Happy Friday everyone! Ray Ruecker here with Connect 5000! I left Thursday afternoon for San Francisco and returned Friday evening. A 31-hour trip. I visited with an old client/contact who does outsourced fractional marketing for tech firms in the Bay area first. We met up at Chef Chuy’s in Los Altos and had a nice […]
Happy mid-September everyone! I recently decided to scrub my database to make sure I didn’t have bad contact information. I have a few thousand executives who I regularly market to. My target executives are CEO’s, President’s, Vice Presidents of Sales and Marketing and Head’s of Demand Generation. Not exactly entry-level workers. So we did a […]
Happy Early Labor Day everyone! I received a well-written email from a potential provider this week asking for some of my time. I ignored it. The CEO sent another email and I responded. We went back and forth and I agreed to a demo. After I agreed to a demo, he emailed me 4 questions, […]
Just kidding! I’m actually sitting in my office back in Kansas City! Happy August everyone! My, how time flies! 7 months down, 5 more to go! From July 20 – 28, I was in Hawaii for my father in law’s retirement party/family reunion. It was nice to get away and hit the ocean and beach […]
Happy Independence Day everyone! As I mentioned in my last post, I flew out of Kansas City last Friday around 1:00 pm and flew directly to Atlanta. I had dinner Friday night with one of my reps, Anne, at the Chop House Restaurant in Buckhead and it was delicious! I spent the night in a […]
Happy summer everyone! Not much to report here! I’ll be flying to Atlanta next week to see two of my sales reps who work for Connect 5000 remote. I’ve known Anne Brown since 2012 but we’ve never met in person. I’ve known Hanna Rodriguez since 2013 when I was the interim Director Sales for her […]
Happy Memorial Day everyone! If you are bored and have too much free time on your hands, feel free to check out my new sales vlog at www.connect5000.com/videos . (A VLOG is short for video blog) 16 short videos to give you a better feel of who I am and what we’re passionate about. Join […]
Hey everyone! Hope you had a great Easter holiday. Last week, I was selected to be on a jury trial for the first time ever in my 45 years of living. It was a civil trial centered around the Plaintiff suing a City and their Police Department for a car pursuit that ended in a […]
Happy early Easter everyone! I met Ed Gandia back in 2006 when we worked together for a software company. I was in sales and he wrote copyright for the firm. He’s been a wonderful friend and mentor from afar the past several years. His LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgandia/ and is a master at what he […]
Happy March Madness everyone! My team, the Kansas Jayhawks, got knocked out early in the NCAA tournament, which was not exactly a surprise. This post today will be very short. I was recently asked by a facilitator at Johnson County Community College to give a presentation to a group of entrepreneurs and small business owners […]
