At the urging of our Director of Marketing Communications, I started reading Wikinomics on a flight to Vegas. I’m out here for the Digital Signage Expo. In any case, it’s a good read. I’m 100 pages in on a updated 2008 edition printed in Great Britain. If you don’t know, Debbie, our MarCom person lives in the Czech Republic.
It is clear that I am behind the times when it comes to blogging. From this point forward, I will be here once a week, maybe more if I have something relevant to post. By relevant, I mean something that might impact our business, our channel partners, vendors, clients and or competitors.
Financially, we had a solid January. We did not meet our growth targets, but we were 13% ahead of our performance for the same period last year. February doesn’t look as good, but it is always a strange month for us historically. I have looked at data going back 12 years and February is always the poorest producing month of the year. Some years it has produced 50% less than the proceeding and subsequent months.
We continue to execute our 2009 strategic business plan as we expected. 2008 was a record year for Visix. Our three year growth has been 141%.
In January we added three new employees – two software developers and one senior software support engineer. We also delivered our 1000th visual communications (digital signage) system. The system was deployed by a channel partner with support from our staff. You will see the full details in a press release pending approval. The exciting thing for me is that of the 1000 systems, more than 40% have been delivered in the past 24 months.
Oh, we also received an award in February from Rave ProAV publications for the "Best Digital Signage" product. Thanks everyone!
I’ll keep you posted with what happens at the show.
About Sean Matthews
Sean Matthews is a 14-year veteran of the visual communications industry and has been the President of Visix (formerly Tech Electronics, Inc.) since June 2004. Matthews has guided a corporate relocation and name change, the more than doubling the size of the sales force, establishment of field offices, outsourcing non-essential activities, the introduction of seven new products, increased revenues by 122% and increased trade show traffic by more than 1,000%.
Matthews served in the United States Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve between 1985 and 1992, and is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War (1990 – 1991). Matthews also served with the United States Treasury Department as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (1991 – 1993).
His undergraduate studies were at College of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina. His graduate studies were at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Matthews currently resides in Norcross, Georgia, with his wife and two children.