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Announcing Sales Bean

Sales BeanWe’d like to announce the launch of Sales​bean.com, a custom sales sta­tis­tics track­ing system for indi­vid­ual sales­peo­ple to track & mea­sure their per­for­mance. We were approached ear­lier this year by Drew Thimme, with the idea for a simple, free and easy to use sales track­ing util­ity that offered a way to not only track the data that an indi­vid­ual enters, but to com­pare that with others in their indus­try or region.

Square­One part­nered with Michael Cantrell, one of our strate­gic part­ners, to deliver a cohe­sive prod­uct that is easy to use and deliv­ers all of the data track­ing needed by indi­vid­u­als in the sales world.

We’re really excited to see Sales Bean grow and are glad to have been part of the process of bring­ing it to the web. Drew is a great guy, and one of the best clients I’ve ever worked with. We wish him noth­ing but the great­est of suc­cess at Sales Bean.

You can check out the Sales Bean site at sales​bean.com – it’s free to join and use.

One of the Great Things About Downtime …

Is that you can tweak your own per­sonal sites end­lessly when there is a gap between projects. Right now I’m wait­ing for approval on a few designs and on some final changes from another client, so it looks like today will be a ‘clean house’ sort of day. Lots of site tweaks, lots of client house­keep­ing, etc.

That’s a good thing, right?

Reinforcements!

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Mr. Downham

When you’re a small design busi­ness, some­times it’s dif­fi­cult to do it all on your own. How­ever, when you’re a small design busi­ness with really tal­ented folks around you, it gets a bit less tricky. With that said, I’d like to announce the first of a few ‘partnerships’ that will help us deliver even higher qual­ity work.

Matt Down­ham is a guy I met at school about 5 years ago now, and is easily one of the most tal­ented design­ers I know. He’s got a back­ground in all sorts of media, from video to print to web and every­thing in between. Matt will be han­dling some of the design projects around here, mainly depend­ing on the size and scope of the projects. As we grow and take on larger clients, it’s impor­tant to have a hand­ful of folks to lean on to ensure we put out the best qual­ity prod­uct. Matt is def­i­nitely one of those people.

You can check out his web­site here, or stay tuned for some blog posts detail­ing projects we are both work­ing on.