My Birthday

I would love to thank everyone for all your heartwarming birthday wishes, cards, flowers, and gifts. I am very fortunate to have such a caring group of family and friends. I would also like to thank my Director of Sales & Marketing, Amoura Rose - you are extremely talented and a wonderful illustration artist. I love the drawing you did for me! In Amoura's blog, she explains what this drawing is about.

Xo
Mashiah

Meeting Jared Bugyi - Bay Downtown Vancouver

Today was my last day in Vancouver, it's been a very busy couple of weeks since I travel back and forth between the two cities quite a bit. I'm heading to Vegas tomorrow for a business meeting, then back to LA on Monday. I had to get a few of my more important meetings out of the way. I finished planning my Christmas line with Amoura Rose, my Director of Sales, and Brooklyne, my Stores Manager. I need to have Christmas products developed and ready for The Bays to put their Christmas orders in. I would like to have them processed by July. The girls and I came up with some great Christmas gift boxes. Yeah!

After my product development meeting, I decided to check on some of The Bays to see how my products were being displayed and to meet with the staff that would be in charge of selling my products. I stopped by the Downtown Bay, I was pleasantly surprised when I was approached by The Bay's sales manager, Jared Bugyi. He was at the Pacific Center front doors welcoming customers as they walked into the store. I thought, "How often do you see the sales manager working hands on with the customers?" He was working with a few other promo girls giving product samples to the customers as they walked into the store. He approached me and asked if I would like to try the item he was handing out, I said, "sure", then asked him where I could find the Open Sundaes display. He knew right away what I was talking about and without hesitation, he walked me to where my sales team had set up the display. OK now I'm impressed; where does this company find their professional, friendly and amazing staff? The display looked fantastic. I took a picture of Jared and myself in front of the display.

He was extremely helpful; I'm looking forward to seeing him again to discuss promos and some fun Bay events we could throw. I was also welcomed by another women from the Bay's sales team by the name of Susan; I took a picture of her as well. She was a very sweet friendly women and was eager to learn all about my product line. So far I am thrilled to be part of such a wonderful company.

I would like to thank "The Bay" for having Open Sundaes as a part of your store.

Welcome Jason Sundar!!!!

Today started with non-stop phone calls and emails - pretty much the usual morning. I had to get away for a work out to clear my mind. I was supposed to keep my phone off, but of course I had left it on, and I could see my BlackBerry vibrating from the corner of my eye. During my work out, I was sneaking to the washroom making calls and returning emails. Jemal, my trainer wasn't impressed that I was trying to organize a give away for my friend's benefit fashion show - my publicist, Tina Baird, had thought we had already sent a package but we hadn't. I had received a call from their rep that morning requesting one, the mix up was that we were sponsoring two separate benefits for the same cause. I know that seems simple but when you are coordinating staff to send packages, logos etc... things can get confusing! Needless to say I got about 30 min of cardio in and paid for an 1hr session aggggh. Then I was off to meet my new VP of Corporate finance, Jason Sundar, this meeting was to discuss the future of Open Sundaes and taking the company public through the IPO in early 09. I asked my partner, Jason Dussault (JD), to meets us for lunch as well because I don't really understand the market side of things yet. All I can say is wow, what a machine this guy is, reminds me alot of JD. I'm very fortunate to have Jason Sundar as a new addition on my team. I have to thank JD for bringing him on board. The three of us sat down for a yummy sushi lunch, this wasn't a usual lunch since we were all in a rush to get to our next meetings. There was a strict layout of topics to discuss - Jason D and Jason S started talking, and most of it I couldn't quite understand, so my Jason would act as an interpreter to explain what Sundar was saying. These two have worked together for years on many successful projects, so I am glad I have them both on my team. These two could hold business seminars and collect revenue, their ideas together were quite fascinating and brilliant to listen to. I'm glad I'm learning from the best.
Welcome aboard Jason Sundar!

My first blog

Hello everyone, where do I start......? I'm extremely thrilled about my company Open Sundaes but I can't take all the credit, I have to first off thank all of my wonderful customers. I understand there are many choices on the market and I appreciate you taking the time to try out my line. Especially my repeat customers thx :)
News at Open Sundaes, hmmmm, let's see we just celebrated Mothers day which is an important time for me, I'm a mother and appreciate all the goodies my honey and kids get me in recognition of my hard work taking care of them all year. So I try to remind as many people about special holidays such as these to spoil a more then deserving mom. God knows these moms can wear many different hats, which can become exhausting and seem like a thankless job. I hope you much deserving moms came into each of my stores and treated yourselves to the Yummy cupcakes I had at each location for you last Sun May 11th. (Happy Mothers Day!!!!)