If you aren’t growing, you are dying, but the hardest part about growing is maintaining quality. As you hire more folks, expand to new locations, industries, etc. it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain the high quality you provided to your clients when you first started. It’s an incredibly difficult problem and so we reached out to some phenomenal entrepreneurs and asked them to share their stories, experiences and insights on the topic with us below.

Hunter Lubawski

My company, Fairytales and Fantasy Co., is always looking to serve the highest quality entertainment in both our costumes and hair, as well as activities and performers! When a character becomes more popular, their dresses and wigs get used more often, therefore needing more upkeep and revamps. Recently, our Ice Queen character has been receiving more bookings, so I just purchased a brand new wig and dress from two wonderful companies that are very highly rated in the princess performer community. Both are made to order and are made to withstand many uses before needing a revamp.  It is important to me that Fairytales and Fantasy Co. is improving to the highest quality possible to ensure the best experience for our customers, and that we can feel confident in our product we are serving! Read more>>

Jeff Kane

First, we are in our relative infancy as a company. We went from making a couple of hundred gallons for ourselves and friends, then to farmers markets and local stores, and now producing almost 3,000 gallons in less than 12 months. The process of making vinegar is the oxidation of ethanol (alcohol) into acetic acid by beneficial bacteria called Acetobacter. We convert the sugars of a plant/fruit in alcohol (wine) through yeast fermentation, followed by a second fermentation where the alcohol is oxidized into acetic acid (vinegar) by the bacteria. Read more>>

Christopher Martin

Quality control is one of the most important parts of any business. Quality control helps to breed consistency in products. When you are a new company starting out, consistency is key. No one knows your company or your products and a large scale. So one bad production run can become the entire reputation for your company. As we grow and bring on new employees in our process, we have to ensure that everyone is being properly trained for the task that they are supposed to run. This ensures that customers get the same products no matter who produces the items. In our company, this also falls in line with our ingredients, as at different times we have to get them from different producers. So new spices have to be inspected and tested at purchase. Read more>>