If I'm, if I'm owning the production process. I think now I'm probably more in the latter camp of looking out there for, for you know, the next thing outside of framing. Outside of framing. Not outside of though of like owning another business or you know, doing a turnaround.
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Maybe not turnaround but like, you know, taking it and growing it to the potential. It could be because this has become more passive than I, I, I certainly thought would have happened by, by now I thought I'd still be in, in the back of the shop grinding away, but I don't know.
I, I do still think the vision I, I mentioned on a pre call, you know, I, I want to get the revenue mix even more tilted towards commercial and having not recurring revenue but just very established relationships with high volume clients. Interior designers are a huge, huge area that we're targeting and they're great clients, right. And you know, we're trying to give them services and that really…
So an example is, you know, we want to be the one stop shop for delivery, pickup, framing and installation. Right. And that saves the designer from having to reach out to three or four different vendors and coordinate amongst all of them. Right. Whereas we can just be, you know, give us the project, tell us the date, we'll make sure it's there and that it gets hung up on the wall.
Because, because traditionally a decorator, an interior designer has to. Somebody else is going to hang the piece, somebody else is going to, they or somebody else is Going to move the piece from the client's home to the frame shop, then out of the frame shop to back to the home and then hang it. There's all these steps and you could offer full service, you could do the entire thing.
So basically they press a button and the thing is hanging, hanging, framed beautifully on their client's wall. That's right. And those are also high margin businesses. Oh yeah. And customer acquisition cost would be extremely reasonable.
Right. If you're thinking about the frame shop as your engine. So anyway, I guess to answer your question is we have those, we have that kind of vision, if you will, for the shop. And it's still going, we're still working towards that, you know, but I'm also still very much evaluating, you know, what, what, what could be next outside of framing.
And JD isn't the, isn't the model like the scaled model here to move the actual fulfillment to some cheaper real estate place?
I think this is how Framebridge does it. They, they ship off all the pieces and, and, and then so you have the actual framers are in some nondescript location, non retail location, cheap real estate, more room, lots of, lots of people. Then you have lots of framers.
So you're not so dependent on the single framer. That is basically the physical, the physical capacity of the store kind of constrains you to basically one or two people. Is it, is, is that not where this model eventually goes?
If you want to kind of big. League it, you nailed it. Yep, that's exactly right.
And you either have it on an off site or get a large enough facility where you can have both, but you're not in as an easily accessible area like the retail store.
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