The holiday season proved to be wonderful and intense for BSP. We set new records daily and had to spend many extra hours coordinating the process.
My personal workweek included about 70 hours in the office and working from home. That is not a complaint as I love what I do and the people I do it with – and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Annually I pick a week to recharge my batteries and the 5 days is coming up starting January 21st. I entertain visiting guests and work part-time (down to about 45 hours that week). I come in every day but normally cut out around 1PM to spend some time with the visiting dignitaries. But fear not, if anyone needs to get in touch with me they can easily do so as my Blackberry rarely leaves my hand.
I am going to need that little respite because, as I noted last week, BSP Rewards is about to go through a large and rapid growth cycle. The first quarter of ’08 will be filled with new branded site launches and what looks like, monumental membership growth….and really long work hours in order the handle it.
On the other hand, the staff will probably be happy to get rid of me for a while -except on that Friday. Every Friday I take the group out to lunch and they undoubtedly won’t be too thrilled if I miss it. (I may have to extend my work hours until 1:30 that day).
In the mean time I have a full week to work with the team on some really neat new things, so look for a couple of announcements soon.
….Talk to you soon.
