I couldn’t believe a few weeks ago when I noticed that my supply of labels was running low, since that would mean that I’d run through over 300 product labels! I was like, “WHAAAT?!” I am a MACHINE, boys and girls! Eh heh heh heh…

So it was time to order up some more labels. But rather than reorder more of the same, I decided to switch things up a little bit since as a microbiz you kind of just have the flexibility to do that! I played with my colors a bit and added an image of sprouting leaves that I think is in keeping with the bright-sunshiny-day design of my site and shop banner, as well as my business card. And, I think it represents the budding nature of my business and hopefully the new growth ahead. So voila! My new label. :]

I’d had a decent experience with my previous label supplier from Etsy but the turnaround had been a bit slow, so back I went to see what new suppliers might have cropped up since then. I found Worldwide Label, did some price comparisons, read their customer reviews and ordered up a pack of 600!

My first interaction with them was uhhhhh, not so good. I sent them this:

And this is what they sent back to me as a proof to approve:

ACK! I had a few moments of speechlessness but quickly wrote them back to basically say that the proof was not going to work out for me unfortunately and that I would much prefer that it look a little bit more like the design I submitted.

Thankfully, the story quickly takes a turn for the better! They wrote me back the next morning saying that they’d take care of it and not to worry. And they did! Not sure what happened there but they arrived 21 days later, and I am lovin’ me my new labels!

I can’t wait to try them out. Here’s to my next 600 products — cheers!

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