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CEO Daily Update – 7.6.2020

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Holidays, Star Trek, & Products for a Penny!

Today is the FINAL day of our Mid-year BLOW OUT sale!

580 items remain and are now a PENNY each!

https://www.cablesandkits.com/outlet
Use the facets on the left of the page to narrow the results. 
There’s switch modules, transceivers, Fiber and Ethernet, racking, and more!

Happy Monday!

I hope you had a great long weekend. I complain ALL – THE – TIME about Chinese holidays. I once said to a Chinese vendor that it would be EASIER for them to just tell me what days they were planning on working instead of which ones they would be off. But, taking off and enjoying the holidays that we do have here has shown me that there is a lot of value in “playing hard” (or “relaxing hard”) in between working hard. I think the Chinese certainly do that well in my experience! (Work really hard with down time in between). This holiday was one of those times. I didn’t lift a finger to work on anything CK related and it was glorious.

In fact, I had just finished the Star Trek Original Series and was able to watch the entire Animated Series (which I didn’t even know existed until over half way through the Original Series), and watch 5 of the 6 Star Trek Movies. I am watching the 6th one right now (I am writing this email Sunday night). I must say – I got to where I really enjoyed the original series. Once I got passed the antiquated technology (I grew up watching Next Generation) and fully knew the characters it got good. Then, the animated series. Uhhhhh … well I made it through the animated series. I am glad I watched it because there were things that I recall showing up later, but it was to be endured. Here was the big surprise to me …. I thought I was going to have to grin and bear it through the movies but I absolutely loved them. And, it was so much better to watch them with the knowledge of the Original Series and Animated series. “The Wrath of Khan” – I would have really missed out had I not already seen the episode where he was introduced. Once I finish The Undiscovered Country (the 6th and final movie with the original cast) I will begin The Next Generation from the very beginning, which I have never done.

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Now that the weekend is over, the remaining items from our blowout sale are a PENNY each! HURRY UP! (Why are you still reading this email??)

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CEO Daily Update – 5.22.2020

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Origins of Memorial Day, New Product: Amazon Echo Silver, Covid-19 Update

Happy Friday! (and Happy Memorial Day Weekend!)
 
Remember how I talked yesterday about lunacy? Well, our revenue was up 65% over the previous day which was already up over 100% over normal levels. The advertising/marketing is working! It was another crazy day for the shipping crew, but they got it done.
 
I don’t think I have ever been so glad to see a weekend, especially a long one, in my life. I am flat out running on fumes to the point (and I am not joking) that when I walk I sometimes think I am going to trip over my own feet and fall down. My wife told me that my job this weekend is to sleep. Not only is she right, but how sweet! She must love me …. Or she doesn’t want to have to clean me up if I die in a fall on her floor. Either way, I get to sleep like I’m in a coma and I can’t wait. A few weekends ago I slept 16 straight hours. I wonder if I can beat that record!
 
I know my staff is wore out too, especially the folks in our warehouse / fulfillment center. I’ve been up there helping them some and I can see the tiredness in some of their faces. More the warehouse manager than anyone – he’s running in 20 directions keeping the show on the road. I am so grateful to the entire team for every part of their contribution to what we have been doing. Our sales and customer service people, web developers and product folks, and even my wife, who have jumped at my every request, many times at 12, 1, 2, 3AM to get things ready to go live for these emails. e-comm/marketing, purchasing, accounting, and Gary who is our Administrative Officer making sure that as fast as I break all the rules we clean up my messes. I’d like to thank the Academy ….. (and my parakeet).
 
As we head into this holiday weekend you might be wondering, what exactly is Memorial Day? We all probably or hopefully know generally what it is about, but I thought I would do a little research and share the highlights since we are headed into the holiday weekend.

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Happy Holidays from CablesAndKits

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Here at CK, the holidays are a special time where everyone gets warm and fuzzy feelings and excitement for the huge feasts that are quickly approaching (go ahead and pull those stretchy pants out of your closet). From October until December, there is non-stop excitement around the office. In October, we put on an epic Halloween Costume contest along with a yummy Chili cook-off. These two events have been known to bring the warrior out of people (we are a competitive bunch). November is all about being thankful and figuring out how many clever ways we can repurpose the leftover turkey. In December, we hold an ugly sweater contest, gingerbread house competition and end our festivities with a festive Christmas party which brings all of our families together.

Since we are all anxious to see what Santa brings us, here are the top requested items from the CK family: [Read more…] about Happy Holidays from CablesAndKits

Thanksgiving – CablesAndKits Style!

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Wow…where did this month go? (I think the better question might be, “Where did this year go?” ) Time certainly flies when you are having fun, and the CablesAndKits family sure has had some fun this year.

Today, as an office family, we stopped to celebrate Thanksgiving. Of course it is not a holiday around the office without a little craziness included, so we also had a Turkey Calling contest as well. This was hilarious to watch and listen to, as well! Congrats to our winners Mandy and Jon!

As you can see from the pictures below, we had all kinds of food to stuff ourselves with, and most of us regretted going back for the second (and some a third) plate-full. [Read more…] about Thanksgiving – CablesAndKits Style!