Today my company held its annual conference. Er, part of its annual conference. We did a virtual one-day conference several weeks ago that attracted 1,000 attendees. Today was one of three installments of our "world tour" conference. We had about 35 attendees out of about 60 registrants. Yes, that's... small ( Read more... )

This evening I ran the pre-conference gantlet. My company is hosting part of its annual user conference tomorrow. This part of it is nearby, just a few miles away, so at least I don't have to travel far. This evening was time to meet a few colleagues ahead of the show tomorrow, do a tech check with the IT squad for the presentation I'm delivering ( Read more... )

I got up early today to be ready for a 6:30am meeting with teammates. Get up early was doubly hard after only getting to bed at 1am after a family emergency last night. I got only maybe 4.5 hours of sleep and I was dragging. But I did it. The meeting was important, after all. We needed to sync for an important demo with a customer this morning at 8 ( Read more... )

Today, Oct. 31, represents various things for different people. For some, it's Halloween. For others, it's Diwali. For me it's the end of the quarter. My company's fiscal year runs Feb 1 - Jan 31, so today is the last day of Q3 ( Read more... )

It's late afternoon Friday. I'm back at LAX, a bit over 24 hours after I arrived yesterday. I'm on the home stretch of a quick trip down here to visit a client ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I blogged " Sure, Cancel my 7am Meeting... at 7:05am" about, well, the title. It happened again today ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wrote about being busy at work with a POC, a proof of concept exercise with a prospective client. Well, as of mid-morning today it is D-O-N-E, done! I knocked out all the success criteria, including all the ones we agreed were optional in addition to those deemed critical, and including 2 that were added partway through (the notorious ( Read more... )

I've been busy at work the past few weeks. I began September with a week of vacation then had less than 12 hours at home before leaving on a business trip. I traveled to Austin to staff our booth at a conference. I got home from that trip thankfully not too late at night on a Wednesday only to have ridiculously busy days with all my "normal" work ( Read more... )

Some people hate meetings. I actually like meetings. I'm in sales, so meetings are how we get a lot of our stuff done. Meetings are great... as long as they're well run, with an appropriate purpose, agenda, and attendees.

Yes, that means there are also meetings I don't like. One type of meeting fail that pisses me off is when the meeting is ( Read more... )

Just over 11 hours after getting home from a week+ long trip last night I've turned around to head back to the airport this morning. This time it's a business trip. I'm headed to Austin for 3 days to staff a trade show and meet f2f with some prospective customers in town ( Read more... )