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Monday, 08 March 2010 08 March 2010 Wow, I'm writing the WarbyGK goalkeeper gloves blog this morning feeling rougher than a pig scratching itself with sandpaper! Parenthood is fantastic but what no one warns you of is the plethora of illnesses that magically find their way into your household as soon as your children start at Nursery! Before kids you'll pick up the odd cold here and there or Flu if you're unlucky BUT as soon as your children start at Nursery or School the bugs they can bring home are phenomenal! My wife slept for 5.5 hours yesterday afternoon because she had the lurgy real bad and this morning I feel like the morning after the first pre-season session! Ouch..... Because of this I was late in to the office, a proper struggle to get out of bed this morning and worse still I have several important phone calls to make but with a voice like a hardened smoker I may have to delay these calls so I've boiled the kettle and sat down with my trusty coffee to write this mornings blog and we'll see how the day goes! Last week was a heated one at times, and again when I walked into the office there is still aggression in the air (metaphorically speaking) as we are deciding on what happens next with our glove range. We have the new range ready and waiting but the Portiere Pro range is still selling in it's droves so that is the debating topic, what to keep and what to ditch? Looking through the Sales Sheets indicates there is no clear "loser" from the range and as their popularity remains very strong then it is perhaps worth giving them longer before we retire them to the goalkeeper glove graveyard in the sky. It is imperative that we manage to get this decision right, much the same as when we released the Portiere Pro glove range and merged them over the Goleiro Pro range of gloves that helped to launch or brand, but now as we have a really strong fan base then this decisions correctness is imperative, especially as we continue to exceed our Business Plan (another job to do - update this again!) and as we are involved in a fickle business, any wrong decision could push our development behind schedule - now can you see why so many arguments? I'll keep you posted.........
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 Suits you Sir! I've just posted on Twitter about today being a shirt and tie day, which it is a we have a load of meetings crammed in and as with everything we do, preparation is the key and these meetings have been meticulously plotted for the last three weeks. Wearing a shirt and tie takes me back to when I was playing and this dress code was mandatory, white shirt and club tie, as I was probably the only one who carried the look off with trainers and a beanie hat! We have a little bit of travel involved too but on the plus side is Pub Lunches and Pints of Coke, and even better if the sun comes out as it did on Tuesday then what better way to spend the day...it's just the meetings that interfere! The biggest challenge is for me to sit still, both myself and one of the lads travelling suffer from childish restlessness and I can guarantee that our legs will be shaking up and down, hidden only by the table! Quite why people do this I'm not sure, but to some people sitting still isn't a natural action, and sitting still in a meeting is even further from my comfort zone but I have to keep focussed on the bigger picture and try my hardest not to mess around! As I've mentioned before, this recovery from my knee surgery has given me the opportunity to learn new skills and experience things that previously I would have stayed well away from (offices, meetings, computers....), so although my physical fitness has been well and truly compromised and my family life has been impacted because of the surgery then at least I'm comforted by trying to find that elusive silver lining that comes with every negative experience. |
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Monday, 01 March 2010 01 March 2010 Welcome to March, and we're already now a quarter of the way through this year! Scary really when you think exactly how quickly it's moving and when I look at my list of jobs to do today I'm thinking there aren't enough hours in the day! It's massive, in fact one of the longest lists that I've ever had - still no point moaning as it is only indicative of how busy things are at the minute in the WarbyGK Goalkeeper Gloves office... I know I maybe mention these just a little too much, but the new range is developing with massive speed now and unless managed correctly will snowball out of control so much so that we have a meeting planned for later on this week to finalise issues. There is an imminent delivery due for new colours and features so that we can see them in the flesh as opposed to the Design Programme n the Computer screen, and it's pretty much taken as read that the meeting will involve an argument and at least one person will storm out the room! With this meeting we will also be discussing which of the Portiere Pro Goalkeeper Gloves range to keep, so that'll be reams and reams of sales sheets and predictions to wade through in order to try and reach the right decision and this is generally the point where my mind wanders.....anything to do with numbers and I'm gone! Other than knowing the profit and loss my poor brain cannot cope with figures, and I'll transcend into my own merry little world whilst the numbers are well and truly crunched! Along with the sample goalkeeper gloves we should be receiving some very special pairs for Carlisle United's Adam Collin to celebrate his trip to Wembley in 28 days time for the Johnstones Paint Trophy Final against Southampton FC. Maybe I'll post pictures, maybe I won't, who knows...........!
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