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eHarbor unbeatable after 5 games

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

After winning by a 15-point margin in its third game, eHarbor, Inc.’s softball team set a new record by winning its next two games to maintain a perfect record this season.

eHarbor player hits a ball

eHarbor played its fourth game on May 6, 2009 and its fifth game a week later on May 13, 2009. The scores of the two games were 16-5 in the fourth game, and 27-17 in the fifth.

Highlights of the fourth game:

- Five players batted 1.000.

- One player went 4 for 4 with an in-the-park home run.

Highlights of the fifth game:

- One player hit a ball out of the park for a home run.

- Two players batted 1.000.

- In its first inning at bat, eHarbor went through its batting order 1.5 times.

- This is the fourth game eHarbor has won by 10 points or more this season.

As I mentioned in one of my first blog entries, eHarbor’s slogan for 2009 is “Swinging for the fence.” Our softball team is doing just that. Our success on the baseball field is symbolic of our success in the field of online marketing and ecommerce.

Our next game will be on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 in Provo, Utah. The photo of an eHarbor player hitting the ball is from the fifth game.

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eHarbor summer party coming in June

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

You might remember my blog posts on eHarbor, Inc.’s celebration of its successful start to 2009 with a showing of the movie “Knowing.” I’m pleased to say the good times keep coming, as the company recently announced its annual summer party on June 12-13, 2009.

Tiger plays with soccer ballThat’s not to say that we’re celebrating all the time or that we’re focused solely on having fun. Our slogan for 2009 is “Swinging for the fence,” and we’re doing our best to live up to that ideal by working hard and giving our best effort.

Back to the eHarbor Summer Party, it is going to be fun. All eHarbor employees are invited to come enjoy camping, barbecue, an outdoor movie (I love movies!), golf tournament and some sort of water e-lympics.

These festivities will take place in Hobble Creek Canyon, near Springville, Utah.

The photo of a tiger playing with a ball is from Flickr, and it is the copyright of Tambako the Jaguar. This is the second photo of a tiger I’ve included in the eHarbor Blog. I also included a photo of a lion with my blog post on making content king. I really like cats.

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eHarbor softball team goes 2-0

Friday, April 24th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

Two weeks ago I mentioned eHarbor, Inc. won its first game of the softball season in the Provo/Orem recreation league. On Wednesday, April 22, 2009 our team played its second game.

Baseball player swinging

We were supposed to play our second game last Wednesday, but, amazingly, it snowed several inches and made the field unplayable. Snow in spring! Global warming, I guess.

Our softball team took the field Wednesday at 9:15 p.m. and kept swinging for the fence until we won 21-16. We’re now 2-0!

The game’s highlights included:

- Four eHarbor players batted 1.000.

- Two players hit home runs. Mike Sorenson, a Submit Solution representative, got an in-the-park home run, while Calvin Russell once again hit one into the parking lot.

Our team’s next game is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 6:15 p.m. Hopefully we won’t see any snow this time.

This is my 30th blog entry on the eHarbor Blog. We’ve come a long way in the past three months. I’ve been talking a lot recently about social media, news media companies like the New York Times and, of course, ecommerce. I thought I’d take a break from that hard and heavy stuff to talk about other things I find interesting – things that make me happy.

I hope you notice the tag logo we added to the eHarbor Blog. You can see it in the address window above. We made it using Favicon.

The photo of the baseball player swinging is from Flickr, and it is the copyright of AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker.

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eHarbor softball team wins first 2009 game

Friday, April 10th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

eHarbor, Inc. has a tradition of playing softball in the Provo/Orem area’s recreation league. It’s a fun way for eHarbor employees in different departments to come together and build teamwork. In March, eHarbor’s team re-formed and on April 8, 2009, we played our first game.

Baseball stadium victory celebration

And we pretty much blew out the competition, winning 13-3.

One employee in particular, Calvin Russell (who works in the support department), really swung for the fence and ended the game with a home run. It’s so cool that eHarbor employees can not only achieve great results in their web-design projects and online marketing, but also spend time excelling in fun activities like this.

The team’s next game is scheduled for April 15. Hopefully we’ll triumph again on the field, just like we do in our ecommerce business.

The photo of the baseball celebration is from Flickr and it is the copyright of sakura_chihaya+.

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eHarbor’s future: Swinging for the fence

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

I love movies. I’ll probably share a lot of movies I enjoy and relate them to ecommerce and other online topics in the eHarbor blog. Today I’ll talk about “The Natural” (1984). I’ve read the book and seen the movie and I think the movie is much better than the book. Much of the book’s somber themes are in the movie, but there are also so many emotional highs and payoffs that I can’t help cheering on Roy Hobbs as he always swings for the fence. Despite his flaws, Roy is a good man who wants to be the best baseball player to ever swing a bat.

The Natural (1984) movie poster.

I bring up “The Natural” because in one scene, when Roy gets to bat in the major leagues for the first time, his coach jokingly tells him to “Knock the cover off the ball.” He takes his coach’s advice literally and actually hits the ball so hard that the cover comes completely off. That marvelous scene reminds me of something I heard at the 2009 eHarbor Kick-Off Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Excitement filled the air as all 50 employees filed into a large auditorium, and CEO Oliver Bigler laid out our plans for the new year. In his presentation, Bigler said that eHarbor’s slogan for 2009 is “Swinging for the fence.”

Just like Roy Hobbs.

What do we mean by “swinging for the fence”? In 2008, eHarbor launched two new services: Real Estate Investor and Magellan Commerce. It built new partnerships and dramatically increased its monthly revenue. In 2009, we’re going to do much more. Bigler said he expects the company’s revenue to grow 500 percent. Two new websites are already in the works, focusing on real estate and ecommerce. Plus, the company is going to launch redesigns of most of its current websites: Submit Solution, Real Estate Promoter, Real Estate Investor, Direct Home Find, and Magellan Commerce.

We enjoyed J Dawgs at the close of the meeting. Eating those hot dogs reminded me of baseball games, as well. If you’ve never tried one and you visit Provo, Utah, I would recommend them.

We’ll keep you informed about our goal to swing for the fence, and hopefully the field will be littered with baseball covers by the time the season is through.

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