Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Back from my galavanting
I am back and finally getting to a post about my 2 weeks as an eCommerce Hippie.
Two solid weeks on the road is tough. It was GOOD to get home. But I had a great time while gone, both personally and also for Doba.
Internet Retailer
So we exhibited at Internet Retailer for the first time. Our booth was made out of cardboard boxes all piled on top of a guy laying in the middle, and it was received very well. People loved it. We had a great show while introducing Doba’s mid-market product (more on that in another post). If you’re involved in eCommerce or eTail, Internet Retailer is a must attend event in my opinion. Next year
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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.
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Ground Zero
I headed to New York Sunday for a quick trip to the National Retail Federation 97th Annual Convention and Expo, a.k.a. Retail’s Big Show.
I mainly went to cruise the show and get info and meet a lot of the exhibitors.
I ended up with a bit of extra time on Tuesday, so I headed down to the World Trade Center Site. I’ve never been. I went on a walking tour with Tribute NYC. These tours are led by people whose lives were profoundly changed by September 11th. Each tour is unique and connects those who want to hear stories with those who want to share them. One thing that surprised me is that 75% of my tour
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What are you most thankful for?
This is a great time of year. Christmas is 5 weeks from today, Thanksgiving is in 2 days, and the New Year starts in 6 weeks. My family is coming tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving here with us. We’ll have 14 people packed into our house, and it will be great! (cross my fingers)
So in the spirit of things, what 3 things are you most thankful for?
I’ll go first.
Fortune Cookies
Best fortune I’ve ever gotten from one of those little cookies:
Opened that up yesterday at dinner with my wife.
Maybe I should play the lotto numbers on the back.
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Change
One of the great things about Doba is that I believe we’ve made changes when and how necessary to keep the business growing and evolving. When I announced to the company that we’d been ranked #23 on the Inc. 500 list, I presented “23 Things That Got Us Here” and “23 Things That Will Get Us To Where We Want To Go”. The only thing on both lists? Change.
We’re making some more changes at Doba. Blaine Nielsen is going to take over my job as CEO. We’ve been moving in this direction for about a year now. We took a big step in that direction a few months back when Blaine became the President and COO and I added Chairman
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Mind blowing
Damn!!! I think I’m going to start wearing tuxes every day to work. Just because I LOOK SO GOOD!!
Since this alone is enough to keep your mind reeling over the weekend, I’ll wait till next week for more Inc 500 Conference cool stuff.
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