As Alicia wrote, I’m back in Richmond. I survived a crazy week of work that included an almost 16 hour day on Wednesday. There are still loose ends left over from it, enough to keep me busy during the beginning of next week. It was nice to see my family and come clients. I didn’t get to hang with many friends. I missed Scott entirely because he had to work(next time!), but did get to have dinner with Leslie. I had some nice time at a few client’s sites. The C&T Mortgage crew is always fun.
In other news, we got vanity domain names. We picked up danielfarrell.com and aliciafarrell.com on a special from Yahoo domains. Right now Alicia’s just points to the simplepilgrimage website, but I’m working on mine as a work thing(see next part).
I had a little epiphany about work while driving home. Brad and I joke about how our boss Jeff always just refers to the business as himself. All the rest of us answer the phones “Kite Tech, this is Daniel” or the like. Jeff just answers is “This is Jeff Kite.” He’ll sell a job and we’ll get out there and say we are from Kite Tech and they will look confused… then we say we work for/with Jeff Kite and they know exactly who we are. I’ve always thought it was funny. But the genius of it didn’t hit me until I was driving home. People generally have at least a little distrust of impersonal corporations, but they can trust people easier. And what is the difference really between Kite Technology or another company? The difference is the people. Jeff sells himself and that sets him apart. People know his name, they have his cell phone number, they can reach him, he’s personal. So I’m gonna switch gears a little on my sales work here. At least for a while, instead of being Kite Technology’s Richmond office, I’m going to be Daniel Farrell, computer consultant. I’m not ditching Kite Tech, just changing the focus. I’ll let you know how it goes.
