Business is what I love. Its what I do. Its who I am.
A year and a half ago I started a small side business for fun with a good friend of mine. We’ve been designing and developing an array of physical retail products and selling them online and it’s been quite a journey. The main line of products we have invested our time, talents, and money into […]
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a well established and important feature of many high performing teams. They are used to monitor significant metrics which can then provide leadership with valuable insights into the health of an organization or team. At each of my three most recent jobs, I’ve worked through a book called Traction by […]
While running operations at Sandhills Development, one responsibility of mine was shipping things to our distributed team. Most of those things ended up being branded gear of one kind of another, or sometimes special gifts. For example, new hires generally received a “care package” which contained things like t-shirts, hats, and other items with our […]
At a recent job, I was solely responsible for Total Rewards which included designing and maintaining all employee perks. As a self-proclaimed people-first organization, we poured a lot into the employee experience. I helped institute a wide array of perks and benefits, many of which were typical such as a 401k plan and free access […]
In 2019, I was handed responsibility for everything pertaining to employee compensation at the small distributed software company I was working for at the time. Prior to that point, compensation was managed solely by the company’s founder in a spreadsheet and there was no formal system governing pay. Everyone’s pay was negotiated between individual employees […]
In the summer of 2019, when I took on the role of Director of Operations at Sandhills Development, the company had no framework for employee growth and no clear strategy for employee compensation. Changing that became a short term priority of mine, in spite of the fact that I’d never previously created anything of the […]
I run operations at a software company called Sandhills Development and one of my responsibilities is planning our occasional team retreats. I wrote about some of them before including our 2017 All Hands and our 2019 All Hands. For the past few years our fully distributed team has been getting together in-person at least once […]
For years now I’ve been making a living exclusively by providing marketing and web development related services to clients, most of which involved WordPress in some way. Today is an exciting day for me because we are giving the world a glimpse for the first time at an actual product we’ve been working on for […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of open source. Mostly just scattered musings relating to the things we, as makers of things, choose to open source, the things that we expect to be open source and the things we don’t. In the WordPress community, and many others as well, software is typically […]
Lately I have been attending the Jackson B2B Meetup group’s two, weekly meetings. It is an excellent group and I feel privileged to be able to attend. I have found it to very educational and an excellent networking opportunity. Today was my turn at the meeting to make a 10 minute presentation about myself and […]
My dive into self employment Most of my acquaintances are now aware that I have started my own Internet Marketing business. Some may have wondered why I took this leap, leaving behind a good job and risking everything on something completely new. Well, this was not what I would call an easy decision. But this is what […]
