Ryan Wofford

Sometimes you just want to pull your hair out

Well, here it is… Almost a full two months exactly since my last post and I guess that is just an indication of how busy things have been in my life since my last post!

There are certainly a lot of things to update you on, both personal and professional. I’m writing this from the WordPress iPhone app, 25k feet up on my way back from the Material Handling and Logistics North American 2010 Trade Show in Cleveland. This was Deposco’s first foray into the trade show world and I was charged with putting together everything from the marketing strategy for the show to the marketing materials, to assembling the actual booth itself. It was quite an undertaking. I’ve attended smaller trade shows in the past, but this was the first I’ve managed from every angle.

The show was a four day show in Cleveland, featuring all kinds of exhibitors with products spanning the space within the four walls of the warehouse and beyond. Our strategic partners, UPS, indicated it would be a good fit, as it is the largest of it’s kind this year in North America.

The show from a technical perspective went off without a hitch. Sure, I had to overcome some challenges, such as building our entire marketing strategy around doing live product demos of our on-demand, SaaS warehouse management systems in our booth, then losing all of our demo guys to various other obligations… But we overcame and had a great show (and still were able to provide overview demos of our product). Knowing what our small booth and efforts cost, it was amazing to me the expenditure some of the exhibitors put forth. Let’s just hope some of the connections and prospects turn into real qualified leads for us!

What else has been going on? In a month’s time, with the help of my good friends at Schecter Technologies, LLC, we were able to completely redesign, develop, and launch the brand new website at Deposco.com. Stop by & have a look. This should give us a huge strategic advantage with SEO over the previously flash-heavy site, which was poorly indexed to say the least.

In other personal news, the Fiance and I have made great strides with finding and closing on our first home (just in time for the tax credit), as well as further wedding plans, so head on over to our wedding site for more news on that soon.

All-in-all, a really busy few months… I promise to try to keep this better updated, but as my friend Brandon Sutton recently posted over on his blog… “I’m No Superman” either!

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Well, as of now I’m a few weeks into the new job as Directory of Marketing for Deposco, Inc., a small start-up SaaS company in the supply chain management (SCM) industry. More specifically, we work in the supply chain execution space, offering companies great ROI on our warehouse and inventory management systems.

All indications so far are that I made a fantastic and timely move. I’m enjoying being a part of a highly skilled and accomplished team and the company has some great momentum coming off a strong fourth quarter and this year is shaping up to be a banner year already as well. We’re seeing strong adoption of OnDemand, SaaS solutions in both small-to-midsized companies as well as enterprise level corporations.

Ryan with Kitty

Marketing plans are starting to come together and initiatives are underway. I’ll try to keep you posted as new things develop (non-confidential, of course ). In the meantime, if happen to be in the industry and you would like to follow Deposco on Twitter, you can find us at http://www.twitter.com/Deposco.

I will also leave you with this picture of shame… part of my hazing with my new company was to have to sport this hot pink Hello Kitty backpack around for a week. That’s okay, though… They will pay. They always pay.

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