"...keeping you great" Ten Minutes with the Growth Guy
HEADLINES: (Themes and Checklist)
Blue Clover's theme video and photos -- next week starts the second half of the year -- a great time to launch a year-end theme or your next quarterly theme. With the help of their Gazelles' coach Erik Darmstetter, Blue Clover, San Antonio-based leader in digital and traditional branding, launched a 15 month "Las Vegas" theme. Here's a link to their theme video and check out their website -- very well done as you would expect. BTW, all the founders are under age 30.
HARD ROCK Café lends a hand -- Notes Darmstetter, CEO of Sales by 5, "I picked up a giant box of keys, brochures, napkins, matches, coasters, and gift shop items from the HARD ROCK café in Vegas...they loved the idea and were awesome to work with to give us tons of free items. The artists at the Blue Clover "got it" and did a great job. There are posters on the restroom doors, in hallways and all tied in with what they must do each quarter for the theme." Here's a link to photos of the theme collateral.
High touch chart -- Darmstetter also helped them create "high touch" charts/dashboards that measure how many customers have remarked about their service. Their purpose is: "Creating remarkable experiences." Notes Darmstetter "they filled their chart with industrial magnets designed to apply to graphics laminated to metal. No dead deer on the walls, just charts, charts, charts."
Catapult Systems takes 1st Place in "Best Place to Work" -- congrats to Sam Gardner, CEO of Austin-based Catapult Systems, a Microsoft technology consulting firm. Noted Gardner "I thought you get a kick out of the core values, vision, and TopGrading references in our Austin Business Journal article about our company taking first place in the local "best places to work" competition." This is their second year to receive this local prestigious honor. Here's a link to the article.
It's time again to review the Rockefeller Habits Checklist -- like pilots pre-flighting their plane, I beg you to take fifteen minutes with your team and see how many of the habits you now have in place from the list of 10 Rockefeller Habits -- do this at your next weekly, monthly, or quarterly meeting. The key is just picking one or two to focus on in the next 90 days. Here's a link to the checklist.
Dell signs on as sponsor of the Las Vegas "Growth Summit" -- we're excited to announce that Dell will be one of the lead sponsors. We're obviously inviting Michael to speak.