Yallery Blog

Yallery.com is still softlaunched — meaning that we’re not “officially” promoting our services while we work through some important issues and implement remaining features (but the site and service are still usable for hosting and most publicly accessible functions).

That said, last month, I presented our service at the Denver Boulder Founders Meetup and the Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup to share our progress with the local tech and entrepreneurial communities.

As I discuss Yallery.com with people, it became increasingly obvious that I needed something other than old and unrelated business cards to hand out. I was also planning a trip to Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico and thought a postcard would be handy as they are the promotional “lingue franca” of the Gallery industry. I designed and ordered some cards and postcards.

Another obvious need was stickers — It’s a Web2.0 rule I think. I began to look around and ask friends about sticker printers. It came down to two companies, and ultimately one — a local company named Sticker Giant.

Yallery.com moves into meatspace

John Fischer, founder of Sticker Giant heard that I was considering another company to print up our Yallery stickers and made an incredibly generous offer to print up our stickers. I’ve had one of each on my Powerbook since they arrived and they are high quality. Thanks John, we’ll be ordering our future stickers from you.

I was highly impressed with the quality of the product from my initial Overnight Prints order — the postcard and my business card were produced in Kentucky and matched my design exactly. Unfortunately, my second order was produced in California and while the reverse is the same quality as my original card, the front gradient and colors look extremely washed out — very dull and ultimately inconsistent. My email to Overnight Prints about this was ignored and I think my future printing will be done by someone else.