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== CW Pencil Enterprise Shipping Update ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Can I get to the last? There's still one more thing. There's still one more thing. We don't have to question all these names, but I wanted to point out that CW Pencil Enterprise is back to shipping. And I bought their Viking Collectors box set last month, probably around when I had that Vaness order. So I guess, like, once a month, I'm having, like, a binge. Like, last month, it was Vaness and CW Pencil. This month, it's been all these other things. And I bought this Viking Collectors box set. It's sold out on their site right now, but I'm going to review it soon, because I think it's a pretty neat and well-put-together set of pencils. And I just love Viking's branding so much. So I just wanted to point out that CW Pencils is now shipping. I think they're only shipping, like, a couple times a week, whenever they can get in there. Yes, pencilized. But they've coordinated with the post office that everything is, you know, they've done a great job. This is exactly what I want to see out of businesses. Like, they've worked with their local, you know, post office and shipping platforms to make sure that they're not putting any unnecessary burden on people that they don't have to. And when that came to pass, that's when they decided to open back up for shipping. And I love that. So definitely go support them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's nice. Yep. All right. This episode is also brought to you by our friends over at Squarespace. You can make your next move with Squarespace because they will let you create the website that you want for your next project or idea. They can give you the ability to register and assign a unique domain name to that site so it will have a wonderful brand attached. They have beautiful, award-winning, wonderfully customizable templates for you to customize yourself and give your website the look and feel that you want it to have. And they have all of the functionality that you may want to integrate. If you want to put an online store on your website, Squarespace can give you those tools. If you want to make a blog, Squarespace will give you those tools. If you want portfolios, galleries, you want to integrate with other platforms, you want to create mailing lists, campaigns, email campaigns even. Squarespace can give you all of the tools that you need. They are truly the all-in-one platform to help you get your project online. There is nothing to install or patch or upgrade. They do all of that stuff so you don't have to. Maybe you have a friend. Maybe you have a family member. Maybe you're part of a community team or like a social club that has a website and the person that runs the website has lots of questions for you and you don't want to have to answer those questions anymore. If you get them to switch to Squarespace, you can direct those questions to Squarespace's award-winning 24-7 customer support team. This is a great resource for Squarespace. Just in general, if you know someone who has a website but they're not very sure on how to run it, Squarespace can help them do it. It's really, really awesome. You can sign up for a trial today. Go to squarespace.com slash penaddict. You can build your entire website there and see what Squarespace has to offer. Then when you're ready to launch it to the world, you just sign up for one of their plans. But you can get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain by using the offer code penaddict at checkout and you'll also be supporting the show. Once again, that's squarespace.com slash penaddict and the code penaddict to get 10% off your first purchase. Our thanks to Squarespace for their support of this show and all of RelayFM. Squarespace, make your next move, make your next website. Brad, can I take a brief interlude in today's episode because I mentioned the word support and it reminded me of something. Sure. So I don't need to tell everyone about the fact that lots of businesses are struggling at the moment and RelayFM is a business. We are not struggling right now, but I see a time in maybe the not too distant future where belts will need to be tightened around here because we are an advertising supported business at the moment and primarily. And that is a thing where there's a lot of uncertainty around marketing and advertising right now, understandably, as lots of businesses are going through various struggles. If you would like to support RelayFM, we have a membership program where you can do that and you get tons of great content. And we're working on some new wonderful things for that, including something that we just launched this week called Backstage. Backstage is a new members podcast for RelayFM where me and Stephen, my co-founder, we give you a behind the scenes of RelayFM and also help you create your own podcast. It's a monthly show where we're giving all of our tips and knowledge so you can go out and make the show that you've always wanted to make. We're starting with... So on every episode, we are breaking down just one specific thing. So on the first episode, we talk about how to come up with the idea, how to focus on the topic for the show that you want to make and what the right idea could be. If you want to get a taste of what this show will be like, we've published it, the first episode, for free. I'll put a link in the show notes where you can do that. And if you want to get it, become a RelayFM member. And if you become a member to support Backstage, that money goes directly to helping us run the day-to-day of RelayFM. But you can choose to support any show and the money will go to the hosts of the show. So if you want to support the Pan Addict podcast, you can. There's a link in the show notes for that as well. So if you enjoy our content and you have some dollars to spare, we would very much appreciate those dollars. Thank you for your time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I thought the first episode was excellent. Thank you. I can't wait for more. I might have to submit my own questions. There's so much conversation that can happen. Like every single question that you took like spawns off like five more questions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, we have enough topic ideas and questions to, I'm not kidding, run this thing. If we're doing it every month, like two years already. Yeah, yeah. Because there's so much you can go into depth with and we're really going to do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the one thing that I've realized really only in the past, like in the past month, that running a membership service. So the Pan Addict membership is, we're into the fifth year now, I think. Is that right? It's been over four years. Over four years. So I guess, yeah. So we're technically in the fifth year. But people love to support makers, but the thing that they get, I think that they enjoy the most is the inside baseball stuff. Like when I talk about business in refill, which is pretty infrequently, but if I break down like a business decision that I've made, I will get more feedback on that saying, give me more of that, as opposed to like some of the other topics.