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< I was hired by [[Mike Dow]] and [[Mike Martineau]] sometime mid 1993 I think. At the time, [[Mike Dinn|Moose]] and [[Mark Earhard|Mark]] and [[Gail Wheaton|Gail]] and [[Jay Parsons|Jay]] worked there. I think that was it. I agreed to come work there because it sounded like a really interesting opportunity, from a sales and marketing perspective, and for the first while I did my sales calls from the top of a filing cabinet, as there wasn't a desk for me. What a wild ride, having to explain "what's the Internet" 40 million times a day to every tom dick and henretta. It never got old though and I loved it. My friends and family thought I was absolutely nuts and that it was just another one of those technology phases that would pass, HA!
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> I was hired by [[Mike Dow]] and [[Mike Martineau]] in the fall of 1993. At the time, [[Mike Dinn|Moose]] and [[Mark Earhard|Mark]] and [[Gail Wheaton|Gail]] and [[Jay Parsons|Jay]] worked there. It was my responsibility to market the ICS, individual connection service. I agreed to come work there because it sounded like a really interesting opportunity, from a sales and marketing perspective, and for the first while I did my sales calls from the top of a filing cabinet, as there wasn't a desk for me. Manually feeding one page faxes that encouraged everyone to "GET CONNECTED" to a bizillion people was my low tech strategy. It worked! What a wild ride, having to explain "what's the Internet" 40 million times a day to every tom dick and henretta. It never got old though and I loved it. My friends and family thought I was absolutely nuts and that it was just another one of those technology phases that would pass, HA! I remained with the company through its transformation into iStar, but was fortunate enough to be on maternity leave when it became Fonorola. It was my time to 'take the package' and move on. I returned to my 'old job' and continued as Operations Manager for Keltic Learning Centres for another year, before starting up my current company, GWA Training Brokers Incorporated. My experience in working with NSTN in the start up phase through its' incredible growth prepared me well for my ongoing entrepreneur endeavours.
I was hired by [[Mike_Dow?]] and [[Mike_Martineau?]] in the fall of 1993. At the time, Moose and Mark and [[Gail_Wheaton?|Gail]] and [[Jay_Parsons?|Jay]] worked there. It was my responsibility to market the ICS, individual connection service. I agreed to come work there because it sounded like a really interesting opportunity, from a sales and marketing perspective, and for the first while I did my sales calls from the top of a filing cabinet, as there wasn't a desk for me. Manually feeding one page faxes that encouraged everyone to "GET CONNECTED" to a bizillion people was my low tech strategy. It worked! What a wild ride, having to explain "what's the Internet" 40 million times a day to every tom dick and henretta. It never got old though and I loved it. My friends and family thought I was absolutely nuts and that it was just another one of those technology phases that would pass, HA! I remained with the company through its transformation into iStar, but was fortunate enough to be on maternity leave when it became Fonorola. It was my time to 'take the package' and move on. I returned to my 'old job' and continued as Operations Manager for Keltic Learning Centres for another year, before starting up my current company, GWA Training Brokers Incorporated. My experience in working with NSTN in the start up phase through its' incredible growth prepared me well for my ongoing entrepreneur endeavours.