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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.

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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 – 6.17.2020

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 5.13.2020

May 13, 2020 by Craig Haynie

Sales Opportunity | Alcohol Wipes | Face Masks Update | COVID-19 Updates

Safety Supplies Landing Page: https://www.cablesandkits.com/c/safety-supplies

Happy Wednesday!

Why is Wednesday spelled like that? Wed Nes Day? Winsday. I googled it just now. I NEVER thought about why the days are named the way they are. Quite interesting. Disclaimer: I clicked on a grand total of one link and read enough to be satisfied. Do your own research if you plan on using the knowledge for a game show. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Wednesday-spelled-incorrectly

A quick notice / apology: If you have emailed me I promise you that I will reply, however my inbox runneth over at the moment. Máni’s days and Tīw’s days (That is a test to see if you’re clicking my links!) are full blown meeting days for me and I got to single digit quantities of emails today. To be honest, there were some weeks old emails in there already. Anyway, if you have emailed me or if you DO email me, I promise I will reply!

Also, due to the overwhelming response to the safety supplies as well as the radio ad that we are running, the phones are ringing off the hook and our customer service / sales folks are having a hard time keeping up. If you know what you need I encourage you to order on the web. If you need help, certainly try calling but if you don’t get through please try live chat or send an email to [email protected] and someone will get back with you. They are digging out of a hole too! In fact they have been reaching out to pull in former staff members part time to assist!

Speaking of part time staff members, we are talking about building a distributed sales force to help with drumming up leads and taking orders for the safety supplies we are offering. Ponder the ponderables – would you or someone you know be interested in a full incentive (soft word we use in place of commission) “work for yourself” / “make up your own hours” role calling potential leads and selling the products we are offering? We will do some basic training on the products (which isn’t that hard), the systems (entering orders), and get you a list of companies to call. You can and should also work your own contacts. If you’d be interested, let me know. We don’t have anything in place yet but we are trying to get it setup quickly so it won’t be long!

We made a few more videos last night and the night before. Hopefully we will get those out pretty soon! Don’t forget to go follow us on Facebook here: CK Facebook Page

Saxsquatch Video. Someone showed this to me today. It’s ….. hard not to watch!

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Our AWESOME Week in Review! – 5.3.2013

May 3, 2013 by Jason Gazaway

We had the privilege of being a part of the 2013 Pinnacle Small Business Awards last Friday. CablesAndKits was selected as one of the Top 25 Small Businesses our of the 150 businesses that were nominated this year. It was a phenomenal experience for our owners, Craig and Christin Haynie, as well as the CK team. It was very humbling being at the ceremony with such amazing, successful businesses that have shown significant growth and innovation over the past year. We heard some great stories while there!

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This week we wrapped up the redesign of our new conference room, which used to be our breakroom – we moved that to the warehouse and made it bigger! (View that blog post here.) We are very happy with the way everything turned out. The final touch was the [Read more…] about Our AWESOME Week in Review! – 5.3.2013

Our AWESOME Week in Review! – 2.1.2013

February 1, 2013 by Jason Gazaway

Today we celebrated the upcoming Super Bowl weekend by having a “Healthy Food” Super Bowl party sponsored by the CK Wellness Team. There was an AMAZING spread of food including guacamole, salsa, veggies and dip, even a chocolate cupcake with only 105 calories! On a side note, for those of us who wanted to splurge a bit, there was an awesome buffalo cheese dip as well! Big thanks to the Wellness Team for inspiring the healthy food day!

Brian, from our Purchasing department, has mentioned to everyone how bad he needs a laptop here at the office. It seems his fellow co-workers helped him out with a [Read more…] about Our AWESOME Week in Review! – 2.1.2013