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CEO Daily Update – 6.26.2020

June 26, 2020 by Craig Haynie

1738 Items 50% off – Day 5 of our Blow Out Sale, TTGLIF

Today is DAY FIVE of our Mid-year BLOW OUT sale!

1738 items are 50% off – Prices reduced 10% every day until gone!
(See below for details)

https://www.cablesandkits.com/outlet
Use the facets on the left of the page to narrow the results. There’s switches, transceivers, fiber, ethernet, racking, and more!

Thank the Good Lord it’s Friday!

Our Father in heaven, Holy Holy Holy be your name! May your kingdom come to earth, and your will be done on earth as surely as it is done in heaven. Lord please give us the food and the clothes we need this day, and a place to lay our head tonight. Forgive us when we do wrong. Help us to forgive others that do wrong to us. Lead us away from the temptation to do evil, to be selfish, to be rebellious, and save and protect us from evil around us. The kingdom is yours. The power is yours. The glory is yours. Forever, and ever, and ever. May it be. It is! You are! Amen! (Praying “like this”)

Father, I want to thank you for my wonderful staff. As I work with many of them, and am aware of the work of those I don’t often come into contact with, I am so grateful that you have allowed them to be a part of what we are doing together. I might enjoy the work of my hands, but I enjoy it infinitely more when I get to co-labor with those I enjoy working with. Thank you that you put joy in our hearts as a result of the work we get to do, and thank you for the people that we get to do that work with.

I hope you had a good week, and I hope you have a fantastic weekend! This week seemed to go by very fast to me for some reason. I STILL don’t think I have recovered from the many crazy weeks and am really looking forward to the weekend.

I have been thinking about baby Jojo lately and will get an update soon. Please continue praying for the family.

Until next week!

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CEO Daily Update – 6.24.2020

June 24, 2020 by Craig Haynie

Million Dollar Sale, Day 3 – 30% Off, Free Webcams with Review

DAY THREE of the Million Dollar mid-year BLOW OUT sale!

1726 items are 30% off (See below for details)

https://www.cablesandkits.com/outlet.php
(Use the facets on the left of the page to narrow the results)

Guess what day it is?

Monday and Tuesday are packed with meetings for me, so I really do love Wednesday. Not because it’s half way to Friday, but because for the rest of the week I get to spend more time freely “working with my hands” wherever that may lead me for the week. I do have irregular strategy and various other meetings some Wednesdays and Thursdays, but I generally have more flex time to work on sourcing, collaborating to launch new products, working on strategy, and cleaning out my inbox. On Monday’s and Tuesday’s I meet with Sales, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Product leaders as well as hold a weekly leadership meeting where we review the week behind, and discuss the week ahead. I love every one of those meetings, but of course 16-20 hours of meetings and calls in two days can be exhausting, especially when I also work another 4-6 hours a night on “third shift”. It’s totally worth it though because that is where we create accountability and get each other unstuck on what we are working on separately that comes together to move the business forward.

Today I have a day full of monthly meetings but tomorrow and Friday I am wide open, which I very much look forward to. When I have open days is when I tend to work the latest nights the night before, and sleep later the next morning. I LOVE working at night because there are so few distractions and you can really knock stuff out. I got an email from someone at CK recently saying they worked one night and it was glorious. I said we could start a club and get shirts! Haha.

Free Webcam with Product Review
We need reviews on our webcam product page! If you would like to help us out, I’ll give you the webcam free! I will give away 10 webcams so email me quick if you’re interested. If more than 10 people reply I’ll still give you a discount!
https://www.cablesandkits.com/computing/webcams/wc1080p-01/pro-18838/

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CEO Daily Update – 6.22.2020

June 22, 2020 by Craig Haynie

10% Off – Million Dollar Countdown to $0 Sale, Fatherless Day

Welcome to the Million Dollar mid-year BLOW OUT sale!

DAY ONE – 1748 items are 10% off (Tomorrow, 20% off) (See below for details)

https://www.cablesandkits.com/outlet.php
(Use the facets on the left of the page to narrow the results)

Happily Dapily Monday!

I hope everyone had a good Father’s Day. I had a great time with the wife and girls today hanging out, going to eat at one of our favorite Brazilian steakhouses, and playing some games at home. I was given a nice neck massager which I am sure will come in handy after being hunched over this laptop for hours on end every night haha. And, I got lots of thank you’s and I love you’s which is the best reward I could get for anything I do as a father.

Happy Fatherless Day?
We don’t all have fathers to thank on Father’s Day. I don’t, and never did. I was raised by a single mom and wasn’t told who my father was until about 5 years ago right before my mom died. By that time, he had died as well. It wasn’t particularly a “loss” as I had grown up without even having knowledge of his existence. The entire time I was growing up my mom never had a husband or even dated anyone, so I never had an at-home father figure. However, I very much had several father type figures in my life – men that influenced me whether they knew it or not.

As a kid I had uncles and neighbors and teachers and even the clerk at the convenience store at the entrance to the trailer park I grew up in. As a 15 year old I had a Vietnam vet that I helped out around the house and drove around – I even lived with him for 3-4 months and drove as we traveled, and an uncle I lived with for exactly one year from my 16th birthday till my 17th birthday that was a huge influence. The store manager at the grocery store I worked at, the store manager of the Walmart I worked at, a much older business partner I had when I was 18-20, and in the last 20 years countless mentors and respectable older men who have led lives worth following.

I didn’t start writing with a point in mind (I rarely do), but a few materialized in my mind as I did….

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CEO Daily Update – 6.19.2020

June 19, 2020 by Craig Haynie

TTGLIF, Floor and Wall Dispensers in Stock, MILLION DOLLAR SALE

Thank the Good Lord it’s Friday!

Thank you Lord for another week of your mercy and kindness, your provision, your guidance, your grace, and your continuing forgiveness through Christ to those who trust him as Lord and Savior. Thank you for making forgiveness and reconciliation with you just a surrendered attitude of the heart away. Lord help us in this country (and around the world) to learn to love one another with your heart – to love our neighbors as ourselves. Help us to become less so that you may become more. May goodness and mercy follow me all the days of my life, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD forever. I pray that all those that read these words be encouraged, that they have an interest to know you, or that they know you and desire to grow in their surrender and relationship with you.

Have a good weekend!
I hope you have plans of rest, seeing friends and family, and perhaps some summertime activities this weekend. I’ve been at the office every night this week filming assembly and product videos (we have to film at night so it’s quiet). I am R.E.A.D.Y. to work from home Friday and ease into the weekend. Taking last weekend off was so nice I am going to see how much I can reproduce it!

Speaking of videos – I want to give a huge shout out to Chad Gentry, my warehouse operations manager. He runs around all day making sure you get your orders on time and then stays till midnight or later some nights to be my cameraman! I find it so cool how no matter what a person’s “day job” is we all have skills and passions that are sometimes very different from what we do all day. And he’s definitely talented with video and having an eye for what would look and sound good. Not that any of us are professionals but I can tell you that the things we put our are much better because of him!

We just finished filming at 1am this morning. Needless to say, I am like a tired muffler – Exhausted. We worked on Hand Sanitizer Dispensers – both wall and floor stand models. I hope we will have them edited and live before too long! I will let you know when they are.

Floor and Wall Model Sanitizer dispensers are now in stock!

Wall Mount – Gel/Liquid – “Dispenses” liquid or gel sanitizer. IN STOCK
Wall Mount – Spray – “Sprays” liquid sanitizer. IN STOCK

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CEO Daily Update – 6.17.2020

June 17, 2020 by Craig Haynie

MILLION DOLLAR SALE – 6000+ Items SELLING TO ZERO! | COVID-19 Updates

Happy Wednesday!

I can’t believe it’s Wednesday already. Mon and Tue are big meeting days for me and they flew by. I did go to the office both days in the evening to help out in shipping, check on samples that came in, and test a new COVID-19 solution out! More on that soon.

Mid-year BLOW OUT sale. MILLION Dollar Sale!
We are about to do something we have never done before. Listen up! Starting next Monday we are putting about six THOUSAND items (over $1 Million worth of items) on sale in a way like you have NEVER SEEN before. I am going to tell you now what to expect and I think it might just blow your mind! We have many items (over half our catalog) that have gotten stale. It is time to get these bad boys moving – either out the door or in the DUMPSTER. Here is what we are going to do (I can’t believe we are going to do this) ….

We are going to take the current prices and divide them my 10.
Then, EACH DAY we will reduce the price by 1/10th.
So day one all the items will be 10% off.
Day two 20% off.
Day three 30% off …
all the way to day 10 where whatever is left will be 1 penny.
Whatever doesn’t sell will get recycled!!

We are clearing the shelves to make room for new items!

Here is my advice to you – look through the Deals section of the site, which is where the sale items will be. If you see something you want, you better grab it because if not someone else may. Check each day for what remains. You never know what you may find!

I ask/recommend that you forward this to friends/co-workers and I recommend they join this email list. I will be pointing out some of the deals daily, and I may even do something special for email subscribers (no promises but anything is possible). Friends and Co-workers can either create an account to BE READY, or can sign up for this email HERE (scroll to the bottom of the page).

This should be interesting!

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CEO Daily Update – 6.16.2020

June 16, 2020 by Craig Haynie

On this day in 1885, Gallon Pumps Back in Stock, Elusive Advertising

Happy Tuesday!

Did you know that on this day in 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. The copper and iron statue, which was reassembled and dedicated the following year in a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, became known around the world as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy. Read more here on History.com

Advertising is a funny thing. As I have mentioned before, we have realized through this PPE / Safety Supplies journey just how little we really “advertised” for our core business of networking products. As the safety supplies demand heated up we could advertise anywhere and it worked. Radio, buying into email lists of other companies, and of course leveraging our own email lists. And then all of a sudden much of it stopped working as quickly as it started. And with advertising no one tells you why it stops working. You have to try to figure it out. Is it pricing, stock levels, or what? It makes me realize that marketing is a whole new skill that can be very powerful but can also be very frustrating. There are no magic/silver bullets.

Starting this week we are trying telemarketing. I hope people receive our calls well! I hate getting sales calls, but every once in a while they have something I actually want and need and I hope that is the case with the calls we make. We can’t just sit around and hope people find us.

Bottle Dispenser Pumps for Gallon, Half Gallon, and 1 Liter Hand Sanitizer back in stock!

I will have some other product announcements soon. We nearly have our floor hand sanitizer dispensers in stock which is exciting. They are in huge demand right now!

Please let me know how I can be of service to you. If you need assistance with something, advice, or even if you just need someone to pray for you, I am here and listening.

Blessings,
Craig – CEO
P.S. Don’t forget to go follow us on Facebook here: CK Facebook Page.

Main Safety Supplies Helpful Links:
https://www.cablesandkits.com/c/safety-supplies

Face Protection:

3-Ply Masks:
Quick Ship 3-Ply Disposable Mask – Buy in 10, 50, 2000
Standard Ship 3-Ply Disposable Mask – Buy in 10, 50, 2000

N95 Masks:
N95 Mask – Both Kimberly Clark and 3M Models available

KN95 Masks:
Quick Ship KN95 Mask – Buy in qtys from 1 to 1200
Standard Ship KN95 Mask – Buy in qtys from 5 to 1200

Face Shields:
Re-usable / Disposable Face Shields – Quantity discounts available. Can be custom printed.

Goggles:
Vented
Non-Vented

Sanitizers, Dispensers, & Wipes

Disinfectant Wipes:
Single Serve Alcohol Wipes – Back in stock!
Clorox 75ct Disinfectant Wipes – – 75 count canister, avail in two scents as well as 3 packs.

Sanitizer Dispensers:
Motion Activated Desktop Dispenser – Use for Liquid or Gel Hand Sanitizer
Motion Activated Floor Dispenser – Available in liquid/Gel and Spray models – Pre-order now!
Wall models coming soon.

Bottles and Pumps:
Bottle Dispenser Pumps – Pump tops for Gallon and Half Gallon Jugs
Empty Fillable Bottles – 8 oz bottles for dispensing liquid or Gel

Temperature Detection:

Thermometers:
Touchless Infrared Thermometers – Basic and Premium options available

Body Protection:

Shoe Covers:
Non-Skid protective shoe covers – FDA Approved. Non-FDA version available cheaper soon.
Isolation Gowns:
Disposable arm length Isolation Gowns – FDA Approved
Gloves:
Nitrile and Vinyl Gloves – Back in Stock!

News For Today:

Over 4,253,000 people worldwide have recovered and over 890,000 people in the US have recovered!
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday removed its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the anti-malarial drugs touted by President Trump as potential treatments for COVID-19.
A new CDC report shows that patients with underlying health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were 12 times more likely to die of covid-19.
Days after saying he was “100 percent” certain there would be a 2020 baseball season, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred now says he’s “not confident” that will be the case.
Brazil has so far registered more than 888,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 44,000 deaths, second on both counts only to the United States.
The total number of people on payrolls in Britain dropped by more than 2.1 percent — a dip of 600,000 workers — between the period of March to May, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Major League Baseball is in the midst of a labor battle over its return to play during the coronavirus pandemic, and now it must consider an outbreak of covid-19. Several players and staff have tested positive, according to a letter obtained by the Associated Press. The league is already in danger of losing the entire season as it bargains with the players union over terms to return. Commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN “I’m not confident” there would be a 2020 season on Monday.