Custom Flash Drives Blog : CFgear Live

Not sure what it is about my mother, but she seems to find ways to smoothly drop little nuggets of inspiration into my life at the most needed times. Last month it was the “you should check out this musical group” playing down at the local coffee shop. Believe it or not it was life influencing if not changing. Just one of those moments when everything about the experience made sense to where I was with a lot of thoughts and emotions. The latest nugget came just last week when she was talking joyfully about the current exhibit at the South Dakota Art Museum – Lightpaintings, by Stephen Knapp.

This is surely one of those “you just have to see it for yourself” things in life so I’m not going to even attempt to describe the uniqueness and intriguing nature of the Lightpaintings. I love the way Stephen describes his works, however. “Lightpaintings are the intersection of painting, sculpture and technology, exploring color, light and space and are a harbinger of the future of painting.” Having spent 30 plus years exploring the “possibilities of light”, it’s clear Stephen has a passion and insatiable curiosity for “light”. And interesting enough, I wonder if it was that blend of passion and the unknown that gave way to innovation, opened his imagination and in the end shares some of the most fascinating displays of color in the universe.

Well, I’m no artist. Not with light anyway. But I have experienced the joys of stumbling onto to innovative processes and thinking in the customized flash drive market. All because I, and other around me, had a passion for delivering on the challenges and “can you do this?” type thinking our clients many times bring to the table. I am confident that because we don’t find comfort in standing still, we’re able to be a beacon of inspiration, of light and, ironically enough, comfort for all those out in internetland looking for a trusted partner to bring their bulk flash drives to life.

I look at the commissioned opportunities Stephen has had the privilege of working on and am reminded that CFgear has also had hundreds of commissioned opportunities. While most of the customized flash drives resulting from these won’t end up on hanging on museum walls (because they’re too darn valuable to clients!), we approach each customized flash drive project as if it was to be a work of art. A brilliant example of our client’s attention to detail and overall professionalism. We too look at the entire process required to bring to life branded bulk flash drives involving things similar to Stephens artistic journey – technology (premium NAND Flash components, color exploration (color matching of the logo and/or flash drive body), space (how many MB or GB are needed?) and light (you the client being so darn excited about the final product!!!).

One final parallel universe I had to throw out in this article was the very sensitive nature of Stephen’s art. Obviously, it’s dependent on the intensity of light in the room or environment it is being displayed. Such is the case with CFgear. While our foundation remains strong across endless environments, the colors are subject to change depending on the needs and vision of our clients. Thanks Mom!

In a very weird way I think I long to be one those Ford truck men I assume are the type that keep it simple, stay tough through even the hardest of times, and just plain get the job done. But I have to be honest and embrace the reality that there’s still a part, if not a large part, of me that’s not so tough, not so simple and doesn’t always just “plain” get the job done (can you say “perfectionism”?…which makes getting anything done almost impossible!). So that’s why I settled on a Ford Taurus a little over twelve years ago. Yes, good ol’ Fred has made ‘er on the blog before. In fact, just a few thousand miles ago, I thought he was done for. So close to the monumental 200,000 mile mark at that! But alas it was an honest “diesel in the ethanol pump” mistake that merely sidetracked Fred for a few days.

While I am very good about tending to scheduled maintenance, I give the American designers, engineers and production team two thumbs up on the Taurus! Last weekend, en route to Madison, South Dakota for my son’s youth football game, Fred proudly rolled over to 200,000 miles as my father, son and I looked on.

There’s something to be said about buying something for the long-haul. In this all too disposable culture of ours where some folks can’t fathom “holding on” to a vehicle (or anything) beyond a few years, it’s assuring to know that for those that value going the distance with their consumables, the level of quality is high enough to not only endure the test of time but be solid enough to make me feel proud to have gone the distance with ol’ Fred.

That’s the same attitude we have around CFgear. We don’t waste time with cheap. We understand not everyone values the total cost of ownership when contemplating a business or personal purchase, but we aren’t here to please everyone. Yes you heard that correctly. For us to please everyone would mean we’d have to offer varying levels of quality. Some folks value only the cheapest price. And for us to make them happy we’d have to compromise quality and offer just that – a cheap, inferior product made to last the short-term. Whereas other folks value products with a focus on long-term quality just like what the Ford team did with my 1996 Ford Taurus! That’s where CFgear shines! To date in fact, we’ve enjoyed oodles of returning clients, thankful for the premium quality and friendly, responsive service they received in their initial order of customized flash drives.

CFgear understands just as not all people in search of bulk flash drives value the same level of quality, neither do all custom flash drive companies. And we’re surely not here to put the competition down. However, we are here to once again proclaim that whenever we set out to find a solution for our client’s branded flash drive request, we NEVER compromise quality. We aren’t going to change our commitment to making sure the quality of the customized flash drive solution will stand the test of time. Because we know there are plenty of folks out there that value quality every bit as much as we do! And after years of enjoying their custom bulk flash drives from CFgear, they will feel that much better knowing they made the commitment to invest in premium vs. cheap. Built CFgear Tough!