Time for Buisness Par II

gabe@ceointern.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

We've got only a few days left here and soo much work to do. We're almost finished with our plan to double the revenue of the company, which has been a long time coming.(We were supposed to have a one pager at the end of the first week)

The current plan is to finish this plan as soon as possible and talk it over with the chairman by Monday. Then we're going to merge it with a plan that he has and Present something to the employees. Hopefully they'll lik [...]

The Horn

gabe@ceointern.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Our producer deliberately kept us in the dark about how the phone system worked. As a result, we had all kinds of funny solutions to get things done. For instance, in lieu of hanging up a call on speakerphone properly, I figured out that hanging the receiver up five times in rapid succession would do the trick. For the first two weeks this was the only way to ensure that we weren’t still on speaker with someone.

Cold Calls

gabe@ceointern.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Yesterday we started making calls to the companies that we want to deliver presentations to. You would not believe how easy it is to get shut down making cold calls. I just want to tell people that we save companies like theirs money every day. I don't want their social security number, I don't want their date of birth. I want to talk about deep cryogenic tempering, wear resistance, stress relief and stabilization, but some of the people that I calle [...]

Sales Call

gabe@ceointern.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Yesterday we started researching companies that we can try to sell to in the area. We're going to give sales presentations to 5 companies in each of three cities. We have to decide what companies to approach and research them and their need for cryogenic treatment. There are hundreds of companies in every major city that would benefit from cryogenic tempering the only question is how large of a company can we walk into, talk to the right person, and sell [...]

Interviews

gabe@ceointern.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I mentioned in a prior blog that I got to do a short intervies with Jay lefler and Kenny Wallace. I thought that this was a once in a lifetime oportunity, but I may have been mistaken. Our associate producer has been calling some race teams that will be in the area in coming weeks and getting some promising responses. I'm really excited, because 300 Below has been working with the race teams for over 15 years. I would love to get the chance to interview more drivers.& [...]

The Midwest

gabe@ceointern.com — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Overall, I'm pleasantly surprised with the Midwest. Being born on long island and having spent most of my life within 20 minutes of Boston, I grew up with the stereotype that there’s nothing to do here. If you like shopping for expensive clothes and surfing, you're right, but if you like tractor pulls and dirt track, you'll fit right in. Truth be told, I have a strong preference for races that occur on pavement, but I'd take dirt tra [...]

Time for Buisness

gabe@ceointern.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

We've got most of our surpluss capitol on ebay now and its time to get down to buisness for real. We have untill thursday or Friday to make a plan to double the revenue of the company. There's no time to waste if we're to do a good job on it.

We watched the footage of me interviewing Jay Leffler and Kenny Wallace. It was clear that Kenny didn’t know that I’ve built part of a car that I later raced, but a majority of the people that he&rs [...]

The Weekend

gabe@ceointern.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

This weekend was relaxing. We finally had some down time to do laundry, clean the cabin, and catch up on some much needed sleep. We got some waterskiing time in too. I was forced to learn slalom skiing when the team found out that I already knew how to water ski on two skis. At first I wasn’t thrilled, I wanted a relaxing spin around the lake on both my skis. The team’s persistence paid off. Not only did they get me to try to get up on a slalom ski, but [...]

Day 2

gabe@ceointern.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Today Nick, Charlie and I learned how to use a forklift. We're no experts but we had a good time learning. When we were done learning and gave up the forklift to a steadier hand, we started cleaning off all of the equipment that's been living in the back of the shop for up to 3 years. With a little tinkering, I got the VW air compressor working again. The kil [...]

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