I hope you enjoyed the summer and that everyone is refreshed and ready for the last quarter of the year. Our industry was fairly quiet at the end of 3Q but as we look ahead to 4Q we are looking forward to what are traditionally some of the busiest months as the colder weather begins. Everyone in involved in projects & finance should be catching up on their collections and outstanding bills to prepare for an increased volume of new projects. Everyone on the sales & marketing team should have a strong sense of urgency and renewed focus to get our name out there and make quality contacts to secure solid, high-level referral relationships heading into the busy season. I’m looking forward to us all working together to make it a strong finish to 2009! -Damon
As the Fourth Qtr approaches, the sales team has to dig deep and target well to reach our goals. We welcome our newest Sales Coordinator Maria who seems to have what it takes to help the team plow ahead. Still focusing on big accts and lg insurance co's, we hope to bring in some BIG dollars to close the year. 
Project Mgt is running a little behind on billing and collections for the quarter but mainly because volume is down. We have settled some nice big jobs that we should now be able to collect in the next 30-60 days which will help with collections; we need some nice big jobs though to boost our volume. One nice job this month was 95 Wall Street which came in on a Sunday night and was handled with excellence by Mat who ran out at midnight and spent the better part of three days there and managed to bill the job within a day or two of completion and just before the month/quarter closed (the loss happened on 9/20!). We are now going into our 'busy season' and are geared up and ready to handle some serious work. Go team!
I am been swept up in recruiting for a Sales Coordinator, Project Coordinator and Sales Manager over the last month. We have successfully hired a Sales Coordinator, and have our PC options narrowed down to 2 stellar candidates. I have met with a few Sales Managers but would love to meet some more people over the next few weeks to be sure we have found the right match! Thanks to everyone who gave me resumes, went through resumes and conducted interviews with me! It is a huge help!
Hello again from Finance. As we enter the final quarter of 2009, I know everyone at Maxons is really busy for the stretch run to end the year on as strong a note as possible in all areas. Cynthia, Pam, Elissa and I will continue to provide you all with as much support as we can to make the last 3 months a success. We are starting to work on our budgeting processes for 2010 as well as researching possible improvements within Quickbooks and Goldmine to make the billing process for multi-phased jobs simpler, as we learn more about the new Goldmine upgrade we will move forward with this effort.
Currently at 820! 
