Stickers

Joy & I met at The Main Squeeze today.

We settled up final details for our promotion (next Saturday?) and then visited The Optic Zone and Izakaya Japanese Restaurant to add to the places now displaying the adhesive stickers in doors & windows. (Check out Market Square Shoe repair, The SLM Smoke & Gift Shop, The Main Squeeze etc.)

Along the way we posted our first poster asking for volunteers (the local library obliged)

We obtained a deal from Izakaya that allows us to kick off promotions when we are ready.

We are moving ahead, slowly, but surely picking up speed.

New age town embraces dollar alternative

Use BerkShares to buy a snack at a cafe in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

T$ print shop

Progress!
Yesterday we took delivery of a batch of stickers AND a guillotine.

The stickers are already in use in prime locations around the St Lawrence Market Area. We have four types - adhesive on the face side, adhesive on the back side, clear film and solid background film. This is a "no excuses" policy! No matter the preference from merchants, we can supply a sticker for them.

The guillotine has been used to trim coupons on a small print run for The Main Squeeze. For larger print runs (250 sheets at 6 coupons per sheet), we will run the cut and trim through a local print shop. They are better equipped to do that kind of work.

Joy Kogawa - eagle eyed

Thanks to Joy for spotting this conjunction on the North Market building last week:

Wooffest

Joy and Josh and I met up at The Main Squeeze; we set out to get T$ into people's hands, and partnered with Mike & Carmen who were running the Main Squeeze booth in Berczy Park.

Was it a success?

From the measurable view of "exchanges made", no; I made four exchanges (1) by blackmailing one of my clients who walked by (2) a lone male who possibly was just glad to have someone to talk with (3) another older fellow who gave me a parting look as if he had been swindled and (4) a couple of young ladies who scraped up $3 between them. I changed a $T5 for five $T1, exchanged three $T1 for their three loonies. They purchased a $3 lemonade and Mike gave them a $T1 as a coupon. Who won in all of that?


From my self-centred point of view is was a great success. We learned what doesn't work too well (a street-fest environment), what not to say to some people. We had Josh along making some documentary moves, and we handed out some of our flyers and maps.

Several people I spoke with knew about T$ but didn't know where to purchase or spend them. I was tempted to distribute my remaining flyers by hand, but decided that they may end up as street litter, so I brought them home.

The photo?
I cut off Josh's head (that's why he is the AV expert, not I), and here he is getting ready to eat a dog at Wooffest!


Next week we will be working outside Main Squeeze in earnest.

The Toronto Dollar Print Service

I couldn't find a St Lawrence Market Area print shop that would take Toronto Dollars.
I thought about my options.

I want this project to be funded entirely in Toronto Dollars.
Since no print shop will take Toronto Dollars, I'll just have to start a new business that DOES take Toronto Dollars.

And that's what I did. Yesterday I took delivery of an HP2600N colour laser printer and today I am open for business.

http://www.chrisgreaves.com/T$/

I accept payment in Toronto Dollars.
I print on regular paper (flyers, brochures etc) and business cards.
I accept payment in Toronto Dollars.
I print small to mid-size runs (as few as 1 copy, as many as 1,000 copies)
I accept payment in Toronto Dollars.
I accept material by email.
I accept payment in Toronto Dollars.
I deliver each item personally, to make sure that each client is satisfied.
I accept payment in Toronto Dollars.

I accept payment ONLY in Toronto Dollars.

If your business is taking part in the Toronto Dollar revitalization project, you get your copies at half rate!