He wants to stay here long enough to beat or tie that mark. We've talked about it all year. It's been one of the focal points of our season. |
I just like everything about this industry. There's a lot of creativity in what we do. |
I'd bet 99 percent of the people in Naperville probably never heard of us. |
If you need to hire smart people, there's no better place to find them than in northern Illinois. |
In the past two years, we've tried to be more visible and more vocal. |
It was amazing. I have chills all over my body. |
Producing interconnecting equipment takes a lot more work than people realize. |
Some say the church experience has lots of flash and very little depth, or in other words, a mile wide and an inch deep. But many (large churches) have small groups, and that's the key. You can't preach to a crowd of 1,400. The worship becomes a performance and the crowd sits there, very few people are active. |
The United Methodist Church is advertising. The United Church of Christ is advertising. They're losing membership and are asking themselves how to get new crowds out there. It's a competitive market and they're reading the writing on the wall. |
There is a trend in evangelical Christianity to mark themselves off as different. They talk about a post denominational age. They are part of a group of churches that have a seeker mentality. They are trying to reach a group of folks that may not have a significant understanding of religion. They see the contemporary look of the church. It feels down-to-earth. It's non-threatening. It's really designed for folks to come in off the streets. |
We have about 700 different accounts, and probably 40 of them are distributors. I'd suspect that there are probably a couple of thousand companies that use our products throughout the country. |
You can get away with it when you're in great physical shape like us. |