31 July 08 - 23:48The Lack of Blogs
Lets just suffice it to say, I work (ed) for a company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The initials of the company are T.S. and over the course of my nearly one year with the organization, as a business development manager, I have had FOUR sales managers. Again, I state: I have only been with the company for 11 months and in that time, I have had FOUR sales managers. This does NOT bode well for ANY organization, let alone one that has delivery and support issues.
So anyway, in the interests of complete disclosure, I have not had the best numbers in the organization...however, I also did not have the worst. In fact, this month, the first month of the Third Quarter, I had two deals lined up that would net over HALF of my quota for the entire quarter. One deal in particular was rumored to be the single largest Multi-Factor Authentication deal the company had ever sold. ...
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23 July 08 - 10:49Mea Culpa
First of all: one thousand Mea Culpas (that's Latin for "My Bad") for not having posted a decent blog entry since last week. As you know, if you are visiting this blog, I am in Iowa, riding across the entire state to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation as a member of Team Livestrong. So far it has been an outstanding ride! Well, with a couple brief exceptions which I will get into once I post my daily update...a couple of days late, but as they say in corn farming: 'better late then never!' (I have no real knowledge that the saying I just typed has anything to do with corn farming, so, apologies to the entire vegetable industry)
So I am presently sat in a trailer, compliments of Iowa Telecom, one of the major sponsors of RAGBRAI. They have trailers placed throughout the route and provide internet access for those of us that are so technologically fixated that the idea of riding a bike 77 miles (our distance for todays route) without internet ...
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14 July 08 - 14:27Preparing For the Ride
You know, in last weeks article on the upcoming ride across Iowa that my Brother and I are preparing for, the article ended with the following quote in reference to the fact that a great many counties across which we will be riding will be recovering from the recent flooding all across Iowa, my Brother made the following statement: "They (the people of Iowa) need something like this to bring them out of the funk that they're in."
[For the entire article, click http://http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.bike09jul09,0,545294.story?page=1]
It's a great statement. The devastation across a great deal of the state of Iowa is horrific. However, the irony here is that last year, as my Brother and I prepared to ride across the state for the ...
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