A New Business

Well well. After many many months of no posts I am back. And I am back to post actively. Where have I been? For the last two years I was roped (without too much complaint) into doing a great deal of management consulting for E. I. Du Pont. With their safety business - Du Pont Safety Resources. It was 100% travel and 100% in California. A long way from Texas. I spent an average of two weeks each month in California. I had to cut back on the patent business to pull it off.

It was challenging, it was fun, and it was profitable. But that much travel and being away from the family finally did me in. I have one more trip to California in March and it is over.

The new news is that I have launched a new business. And because this is a blog about small businesses I intend to talk about it. Occasionally.

The new business is called Ervin Copywriting. I still have my patent business (M.A. Ervin & Associates) and it is doing fine- thank you. Although I need to grow it back to where it was. Unlike the patent business, which has been pretty much a one person show, Ervin Copywriting is a joint venture with my daughter Jennifer. I view copywriting as a natural extension of what I have been doing - first of all both are basically writing businesses, and second, both are focused on providing good services to small businesses. I still prefer working with small businesses.

Jennifer is new to helping run a small business, but is catching on fast. We are in the second month of business launch and are moving into a heavy marketing phase to create those people who pay the bills - clients. I will tell you more about copywriting in future posts - because if you are not familiar with it you should be.