I consider every project we work on to be a privilege. Our customers are entrusting us with the care and preservation of their most precious, often irreplaceable photos.  In this case, the photos to be scanned were from his wedding.  After they were scanned and retouched, he was able to create a video for his wife, celebrating the day they were united forever.

A few days later, when I asked how it went, he said with a smile, “She loved it.  It was off the charts!”

Over the years, I can honestly say I’ve never given my wife as thoughtful a gift as that.  Material things wear out and break, but memories are cherished forever.  I am personally taking a lesson from his example, and I think guys everywhere would earn a few points if they did too!

This afternoon we will be launching an awesome promotion that we are VERY excited about, but first I want to take a moment and thank you all for helping us get this little dream off the ground.  My wife and I have worked on so many home business ideas over the past 12 years, and this is the first one that has really taken flight.  It seems we have finally found a way to provide something that people need, and it has been a privilege helping so many of you restore and preserve your old photos.

It has been a real pleasure to see some of the amazing memories that have come in through your projects.  Some of them strike a chord with me personally, like some of the Christmas mornings from the early 80′s.  I was a young boy then, and Santa brought me some of the very same toys that some of you received!  Sometimes the photos remind me of my own mother and father who passed a way several years ago.  And some are so old, so fragile, that I often feel a sigh of relief come over me, that they are finally digitized and preserved from future decay.

So thank you, each and every one of you, from the bottom of our hearts.  We appreciate your patronage, and we hope that we will be able to continue serving you and your friends and family for a very long time.

- Eric & Randa Farnsworth

But lacking the fortitude to brave those crowds and potentially have to take a punch over the latest Elmo doll, I am really glad that somebody invented Cyber Monday.  The Monday after Thanksgiving is the day all the Internet retailers blow out their prices and try to get whatever cash you have left after Black Friday.  The deals you find online are usually the most amazing deals you’ll see all year.  So we are going to follow suit and give you an offer you can’t refuse!  To get this offer, you need to hop on over to Facebook, and make sure that you have “liked” our fan page.  Visit www.facebook.com/TurboScans and hit that LIKE button!

Then all you have to do is wake up Monday morning, check your Facebook account, and see the offer we have posted!  We will make it worth your time!  Please spread the word to your friends, because friends always tell friends about amazing Cyber Monday savings!

This is the first time I have had a chance to speak with a large number of total strangers, one on one, about our services.  The response was better than I had anticipated, and I’d like to share a few observations with you.

First, everybody thought it was a fantastic idea.  They really connected with what we are doing.  I would ask them if they had a shoebox like the one on my table at home, and 100% of the people I asked, said “No”, but that they had WAY more pictures than that sitting at home, rotting in a closet.  A few variations of that story that caught my attention:

• One older gentleman pointed out, that not only are they rotting away, but nobody is enjoying them!  His grandchildren had never seen some of those pictures, nor heard the stories that went with them.  Both he and his lovely wife really started processing the impact of that realization.
• Another sweet young lady has parents who are out of the country right now, serving a volunteer service mission for their church.  All of their belongings are in storage for the duration, and she’s trying to figure out if she can get into the storage unit to find them and get them scanned, so she can build some photobooks as a welcome home gift.
• Then there was the heart breaker – Another couple I spoke to had pipes break in the basement, and they told me of all the damage it caused.  One of the boxes that got soaked was full of pictures, and a lot of them were destroyed.  It is so sad to see how easily those pictures can be lost in a situation that should have just been an inconvenience.
• One of  the most exciting guys I spoke to, really connected to our color restoration system.  He’d recently looked through some old pictures of his younger days, having the time of his life with his Jeep down in Moab, Utah.  He said those pictures were already fading and he was anxious to get them corrected and preserved.

The night was a fantastic success for me, because I got to hear from real people, their real stories.  Many shared memories of years long behind them.  You could see others crunching numbers in their heads, trying to estimate how many pictures they have at home.  Only one lucky gentlemen told me with a look of satisfaction, that his photos were all done.  His wife had spent many many months working through two lifetimes worth of pictures.  Hers had been a labor of love, and he made me promise not to tell her how quickly we could have done the job .

The second observation I made, is that I think I’ve had the sales formula wrong from the start.  We have been offering scans in pre-paid lots of 100, 500, and 1000 scans.  People went straight for the 1000 scan option.  Not because it’s the best price point for getting scans done, but because they already know that 100 or 500 scans isn’t going to get the job done.  Moab guy bought 2000 scans without hesitation, and said “this should get me started”.   It was interesting to see that my family wasn’t the only photo-happy people back in the day.

So that was our night.  We got out and shared our mission with the public and got a very warm welcome.  It will be interesting to see how the holiday season plays out, we hope many people will be inspired to give the gift of Photographic Peace of Mind.

I went ahead and washed it through the software to see what would happen, and just like that, it looked a LOT better!  So not only can we fix old pictures, but we can fix some bad photography too!  Sorry, we can’t take off the extra 10 pounds the camera adds…