WOW! What a week we just had!
Last Tuesday and Wednesday we had our Annual User’s Conference where we experienced double the attendance we’ve had in years past. The two days were broken up into one and two hour sessions; each explaining different parts of our software and also introducing new features we have added. We would like to thank Phil Harwood from Pro-Motion Consulting for his wonderful presentation on customer service and culture in the work place. We would also like to thank Jeff Hodgson from Chicago Weather Brokerage for his intriguing presentation on how snow and rainfall can be traded. It was great seeing our clients, meeting new faces, and introducing our new GPS capability to them before we débuted it publicly on the trade show floor! Side note — the food at the hotel during our conference was absolutely amazing!
The SIMA Symposium was great! They started off with a bang at the Welcome Reception with the début of Pro-Tech’s SnoFighter Documentary. The movie was very impressive and the movie theater style theme at the party with popcorn and candy made it a fun event to attend. If you haven’t seen the movie yet you have to check it out. I’m sure SIMA will probably have it up on their website or Pro-Tech will put it on their YouTube Channel.
At the Symposium, we had our biggest booth yet! And thank goodness we had all that space because we were constantly surrounded by attendees wanting to know more about CrewTracker and to watch a demo of our software. It was also a lot of fun having some of our customers volunteer in our booth on Friday to explain to attendees what it was really like for them to implement CrewTracker Software at their company.
Along with Morton Salt and International Salt, we sponsored the Snow Warriors Awards Banquet. We all had custom fortune cookies made with special fortune messages from all of the sponsors. Randy also gave his rendition of The Late Show’s Top 10 when he read off the top reason’s why our clients said they do snow removal. The lucky grand prize winner walked away with a Vacation of their choice valued at $1,500! The awards Banquet had their largest attendance yet. Two of our clients BSR and Sneller’s Landscaping each won the Excellence in Business Award!
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…
The outgoing President of SIMA, Daniel Gilliland (President of CrewTracker Software) has been succeeded by Jim Hornung Jr. ( Elbers Landscaping – another CrewTracker customer). Congratulations to both of them!