Steve Hammer on October 31st, 2009

It feels strangely good to get back to writing again.  I’ve been oddly silent for a few months, for a reason that I’m about to explain.  During this time I learned a lesson about what really drives me to do this, and how hard it is not to write.
The reason I’ve had to be silent [...]

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Steve Hammer on January 25th, 2009

The last several weeks have been rather crazy as we had our official launch.   Sometimes things don’t go according to plan, but work out great anyhow.  I’ve had a number of interviews, and it amazes me how many people seem to quickly “get” what we’re trying to do.  We’re more than free at downtoearth.com.  We’re [...]

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Steve Hammer on January 6th, 2009

The last few weeks have had the typical Christmas and New Year’s activity, combined with that of trying to doing our startup.  It’s made for basically no time off, as I was doing customer care over the “break” as much as building out our launch plan and testing our marketing.
Customer care itself is an interesting [...]

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