Author Archives: Greg Gillette
PSAC Spring Conference an Enjoyable Event
If you didn’t make it to Red Deer for the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) Spring Conference last week you missed a great event. Spira was please to be a sponsor of this where we had a booth right alongside one of our business … Continue reading
Pick-up Sales and Empty Yards: Two Unofficial Economic Indicators
I was just up in Grande Prairie, Alberta over the Easter weekend and the city is hopping with activity. Now I am no economist, but I have noticed a couple of “unofficial” economic indicators that tell me that the economy is on … Continue reading
Finding Good Strategic Partners
One of our company’s strategic goals this year was to forge stronger and more meaningful relationships with our strategic business partners. Part of my mandate as the Marketing Director is to facilitate the onboarding of new partners, strengthen our existing partnerships … Continue reading
For Crying out Loud. Get a Website!
I am amazed at how many decent sized service companies that do not have a website. As the Marketing Director at Spira Data Corp I am responsible for research and lead generation for our sales department and I am amazed at … Continue reading
50th Customer Party a Great Event
If you were able to make it out to our 50th customer party on Thursday, February 16th, we hope you enjoyed yourself and thanks for coming. We were pleased at the turnout and enjoyed the opportunity to connect with customers … Continue reading
What do you do When Your Business Model Becomes Outdated?
In today’s technology driven economy, times are changing fast. Like many of you, I have read the numerous articles regarding the death of Blackberry® and RIM and I have wondered how our company would react if faced with a competitive … Continue reading
Jobs Book is a Great Read on Many Levels
I just finished reading the book on Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson, and if you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it. The book is a pretty open portrayal of the man, it is well written and it ties together the stages … Continue reading
The Value of Customer Forums
I learned a lot last week, simply by listening to a few of our customers. A few weeks back our VP Sales and I were involved in a brief presentation with an outside development firm that was doing some visually stunning stuff with software … Continue reading
Spira User Forum – Billings
This is just a quick note to thank the attendees at our recent billings forum held on November 17th. We had attendees from Morgan Construction and IPS EMS as well as ideas from Treeline Well Service and Legend Energy Services. … Continue reading
Movember – Spira Stache for Cash
If you happen to drop into the Spira offices over November, be forewarned that there are a lot of cheesy looking guys roaming the office due to our support of the Movember campaign. Now for those of you men who regularly … Continue reading
