. (For our various websites.)
- Art supplies. (Paint, poison bottles, brushes, etc.)
- Fonts.
- A color printer.
- Print toner.
- Stickers.
- Button supplies.
This year, I think that we spent money on almost all of those things.
The point is that we're not squandering your support; we're reinvesting it back into Steam Crow. (Our company.)
Enough of this reinvestment and if we're careful, we'll eventually be profitable enough to have a paid employee or two. (Beginning with ME!)
- Daniel
