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growing up.
We all got cards right from your aunt, your nana, and you never really liked red.
I'm just kind of shook him to see if there's any money that fell out, you know?
But there's so many things that people celebrate experience in their lives.
That is not just something you confined at the drugstore.
You know, someone will be like my son just came out as Trans, and it's just like, guess guess we record for that.
Hi, Marley.
I'm Morgan and we're the owners of Ladyfingers Letter press in Colorado Springs.
Morgan proposed after dating for three years, and we posted some photos of our wedding invitation online.
There was this big neon poster all hand lettered.
Before we knew it, the invitation went viral and we were getting requests from people to make their wedding invitations.
We didn't even have a website.
Yeah, we kind of hacked one together really quickly, and we quit our full time jobs and went to work for ourselves.
It was scary, but it was also exciting because we were our own bosses and it was totally upto us For the first time.
I never went to business school or graduate school.
We were really lucky to take a business class.
We spent eight weeks writing a business plan, and it's my number.
One thing I tell anyone who wants to be in business to find a class that could help take you through the parts that you're not familiar with.
We opened up our mom and mom shop July of 2016 4 Letter press is here in the shop, some of them over 100 years old.
I do the printing and I come up with all the bad, bad jokes.
And then I draw them.
My gauges.
If I read her my little notebook and she laughs, and then I'm like, That's a good one.
She's like, No, it's terrible, but you laughed.
And so sometimes we make those guards way realized the card industry wasn't addressing relationships that fell outside this very mainstream vision.
So we speak from our own experience and tell our own story with what we make.
We also want to make other people's experiences available to our customers, so we sell things made by friends and people we've known for years way.
Want everyone to feel like there's something here for them But I was constantly searching these little bits of information about how I could better online presence.
Our Google listing is so helpful customers leave comments Lee pictures and then really explain what their experience was like here.
We've been surprised at how the store has been supported and ground by our own community.
50% of our sales also come through our website, and almost all the traffic is coming from Google.
All of what we do is about representing our voice in our values in our work, how we support LGBT organizations.
The community is a huge part of our vision for our business.
Inside Out is a local organization working with LGBT Q youth.
We create designs and bladder press printed goods for them that help support their cause.
When I came out, my family was like, Yeah, we know, like, how come nobody told me, You know, and I think it's so important for you to feel supported and encouraged and love for the people that they are.
Everyone's going through something.
Everyone's feeling something.
And if we can provide that human connection in this age, where everything so digital now, it means so much more than I think it did before.