CD Orders… filled. Ugh.
I spent this evening filling CD orders I’ve collected over the past month. They are for the Georgetown College Symphonic Band’s Spring Concert, and the Central Kentucky Concert Band’s Great White Way concert.
While I enjoy recording, I don’t enjoy the process of filling CD orders. Sure, it means I’ve made money if I have a lot of CD orders. However, it’s a mundane process once the recording is completed - make copies, create a CD label, print labels, stomp the labels onto the CDs, make mailing labels, print mailing labels, put labels on CD mailers, put CDs in mailers & seal. At the end of the process, I send an email to everyone to let them know they’re order is ready to ship.
In total, the process (aside from editing the recording) takes about three hours when I have a lot of orders to fill. Since I’m lazy and like to procrastinate, combined with the fact that I don’t enjoy mundane work, I usually put this process off for as long as possible - although having a busy schedule doesn’t help matters. Before I know it, a month has gone by since the concert, and I still haven’t had a chance to mail the CDs. I end up having to “squeeze” it into my schedule on a free evening.
It’s for this reason that I don’t expect to do this much longer. I’ll say it again - I love recording. I just don’t enjoy the process of filling orders, anymore. I’m going to give heavy consideration to doing this for another year (2 GC band concerts, 3 CKCB concerts, 4 LBB concerts - all in the fall and spring), and call it quits. At the same time, I’m entertaining the idea of speeding up this process and calling it quits before the upcoming concert seasons begin. We’ll see….
