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Doba Dropshipping Blog
Today Doba launched our Dropshipping Blog.
It’s been a very long-time coming, and I’m excited to see Doba throw our hat into this ring. In the end, it’ll help us better engage and communicate with our community of suppliers, partners, and online sellers.
You can see some of the very smart and talented folks at Doba that will be postulating from time to time by checking out our Dobloggers.
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Doba Day 2008
We have a tradition at Doba. It’s called Doba Day. Their first time we celebrated it was around St. Patrick’s Day in (probably the whole green tie-in). Then we moved it to Oct to be close to Oct 22, the day we started the company in 2002.
It’s different every year, but generally, it involves: 1 part costumes/characters, 1 part bribes/gifts/treats, 1 part performances, and 15 parts pure craziness. We give awards, and generally have an entire day where not much work gets done, but the employees of Doba have a blast. It’s way cool, and 100% worth the day and its distractions.
Last week, Doba reached its 6 year mark. And we celebrated on Friday with this year’s version of Doba
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# 324
We found out last week that Doba has been included on the Inc. 500 list again this year.
We’re #324 on the list with a growth rate of almost 900% from 2004 to 2007.
Last year we were #23, and I’m way excited that after that period of truly explosive growth, we continued to grow enough for this year’s ranking.
Lots more work to do, however, so I’ll get back to it now.
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Land of The Rising Sun
I leave this morning to head to Tokyo for the week. I’m meeting with some ecommerce companies there.
This is my first trip to Japan and I’m way excited. I might try to post from the road, or if not, until next week: Sayonara!!
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Health Care
So on August 1, Doba is switching from Blue Cross (who we’ve been with since starting the company in 2002) to IHC. Blue Cross wanted to raise our plan costs up 17%. It’s been about that much each year since we started. By switching to IHC, we get some better covereage in Utah County with hospitals for the majority of our employees, and we only increase our rates from last year 7%.
Do you know of any other part of business where your costs can consistently go up by double-digit rates year over year? It’s actually pretty crazy.
Fresh off of our insurance meeting with IHC and our broker this past Tuesday I came across this article today: U.S. still flunks health
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eCommerce Hippie
After this week, I’ll be gone for the next 2 weeks. Being an eCommerce Hippie.
Maybe I should explain. Back in February, I was looking at the schedule of conferences for the next several months, and noticed that Internet Retailer was in Chicago at McCormick Place June 9-11. I attended this conference last year in San Jose and we were in the midst of making plans for Doba to exhibit for the first time since it’s the worlds largest e-retailing show. I then noticed that eBay Live was just over a week later June 19-21, again at McCormick Place in Chicago, and again, we were making plans for Doba to exhibit–for the 5th time at eBay Live.
That very day, I saw a blog
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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
A few weeks back, we found out that I was selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Utah region.
Last night was the finalist reception and I was able to meet quite a few of the judges, the sponsors, and the other finalists.
To all the other finalists I say good luck and congratulations! I am very proud to be included with the names/companies included in this year’s 25 finalists. It’s a list of incredibly talented and focused entrepreneurs, many of whom I know very well.
I’m honored to be able to represent Doba in this program. All credit goes to my family, Doba’s employees and their families, our vendors and advisory board members, and
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