http://jayperoni.com/there-goes-the-ferrari Faith Based Investing Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://jayperoni.com/there-goes-the-ferrari/comment-page-1#comment-40 Tom Johnson Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:01:18 +0000 http://gocheckmedia.com/jayperoni/there-goes-the-ferrari#comment-40 Essential Habit # 1: Always place principles before profits. Take responsibility; seek profit, but do not compromise your values. Jay, you have hit on an area that we have just had to address. Our family is launching a line of designer Christian apparel and we just finished printing samples for a local apparel show. While I was making the Sales Catalog, I had to get a description of the material used in some of the shirts from the manufacturer's website. Much to our surprise, the home page of the website had recently been updated and slideshows of models in various stages of undress started filling the screen. Some were completely topless. Seriously? Needless to say, we quickly stopped all the marketing and website launch to find another vendor for our t-shirt blanks. It has taken us a few weeks to retool everything; create new catalogs, adjust our prices, change design colors, order new samples and make sure our new vendor is comfortably aligned with our values and our faith. It wasn't cheap. Or easy. Necessary? We certainly think so. This apparel line is our passion and our means of sharing God's blessings through our talents. If our voice is where our talent, passion, conscience and ability to meet a need in the world intersect, what message would we be sending by doing business with a company that has such low moral standards? To make sure we don't compromise our values and our faith, we have started a vendor questionnaire. The survey has questions we will ask future business partners about their marketing efforts, business practices, company values and the other clients they work with. I'll bet this questionnaire ends up being several pages long and covers many more topics before we're finished. We are so glad we discovered this before it was too late. We did the next right thing and will continue to do what is necessary to protect our reputation and adhere to our principles, values and morals. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke "Doing nothing" is a such big part of our current problems. "Doing nothing" is something we cannot afford to do. God Bless Essential Habit # 1: Always place principles before profits. Take responsibility; seek profit, but do not compromise your values.
Jay, you have hit on an area that we have just had to address. Our family is launching a line of designer Christian apparel and we just finished printing samples for a local apparel show. While I was making the Sales Catalog, I had to get a description of the material used in some of the shirts from the manufacturer’s website. Much to our surprise, the home page of the website had recently been updated and slideshows of models in various stages of undress started filling the screen. Some were completely topless.
Seriously?
Needless to say, we quickly stopped all the marketing and website launch to find another vendor for our t-shirt blanks. It has taken us a few weeks to retool everything; create new catalogs, adjust our prices, change design colors, order new samples and make sure our new vendor is comfortably aligned with our values and our faith. It wasn’t cheap. Or easy.
Necessary? We certainly think so. This apparel line is our passion and our means of sharing God’s blessings through our talents. If our voice is where our talent, passion, conscience and ability to meet a need in the world intersect, what message would we be sending by doing business with a company that has such low moral standards?
To make sure we don’t compromise our values and our faith, we have started a vendor questionnaire. The survey has questions we will ask future business partners about their marketing efforts, business practices, company values and the other clients they work with. I’ll bet this questionnaire ends up being several pages long and covers many more topics before we’re finished.
We are so glad we discovered this before it was too late. We did the next right thing and will continue to do what is necessary to protect our reputation and adhere to our principles, values and morals. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
~ Edmund Burke
“Doing nothing” is a such big part of our current problems. “Doing nothing” is something we cannot afford to do.
God Bless

]]> http://jayperoni.com/there-goes-the-ferrari/comment-page-1#comment-39 Sean M Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:25:53 +0000 http://gocheckmedia.com/jayperoni/there-goes-the-ferrari#comment-39 Jay, Once again you seem to have made the complex simple...Not to mention a fun little trip back to the 80's for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I'm looking forward to reading more about the 12 Habits when the book comes out. Jay,
Once again you seem to have made the complex simple…Not to mention a fun little trip back to the 80′s for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
I’m looking forward to reading more about the 12 Habits when the book comes out.

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