Ryan Wofford

Looking back through the posts I’ve shared on here, it seems that change, loss and regeneration have been underlying topics floating through a lot of the messages on my blog. Whether its a new app or piece of technology, or a life event… I am finding that Change is often the factor that leads me back to this forum to share with you.

Colby's "money" smile

About a year and a half ago, I lost my mom to a 17+ year battle with cancer. My big recent change involves another saddening loss… the loss of my dog, and long-time companion, Colby.

Folks who know me, probably knew Colby as well. There was a time (in college) when she rarely left my side. We traveled on road trips between Auburn and Athens, GA frequently to visit our friends up there. She was pushing 18 years old and was a great and loyal companion over the years. She will be missed dearly. Here’s a Facebook album of pics of her over the years, and the video below is a clip of her resting place. I decided to take her back “home” to Chewacla State Park in Auburn, AL. It’s a beautiful place I look forward to returning to more often to visit her.

In other news, things are going great with Adria & I. We are setting in nicely to the new home, and loving it. I’ve got an ever-expanding “honey-do” list of things to do around the house. To keep this loosely tech related, I’ve been using the “Task This” app to keep track of everything. Another handy little app is the iHandy Level to keep things straight (literally).

Our wedding plans are coming along. We’ve announced our date (save the dates going out soon) and have some registry info over on our wedding site.

Life at Deposco is going well. The company is in a growth period, with new customer acquisitions, as well as expansion in staff. My role continues to challenge me and present new opportunities. I will be traveling a bit in the coming weeks as I head out to strengthen our customer relationships, and meet some of the users and buyers of our services. I’ll be documenting all of this with videos and more over on our blog.

Stay tuned, and remember to embrace change… it’s what helps us grow!

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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