Howdy from the Sooner State! Ron Jaramillo and I left Sunday morning and drove to Chickasha, OK from Kansas City—a 5 or so-hour drive. We had dinner with the OK team Sunday evening at Saltgrass Steakhouse in Norman and had a wonderful time rubbing elbows for the first time over dinner and drinks. I had […]
Hey everyone! I just returned from a family vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. My wife and I celebrated our 18-year anniversary with our 13 and 10 year old. Nice to get away and wonderful to return. This past Friday, my remote and distributed team from across the country gathered over lunch to catch up, […]
Happy Sunday everyone! Last Sunday I flew to Atlanta for a baby shower and saw a few of my reps while down there. Introducing Rachel Woodyard and Ashton Jarrell! They started around the same time last year, do excellent work for our clients, and are great additions to the team. Rachel resides in Georgia and […]
Happy Wednesday everyone! Last week, I visited with the wonderful Contact Science team in St. Louis. I live in Kansas City, one of them lives in St. Louis and the other resides in Tennessee. I’m glad we all drove since the FAA grounded all planes that Wednesday morning. So we met in the middle and […]
Happy Holidays everyone! Here’s a follow-up video that Addie Kate, my marketing and social media manager, put together of our time training. Cheers and Blessings! I’m Ray Ruecker with Connect 5000.
“The days are long but the years are short.” – Unknown How true! 11 months down, 1 remaining in 2022. Yikes! I was in the Atlanta metro this past June visiting team members. I hadn’t met some of the newer members plus I needed to do some in-person training, so I flew out Thursday and […]
Happy Saturday everyone! Every now and then, Connect 5000 gathers together via Zoom over lunch and gets to know each other better without talking about work stuff. Because everyone is remote and isolation can occur, it’s beneficial to huddle up and get to know colleagues better, so we did Friday afternoon. It helps build relationships […]
Happy Sunday everyone! And the flights and travel continue! As I mentioned in previous blog posts, I visited Seattle and Portland over Memorial Day weekend with my family. 2 days later I flew with a colleague to Atlanta to visit the Southern Region Team and meet reps who I hadn’t met in person yet. 2 […]
Happy Saturday everyone! As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently did a family vacation to Seattle and Portland and flew back. 2 days later, Tiffany Miller, my Director of Operations, and I flew to Atlanta to see some Southern Region team members we’d never met in person. We had planned to back in […]
So to get straight to the point: I lost the election handily. I lost approximately 70% to 30%. It was a fair race and as far as I know, my opponent kept it clean and professional and he ran a good race. In fact, my neighbor brought me 3 pieces of direct mail she received […]
