#Streamlined Systems

[mentorshelly]

Unleashing Efficiency: The 4 Indispensable Benefits of SOPs in Business

Navigating the complexities of business can be daunting, but with well-crafted Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), your enterprise can move with precision and confidence. Let’s delve into four transformative benefits of SOPs: 1. Unmatched Consistency: SOPs are the secret ingredient to uniform excellence. They ensure every product and service meets your high standards, reflecting the reliability…

[tj-crochets]

Do you have any tips about how to work on quilts? I’m just starting out and I’m in awe at how quickly you can make quilts and how beautiful they turn out.

Hey! Thanks, and welcome to quilting, it's a lot of fun! So, these tips are going to be a bit haphazard and out of order, because that's how I operate lol - do iron your fabric before you cut it - do iron your seams before sewing rows together, and before assembling your quilt sandwich - you can use the backing as the binding for your quilts and then you don't have to try to wrangle binding strips, it's all attached and easy to do - this one is going to sound kinda silly, but use fabric you like whenever you can. Even a super simple patchwork can be awesome if you use fabric you like, and the most complex intricate pattern can be terrible if you don't like the fabrics - sewing clips are the BEST. I think the brand name is clover wonder clips, but the generic is so much cheaper and nearly as good. You'll break the generic versions occasionally but they come like 100 for less than 10 bucks so you can throw away the broken ones and the rest still work. They are just so much faster than using pins - a rotary cutter, quilting ruler, and cutting mat make quilting so much easier - your seam allowance does not have to be 1/4". It can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you either account for it while making your pattern or use a pattern where it doesn't matter as long as it's consistent (like a simple patchwork). Do make sure you seam allowance is large enough that the fabric won't fray apart around it - never buy batting full price at Joanns, it goes on sale regularly or you can almost always get like a 40% off one full price item coupon when it's not on sale - when you are cutting fabric on a rotary mat, you can cut more than one layer of fabric at a time (might be obvious, but I did not know that at first lol) - shop around online for replacement rotary cutter blades, the prices vary wildly and seem to have no rhyme or reason, sometimes it's cheaper to get a two pack of blades than to buy just one? Most of all, make patterns that you want to make. Almost all the quilt patterns I make (except my improv scrap quilts) are really, really basic quilt patterns, because that's what I like making. I like keeping the pattern super simple and letting the fabric be the star, because my favorite part is arranging the fabrics like a puzzle. I have a quilt friend who makes really really intricate, beautiful paper pieced quilts I 100% do not have the patience for, but that's what she likes making and she's great at it. Enjoy what you're making and you'll find the parts of quilting you like best over time :)

[queen-mabs-revenge]

communist generative ai boosters on this website truly like

[koiifiishy]

pog emoji

[mabaris]

my fear about them not using the keep for datv (along with the fact that it allows for less variance in worldstate, but i do buy the excuse that a lot of that stuff won’t be relevant in a wider story set years later) is that the keep is going to be abandoned and/or deactivated, making it impossible to play any type of custom world state in inquisition

[still-gathering-roses]

should i take the time as a personal project to painstakingly transfer the hundreds of fics i have bookmarked on my browser over to my ao3 account bookmarks or is that insane person behavior

[naritaren]

I'm trying to find out if there is a better option for my online shop but man I'm not having much luck.

Etsy is just scummy and sucks. Plus the fees are way higher than I would like. The pros is that they have the search feature. They also don't have a built in way to do commissions.

Shopify is fucking expensive. 30 dollars a month if you pay for a full year at once, a 2.9% credit card processing fee, and you have to buy shipping labels through them. Also no way to do commissions. They do have SEO stuff. I would also be able to use their point of sale system for in person shows and streamline my inventory process.

Ko-fi has the option to pay $5 a month to get rid of fees, I can list free stuff, give people the option to tip on a purchase, and set up commissions through it. The downsides are that I have to market myself (bad at that) and use a clunky system for tracking inventory between online sales and in person sales.

I think I'm just going to stick with ko-fi because it seems like the best solution, even if it's a bit clunky for me to track sales between craft shows and online.

My ideal situation would be Zettle allowing me to open an online shop. It would be less work and the credit card processing fees are cheaper.

I hate running a business.

[vaibhavpropertiesdelhincr]

[kidrat]

[id: screenshot from arc 20 of Worm. It reads:

“I am,” Defiant said.  “Would you arrest me for being insubordinate?  Or would it take something more substantial?”

“Test us and you’ll find out,” Director Tagg responded.

“And what would happen then?  Would you send me to the Birdcage?” Defiant asked.

The question was heavy with the reminder that it was Dragon who maintained and managed the Birdcage.

end id]

sorry but this is SOOO funny. they can't arrest him, his virtual girlfriend controls the entire superhero prison complex. gagged and etc.

[eclipsecrowned]

i. actually enjoyed it? retail is a completely different experience when i'm not chained to a till for 8 hours unable to do anything but question why i'm here.

[babybsweettea]

Maybe then yall will play a better system lol; just play Pathfinder 2e it’s 10000x better

Did you hear Elon wants to buy Hasbro?

[silent-sentinels]

trying to organize and its like. man. adding words to a tag is so hard. not even difficult actually just extremely time consuming. augh. ok complaints done we continue.

[sierraconsult]

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[terakonide]

G/enshin's incredibly obvious and increasing "please learn how to play our fucking game--we aren't asking anymore" push through each version's big combat event is hilarious actually.

But considering that we're finally getting endgame co-op permanently next version that incentivizes heavy replayability to speed up artifact farming (WHICH I'VE BEEN SPECIFICALLY SUBMITTING AS A SUGGESTION FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS VIA FULL-ON ESSAYS), it makes sense.