Dear Friends,
It is hard to believe that it is June already. I managed to get my garden planted this past weekend and will be working on mulching and figuring out a way to keep the deer out this coming weekend. I don’t really want to build a fence, but it seems we are on the regular deer-feeding highway and the baby plants are too delicious.
A big shout out to our corporate sales group, headed by long term employee Rob Amon. Rob has done just about every job here at Small Dog Electronics in his nearly 15 years of tenure at the company. I think he has found his calling in pursuing business solutions opportunities for the company. Rob’s team includes Dana Flint in Manchester, NH and Raul De Arriz in the Mid-Atlantic markets.
Rob’s team has consistently beat our sales estimates and they have really outdone themselves in FY’12 as their division has been responsible for a nearly 30% growth in top-line revenues for the first quarter. Rob also has the official title of “company jester” and since Rob’s head is already swelled, maybe I can send it over the top.
Bob Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama this week. This is the highest civilian honor given in the US. I was fortunate to see Bob Dylan perform at the Buffalo Chip in Sturgis, SD, a couple of years ago and was right in the front to take a lot of pictures. He has always been one of my favorite poets and singers and a significant part of the soundtrack for my life.
I have a spare Bob Dylan Think Different Poster from the famous Apple campaign and we will be giving it to one of our SDE Facebook fans—all you need to do is post your favorite song, lyric or story about Bob on our post and generate the most “Likes” of the entries. We’ll announce the winner of this limited edition poster after the contest closes on June 15th at noon. Good luck!