One of the benefits of being headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina is that we’re surrounded by natural beauty, with mountains just to the north, the ocean just a few hours away, and lakes an hour to the west. Our sales and marketing teams recently spent a few days meeting offsite at Lake Keowee, focused on continuing the growth of Website Pipeline. In addition to folks from our office, we had remote employees come in from Florida, Ohio, and British Columbia. The northerners, in particular, loved the mid-90s temperatures we’ve been experiencing over the last few weeks.
Our days were filled with strategy sessions, tactical debates, whiteboards, and coffee - lots of coffee. Our evenings were slightly less focused, but we did manage to get some big air (well, some of us, anyway), carve up the lake, and demonstrate embarrassingly bad basketball skills. If a game of H-O-R-S-E lasts for more than 45 minutes...
We left with some great ideas and action plans, a few injuries (trust us, a foot does not make a good dartboard), and the kind of enthusiasm that can only come from late-night bonding. Our visit will be felt for quite some time, particularly by the lawn, and by the porch swing that no longer can swing. Lesson learned: gravity always wins.
