I’m just back from a week’s holiday in sunny Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. I great place to visit if you like wine.

While I was away, here at SLI we announced our partner program along with a bunch of new partners and plenty more in the pipeline. For me this is a great example of what happens when you employ someone who knows what they’re doing.

Jordan Zweigoron started working for us last year and bought some great experience from WebEx. He’s doing a wonderful job with our partners. It was something we needed to do and in the past we (mainly me) had not given it the attention it deserved and consequently nothing happened on the partner front.

This has happened time and time again. When we employed a graphic designer they did a much better looking web site than the engineer who first tried (the engineer is a great engineer – he’s just not a graphic designer). When we employed a sales person he did a much better job than the bumbling idiot who was doing it (although it did give me a good appreciation of the job).

None of this is surprising – in a small, fast growing company everyone starts out wearing many hats. As you grow and employ specialists you shed the hats. It’s great to see that the hat fits with Jordan – I’m looking forward to growing with our new partners.

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