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CEO Daily Update – 9.8.2020

September 8, 2020 by Craig Haynie

Garage Sale Anyone? | CISCO2911/K9’s | Disinfecting Sprays | Made for Eternity


Happy Tuesday!  

Welcome to the CablesAndKits CEO daily email. Read more about this email by scrolling to the very bottom. 

Well hello there … I haven’t seen you since, well, last week! I hope you enjoyed your long weekend. Me and my family sure did.  

As I said on Friday, I had just gotten home with a new-to-us motorhome and the kids were beside themselves. They immediately wanted to stay the night in it so I agreed for us to do that on Friday night. The wife said “y’all go ahead, I am going to enjoy the quiet house to myself”. I get it. Both girls stayed in their bunks all night which was a little shocking. Saturday night they wanted to stay again, so we did. Sunday night they wanted to stay again, so we did. Mama came down and hung out with us for a movie and then left us to it. We had a campfire, roasted marshmallows, snuggled in the recliner and watched TV together. It was great. We are already making memories and haven’t even left the yard yet!  

We also went to Mike’s house (the friend with cancer) this weekend to help get ready for a garage sale. They moved a while back and still have a mountain of things that need to go. I’m pretty good at moving fast, sorting, organizing, and making sense of things, and worked as fast as Mike could think and make decisions, which isn’t slow … so I was pretty wore out! I really love that sort of productive exercise where you’re not just exercising for the sake of exercising (which I never do).  

The garage sale is in Hoschton (GA) this weekend (Fri, Sat, and a little on Sun). If you are in the area and want to stop by, email me and I will give you the address!  

I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard …  

Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use. Meaning, prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted and you had to pay a license to use it. 


Today’s Product Spotlight from Rerun (AKA Rebecca):

Cisco 2911 Integrated Services Router, CISCO2911/K9  

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and got to enjoy good food and time with friends and family! To ease us back into the workweek, I figured we’d start the week of product spotlights with a sale!  

Today we are featuring the Cisco 2911 Integrated Services Router, CISCO2911/K9. This Integrated Services Router features embedded hardware encryption acceleration, voice and video-capable digital signal processor (DSP) slots, optional firewall, intrusion prevention, call processing, voicemail, and application services.  

Here’s a rundown of the interfaces on the ISR: 

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Filed Under: CEO Daily Updates Tagged With: CEO, CIsco Equipment, Devotional, Disinfecting Spray, Lysol Wipes, RV Adventures

CEO Daily Updates – 7.28.2020

July 28, 2020 by Craig Haynie

Latest Stimulus Bill | IT Project Management Tips | Today’s COVID-19 Updates


Happy Tuesday!  

So there is a new stimulus bill in the works and I just saw this article about it.  

Latest Corona Virus Stimulus Bill 

https://apple.news/AZCieL5H3S62G99ORswBtdA

I found this especially interesting:  

“On ending the additional $600 in unemployment benefits the federal government was supplying, Kudlow argued that the extra money was hurting small businesses from hiring workers. “We have had a flood of inquiries and phone calls and complaints that small stores and businesses, restaurants can’t hire people back,” he said. “They went too far. Maybe last March, it was necessary for that, but, really, there are consequences of people not returning to work.” Mnuchin earlier in the day on “Fox News Sunday” said it a little more bluntly: “I think workers and Americans understand the concept that you shouldn’t be paid more to stay home than to work.” Mnuchin said the new bill will provide additional unemployment benefits, but noted that it will be less than the payments issued under the CARES Act. He said some workers were collecting more than they earned on the job. As a result, when businesses were reopening some employees did not have an incentive to return to work.” 

At CK we tried to hire someone several weeks back that said “naa, I am making more (than the job paid) sitting at home”. I get that when all this went down they were moving fast and perhaps overlooked the possibility of these scenarios, but I am certainly glad they are fixing them. You could call it an ethical issue for someone to turn down a job because the unemployment check is more than what they could earn – but we just shouldn’t put people in the position to have to choose. That’s like laying $100 bills all over the office and having hidden cameras so you can fire anyone that touches one. Anyway, I am glad they are fixing it.  

I am also glad that there was money available for people during the beginning of all this when places like restaurants were closed completely. I am also VERY grateful that in our business almost everyone was able to work from home. Many businesses did not have that luxury. I remember when all this first started some restaurants trying to hang on by doing take out. I was going to every restaurant around my house daily trying to do my little part to keep them going, but it wasn’t anywhere near enough. For those reasons I am glad that this unemployment was available when it was. Most people were not working not out of their own choice, but because there just was no work to do. But now we must start reeling this back in.  

Your thoughts? How has this been a blessing to you or someone you know during this time?  


From Joe, our friendly Safety Supplies Product Marketer:

Carrying some sort of method of sanitation on your person at all times has become a norm. I’m not talking about only hand sanitizer either. Anything from eye glass cleaner, soap, deodorizers, household cleaners, face sprays and any other mixtures that are used daily. We have an array of bottles, including spray pens and personal size bottles, that are perfect for dispensing any liquids you throw their way! Check ’em out.  

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Filed Under: CEO Daily Updates Tagged With: CEO, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lysol Wipes, Project Management, Stimulus Bill, Unemployment

CEO Daily Update – 7.24.2020

July 24, 2020 by Craig Haynie


Happy Friday!

Several weeks ago a great friend of mine, Jason Montoya, interviewed me for his Inspirational People series. What a blast!

You can listen or watch. Here it is: https://www.jasonscottmontoya.com/inspiration/people/537-craig-haynie

We talk about my weight loss, Crohn’s disease diagnosis, and alternate paths and what causes outcomes in our lives. We talk about how COVID has forced people into thinking about doing things in ways different from what has been normal. At CK we had to learn how to work from home effectively – how we would run meetings via video, interact with external people, etc. Once we figured out how to make it work, we became more effective than we were before.

You’ll hear about my early childhood growing up poor and struggling in school, and my journey from the trailer park to becoming an entrepreneur to starting CablesAndKits, and beyond.

I talk about my Plan, Build, Run framework and how that is a part of how we are transforming CablesAndKits. After 13 years of $1M year over year growth we found ourselves plateaued for 5 years and came to realize that as Einstein said, “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them”. Realizing that there are generally three distinct rhythm types needed in business was an eye-opener for us and realizing and navigating how to structure roles to leverage these rhythms has been the journey we have been on.
I talk about how the outcome is more important than the friction we encounter, and discovering where you want to go is a prerequisite to the conviction needed to get there. You have to have the will to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way.

We talk about how we ended up selling Safety Supplies and the importance of the entrepreneur being near the front edges of the business, not living in the middle, which turned out to be the reason we plateaued for 5 years.

We also discuss our three-pillar approach to building a business unit – Product, Marketing, and Channel, and how visibility and accountability results in sustainability.

And so much more! Give it a listen and give me your thoughts and feedback! I always love to hear from you.  


From Joe, our friendly Safety Supplies Product Marketer:

WOW! Yesterday I mentioned Lysol wipes are back on the site again and I didn’t think they’d last long, and they didn’t! By the time lunch rolled around we were sold out of every single Lysol wipe we had. Crazy! Don’t worry though, we have plenty of other Cleaning wipes that will get the job done as well as some other variations on the way!

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Filed Under: CEO Daily Updates Tagged With: CEO, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Jason Montoya, Lysol Wipes, PPP Loan

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