by Pat & Mike | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Small Business, Social Media
Small business and customers Ever since we started the business in 2013 we’ve been told that we needed to start an email list of potential customers. Just getting a small business started is challenging enough. So we avoided that sage advice and worked with...
by Pat & Mike | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog, Small Business
Do It Yourself – DIY Website We built our Sunriver Metal Works’ DIY website using the WordPress Engine. Plugins customize the functions of the website to fit the business needs. Many themes have been developed by companies to further customize how...
by Pat & Mike | Dec 24, 2015 | Blog, Custom Metal Work, Small Business
Snow presents challenges For anyone who has seen our Facebook posts over the last two weeks, you know we’ve been doing a significant amount of snow removal. Over the last 3 weeks (starting with our power outage), we received nearly 4 feet of snow. Check out...
by Pat & Mike | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog, Family, Favorites, Signs, Small Business
Christmas Snow! Last year’s Christmas snow fall in the Sunriver area was dismal, at best. It was a record drought year, and skiers in the area didn’t have much snow to work with at Mt. Bachelor. We created this snow gauge for a new customer as a 2014...
by Pat & Mike | Oct 20, 2015 | Blog, Custom Metal Work, Small Business
A customer asked just the other day about setting prices for our metal work. It’s difficult to apply a standard formula to what we do. I’m sure that’s the case with most small businesses. Setting Prices What’s interesting is that we came up...
by Pat & Mike | Sep 11, 2015 | Blog, Small Business
What happens when the sparks don’t fly? Or it cuts out, and you can’t remove it from the sheet of steel? Or some pieces cut out fine and others crash? It’s a small business dilemma – to be sure! Small business dilemma These are just...
