May 31 Wed (11 PM)

Last Wednesday, during lunch, I was sitting with our new sales rep bringing him up to speed on web technologies. He's got 20 years of sales experience, and I'm doing my best to make sure he's prepared to sell our offerings to his new clients. I'll be going with him on his first few sales calls to provide technical backup to presentations.

As we're talking, the owner comes into the lunchroom and begins listening to our conversation. After a bit, he jumps in and begins discussing the vision that I've had of our company. They start agreeing with each other.

So the owner turns to us and says, "I want you guys to run your departments like seperate businesses. I want you guys to run your companies." He wants us to get all of our ducks in a row and our processes dialed in, and dovetail our work so that we can get a good system working between sales and development.

So now I'm basicially in charge of half of the company. I've been provided with financials for our 8 guys and charged with making Exact Interactive profitible on a monthly basis, in the next 3 months. It's a huge responsibility and I've also taken on the roll of Project Manager for all of the work that we have and will be getting in-house.

I'm glad that my PSU class has finished off, as I don't think I would be able to handle all of this at once. Wish me luck.

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