It’s almost time again for our annual Farragut/West Knox Chamber networking event! We had a blast last year, with almost 100 people who stopped by to network with one another. We’re anticipating a huge crowd again this year. If you received an invitation, or you’re part of the Farragut Chamber, please stop by, and you’re welcome to bring a guest or two along with you.
We’ll have Rita’s Ice on hand to fight any heat that may be lurking, and some other refreshments. There will also be a few door prizes, which are donated by some of our awesome customers, who always provide the best giveaways.
Let us know if you plan on dropping into the Store on June 17 to say hello, meet some new folks and catch up with those you know. Please RSVP to rsvp@slamdot.com and let us know how many guests you have coming.
We are excited to say that our SlamCamp workshop held Tuesday, March 16th, at the Knoxville Chamber Partnership, as part of their Chamber U series, turned out to be a huge success. Thanks to all of the companies that attended our presentation on Secrets of Effective Web Marketing.
SlamCamps are a series of workshops that we’re doing for small business owners, to help them better understand effective website marketing, search engine optimization, and social media strategies. Our first SlamCamp had around fifty attendees, and we received top ratings and great feedback.
Setting up
Introductions
Sean & Daniel talking
Our next SlamCamp will be in April at the Slamdot Store. We’ll be launching a new section of our website soon with dates and times of future SlamCamps.
Are you a sharpshooting, smooth-talking salesperson, good at talking people out of their money? Well, this isn’t the job for you.
We’re looking for someone who doesn’t have a lot of sales experience, but has a willingness to learn our products well and help our customers succeed online. Like Ben Affleck said in Boiler Room, “We don’t hire [salespeople] here, we train new ones.”
We need someone who has a passion for small business. Someone who enjoys technology and the Internet. Someone who’ll care about our customers as much as we do. Our approach is not to hard sell. We consider ourselves consultants. We consult. We don’t “sell.”
We talk to small business owners and try to understand their business, customers, and marketing objectives. We offer a lot of free, upfront information. You could say our approach is to give away a lot of free advice. If our prospective client would rather us implement some of the strategies we’re suggesting they do, then they hire us. If not, then that’s cool, too. We never set unrealistic expectations and we only work with people who we think we can help. That’s how we’ve always done it, and it’s worked well for us.
You’ll learn a lot about websites, servers, social media, search engines, and internet marketing. Our customers trust us with their business because we’re the experts. Soon, you’ll be an expert too.
Please send resumes to jobs@slamdot.com. No seasoned salespeople, please.
Elaine Frank came on board a couple of weeks ago. She’ll be helping out with customer service/support and design work. Elaine was recommended to us by one of our customers who hired her to take pictures for their website. Her passion for photography should start shining through on our blog soon :)
So everyone please welcome Elaine Frank to the team!
We celebrated our open house and ribbon cutting on Friday, March the 6th. The Knoxville Chamber sponsored the event, while Little Havana and Rita’s Ice provided the food and refreshments. Overall, the event went better than we could have hoped, with over a hundred people coming out to show support! We gave away an iPod and a couple of iTunes cards as door prizes. WBIR even came out to join in the festivities! Here’s some coverage from the event.
We got the wall with the sign on it painted blue yesterday. We’re still trying decide whether we should paint the other wall white or lime green. Any suggestions?
Just a quick followup post to show off our new office sign. We’re pretty pleased with it! High Resolutions hooked it up. We’ll be painting the wall behind it Slamdot blue, but here’s a picture of it the way it is now.
The New Year is getting off to a great start here, and because of that we needed to find a new home for Slamdot HQ, with a little more space, and a spot all to our own. Naturally, we found the perfect office, 119 S. Gay Street, not more than 50 yards from our last office in downtown Knoxville, so it was a short walk to move everything. Then again, with some of our heavy furniture that short walk seemed to be a mile long!
We spent most of the weekend hauling everything down, getting wired up (literally), and getting all the furniture in place. You’d think we were all interior decorators with all the back-and-forth discussion going on. Getting 4 people on the same page to come up with the perfect setup took until about 2 or 3 am…and even then we made changes the next day!
Here are a couple of pictures from the weekend and our big move. We’ll add more soon as we continue sprucing it up.
