Charging My Batteries

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.

New Year’s Resolution

Well, 2007 is past and it is time to seriously contemplate what I would like to improve on in 2008. We came so far in 2007, with record breaking transaction volume and building our web mall to become the largest on the internet- and of course, we want to grow even bigger and more rapidly. It is time to capitalize on our momentum …so here goes.

First, my resolutions on a personal level;
1. Lose some weight (I won’t tell you how much). Well that’s enough about me personally!
Business wise the list of resolutions could be a lot more numerous, but I will limit them to the following.

1. Design a group of unique features for the BSP Rewards web malls.
2. Develop a new optional interface to enhance the member’s shopping experience.
3. Create a reminder program when a member shops outside the platform.
4. Develop a gift and event reminder program.
5. Expand the Mall with additional “great” merchants.
6. Build branded malls for larger national product and service clients.
7. Create marketing materials to increase frequency of member shopping.
8. Enter new channels.
9. Form mutually beneficial partnerships.
10. Hold a few surprises for later.
11. ….and of course increase sales volume and revenues tremendously.

All if all it is an ambitious list… but we have an outstanding team that can get it done.
Watch for some exciting announcements in the first quarter.
Look out rewards world – here we come!